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| Reconstruction, 1865-1877 | |
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| Documents | |
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| William Howard Day, an African American Minister, Salutes the Nation and a Monument to Abraham Lincoln, 1865 | |
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| A Southern Song Opposes Reconstruction, c. 1860s | |
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| Louisiana Black Codes Reinstate Provisions of the Slave Era, 1865 | |
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| President Andrew Johnson Denounces Changes in His Program of Reconstruction, 1867 | |
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| Congressman Thaddeus Stevens Demands a Radical Reconstruction, 1867 | |
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| Representative Benjamin Butler Argues That President Andrew Johnson Be Impeached, 1868 | |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton Questions Abolitionist Support for Female Enfranchisement, 1868 | |
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| Lucy McMillan, a Former Slave in South Carolina, Testifies About White Violence, 1871 | |
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| Father Abram Ryan Proclaims Undying Love for the Confederate States of America, 1879 | |
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| Francis Miles Finch Mourns and Celebrates Civil War Soldiers from the South and North, 1879 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Continuing the War: White and Black Violence During Reconstruction | |
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| Ending the War: The Push for National Reconciliation | |
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| Western Settlement And The Frontier | |
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| Documents | |
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| Brigham Young Exhorts Mormon Pioneers to Plant and Irrigate, 1847 | |
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| Irish Vocalist Sings of Slaying the Mormon "King," 1865 | |
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| Katie Bighead (Cheyenne) Remembers Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn, 1876 | |
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| Commissioner of Indian Affairs Recommends Severalty and Discusses Custer, 1876 | |
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| Chief Joseph (Nez Perc?) Surrenders, 1877 | |
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| Wyoming Gunfight: An Attack on Chinatown, 1885 | |
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| Congress "Relieves" Mission Indians...of Their Water, 1891 | |
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| Historian Frederick Jackson Turner Articulates His "Frontier Thesis," 1893 | |
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| Ex-Slave Recalls Migrating Across the Prairie, 1936 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Frontier as a Place of Ethnic and Religious Conflict | |
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| The Frontier as the Forefront of Capitalism | |
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| Industrialization, Workers, And The New Immigration | |
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| Documents | |
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| Chinese Immigrant Lee Chew Denounces Prejudice in America, 1882 | |
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| Poet Emma Lazurus Praises the New Colossus, 1883 | |
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| Immigrant Thomas O'Donnell Laments the Worker's Plight, 1883 | |
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| Immigrants Crowd Together--By Choice, or Not? 1889 | |
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| Unionist Samuel Gompers Asks, "What Does the Working Man Want?" 1890 | |
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| Jurgis Rudkus Discovers Drink in The Jungle, 1905 | |
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| A Slovenian Boy Remembers Tales of the Golden Country, 1909 | |
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| Engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor Manufactures the Ideal Worker, 1910 | |
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| A Polish Immigrant Remembers Her Father Got the Best Food, 1920 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Coming and Going: Round Trip to America | |
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| Permanently Lost: The Trauma of Immigration | |
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| Imperialism And World Power | |
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| Documents | |
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| President William McKinley Asks for War to Liberate Cuba, 1898 | |
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| Governor Theodore Roosevelt Praises the Manly Virtues of Imperialism, 1899 | |
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| Filipino Leader Emilio Aguinaldo Rallies His People to Arms, 1899 | |
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| The American Anti-Imperialist League Denounces U.S. Policy, 1899 | |
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| Mark Twain Satirizes "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," 1900 | |
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| A Soldier Criticizes American Racism in the Philippines, 1902 | |
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| Argentina Condemns Europe's Collection of Debts by Force, 1902 | |
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| The Platt Amendment Limits Cuban Autonomy, 1903 | |
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| The Roosevelt Corollary Makes the United States the Police of Latin America, 1904 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Gendering Imperialism: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest for Manhood and Empire | |
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| Racial Imperialism: America's Takeover of the Philippines | |
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| The Progressive Movement | |
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| Documents | |
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| W. C. T. U. Blasts Drinking and Smoking, and Demands Power to Protect, 1883 | |
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| Utopian Edward Bellamy Scorns the Callousness of the Rich, 1888 | |
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| Black Educator Booker T. Washington Advocates Compromise and Self-Reliance, 1901 | |
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| NAACP Founder W. E. B. DuBois Denounces Compromise on Negro Civil Rights, 1903 | |
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| Journalist Lincoln Steffens Exposes the Shame of Corruption, 1904 | |
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| Social Worker Jane Addams Advocates Civic Housekeeping, 1906 | |
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| Reformer Frederic Howe Compares America and Germany, 1911 | |
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| Sociologist William Graham Sumner Denounces Reformers' Fanaticism, 1913 | |
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| Cartoon: The Women's Vote vs. Boss Rule, 1915 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Class, Gender, and Race at Home: The American Birthplace of Progressivism | |
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| American Progressivism in the Wider Atlantic World | |
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| America In World War I. Documents | |
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| President Woodrow Wilson Asks Congress to Declare War, 1917 | |
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| Senator Robert M. La Follette Passionately Dissents, 1917 | |
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| A Union Organizer Testifies to Vigilante Attack, 1917 | |
