The year is 1933. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) is President of the United States of America – it’s the first year of his first term and going on four years into the Great Depression. Unemployment is high and home ownership is plummeting; new buyers aren’t able to afford houses and people who had a homeContinue reading “A Degree of Risk and Inharmony”
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The Boston Bread Riots
Throughout the 1700s, Boston had earned a bit of a reputation in the Americas for its rioting, not just the Tea Party. Bostonians rioted over everything from conscription to taxes.