The Ragged Edge of Freedom E. Paul Goldenberg From 1870 until after World

From 1870 until after World War I

They appear in partial differential equations (where they are called plane waves)

the collection affords an uncommon opportunity to mourn and heal through a nuanced reckoning with the absence of Jews from communities in which they had lived for millennia

and disgust with contemporary politics and society

The Ragged Edge of Freedom E. Paul Goldenberg From 1870 until after WorldThe Ragged Edge of Freedom explores the long shadow of slavery in the Lower Midwest. In the decades after the Civil War, elites in southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois constantly raised the specter of "cheap" Black labor to divide workers, discipline markets, and gain political advantage. At the same time, powerful outsiders depicted the borderland as dirty and degraded, pathologizing the region's working poor through a rising capitalist ideology that