mining

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  2/1/2021
  

  The Forgotten History of Wyoming’s Black Miners

  African Americans were an important, but largely forgotten, presence in the mining industry of the far west, a story that connects race, national expansion, and labor politics in the Gilded Age. 

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• 12/6/2020
  

  How Wood Helped America Become Great – But Mislay its Sense of History

  by Roland Ennos

  Industrializing America's infrastructure was much more likely than Europe's to be made of wood. This accident of nature and geography helped drive rapid expansion, but today means much of the 19th century built environment of the United States has vanished. 

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• SOURCE: The Spokesman-Review
  5/10/2020
  

  New Book Details History of Contentious Cascade Mine

  Historian Adam Sowards' most recent work "An Open Pit Visible from the Moon" delves into the effort to block the mining of Miners Ridge in the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  2-9-15
  

  Scientists discovered air pollution that’s nearly 500 years old

  Humans have been spewing pollution into the atmosphere for a long, long time

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• 1-9-15
  

  Where Did Your New TV Come from? Well, It's Drenched in Congolese Blood.

  by Gregory Kosc and Bradley J. Borougerdi

  Westerners are still profiting from crimes against the Congolese people.