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Comprehensive | |
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Brief Table of Contents | |
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Reconstruction and the South | |
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The Conquest of the West | |
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An Industrial Giant Emerges | |
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American Society in the Industrial Age | |
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Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Late Nineteenth Century | |
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From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877-1896 | |
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The Age of Reform | |
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From Isolation to Empire | |
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Woodrow Wilson and the Great War | |
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Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment | |
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From "Normalcy" to Economic Collapse: 1921-1933 | |
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The New Deal: 1933-1941 | |
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War and Peace: 1941-1945 | |
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Collision Courses, Abroad and at Home: 1946-1960 | |
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From Camelot to Watergate: 1961-1975 | |
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Running on Empty: 1975-1991 | |
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From Boomers to Millennials | |
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Shocks and Responses, 1992-Present | |
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Comprehensive Table of Contents | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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About the Authors | |
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Reconstruction and the South | |
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The Assasination of Lincoln | |
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Presidential Reconstruction | |
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Republican Radicals | |
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Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction | |
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The Fourteenth Amendment | |
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The Reconstruction Acts | |
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Congress Supreme | |
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The Fifteenth Amendment | |
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"Black Republican" Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers | |
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The Ravaged Land | |
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Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System | |
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The White Backlash | |
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Grant as President | |
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The Disputed Election of 1876 | |
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The Compromise of 1877 | |
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DEBATING THE PAST Were Reconstruction Governments Corrupt? | |
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MAPPING THE PAST the Politics of Reconstruction | |
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RE-VIEWING THE PAST Cold Mountain | |
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The Conquest of the West | |
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The West after the Civil War | |
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The Plains Indians | |
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Indian Wars | |
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The Destruction of Tribal Life | |
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The Lure of Gold and Silver in the West | |
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Farmers Struggle to Keep Up | |
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Big Business and the Land Bonanza | |
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Western Railroad Building | |
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The Cattle Kingdom | |
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Open-Range Ranching | |
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Barbed-Wire Warfare | |
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DEBATING THE PAST Did the Frontier Promote Individualism and Democracy? | |
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AMERICAN LIVES Nat Love | |
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An Industrial Giant Emerges | |
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Essentials of Industrial Growth | |
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Railroads: the First Big Business | |
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Iron, Oil, and Electricity | |
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Competition and Monopoly: the Railroads | |
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Competition and Monopoly: Steel | |
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Competition and Monopoly: Oil | |
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Competition and Monopoly: Retailing and Utilities | |
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American Ambivalence to Big Business | |
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Reformers: George, Bellamy, Lloyd | |
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Reformers: the Marxists | |
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The Government Reacts to BIg Business: Railroad Regulation | |
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The Government Reacts to Big Business: the Sherman Antitrust Act | |
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The Labor Union Movement | |
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The American Federation of Labor | |
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Labor Millitancy Rebuffed | |
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Whither America, Whither Democracy? | |
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MAPPING THE PAST Were the Railroads Indispensable? | |
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American Society in the Industrial Age | |
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Middle-Class Life | |
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Skilled and Unskilled Workers | |
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Working Women | |
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Working-Class Family Life | |
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Working-Class Attitudes | |
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Working Your Way Up | |
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The "New" Immigration | |
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New Immigrants Face New Nativism | |
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The Expanding City and Its Problems | |
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Teeming Tenements | |
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The Cities Modernize | |
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Leisure Activities: More Fun and Games | |
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Christianity's Conscience and the Social Gospel | |
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The Settlement Houses | |
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Civilization and Its Discontents | |
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DEBATING THE PAST Did Immigrants Assimilate? | |
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MAPPING THE PAST CHOLERA A New Disease Strikes the Nation | |
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Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Late Nineteenth Century | |
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Colleges and Universities | |
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Revolution in the Social Sciences | |
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Progressive Education | |
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Law and History | |
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Realism in Literature | |
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Mark Twain | |
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William Dean Howells | |
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Henry James | |
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Realism in Art | |
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The Pragmatic Approach | |
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The Knowledge Revolution | |
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AMERICAN LIVES Charlotte Perkins Gilman | |
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From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877-1896 | |
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Congress Ascendant | |
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Recurrent Issues | |
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Party Politics: Sidestepping the Issues | |
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Lackluster Presidents: From Hayes to Harrison | |
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African Americans in the South After Reconstruction | |
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Booker T. Washington: A "Reasonable" Champion for African Americans | |
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City Bosses | |
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Crops and Complaints | |
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The Populist Movement | |
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Showdown on Silver | |
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The Depression of 1893 | |
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The Election of 1896 | |
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The Meaning of the Election | |
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DEBATING THE PAST Populism--Crusade of Cranks or Potent Grass-Roots Protest? | |
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MAPPING THE PAST Agrarian Discontent and the Populist Challenge | |
