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Bustling 18th-century Cartagena marketplace with diverse merchants, colorful stalls, and a fortified harbor.

Gran Colombia

Gran Colombia is a nation-state that occupies nearly two-thirds of the continent of South America. # A History of Gran Colombia: From Colony to Independent Power ## Early Colonial Period (1545-1666) Following Empress Eleanor XV’s conquest of Iberia and the execution of the Spanish and Portuguese royal families, the American colonies entered a period of […]

Workers build stone public housing as a woman official oversees the 1890s construction site.

Great Housing Crisis of 1895

In 1895, in the city of Pørtland, a group of building-lessors gathered together and decided to engage in what was termed “The Big Squeeze” in which they would systematically raise rents on their sub-tenants to squeeze from them every conceivable cent. The Big Squeeze resulted in a 400% jump in the unhoused population in the […]