In so many ways, the United States was a different place a century ago. There weren’t 50 states, for example, and in 1915, cars were just starting to show up on streets that had been primarily designed for horses and wagons. The Civil War had ended just a few decades earlier (1865), an event still relatively fresh in the memories of many citizens, Northerner and Southerner alike. In 1915, 100 million people lived in the United States,…Read More