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Poor whites have long been derided and disenfranchised in their own country — as have their black counterparts. So why can’t they find common ground?
Abolitionist will be first woman on US paper currency in more than a century
The president ran for office as a different sort of candidate — he should leave in the same spirit
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‘Colonial revival’ continues to influence interiors across the US and has become known as a classic American aesthetic
Euro bank notes lack a common identity
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