Terrorist attacks, hurricanes, capitalist wars for oil, religion posing as science, an idiot as president…historians say it’s been worse.
Researchers at the Siena College Research Institute asked 354 U.S. history professors to compare eight “trying times” in American history and 46 percent of the respondents said that the current era was the “least trying.” Fifty-five percent said the Civil War was the toughest.
After the Civil War, historians rated the Revolutionary War and the Great Depression the most trying, followed by “Vietnam and the Cultural Revolution,” World War II, the Cold War, World War I, and the current “War on Terror.”
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