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The Agony of Reconstruction | |
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The West: Exploiting an Empire | |
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The Industrial Society | |
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Toward an Urban Society, 1877���1900 | |
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Political Realignments in the 1890s | |
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Toward Empire | |
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The Progressive Era | |
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From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism | |
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The Nation at War | |
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Transition to Modern America | |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal | |
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America and the World, 1921���1945 | |
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The Onset of the Cold War | |
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Affluence and Anxiety | |
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The Turbulent Sixties | |
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The Rise of a New Conservatism, 1969���1988 | |
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To the Twenty-first Century, 1989���2006 | |
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Detailed Contents | |
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The Agony of Reconstruction | |
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Robert Smalls and Black Politicians During | |
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Reconstruction | |
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The President vs. Congress | |
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Wartime Reconstruction | |
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Andrew Johnson at the Helm | |
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Congress Takes the Initiative | |
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Congressional Reconstruction Plan Enacted | |
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The Impeachment Crisis | |
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Reconstructing Southern Society | |
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Reorganizing Land and Labor | |
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Black Codes: A New Name for Slavery? | |
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Republican Rule in the South | |
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Claiming Public and Private Rights | |
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Retreat from Reconstruction | |
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Rise of the Money Question | |
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Final Efforts of Reconstruction | |
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A Reign of Terror Against Blacks | |
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Spoilsmen vs. Reformers | |
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Reunion and the New South | |
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The Compromise of 1877 | |
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"Redeeming" a New South | |
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The Rise of Jim Crow | |
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Conclusion: Henry McNeal Turner and the "Unfinished | |
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Revolution" | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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Changing Views of Reconstruction | |
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The West: Exploiting an Empire | |
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Lean Bear's Changing West | |
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Beyond the Frontier | |
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Crushing the Native Americans | |
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Life of the Plains Indians | |
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"As Long as Waters Run": Searching for an Indian Policy | |
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Final Battles on the Plains | |
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The End of Tribal Life | |
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Settlement of the West | |
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Men and Women on the Overland Trail | |
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Land for the Taking | |
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Territorial Government | |
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The Spanish-Speaking Southwest | |
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The Bonanza West | |
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The Mining Bonanza | |
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Gold from the Roots Up: the Cattle Bonanza | |
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Sodbusters on the Plains: the Farming Bonanza | |
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New Farming Methods | |
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Discontent on the Farm | |
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The Final Fling | |
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Conclusion: the Meaning of the West | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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Blacks in Blue: the Buffalo Soldiers in the West | |
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The Industrial Society | |
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A Machine Culture | |
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Industrial Development | |
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An Empire on Rails | |
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"Emblem of Motion and Power" | |
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Building the Empire | |
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Linking the Nation via Trunk Lines | |
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Rails Across the Continent | |
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Problems of Growth | |
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An Industrial Empire | |
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Carnegie and Steel | |
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Rockefeller and Oil | |
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The Business of Invention | |
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The Sellers | |
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The Wage Earners | |
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Working Men,Working Women,Working Children | |
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Culture of Work | |
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Labor Unions | |
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Labor Unrest | |
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Conclusion: Industrialization's Benefits and Costs | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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Chicago's "Second Nature" | |
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Toward an Urban Society, 1877���1900 | |
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The Overcrowded City | |
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The Lure of the City | |
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Skyscrapers and Suburbs | |
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Tenements and the Problems of Overcrowding | |
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Strangers in a New Land | |
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Immigrants and the City | |
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The House That Tweed Built | |
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Social and Cultural Change, 1877���1900 | |
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Manners and Mores | |
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Leisure and Entertainment | |
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Changes in Family Life | |
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Changing Views: A Growing Assertiveness Among Women | |
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Educating the Masses | |
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Higher Education | |
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The Stirrings of Reform | |
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Progress and Poverty | |
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New Currents in Social Thought | |
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The Settlement Houses | |
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A Crisis in Social Welfare | |
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Conclusion: the Pluralistic Society | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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Ellis Island: Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears | |
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_ LAW and SOCIETY | |
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Plessy v. Ferguson: the Shaping of Jim Crow | |
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Political Realignments In The 1890s | |
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Hardship and Heartache | |
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Politics of Stalemate | |
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The Party Deadlock | |
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Experiments in the States | |
