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In 2013 an elderly gentleman named Robert Goddard showed at my school unannounced. He had read a newspaper story about the work my students had done to tell the story of George Arsenault of Rumford, ME who was killed in the World War II and is buried in the Rhone American Cemetery in Draguignan, France. It happened to be the same day that a local news story was broadcast on TV about our work. Litt

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1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation

by Andrew Ross Sorkin

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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis

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