In the 1790s, a farmer in South Carolina would have been oblivious to the heinous executions during the French Revolution. The famines in India during the 1890s that led to the deaths of over nineteen million people were not table conversations in Enid, Oklahoma.
Breaking news today, however, reaches us with a sound alert on our phones or computers.
Current events often keep me up at night,…
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