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The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 | |
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The Status of the South: Black Leaders Express Their Views (1865) | |
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Carl Schurz Reports Southern Defiance (1865) | |
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General Ulysses S. Grant Is Optimistic (1865) | |
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The Former Slaves Confront Freedom (1901) | |
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Emancipation Violence in Texas (c. 1865) | |
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The Debate on Reconstruction Policy: Southern Blacks Ask for Help (1865) | |
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The White South Asks for Unconditional Reintegration into the Union (1866) | |
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The Radical Republicans Take a Hard Line (1866) | |
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President Andrew Johnson Tries to Restrain Congress (1867) | |
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The Controversy over the Fifteenth Amendment (1866, 1870) | |
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Impeaching the President: Johnson's Cleveland Speech (1866) | |
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Senator Lyman Trumbull Defends Johnson (1868) | |
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"Black Reconstruction": Thaddeus Stevens Demands Black Suffrage (1867) | |
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Black and White Legislatures (c. 1876) | |
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W. E. B. Du Bois Justifies Black Legislators (1910) | |
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Benjamin Tillman's Antiblack Tirade (1907) | |
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The Ku Klux Klan's Reign of Terror: Alfred Richardson Testifies About Reconstruction-Era Georgia (1871) | |
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Maria Carter Describes an Encounter with the Klan (1871) | |
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Henry Lowther Falls Victim to the Klan (1871) | |
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The Legacy of Reconstruction: Editor E. L. Godkin Grieves (1871) | |
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Frederick Douglass Complains (1882) | |
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Booker T. Washington Reflects (1901) | |
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Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896 | |
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The South After Reconstruction: Zachariah Chandler Assails the Solid South (1879) | |
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Reconstruction and Redemption (1882) | |
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Race Divides the South: A Southern Senator Defends Jim Crow (1900) | |
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A Spokesman for the "New South" Describes Race Relations in the 1880s (1889) | |
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An African American Minister Answers Henry Grady (1890) | |
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Booker T. Washington Accommodates to Segregation (1895) | |
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A Southern Black Woman Reflects on the Jim Crow System (1902) | |
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The Populist Crusade in the South: Tom Watson Supports a Black-White Political Alliance (1892) | |
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A Black-Alliance Man Urges Interracial Cooperation (1891) | |
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The Wilmington Massacre (1898) | |
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The Spread of Segregation: The Supreme Court Declares That Separate Is Equal (1896) | |
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A Justice of the Peace Denies Justice (1939) | |
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The United States Emerges as an Industrial Giant: United States Balance of Trade and Share of World Exports (1870-1910) | |
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Composition of United States Exports (1869-1908) | |
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Destination of United States Exports (1869-1908) | |
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Distribution of Long-Term Foreign Investments in the United States (1803-1880) | |
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Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900 | |
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The Problem of the Railroads: A Defense of Long-Haul Rates (1885) | |
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Railroad President Sidney Dillon Supports Stock Watering (1891) | |
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General James B. Weaver Deplores Stock Watering (1892) | |
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The Trust and Monopoly: John D. Rockefeller Justifies Rebates (1909) | |
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An Oil Man Goes Bankrupt (1899) | |
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Weaver Attacks the Trusts (1892) | |
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The New Philosophy of Materialism | |
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Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth (1889) | |
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The Nation Challenges Carnegie (1901) | |
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Russell Conwell Deifies the Dollar (c. 1900) | |
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The Rise of the New South: Henry Grady Issues a Challenge (1889) | |
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A Yankee Visits the New South (1887) | |
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Life in a Southern Mill (1910) | |
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Labor in Industrial America: In Praise of Mechanization (1897) | |
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A Tailor Testifies (1883) | |
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The Life of a Sweatshop Girl (1902) | |
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The Knights of Labor Champion Reform (1887) | |
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Samuel Gompers Condemns the Knights (c. 1886) | |
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Capital Versus Labor (1871) | |
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The Environmental Impact of Industrialization: Upton Sinclair Describes the Chicago Stockyards (1906) | |