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| The U.S. Government Punishes War Protesters: The Espionage Act, 1918 | |
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| Wilson Proposes a New World Order in the "Fourteen Points," 1918 | |
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| An Ambulance Surgeon Describes What It Was Like "Over There," 1918 | |
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| A Negro Leader Explains Why Colored Men Fought for America, 1919 | |
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| Publicist George Creel Recalls Selling the War, 1920 | |
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| Cartoons Against and for the League of Nations, 1920 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Woodrow Wilson: Egocentric Crusader | |
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| Woodrow Wilson: Father of the Future | |
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| Crossing A Cultural Divide: The Twenties | |
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| The Governor of California Tells of the "Japanese Problem," 1920 | |
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| Radio Broadcast: The Modern Church Is No Bridge to Heaven, 1923 | |
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| Cartoon: Religious "Modernism" Offers Cold Comfort, 1924 | |
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| Defense Attorney Clarence Darrow Interrogates Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan in the Monkey Trial, 1925 | |
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| The Ku Klux Klan Defines Americanism, 1926 | |
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| Margaret Sanger Seeks Pity for Teenage Mothers and Abstinent Couples, 1928 | |
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| The Automobile Comes to Middletown, U.S.A., 1929 | |
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| Langston Hughes: Poet of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance | |
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| Young Women Discuss Petting, 1930 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Sex and Youth in the Jazz Age | |
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| Fundamentalists Battle Modernism in the Roaring Twenties | |
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| The Depression, The New Deal, And Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
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| Documents | |
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| Song of the Depression: "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" 1931 | |
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| President Herbert Hoover Applauds Limited Government, 1931 | |
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| A Journalist Investigates the Charges Against the Scottsboro Boys, 1931 | |
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| Business Leader Henry Ford Advocates Self-Help, 1932 | |
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| The Nation Asks, "Is It to Be Murder, Mr. Hoover?" 1932 | |
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| President Franklin Roosevelt Says Government Must Act, 1933 | |
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| Father Charles Coughlin Denounces FDR and Proposes a Third Party, 1936 | |
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| Social Security Advisers Consider Male and Female Pensioners, 1938 | |
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| John Steinbeck Portrays the Outcast Poor in The Grapes of Wrath, 1939 | |
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| Essays | |
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| FDR: Advocate for the American People | |
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| FDR: Architect of Ineffectual Big Government | |
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| The Ordeal Of World War II | |
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| Documents | |
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| American Missionaries Speak Out about the Rape of Nanking, 1937 | |
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| Nurses Rush to Aid the Wounded on the U.S. Naval Base in Hawaii, 1941 | |
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| British Prime Minister Winston Churchill Reacts to Pearl Harbor, 1941 | |
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| Roosevelt Identifies the "Four Freedoms" at Stake, 1941 | |
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| Norman Rockwell Depicts "Freedom From Want" for the Office of War Information | |
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| A Japanese American Recalls the Effect of Internment on Family Unity, 1942 | |
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| An African American Soldier Notes the "Strange Paradox" of the War, 1944 | |
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| A Nisei Soldier Honored with Gold Star--and by Jackie Robinson, 1944 | |
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| General Dwight Eisenhower Testifies to the German Concentration Camps, 1945 | |
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| Essays | |
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| G.I. Joe: Fighting for Home | |
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| American Liberals: Fighting for a Better World | |
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| The Cold War And The Nuclear Age | |
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| Documents | |
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| Diplomat George F. Kennan Advocates Containment, 1946 | |
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| Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace Questions the "Get Tough" Policy, 1946 | |
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| Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Novikov Sees a U.S. Bid for World Supremacy, 1946 | |
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| Images of Nuclear Destruction: Atomic Cake vs. Godzilla, 1948 and 1954 | |
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| The Truman Doctrine Calls for the United States to Become the World's Police, 1947 | |
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| Senator Joseph McCarthy Describes the Internal Communist Menace, 1950 | |
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| The Federal Loyalty-Security Program Expels a Postal Clerk, 1954 | |
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| Life Magazine Reassures Americans "We Won't All Be Dead" After Nuclear War, 1959 | |
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| President Eisenhower Warns of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1961 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Truman's Hard Line Prompted the Cold War | |
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| Stalin's Hard Line Prompted a Defensive Response in the United States and Europe | |
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| The Post-War "Boom": Affluence And Anxiety | |
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| Documents | |
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| A Young American Is "Born on the Fourth of July," 1946 | |
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| Governor Adlai Stevenson Tells College Women About Their Place in Life, 1955 | |
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| Good Housekeeping: Every Executive Needs a Perfect Wife, 1956 | |
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| Life Magazine Identifies the New Teen-age Market, 1959 | |
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| Newspaper Survey: Are You a Conformist or a Rebel? 1959 | |
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| Vance Packard Criticizes Religion as a Status Symbol, 1959 | |
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| Sociologist David Riesman Describes "Other-Directed" Men and Manipulative Children, 1961 | |