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The Age of Reform | |
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Roots of Progressivism | |
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The Muckrackers | |
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The Progressive Mind | |
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"Radical" Progressives: the Wave of the Future | |
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Political Reform: Cities First | |
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Political Reform: the States | |
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State Social Legislation | |
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Political Reform: the Woman Suffrage Movement | |
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Theodore Roosevelt: Cowboy in the White House | |
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Roosevelt and Big Business | |
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Roosevelt and the Coal Strike | |
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TR's Triumphs | |
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Roosevelt Tilts Left | |
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William Howard Taft: the Listless Progressive, or more is Less | |
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Breakup of the Republican Party | |
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The Election of 1912 | |
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Wilson: the New Freedom | |
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The Progressives and Minority Rights | |
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Black Militancy | |
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AMERICAN LIVES Emma Goldman | |
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DEBATING THE PAST Were the Progressives Forward-Looking? | |
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From Isolation to Empire | |
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Isolation or Imperialism? | |
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Origins of the Large Policy: Coveting Colonies | |
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Toward an Empire in the Pacific | |
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Toward and Empire in Latin America | |
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The Cuban Revolution | |
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The "Splendid Little" Spanish-American War | |
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Developing a Colonial Policy | |
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The Anti-Imperialists | |
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The Philippine Insurrection | |
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Cuba and the United States | |
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The United States in the Caribbean and Central America | |
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The Open Door Policy in China | |
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The Panama Canal | |
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Imperialism without Colonies | |
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AMERICAN LIVES Frederick Funston | |
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Woodrow Wilson and the Great War | |
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Wilson's "Moral" Diplomacy | |
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Europe Explodes in War | |
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Freedom of the Seas | |
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The Election of 1916 | |
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The Road to War | |
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Mobilizing the Economy | |
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Workers in Wartime | |
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Paying for the War | |
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Propaganda and Civil Liberties | |
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Wartime Reforms | |
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Women and Blacks in Wartime | |
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Americans: to the Trenches and Over the Top | |
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Preparing for Peace | |
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The Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty | |
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The Senate Rejects the League of Nations | |
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The Red Scare | |
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The Election of 1920 | |
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RE-VIEWING THE PAST Titanic | |
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Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment | |
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Closing the Gates to New Immigrants | |
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New Urban Social Patterns | |
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The Younger Generation | |
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The "New" Woman | |
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Popular Culture: Movies and Radio | |
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The Golden Age of Sports | |
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Urban-Rural Conflicts: Fundamentalism | |
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Urban-Rural Conflicts: Prohibition | |
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The Ku Klux Klan | |
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Literary Trends | |
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The "New Negro" | |
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Economic Expansion | |
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The Age of the Consumer | |
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Henry Ford | |
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The Airplane | |
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RE-VIEWING THE PAST Chicago | |
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DEBATING THE PAST the 1920s: A Decade of Self-Absorption? | |
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From "Normalcy" to Economic Collapse: 1921-1933 | |
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Harding and "Normalcy" | |
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"The Business of the United States is Business" | |
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The Harding Scandals | |
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Coolidge Prosperity | |
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Peace without a Sword | |
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The Peace Movement | |
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The Good Neighbor Policy | |
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The Totalitarian Challenge | |
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War Debts and Reparations | |
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The Election of 1928 | |
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Economic Problems | |
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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 | |
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Hoover and the Depression | |
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The Economy Hits Bottom | |
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The Depression and Its Victims | |
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The Election of 1932 | |
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RE-VIEWING THE PAST There Will Be Blood | |
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The New Deal: 1933-1941 | |
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The Hundred Days | |
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The National Recovery Administration (NRA) | |
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The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) | |
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The Dust Bowl | |
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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | |
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The New Deal Spirit | |
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The Unemployed | |
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Literature During the Depression | |
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Three Extremists: Long, Coughlin, and Townsend | |
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The Second New Deal | |
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The Election of 1936 | |
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Roosevelt Tries to Undermine the Supreme Court | |
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The New Deal Winds Down | |
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Significance of the New Deal | |
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Women as New Dealers: the Network | |
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Blacks During the New Deal | |
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A New Deal for Indians | |
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The Role of Roosevelt | |
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The Triumph of Isolationism | |
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War Again in Asia and Europe | |
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A Third Term for FDR | |
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The Undeclared War | |
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DEBATING THE PAST Did the New Deal Succeed? | |
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REVIEWING THE PAST Cinderella Man | |
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War and Peace: 1941-1945 | |
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The Road to Pearl Harbor | |
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Mobilizing the Home Front | |
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The War Economy | |
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War and Social Change | |
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Minorities in Time of War: Blacks, Hispanics, and Indians | |
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The Treatment of German and Italian Americans | |
