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| Foreword | |
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| Rebuilding After the Civil War (1865-1895) | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Preface | |
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| Reconstruction and the New Social Order in the South | |
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| Reconstruction Should Be Harsh (1865) | |
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| Reconstruction Should Be Lenient (1866) | |
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| The Ku Klux Klan Is a Terrorist Organization (1870) | |
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| The Ku Klux Klan Is a Peacekeeping Organization (1872) | |
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| The Gilded Age: Industrialization and Labor Conflicts | |
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| Concentrations of Wealth Harm America (1883) | |
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| Concentrations of Wealth Help America (1889) | |
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| The Organizing of Labor into Unions Is Dangerous (1886) | |
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| Labor Unions Are Essential (1894) | |
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| A Populist Prescription for Social Reform (1892) | |
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| A Social Darwinist View of Social Reform (1914) | |
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| The Progressive Era (1895-1920) | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Jim Crow and Black Response | |
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| Blacks Should Stop Agitating for Political Equality (1895) | |
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| Blacks Should Strive for Political Equality (1903) | |
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| Racial Segregation Is Constitutional (1896) | |
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| Racial Segregation Is Unconstitutional (1896) | |
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| American Empire | |
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| America Should Retain the Philippines (1900) | |
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| America Should Not Rule the Philippines (1900) | |
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| Progressive Era Reforms and Issues | |
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| Child Labor Should Be Abolished (1906) | |
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| Child Labor May Be Beneficial (1883, 1906) | |
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| American Women Should Have the Right to Vote (1909) | |
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| American Women Should Not Have the Right to Vote (1909) | |
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| Hetch Hetchy Valley Should Be Preserved (1912) | |
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| Hetch Hetchy Valley Should Be Dammed (1913) | |
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| The Federal Government Should Regulate Trusts: Roosevelt's New Nationalism (1910) | |
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| The Federal Government Should Oppose Trusts: Wilson's New Freedom (1913) | |
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| World War I and the League of Nations | |
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| America Should Enter World War I (1917) | |
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| America Should Not Enter World War I (1917) | |
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| War Dissenters' Freedoms of Speech and Assembly Must Be Preserved (1917) | |
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| War Dissenters' Freedoms of Speech and Assembly Must Be Limited (1917) | |
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| The United States Should Join the League of Nations (1919) | |
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| The United States Should Not Join the League of Nations (1919) | |
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| Prosperity, Depression, and War (1920-1945) | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Social and Cultural Issues of the 1920s | |
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| The Department of Justice Is Defending America from Communist Subversion (1920) | |
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| The Department of Justice Is Violating Constitutional Freedoms (1920) | |
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| H.L. Mencken Critiques America (1922) | |
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| A Critique of H.L. Mencken (1928) | |
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| Prohibition Is a Success (1924) | |
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| Prohibition Is a Failure (1926) | |
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| The Great Depression and the New Deal | |
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| Self-Help Is the Best Response to Unemployment (1932) | |
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| Self-Help Is Not Enough (1932) | |
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| America Needs a New Deal (1932) | |
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| Roosevelt's New Deal Would Destroy America (1932) | |
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| Redistributing America's Wealth Would Solve the Depression (1934) | |
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| Long's "Share-Our-Wealth" Plan Is Impractical (1935) | |
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| World War II | |
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| The United States Should Give Lend-Lease Aid to Great Britain (1940) | |
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| Lend-Lease Aid Will Drag the United States into War (1941) | |
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| The Internment of Japanese Americans Was Justified (1944) | |
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| The Internment of Japanese Americans Was Not Justified (1944) | |
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| Using the Atomic Bomb Against Japan Is Justified (1945) | |
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| Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan Was Immoral (1945) | |
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| The Cold War Abroad and at Home (1945-1989) | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Rise of the Cold War | |
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| America Should Seek Peace with the Soviet Union (1946) | |
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| America Should Contain the Soviet Union (1947) | |
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| Communist Subversives Threaten America (1950) | |
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| McCarthyism Threatens America (1950) | |
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| America Should Send a Man to the Moon (1961) | |
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| America's Race to the Moon Is Misguided (1962) | |
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| The Struggle for Civil Rights and Equality | |
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| Racial Segregation in Public Schools Is Unconstitutional (1954) | |
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| The Supreme Court Should Not Interfere in Southern Racial Practices (1956) | |
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| Blacks Should Strive to Be Part of the American Dream (1961) | |
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| Blacks Can Never Be Part of the American Dream (1963) | |
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| American Women Need an Equal Rights Amendment (1970) | |
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| An Equal Rights Amendment Would Be Harmful (1970) | |
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| The Turbulent Sixties | |
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| America Is Fighting for a Just Cause in Vietnam (1965) | |
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| America Is Not Fighting for a Just Cause in Vietnam (1967) | |
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| Riots Are Mob Criminal Acts (1966) | |
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| Riots Are Social Revolutions (1967) | |
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| America's Youth Must Lead a New Revolution (1962, 1968) | |
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| Student Rebellion Leaders Are a Disgrace (1969) | |
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| From Nixon to Reagan | |
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| Executive Privilege Protects a President's Private Communications (1973) | |
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| A President's Executive Privilege Is Not Absolute (1974) | |
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| America Is Facing a Crisis of Confidence (1979) | |
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| The American Spirit Remains Strong (1980) | |
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| The End of the Cold War | |
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| The Cold War Was a Great Victory for the United States (1992) | |
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| The Cold War Was Not a Great Victory for the United States (1993) | |
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| New Challenges After the Cold War (1991-Present) | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Domestic Challenges | |
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| America Must Reform Its Health Care System (1994) | |
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| America's Health Care System Does Not Need Government Reform (1993) | |
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| President Bill Clinton Should Be Impeached (1998) | |
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| Clinton's Impeachment Is Not Justified (1998) | |
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| Gay Marriage Must Be Banned (2003) | |
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| Gay Marriage Should Not Be Banned (2006) | |
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| National Security, Terrorism, and Iraq | |
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| America Must Use Military Force Against Iraq to Liberate Kuwait (1991) | |
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| War Against Iraq Is Unnecessary (1991) | |
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| America Must Wage War Against Terrorists (2001) | |
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| America Must Seek Alternatives to a Military Response to Terrorism (2001) | |
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| President George W. Bush Is Abusing the War Powers of His Office (2006) | |
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| The President Needs Broad Wartime Powers to Protect the Nation (2006) | |
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| Index | |