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  • What the Tiny House Movement and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Have in Common

    What the Tiny House Movement and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Have in Common0

    • August 20, 2019

    When Thomas Jefferson originally moved into the South Pavilion of his Monticello estate in 1770, it was little more than an incomplete two-bedroom brick building and a cleared mountaintop. Over the course of the next 38 years, the author of the Declaration of Independence would personally design and oversee the construction of his “essay in

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  • Lessons from Weimar Germany for the Portland Extremists

    Lessons from Weimar Germany for the Portland Extremists0

    • August 19, 2019

    Immediately following the conclusion of the First World War and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was thrust into a state of economic, political, and social disarray. The infantile German state, which had recently been established in 1871, struggled to maintain its reputation as a global superpower. Kaiser Wilhelm II chose to abdicate

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