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HISTORY’S MOST PHOTOGENIC LABOR dispute lasted 30 days, spread to eight cities, closed 37 plays, and finally won performers some respect.

What human nature and the California gold rush tell us about crime in the inner city

A CENTURY AGO, you’d eat steak and lobster when you couldn’t afford chicken. Today, it can cost less than the potatoes you serve with steak. What happened in the years between was an extraordinary marriage of technology and the market.

ALBERT MURRAY SEES AMERICAN CULTURE AS AN incandescent fusion of European, Yankee, frontier, and black. And he sees what he calls the “blues idiom” as the highest expression of that culture.

ON THE ROAD DURING THE ERA OF GREATEST PERIL FOR THE ONE INDISPENSABLE AMERICAN SHOW