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An Engineer Describes Smoke Pollution (1911) | |
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America Moves to the City, 1865-1900 | |
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The Lures and Liabilities of City Life: Frederick Law Olmsted Applauds the City's Attractions (1871) | |
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Sister Carrie Is Bedazzled by Chicago (1900) | |
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Cleaning Up New York (1897) | |
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Jacob Riis Photographs the New York Tenements (1890) | |
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Jacob Riis Documents the Tenement Problem (1890) | |
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The New Immigration: Mary Antin Praises America (1894) | |
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The American Protective Association Hates Catholics (1893) | |
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President Cleveland Vetoes a Literacy Test (1897) | |
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Four Views of the Statue of Liberty (1881, 1885, 1886) | |
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Jane Addams Observes the New Immigrants (1910) | |
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Global Migrations (1870-2001) | |
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The Church on the Defensive: The Shock of Darwinism (1896) | |
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Henry Ward Beecher Accepts Evolution (1885) | |
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The Anti-Saloon Crusade: Frances Willard Prays in a Saloon (1874) | |
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Samuel Gompers Defends the Saloon (c. 1886) | |
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The Changing Role of Women: Victoria Woodhull Advocates Free Love (1871) | |
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The Life of a Working Girl (1905) | |
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An Italian Immigrant Woman Faces Life Alone in the Big City (c. 1896) | |
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Jane Addams Demands the Vote for Women (1910) | |
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The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1890 | |
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The Plight of the Indian: The U.S. Army Negotiates a Treaty with the Sioux (1868) | |
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Harpers Weekly Decries the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876) | |
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She Walks with Her Shawl Remembers the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876) | |
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Chief Joseph's Lament (1879) | |
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Theodore Roosevelt Downgrades the Indians (1885) | |
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Carl Schurz Proposes to "Civilize" the Indians (1881) | |
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A Native American Tries to Walk the White Man's Road (1890s) | |
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The Crusade for Free Homesteads: "Vote Yourself a Farm" (1846) | |
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A Texan Scorns Futile Charity (1852) | |
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President James Buchanan Kills a Homestead Bill (1860) | |
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Life on the Frontier: Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1868) | |
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A Pioneer Woman Describes the Overland Trail (1862) | |
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Taming the Canadian Frontier (1877) | |
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Opening Montana (1867) | |
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Sodbusters in Kansas (1877) | |
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John Wesley Powell Reports on the "Arid Region" (1879) | |
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The Farmers' Protest Movement: The Evolving Wheat Economy (1852-1914) | |
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An Iowan Assesses Discontent (1893) | |
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Mrs. Mary Lease Raises More Hell (c. 1890) | |
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William Allen White Attacks the Populists (1896) | |
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The Pullman Strike: A Populist Condemns George Pullman (1894) | |
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Pullman Defends His Company (1894) | |
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Starvation at Pullman (1894) | |
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The Free-Silver Mirage: Coin's Financial School (1894) | |
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William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold (1896) | |
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Empire And Expansion, 1890-1909 | |
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Yellow Journalism in Flower: Joseph Pulitzer Demands Intervention (1897) | |
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William Randolph Hearst Stages a Rescue (1897) | |
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The Declaration of War: President McKinley Submits a War Message (1898) | |
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Professor Charles Eliot Norton's Patriotic Protest (1898) | |
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The Debate over Imperialism: Albert Beveridge Trumpets Imperialism (1898) | |
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Mark Twain Denounces Imperialism (c. 1900) | |
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David Starr Jordan Spurns Empire (1898) | |
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William Jennings Bryan Vents His Bitterness (1901) | |
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The Nation Denounces Atrocities (1902) | |
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Cartoonists Tackle the Philippines Question (c. 1900) | |
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The Panama Revolution: John Hay Twists Colombia's Arm (1903) | |
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Theodore Roosevelt Hopes for Revolt (1903) | |
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Official Connivance in Washington (1903) | |
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The Monroe Doctrine in the Caribbean: Roosevelt Launches a Corollary (1904) | |
