Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The country's hotbed of radicalism in the early 20th century was centered in a two-story frame house in Terre Haute, Indiana.

It was the home of Eugene Debs, the union organizer who led the Pullman strike of 1894 and later ran for U.S. president five times as a socialist.

Judy Woodruff and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Beverly Gage toured the Eugene V. Debs Museum for Woodruff's series, Crossroads: America at 250.

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