Anyone who has gone through school in the United States knows that history textbooks devote a lot of attention to the so-called “Good War”: World War II

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On March 7, 1942, fire engulfed the simple home of 89-year-old Lucy Gonzales Parsons on Chicago’s North Troy Street, and ended a…