Less than 30 miles outside Chicago, one of the worst train wrecks in American history ... Notice in The Wizard of Oz 25 facts about the Civil War that you might not know Massive, 'potentially ...

When the U.S. was plunged into the Civil War, it was obvious that the country was (to use your phrase) "headed for a train wreck." And yet life went on. When the stock market crashed in 1929 ...