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A Latin American Protests (1943) | |
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Tensions with Asia: Californians Petition for Chinese Exclusion (1877) | |
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The New York Times Champions Exclusion (1880) | |
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A Christian Chinese Protests Restrictions on Civil Liberties (1892) | |
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President Roosevelt Anticipates Trouble (1905) | |
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Japan Resents Discrimination (1906) | |
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The Gentleman's Agreement (1908) | |
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Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912 | |
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The Heyday of Muckraking: Exposing the Meatpackers (1906) | |
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Theodore Roosevelt Roasts Muckrakers (1906) | |
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Corruption in the Cities: Lincoln Steffens Bares Philadelphia Bossism (1904) | |
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George Washington Plunkitt Defends "Honest Graft" (1905) | |
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The Plight of Labor: From the Depths (1906) | |
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George Baer's Divine Right of Plutocrats (1902) | |
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Child Labor in the Coal Mines (1906) | |
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Sweatshop Hours for Bakers (1905) | |
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire Claims 146 Lives (1911) | |
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The Conservation Crusade: Roosevelt Defends the Forests (1903) | |
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The West Protests Conservation (1907) | |
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Gifford Pinchot Advocates Damming the Hetch Hetchy Valley (1913) | |
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John Muir Damns the Hetch Hetchy Dam (1912) | |
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"Beauty as Against Use" (1920s) | |
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The Crusade for Woman Suffrage: Senator Robert Owen Supports Women (1910) | |
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A Woman Assails Woman Suffrage (1910) | |
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Images of the Suffrage Campaign (1900-1915) | |
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Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916 | |
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The Election of 1912: Theodore Roosevelt Proposes Government Regulation (1912) | |
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Woodrow Wilson Asks for "a Free Field and No Favor" (1912) | |
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Campaigning for Monetary Reform: Louis Brandeis Indicts Interlocking Directorates (1914) | |
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J. P. Morgan Denies a Money Trust (1913) | |
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William McAdoo Exposes the Bankers (c. 1913) | |
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Moral Meddling in Mexico | |
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Mexico Warns Against Intervention (1913) | |
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Wilson Asks for War on General Huerta (1914) | |
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A Republican Assails "Watchful Waiting" (1916) | |
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Acquiescing in the British Blockade | |
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Lord Bryce's Propaganda Report (1915) | |
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Walter Page Plays Britain's Game (c. 1915) | |
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Robert Lansing's Pro-Ally Tactics (c. 1916) | |
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The War to End War, 1917-1918 | |
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War with Germany: President Wilson Breaks Diplomatic Relations (1917) | |
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Representative Claude Kitchin Assails the War Resolution (1917) | |
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The War for the American Mind: Un-Christlike Preachers (1918) | |
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Abusing the Pro-Germans (1918) | |
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Robert La Follette Demands His Rights (1917) | |
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The Supreme Court Throttles Free Speech (1919) | |
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Zechariah Chafee Upholds Free Speech (1919) | |
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The Propaganda Front: George Creel Spreads Fear Propaganda (c. 1918) | |
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Woodrow Wilson Versus Theodore Roosevelt on the Fourteen Points (1918) | |
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The Face of War: General John Pershing Defines American Fighting Tactics (1917-1918) | |
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A "Doughboy" Describes the Fighting Front (1918) | |
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The Struggle over the Peace Treaty: The Text of Article X (1919) | |
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Wilson Testifies for Article X (1919) | |
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The Lodge-Hitchcock Reservations (1919) | |
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Wilson Defeats Henry Cabot Lodge's Reservations (1919) | |
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The Treaty in Global Perspective: Germany Protests (1918) | |
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Jan Christiaan Smuts Predicts Disaster (1919) | |
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Ho Chi Minh Petitions for Rights (1919) | |
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American Life in the "Roaring Twenties," 1919-1929 | |
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The Great Immigration Debate: Theodore Roosevelt Preaches "Americanism" (1915) | |
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Randolph Bourne Defends Cultural Pluralism (1916) | |
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The World's Work Favors Restrictive Quotas (1924) | |
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The New Republic Opposes Racialized Quotas (1924) | |
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Samuel Gompers Favors Restriction (1924) | |