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| Michael Harrington Unveils "The Other America" Outside Suburbia, 1961 | |
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| Feminist Betty Friedan Explores the Problem That Has No Name, 1959 | |
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| Essays | |
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| A Decade to Make One Proud | |
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| Families in the Fifties: The Way We Never Were | |
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| "We Can Do Better": The Civil Rights Revolution | |
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| Documents | |
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| The United Nations Approves a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 | |
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| The Supreme Court Rules on Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 | |
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| Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Defends Seamstress Rosa Parks, 1955 | |
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| Author Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Remembers Civil Rights on TV, 1957 (1994) | |
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| Army Veteran Robert Williams Argues "Self-Defense Prevents Bloodshed," 1962 | |
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| The National Organization for Women Calls for Equality, 1966 | |
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| Multiracialism (and D?tente) on TV: Star Trek, 1967 | |
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| Mexican Americans Form La Raza Unida, 1968 | |
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| A Proclamation from the Indians of All Tribes, Alcatraz Island, 1969 | |
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| Journalist Tom Wolfe Describes the New Politics of Confrontation, 1970 | |
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| Federal Court Defends Rights of the Retarded, 1971 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Change from the Bottom Up | |
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| The Minority Rights Revolution: Top Down, Bottom Up, and Sideways | |
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| The Sixties: Left, Right, And The Culture Wars | |
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| Documents | |
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| Young Americans for Freedom Draft a Conservative Manifesto, 1960 | |
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| President John Kennedy Tells Americans to Ask "What You Can Do," 1961 | |
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| Bill Moyers Remembers Kennedy's Effect on His Generation (1961), 1988 | |
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| Students for a Democratic Society Advance a Reform Agenda, 1962 | |
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| Folk Singer Malvina Reynolds Sees Young People in "Little Boxes," 1963 | |
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| A Protestor at Columbia University Defends Long Hair and Revolution, 1968 | |
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| Vice President Spiro Agnew Warns of the Threat to America, 1969 | |
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| Psychologist Carl Rogers Emphasizes Being "Real" in Encounter Groups, 1970 | |
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| Carl Wittman Issues a Gay Manifesto, 1969-1970 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Sixties Liberalism and the Revolution in Manners | |
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| Incivility and Self-Destruction: The Real Sixties | |
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| Vietnam And The Downfall Of Presidents | |
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| Documents | |
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| French Leader Charles DeGaulle Warns the United States, 1945 | |
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| Independence Leader Ho Chi Minh Pleads with Harry Truman for Support, 1946 | |
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| President Dwight Eisenhower Warns of Falling Dominoes, 1954 | |
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| Defense Analyst John McNaughton Advises Robert McNamara on War Aims, 1965 | |
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| Undersecretary of State George Ball Urges Withdrawal from Vietnam, 1965 | |
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| Draftee Sebastian A. Ilacqua Recalls Coming Back to "The World," 1967 (1995) | |
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| Rock Band "Country Joe and the Fish" Lampoons the Vietnam War, 1968 | |
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| White House Counsel John W. Dean III Presents the "Enemies List," 1971 | |
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| Senator Sam J. Ervin Explains the Watergate Crimes, 1974 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Vietnam: A Necessary War | |
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| Vietnam: A Mistake of the Western Alliance | |
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| The Rise Of The New Right | |
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| Documents | |
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| Modern Republicanism Seems to Doom the G.O.P., 1957 | |
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| Country Singer Merle Haggard Is Proud to be an "Okie From Muskogee," 1969 | |
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| TV's Archie Bunker Sings "Those Were the Days," 1971 | |
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| Republican Activist Phyllis Schlafly Scorns Feminism, 1977 | |
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| Californians Lead Tax Revolt, 1978 | |
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| Reverend Jerry Falwell Calls America Back to the Bible, 1980 | |
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| President Ronald Reagan Sees a Revitalized America, 1985 | |
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| Surgeon General C. Everett Koop Recalls the Indifference to AIDS, 1981-1988 (2001) | |
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| Sierra Club Attacks the President's Policy, 1988 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Politics of Race and the Rise of the Right | |
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| A Rejection of Government: Reagan and the Sunbelt | |
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| End Of The Cold War, Terrorism, And Globalization | |
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| Documents | |
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| A Unionist Blasts the Export of Jobs, 1987 | |
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| President George H. W. Bush Declares the Cold War Over, 1990 | |
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| Poster: "No Globalization Without Representation," 1999 | |
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| Two Workers Flee the Inferno in the Twin Towers, 2001 | |
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| Senator Robert Byrd Condemns Post-9/11 Foreign Policy, 2003 | |
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| President George W. Bush Ranks Freedom Above Stability, 2005 | |
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| ACLU Warns Against the "Patriot Act," 2001 | |
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| Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Marvels at Obama, 2008 | |
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| The Great Recession Has Men Grinding Their Teeth, 2010 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Michael Jordan and the New Capitalism: America on Top of Its Game | |
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| Running to Keep Up: The Perils of Globalization | |
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