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America250
— 250 years since 1776. Explore two and a half centuries of American history.
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Business & Labor
The companies and unions that shaped the American economy.
General Motors
The automaker founded in 1908 that overtook Ford, armed democracy in WWII, and ruled the American road
The Knights of Labor
The first mass American labor union, which surged in the 1880s — then collapsed almost overnight