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Two Views of Immigration Restriction (1921, 1924) | |
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The Reconstituted Ku Klux Klan: Tar-Bucket Terror in Texas (1921) | |
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A Methodist Editor Clears the Klan (1923) | |
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The Wets Versus the Drys: A German Observes Bootlegging (1928) | |
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Fiorello La Guardia Pillories Prohibition (1926) | |
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The WCTU Upholds Prohibition (1926) | |
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New Goals for Women: Margaret Sanger Campaigns for Birth Control (1920) | |
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The Lynds Discover Changes in the Middle-American Home (1929) | |
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The Supreme Court Declares That Women Are Different from Men (1908) | |
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The Supreme Court Declares That Men and Women Are Equal (1923) | |
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The Fundamentalist Controversy: Conservative Clergymen Uphold The Fundamentals (1910) | |
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A Liberal Protestant Assails Fundamentalism (1922) | |
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The Christian Century Acknowledges the Religious Divide (1924) | |
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Cultural Upheaval in the Roaring Twenties: A Critic Blasts Materialism (1924) | |
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An African American Reflects on Jazz (1925) | |
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The Flapper Takes the Stage (1926) | |
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Advertising Targets Women Consumers | |
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The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1932 | |
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Warren Harding and the Washington Conference: President Harding Hates His Job (c. 1922) | |
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William Randolph Hearst Blasts Disarmament at Washington (1922) | |
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Japan Resents the Washington Setback (1922) | |
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The Depression Descends: The Plague of Plenty (1932) | |
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Distress in the South (1932) | |
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Rumbles of Revolution (1932) | |
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Herbert Hoover Clashes with Franklin Roosevelt: On Public Versus Private Power (1932) | |
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On Government in Business (1932) | |
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On Balancing the Budget (1932) | |
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On Restricted Opportunity (1932) | |
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An Appraisal of Hoover: Hoover Defends His Record (1932) | |
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Roosevelt Indicts Hoover (1932) | |
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The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1938 | |
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A World in Depression: The Contracting Spiral of World Trade (1929-1933) | |
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France Champions International Cooperation (1933) | |
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Jan Christiaan Smuts Blames the Versailles Treaty (1933) | |
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John Maynard Keynes Praises Roosevelt (1933) | |
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The Face of the Great Depression: C?sar Ch?vez Gets Tractored off the Land (1936) | |
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A Salesman Goes on Relief (1930s) | |
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A Boy in Chicago Writes to President Roosevelt (1936) | |
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Hard Times in a North Carolina Cotton Mill (1938-1939) | |
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An Enigma in the White House: The Agreeable FDR (1949) | |
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Coffee for the Veterans (1933) | |
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FDR the Administrative "Artist" (1948) | |
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Voices of Protest:1 | |
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Senator Huey P. Long Wants Every Man to Be a King (1934) | |
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Father Coughlin Demands "Social Justice" (1934, 1935) | |
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Norman Thomas Proposes Socialism (1934) | |
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Dr. Francis E. Townsend Promotes Old-Age Pensions (1933) | |
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The Struggle to Organize Labor: Tom Girdler Girds for Battle (1937) | |
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John Lewis Lambastes Girdler (1937) | |
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Conservation in the New Deal: Backcountry Poets Reflect on the Civilian Conservation Corps (1934, 1935) | |
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A Daughter of the Plains Struggles with Dust Storms (1934) | |
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Franklin Roosevelt Creates the Tennessee Valley Authority (1933) | |
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Roosevelt Promotes Natural Resources Planning (1935) | |
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Roosevelt Dedicates Boulder (Hoover) Dam (1935) | |
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The Supreme Court Fight and After: Harold Ickes Defends His Chief (1937) | |
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Dorothy Thompson Dissents (1937) | |
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Republicans Roast Roosevelt (1940) | |
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Assessing the New Deal (1935, 1936) | |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941 | |
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The Struggle Against Isolationism: Two Views of Isolationism (1936, 1938) | |
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Roosevelt Pleads for Repeal of the Arms Embargo (1939) | |
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Senator Arthur Vandenberg Fights Repeal (1939) | |
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Charles Lindbergh Argues for Isolation (1941) | |
