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The Black Death
The Black Death—a deadly plague that tore through Europe in the Middle Ages— symbolizes how people understand their present by looking to the past. The Black Death was mentioned frequently by people who lived through…
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The Press
The press symbolizes the truth and particularly how, in the years around World War I, the truth was often distorted by government interference. The strange thing about the so-called “Spanish influenza” that became a global…
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