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C.R. Patterson and Sons

21 Sep 202317 May 2024
Compared to earlier transportation models of rivers, canals, and railroads, the highway system democratized access to travel and migration. The highway experience for black Americans, however, was marked by challenges…
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Outlaw Moonshiners vs. the Ku Klux Klan

21 Sep 20234 Nov 2023
Highway 50 leaves Cincinnati along the course of the Ohio and Mississippi Railway, the westernmost branch of the eastern railroad network at the time of its creation in 1857. This…

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