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The New York Times Rejects Isolationism (1941) | |
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The Lend-Lease Controversy: FDR Drops the Dollar Sign (1940) | |
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Senator Burton Wheeler Assails Lend-Lease (1941) | |
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William Randolph Hearst Denounces Aid to the Soviet Union (1941) | |
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War in the Atlantic: Framing the Atlantic Charter (1941) | |
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The Chicago Tribune Is Outraged (1941) | |
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FDR Proclaims Shoot-on-Sight (1941) | |
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Blowup in the Pacific: Harold Ickes Prepares to "Raise Hell" (1941) | |
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Togo Blames the United States (1952) | |
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Cordell Hull Justifies His Stand (1948) | |
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The Blame for Pearl Harbor: War Warnings from Washington (1941) | |
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Admiral H. E. Kimmel Defends Himself (1946) | |
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Secretary Henry Stimson Charges Negligence (1946) | |
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Franklin Roosevelt Awaits the Blow (1941) | |
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America in World War II, 1941-1945 | |
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War and American Society: The War Transforms the Economy ( 1943) | |
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A Black American Ponders the War's Meaning (1942) | |
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A Woman Remembers the War (1984) | |
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Japanese Internment: Yamato Ichihashi Relates His Relocation Experience (1942) | |
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A Japanese American Is Convicted (1943) | |
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A Draft Register Explains His Decision (1943-1944) | |
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The Second-Front Controversy: Eisenhower Urges the Earliest Possible Second Front (1942) | |
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Churchill Explains to Stalin That There Will Be No Second Front in 1942 (1942) | |
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Stalin Resents the Delay of the Second Front (1943) | |
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A Russian Novelist Appeals to the American People (1943) | |
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Roosevelt and Stalin Meet Face-to-Face (1943) | |
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Two Allies, One War? (1941-1945) | |
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The "Unconditional Surrender" Controversy: Robert Sherwood Defends FDR (1948) | |
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Cordell Hull Opposes Unconditional Surrender (1948) | |
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America and the Holocaust: Vivian Fry Considers the Causes of Skepticism (1942) | |
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Frieda Kirchwey Blasts Allied Reticence (1943) | |
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John W. Pehle Wants to Bomb Auschwitz (1944) | |
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John J. McCloy Opposes Bombing Auschwitz (1944) | |
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The War Refugee Board Reports on Rescue Efforts (1945) | |
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The Christian Century Grapples with the Holocaust (1945) | |
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The Face of Battle: A Soldier at Anzio (1944) | |
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An Airman Recounts the Regensburg Raid (1943) | |
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A Marine Assaults Peleliu (1944) | |
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An American Encounters a Wounded Enemy (1943) | |
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Dropping the Atomic Bomb: Japan's Horrified Reaction (1945) | |
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The Christian Century Deplores the Bombing (1945) | |
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Harry Truman Justifies the Bombing (1945) | |
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The Cold War Begins, 1945-1952 | |
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The New Shape of Postwar Society: Dr. Benjamin Spock Advises the Parents of the Baby-Boom Generation (1957) | |
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A Working Mother Lauds the New "Two-Income Family" (1951) | |
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The Move to Suburbia (1954) | |
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The Yalta Agreements: Franklin Roosevelt "Betrays" China and Japan (1945) | |
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The Freeman's Bill of Indictment (1953) | |
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Secretary Edward Stettinius Defends Yalta (1949) | |
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The Truman Doctrine: George Kennan Proposes Containment (1946) | |
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Harry Truman Appeals to Congress (1947) | |
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The Chicago Tribune Dissents (1947) | |
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The World Through Soviet Eyes (1946) | |
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The Marshall Plan: Secretary George Marshall Speaks at Harvard (1947) | |
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Senator Arthur Vandenberg Is Favorable (1947, 1948) | |
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Moscow's Misrepresentations (c. 1947) | |
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The China Tangle: Secretary Dean Acheson Drops Jiang Jieshi (1949) | |
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Senator Joseph McCarthy Blasts "Traitors" (1952) | |
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The Korean Crisis and NSC-68: Senator Tom Connally Writes Off Korea (1950) | |
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Truman Accepts the Korean Challenge (1950) | |
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NSC-68 Offers a Blueprint for the Cold War (1950) | |
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Secretary Acheson Defends NSC-68 (1969) | |
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The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1960 | |