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Interment of Japanese Americans | |
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Women's Contribution to the War Effort | |
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Allied Strategy: Europe First | |
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Germany Overwhelmed | |
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The Naval War in the Pacific | |
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Island Hopping | |
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Building the Atom Bomb | |
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Wartime Diplomacy | |
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Allied Suspicion of Stalin | |
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Yalta and Potsdam | |
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RE-VIEWING THE PAST Saving Private Ryan | |
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DEBATING THE PAST Should A-Bombs Have Been Dropped on Japan? | |
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Collision Courses, Abroad and at Home: 1946-1960 | |
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The Postwar Economy | |
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Truman Becomes President | |
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The Containment Policy | |
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The Atom Bomb: A "winning" Weapon? | |
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A Turning Point in Greece | |
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The Marshall Plan and the Lesson of History | |
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The Election of 1948 | |
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Containing Communism Abroad | |
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Hot War in Korea | |
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The Communist Issue at Home | |
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McCarthyism | |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
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The Eisenhower-Dulles Foreign Policy | |
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McCarthy Self-Destructs | |
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Asian Policy after Korea | |
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Israel and the Middle East | |
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Eisenhower and Khrushchev | |
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Latin America Aroused | |
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Fighting the Cold War at Home | |
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Blacks Challenge Segregation | |
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Direct Action Protests: the Montgomery Bus Boycott | |
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The Election of 1960 | |
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AMERICAN LIVES Martin Luther King, Jr | |
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From Camelot to Watergate: 1961-1975 | |
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Kennedy in Camelot | |
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The Cuban Crises | |
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JFK's Vietnam War | |
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"We Shall Overcome": the Civil Rights Movement | |
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Tragedy in Dallas: JFK Assassinated | |
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Lyndon Baines Johnson: the Great Society | |
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New Racial Turmoil | |
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From the "Beat Movement" to Student Radicalism | |
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Johson Escalates the War | |
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The Election of 1968 | |
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Nixon as President: "Vietnamizing" the War | |
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The Cambodian "Incursion" | |
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Nixon in Triumph | |
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Domestic Policy under Nixon | |
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The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up | |
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The Judgement on Watergate: "Expletive Deleted" | |
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Nixon Resigns, Ford Becomes President | |
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MAPPING THE PAST School Segregation after the Brown Decison | |
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Running on Empty: 1975-1991 | |
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The Oil Crisis | |
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Ford as President | |
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The Fall of South Vietnam | |
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Ford versus Carter | |
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The Carter Presidency | |
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A National Malaise | |
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Stagflation: the Weird Economy | |
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"Constant Decency" in Action | |
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The Iran Crisis: Origins | |
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The Iran Crisis: Carter's Dilemma | |
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The Election of 1980 | |
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Reagan as President | |
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Four More Years | |
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"The Reagan Revolution" | |
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The New Merger Movement | |
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"A Job for Life": Layoffs Hit Home | |
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Corporate Restructuring | |
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Rogue Foreign Policy | |
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Assessing the Reagan Revolution | |
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The Election of 1988 | |
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George H.W. Bush as President | |
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The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe | |
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The War in the Persian Gulf | |
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Deficits | |
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AMERICAN LIVES Bill Gates | |
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From Boomers to Millennials | |
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The New Immigration | |
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The Emergence of Modern Feminism | |
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Roe v. Wade | |
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Conservative Counter-Attack | |
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The Rise of Gay and Lesbian Rights | |
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AIDS | |
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Publicly Gay | |
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Crime and Punisment | |
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"Crack" and Urban Gangs | |
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Violence and Popular Culture | |
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From Main Street to Mall to Dot.Com | |
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From Community to Facebook | |
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Greying of the Boomers | |
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AMERICAN LIVES Barack Obama | |
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Shocks and Responses, 1992-Present | |
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A New Face: William Clinton | |
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The Election of 1992 | |
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A New Start: Clinton as President | |
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Emergence of the Republican Majority | |
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The Election of 1996 | |
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Clinton Impeached | |
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Clinton's Legacy | |
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The Economic Boom and the Internet | |
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The 2000 Election: George W. Bush Wins by One Vote | |
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The New Terrorism | |
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September 11, 2001 | |
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America Fights Back: War in Afghanistan | |
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The Second Iraq War | |
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2004-Bush Wins a Second Term | |
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Crime: Good News and Bad | |
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Hurricane Katrina | |
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Iraq Insurgency and Bush's "Surge" | |
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2008: McCain v. Obama | |
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Financial Meltdown | |
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"Yes We Can": Obama Elected President | |
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Obama as President | |
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Health Care Reform | |
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Immigration Reform | |
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Environmental Concerns and Disaster in the Gulf | |
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Afghanistan, Again | |
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The Persistent Past and Imponderable Future | |
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AMERICAN LIVES Four Heroes | |
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DEBATING THE PAST Do Historians Ever Get It Right? | |
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Appendix | |
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Glossary | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |