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