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60,000 Freed Americans Trusted This Bank With Everything. Then It Vanished.
Tech & Money

60,000 Freed Americans Trusted This Bank With Everything. Then It Vanished.

After the Civil War, a federally backed bank promised freed slaves a path to financial security. Within a decade, it was gone — and the life savings of 60,000 people went with it. It's one of the most consequential financial disasters most Americans have never heard of.
From King of the Internet to Comeback Kid: The Wild History of Digg
Tech & Money

From King of the Internet to Comeback Kid: The Wild History of Digg

Digg was once the most powerful news aggregator on the internet, a place where a single upvote could make or break a website's traffic. Then it imploded spectacularly, handed Reddit the keys to the kingdom, and spent years trying to claw its way back. Here's the full story.