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A New Look in Foreign Policy: Secretary John Foster Dulles Warns of Massive Retaliation (1954) | |
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President Eisenhower Calls for "Open Skies" (1955) | |
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The McCarthy Hysteria: Joseph McCarthy Upholds Guilt by Association (1952) | |
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A Senator Speaks Up (1950) | |
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McCarthy Inspires Fear at Harvard (1954) | |
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The Soviets "Develop" American Spies (1944) | |
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The Supreme Court and the Black Revolution: The Court Rejects Segregation (1954) | |
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One Hundred Representatives Dissent (1956) | |
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Eisenhower Sends Federal Troops (1957) | |
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The Arkansas Democrat Protests (1958) | |
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A Black Newspaper Praises Courage (1958) | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr., Asks for the Ballot (1957) | |
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The Promise and Problems of a Consumer Society: The Editors of Fortune Celebrate American Affluence (1955) | |
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John Kenneth Galbraith Criticizes the Affluent Society (1958) | |
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Newton Minow Criticizes the "Vast Wasteland" of Television (1961) | |
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Women's Career Prospects (1950) | |
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Agnes Meyer Defends Women's Traditional Role (1950) | |
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Betty Friedan Launches the Modern Feminist Movement (1963) | |
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Eisenhower Says Farewell (1961) | |
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The Stormy Sixties, 1960-1968 | |
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy Proclaims a "Quarantine" (1962) | |
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Premier Khrushchev Proposes a Swap (1962) | |
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Kennedy Advances a Solution (1962) | |
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The Soviets Save Face (1962) | |
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President Johnson's Great Society: Michael Harrington Discovers Another America (1962) | |
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President Johnson Declares War on Poverty (1964) | |
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War on the Antipoverty War (1964) | |
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The Black Revolution Erupts: Rosa Parks Keeps Her Seat (1955) | |
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Students Sit In for Equality (1960) | |
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Riders for Freedom (1961) | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr., Writes from a Birmingham Jail (1963) | |
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Malcolm X Is Defiant (1964) | |
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President Johnson Supports Civil Rights (1965) | |
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A Conservative Denounces Black Rioters (1965) | |
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Vietnam Troubles: The Joint Chiefs of Staff Propose a Wider War (1964) | |
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President Johnson Asserts His War Aims (1965) | |
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The British Prime Minister Criticizes U.S. Bombing (1965) | |
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Secretary McNamara Opposes Further Escalation (1966) | |
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The Soldiers' War (1966) | |
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Massacre at My Lai (1968) | |
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The Dilemma of Vietnam (1966) | |
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The Politics of Protest in the 1960s: Students for a Democratic Society Issues a Manifesto (1962) | |
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Young Americans for Freedom Makes a Statement (1960) | |
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A War Protester Decides to Resist the Draft (1966) | |
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Stewart Alsop Senses the End of an Era (1970) | |
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The CIA Assesses "Restless Youth" (1968) | |
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The Stalemated Seventies, 1968-1980 | |
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Richard Nixon's Cambodian Coup: The President Defends His Incursion (1970) | |
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dissents (1970) | |
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Henry Kissinger Dissects the Dissenters (1979) | |
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Winding Down the Vietnam War: Nixon's Grand Plan in Foreign Policy (1968-1969) | |
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Nixon's Address to the Nation (1973) | |
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Canadians See Neither Peace nor Honor (1973) | |
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The Expulsion from Vietnam (1975) | |
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The Move to Impeach Nixon: The First Article of Impeachment (1974) | |
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Impeachment as a Partisan Issue (1974) | |
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Nixon Incriminates Himself (1972) | |
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A Critical Canadian Viewpoint (1974) | |
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Nixon Accepts a Presidential Pardon (1973) | |
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The Revitalization of the Feminist Movement: The National Organization for Women Proclaims the Rebirth of Feminism (1966) | |
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The Case for the Equal Rights Amendment (1970) | |
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The Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Rights (1973) | |
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Phyllis Schlafly Upholds Traditional Gender Roles (1977) | |
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Betty Friedan Has Second Thoughts (1981) | |