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Reestablishing Presidential Power | |
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Republicans in Power: the Billion-Dollar Congress | |
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Tariffs, Trusts, and Silver | |
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The 1890 Elections | |
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The Rise of the Populist Movement | |
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The Farm Problem | |
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The Fast-Growing Farmers' Alliance | |
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The People's Party | |
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The Crisis of the Depression | |
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The Panic of 1893 | |
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Coxey's Army and the Pullman Strike | |
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The Miners of the Midwest | |
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A Beleaguered President | |
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Breaking the Party Deadlock | |
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Changing Attitudes | |
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"Everybody Works But Father" | |
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Changing Themes in Literature | |
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The Presidential Election of 1896 | |
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The Mystique of Silver | |
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The Republicans and Gold | |
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The Democrats and Silver | |
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Campaign and Election | |
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The McKinley Administration | |
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Conclusion: A Decade's Dramatic Changes | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | |
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Toward Empire | |
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Roosevelt and the Rough Riders | |
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America Looks Outward | |
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Catching the Spirit of Empire | |
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Reasons for Expansion | |
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Foreign Policy Approaches, 1867���1900 | |
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The Lure of Hawaii and Samoa | |
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The New Navy | |
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War with Spain | |
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A War for Principle | |
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"A Splendid Little War" | |
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"Smoked Yankees" | |
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The Course of the War | |
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Acquisition of Empire | |
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The Treaty of Paris Debate | |
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Guerrilla Warfare in the Philippines | |
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Governing the Empire | |
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The Open Door | |
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Conclusion: Outcome of the War with Spain | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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The 400 Million Customers of China | |
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The Progressive Era | |
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Muckrakers Call for Reform | |
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The Changing Face of Industrialism | |
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The Innovative Model T | |
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The Burgeoning Trusts | |
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Managing the Machines | |
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Society's Masses | |
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Better Times on the Farm | |
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Women and Children at Work | |
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The Niagara Movement and the NAACP | |
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"I Hear the Whistle": Immigrants in the Labor Force | |
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Conflict in the Workplace | |
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Organizing Labor | |
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Working with Workers | |
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Amoskeag | |
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A New Urban Culture | |
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Production and Consumption | |
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Living and Dying in an Urban Nation | |
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Popular Pastimes | |
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Experimentation in the Arts | |
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Conclusion: A Ferment of Discovery and Reform | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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The Triangle Fire | |
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From Roosevelt To Wilson In The Age Of | |
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PROGRESSIVISM | |
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The Republicans Split | |
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The Spirit of Progressivism | |
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The Rise of the Professions | |
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The Social-Justice Movement | |
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The Purity Crusade | |
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Woman Suffrage,Women's Rights | |
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A Ferment of Ideas: Challenging the Status Quo | |
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Reform in the Cities and States | |
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Interest Groups and the Decline of Popular Politics | |
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Reform in the Cities | |
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Action in the States | |
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The Republican Roosevelt | |
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Busting the Trusts | |
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"Square Deal" in the Coalfields | |
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Roosevelt Progressivism at Its Height | |
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Regulating the Railroads | |
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Cleaning up Food and Drugs | |
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Conserving the Land | |
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The Ordeal of William Howard Taft | |
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Party Insurgency | |
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The Ballinger-Pinchot Affair | |
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Taft Alienates the Progressives | |
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Differing Philosophies in the Election of 1912 | |
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Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom | |
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The New Freedom in Action | |
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Wilson Moves Toward the New Nationalism | |
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Conclusion: the Fruits of Progressivism | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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Madam C. J. Walker: African American Business | |
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Pioneer | |
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_ LAW and SOCIETY | |
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Muller v. Oregon: Expanding the Definition of Acceptable | |
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Evidence | |
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The Nation At War | |
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The Sinking of the Lusitania | |
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A New World Power | |
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"I Took the Canal Zone" | |
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The Roosevelt Corollary | |
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Ventures in the Far East | |
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Taft and Dollar Diplomacy | |
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Foreign Policy Under Wilson | |
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Conducting Moral Diplomacy | |
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Troubles Across the Border | |
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Toward War | |
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The Neutrality Policy | |
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Freedom of the Seas | |
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The U-Boat Threat | |
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"He Kept Us Out of War" | |
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The Final Months of Peace | |
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Over There | |
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Mobilization | |
