Commercial culture 
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/17/2021
The Hard Seltzer Trend Echoes the 19th Century Craze for Lager
"Lagers were introduced by a wave of German immigrants pouring in from Europe. To uninitiated Americans, lager was simply weird. But for Germans-turned-German-Americans, the beer was inseparable from the culture of its consumption."
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SOURCE: The Baffler
5/6/2020
As the World Churns
by Peter Manseau
The story behind 'Mia,' the Native American woman who was the face on Land O'Lakes butter packaging for almost a century.
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