And how history shows it’s actually good for us
A ranking of the forty wealthiest Americans of all time (Surprise: Only three of them are alive today)
Steamboat competition was about more than speed.
—and America’s greatest fortune up to that time, some $100,000,000. The legal battle that followed, full of tarts and torts and turnabouts, might have been plotted by Dickens
Her past was shady but her conscience was excellent, and all in all she played a big part in the emancipation of women