"For debt crisis lessons, look back 225 years"

CNN.com

The August 2 deadline for raising the debt ceiling is approaching fast. Historians say the same issues in today's debate over debt crisis have been seen before. Daniel Klinghard, associate professor of political science at the College of the Holy Cross, talks to CNN.com about how the same issue drove Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising in Massachusetts in the 1780s.

This “Holy Cross in the News” item by Cristal Steuer.