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War in the Trenches | |
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Over Here | |
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The Conquest of Convictions | |
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A Bureaucratic War | |
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Labor in the War | |
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The Treaty of Versailles | |
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A Peace at Paris | |
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Rejection in the Senate | |
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Conclusion: Postwar Disillusionment | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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Measuring the Mind | |
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Transition To Modern America | |
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Wheels for the Millions | |
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The Second Industrial Revolution | |
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The Automobile Industry | |
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Patterns of Economic Growth | |
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Economic Weaknesses | |
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City Life in the Jazz Age | |
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Women and the Family | |
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The Roaring Twenties | |
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The Flowering of the Arts | |
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The Rural Counterattack | |
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The Fear of Radicalism | |
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Prohibition | |
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The Ku Klux Klan | |
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Immigration Restriction | |
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The Fundamentalist Challenge | |
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Politics of the 1920s | |
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Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover | |
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Republican Policies | |
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The Divided Democrats | |
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The Election of 1928 | |
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Conclusion: the Old and the New | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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Marcus Garvey: Racial Redemption and Black | |
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Nationalism | |
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_ LAW and SOCIETY | |
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The Scopes "Monkey" Trial: Contesting Cultural | |
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Differences | |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal | |
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The Struggle Against Despair | |
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The Great Depression | |
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The Great Crash | |
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Effect of the Depression | |
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Fighting the Depression | |
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Hoover and Voluntarism | |
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The Emergence | |
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The Hundred Days | |
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Roosevelt and Recovery | |
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Roosevelt and Relief | |
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Roosevelt and Reform | |
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Challenges to FDR | |
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Social Security | |
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Labor Legislation | |
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Impact of the New Deal | |
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Rise of Organized Labor | |
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The New Deal Record on Help to Minorities | |
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Women at Work | |
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End of the New Deal | |
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The Election of 1936 | |
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The Supreme Court Fight | |
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The New Deal in Decline | |
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Conclusion: the New Deal and American Life | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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Eleanor Roosevelt and the Quest for Social Justice | |
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America And The World, 1921���1945 | |
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A Pact Without Power | |
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Retreat, Reversal, and Rivalry | |
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Retreat in Europe | |
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Cooperation in Latin America | |
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Rivalry in Asia | |
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Isolationism | |
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The Lure of Pacifism and Neutrality | |
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War in Europe | |
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The Road to War | |
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From Neutrality to Undeclared War | |
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Showdown in the Pacific | |
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Turning the Tide Against the Axis | |
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Wartime Partnerships | |
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Halting the German Blitz | |
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Checking Japan in the Pacific | |
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The Home Front | |
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The Arsenal of Democracy | |
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A Nation on the Move | |
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Win-the-War Politics | |
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Victory | |
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War Aims and Wartime Diplomacy | |
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Triumph and Tragedy in the Pacific | |
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Conclusion: the Transforming Power of War | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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The Face of the Holocaust | |
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The Onset of the Cold War | |
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The Potsdam Summit | |
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The Cold War Begins | |
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The Division of Europe | |
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Withholding Economic Aid | |
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The Atomic Dilemma | |
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Containment | |
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The Truman Doctrine | |
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The Marshall Plan | |
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The Western Military Alliance | |
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The Berlin Blockade | |
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The Cold War Expands | |
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The Military Dimension | |
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The Cold War in Asia | |
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The Korean War | |
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The Cold War at Home | |
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Truman's Troubles | |
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Truman Vindicated | |
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The Loyalty Issue | |
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McCarthyism in Action | |
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The Republicans in Power | |
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Eisenhower Wages the Cold War | |
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Entanglement in Indochina | |
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Containing China | |
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Covert Actions | |
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Waging Peace | |
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Conclusion: the Continuing Cold War | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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America Enters the Middle East | |
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Affluence and Anxiety | |
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Levittown: the Flight to the Suburbs | |
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The Postwar Boom | |
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Postwar Prosperity | |
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Life in the Suburbs | |
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The Good Life? | |
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Areas of Greatest Growth | |
