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Preface: About Democracy and Struggles | |
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Feature: Building America | |
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The Making of a President | |
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A Major Leaguer | |
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A (Very Short) History of Russia | |
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A Curtain of Iron | |
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The Marshall Plan | |
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Feature: Israel and An American Peacemaker | |
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A "Lost" Election | |
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Spies | |
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Tail Gunner Joe | |
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Liking Ike | |
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Houses, Kids, Cars, and Fast Food | |
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French Indochina | |
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Separate but Unequal | |
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Feature: Jim Crow in the Far North | |
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Linda Brown-and Others | |
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Feature: Getting Integrated | |
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MLKs, Senior and Junior | |
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Rosa Parks Was Tired | |
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Three Boys and Six Girls | |
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Passing the Torch | |
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Feature: A Solitary Child | |
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Being President Isn't Easy | |
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Some Brave Children Meet a Roaring Bull | |
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Standing With Lincoln | |
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The President's Number | |
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LBJ | |
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The Biggest Vote in History | |
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Salt and Pepper the Kids | |
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A King Gets a Prize and Goes to Jail | |
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From Selma to Montgomery | |
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War in Southeast Asia | |
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Feature: An Unwilling Guest at the Hanoi Hilton | |
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Lyndon in Trouble | |
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Feature: A Farming Village in Vietnam | |
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Friedan, Schlafly, and Friends | |
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As Important As the Cotton Gin | |
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Picking and Picketing | |
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"These Are the Times That Try Men's Souls" | |
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Feature: Civil Rights for Native Americans | |
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Up to the Mountain | |
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A New Kind of Power | |
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The Counterculture Rocks | |
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Nixon: Vietnam, China, and Watergate | |
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Feature: Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo | |
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A Congressman and a Peanut Farmer | |
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Taking a Leading Role | |
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Living on the Edge | |
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The End of the Cold War | |
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A Quilt, Not a Blanket | |
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Feature: The New Technology | |
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Is It Me or We? | |
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Feature: Picturing Ourselves | |
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The Land That Never Has Been Yet | |
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A Boy from Hope | |
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Politics and Values | |
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Feature: Covering Up...or Just Plain Lying | |
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Electing the 21st Century's First President | |
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Of Colleges and Courts | |
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Big Ideas | |
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Feature: Watch That Briefcase! | |
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Catastrophe, War, and a New Century | |
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New York and the American Way | |
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War in Iraq | |
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The Best in US (and Some Civics) | |
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Religious Freedom: It's Freedom to Think for Yourself | |
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Chronology of Events | |
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More Books to Read | |
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Picture Credits | |
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Index | |
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A Note from the Author | |
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Atlas | |