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Cartooning the Energy Crisis | |
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The Resurgence of Conservatism, 1980-1992 | |
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The Reagan "Revolution" in Economic Policy: The Supply-Side Gospel (1984) | |
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President Reagan Asks for a Tax Cut (1981) | |
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The New York Times Attacks Reagan's Policies (1981) | |
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Reagan's Foreign Policies: Reagan Sees Red in Nicaragua (1986) | |
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A Journalist Urges Caution in Nicaragua (1986) | |
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An Editor Analyzes the Iran-Contra Affair (1987) | |
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Four Views on the End of the Cold War (1994) | |
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A Philosophy for Neoconservatism: Ronald Reagan Sees "A Time For Choosing" (1964) | |
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Editor Irving Kristol Defines Neoconservatism (1983) | |
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Journalist Peter Steinfels Criticizes the Neoconservatives (1979) | |
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Assessing the Reagan Presidency: A Skeptical View of Reagan's Legacy (2004) | |
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Charles Krauthammer Praises Reagan (2004) | |
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James T. Patterson Weighs the Reagan Record (2003) | |
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George H. W. Bush and the First Gulf War (1991): Stephen J. Solarz Makes the Case for War Against Iraq (1991) | |
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The Gulf War as Happy Ending or Ominous Beginning (1991) | |
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The Foreign Policy President Falls Short at Home (1991) | |
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America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2009 | |
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Frustrations in Foreign Policy: Anthony Lake Advocates Replacing Containment with Enlargement (1993) | |
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Searching for a Post-Cold War Foreign Policy (1994) | |
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Stephen M. Walt Assesses Clinton's Record (2000) | |
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The Deadlocked Election of 2000: The Supreme Court Makes George W. Bush President (2000) | |
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Justice Stevens Dissents (2000) | |
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William Safire Sees All Roads Leading to Bush (2000) | |
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The Scourge of Catastrophic Terrorism: A British Journalist Takes Aim at American Foreign Policy (2001) | |
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President Bush Describes an "Axis of Evil" (2002) | |
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The 9/11 Commission Finds Fault (2004) | |
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Assessing the Iranian Nuclear Threat (2007) | |
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The Iraq War: President Bush Claims the Right of Preemptive War (2002) | |
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Thomas L. Friedman Supports the War (2003) | |
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America Is Humiliated at Abu Ghraib (2004) | |
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Jonathan Alter Decries the Abu Ghraib Scandal (2004) | |
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Dexter Filkins Finds Chaos in Iraq (2004) | |
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Dexter Filkins Reconsiders (2008) | |
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Charles Ferguson Doubts Victory in Iraq (2008) | |
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The American People Face a New Century | |
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A Land of Rising Inequality?: Paul Krugman Blasts the New Gilded Age (2007) | |
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Poverty Amidst Plenty? (2003) | |
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David Brooks Fears for the Middle Class (2008) | |
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Thomas Friedman Offers a "Green Solution" (2008) | |
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Women, Work, and the Family: The Gender Divide (1975-2007) | |
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Gloria Steinem Sees Stubborn Sexism (2008) | |
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Gail Collins Celebrates Hillary Clinton's Campaign (2008) | |
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Pluralism and Its Discontents: Samuel P. Huntington Fears a Cultural Divide (2004) | |
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Jason Riley Criticizes Multiculturalism (2008) | |
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Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Approves Affirmative Action--for Now (2003) | |
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Justice Clarence Thomas Deems Affirmative Action Unconstitutional (2003) | |
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Barack Obama Reaches Across the Racial Divide (2008) | |
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Changing Attitudes Toward Diversity (1937-2007) | |
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Cartoonists Cheer Obama's Victory (2008) | |
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Obama and the Arab World (2008) | |
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The Moral Dilemmas of Modernity: President George W. Bush Restricts Embryonic Stem Cell Research (2001) | |
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Patti Davis Pleads for More Embryonic Stem Cell Research (2004) | |
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Tom Toles Illustrates the Abortion Dilemma (2003) | |
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Hendrik Hertzberg Reflects on Religion and Politics (2004) | |
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E.J. Dionne, Jr. Sees a Shifting Religious Landscape (2008) | |
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Governor Mitt Romney Defends Traditional Marriage (2004) | |
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The California Supreme Court Upholds Gay Marriage (2008) | |
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Constitution of the United States | |
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