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Critics of the Consumer Society | |
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Farewell to Reform | |
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Truman and the Fair Deal | |
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Eisenhower's Modern Republicanism | |
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The Struggle over Civil Rights | |
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Civil Rights as a Political Issue | |
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Desegregating the Schools | |
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The Beginnings of Black Activism | |
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Conclusion: Restoring National Confidence | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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The Reaction to Sputnik | |
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The Turbulent Sixties | |
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Kennedy versus Nixon: the First Televised Presidential | |
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Candidate Debate | |
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Kennedy Intensifies the Cold War | |
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Flexible Response | |
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Crisis over Berlin | |
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Containment in Southeast Asia | |
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Containing Castro: the Bay of Pigs Fiasco | |
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Containing Castro: the Cuban Missile Crisis | |
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The New Frontier at Home | |
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The Congressional Obstacle | |
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Economic Advance | |
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Moving Slowly on Civil Rights | |
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"I Have a Dream" | |
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The Supreme Court and Reform | |
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"Let Us Continue" | |
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Johnson in Action | |
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The Election of 1964 | |
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The Triumph of Reform | |
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Johnson Escalates the Vietnam War | |
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The Vietnam Dilemma | |
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Escalation | |
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Stalemate | |
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Years of Turmoil | |
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The Student Revolt | |
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Protesting the Vietnam War | |
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The Cultural Revolution | |
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"Black Power" | |
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Ethnic Nationalism | |
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Women's Liberation | |
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The Return of Richard Nixon | |
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Vietnam Undermines Lyndon Johnson | |
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The Democrats Divide | |
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The Republican Resurgence | |
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Conclusion: the End of an Era | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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Unintended Consequences: the Second Great | |
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Migration | |
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The Rise of a New Conservatism | |
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1969���1988 | |
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Reagan and America's Shift to the Right | |
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The Tempting of Richard Nixon | |
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Pragmatic Liberalism | |
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Dÿtente | |
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Ending the Vietnam War | |
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The Watergate Scandal | |
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The Economy of Stagflation | |
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War and Oil | |
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The Great Inflation | |
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The Shifting American Economy | |
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A New Environmentalism | |
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Private Lives, Public Issues | |
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The Changing American Family | |
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Gains and Setbacks for Women | |
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The Gay Liberation Movement | |
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The AIDS Epidemic | |
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Politics and Diplomacy after Watergate | |
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The Ford Administration | |
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Carter and American Malaise | |
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Troubles Abroad | |
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The Collapse of Dÿtente | |
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The Reagan Revolution | |
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The Election of 1980 | |
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Cutting Taxes and Spending | |
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Unleashing the Private Sector | |
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Reagan and the World | |
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Challenging the "Evil Empire" | |
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Confrontation in Central America | |
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More Trouble in the Middle East | |
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Trading Arms for Hostages | |
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Reagan the Peacemaker | |
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Conclusion: Challengingthe New Deal | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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The Christian Right | |
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_ LAW and SOCIETY | |
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Roe v. Wade: the Struggle over Women's Reproductive | |
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Rights | |
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To the Twenty-First Century, 1989���2009 | |
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"This Will Not Stand": Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold | |
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War Era | |
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The First President Bush | |
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Republicans at Home | |
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Ending the Cold War | |
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The Gulf War | |
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The Changing Faces of America | |
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A People on the Move | |
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The Revival of Immigration | |
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Emerging Hispanics | |
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Advance and Retreat for African Americans | |
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Americans from Asia and the Middle East | |
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Assimilation or Diversity? | |
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The New Democrats | |
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The Election of 1992 | |
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Clinton and Congress | |
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Scandal in the White House | |
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Clinton and the World | |
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Old Rivals in New Light | |
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To Intervene or Not | |
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The Balkan Wars | |
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Republicans Triumphant | |
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The Disputed Election of 2000 | |
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George W. Bush at Home | |
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The War on Terror | |
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A New American Empire? | |
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Bush Reelected | |
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Old Issues, New Challenges | |
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The Culture Wars Continue | |
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Doubting the Future | |
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Echoes of the Thirties | |
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A New FDR? | |
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Conclusion: the Vulnerabilities of Power | |
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_ FEATURE ESSAY | |
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The Battle of Seattle | |