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| Introduction | |
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| Revolution and Founding 1776-1815 | |
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| Alfred F. Young on a Shoemaker and the Boston Tea Party | |
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| Pauline Maier on Declaring Independence | |
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| Jack N. Rakove on Creating the Constitution | |
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| Robert Scigliano on The Federalist Papers | |
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| Annette Gordon-Reed on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings | |
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| Roger G. Kennedy on the American and French Revolutions | |
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| Bernard A. Weisberger on the Contested Election of 1800 | |
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| Arnold A. Rogow on the Hamilton-Burr Duel | |
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| Michael H. Cottman on the Slave Ship Henrietta Marie | |
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| The Young Nation 1815-1850 | |
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| Joyce Appleby on the First Generation of Americans | |
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| Andrew Burstein on Celebrating Fifty Years of Independence | |
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| Harvey C. Mansfield on Tocqueville's Democracy in America | |
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| Slavery and the Civil War 1850-1865 | |
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| Stephen B. Oates on the Buildup to the Civil War | |
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| James M. McPherson on Volunteer Soldiers | |
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| Drew Gilpin Faust on Women of the Slaveholding South | |
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| Joseph E. Stevens on the Events of 1863 | |
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| James M. Perry on Civil War Correspondents | |
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| Brooks D. Simpson on Ulysses S. Grant's Military Career | |
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| Douglas L. Wilson, Allen C. Guelzo, Lerone Bennett Jr., and Differing Perspectives on Abraham Lincoln | |
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| H. W. Crocker III, Tom Wheeler, and the Leadership of Robert E. Lee | |
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| William J. Cooper Jr. on Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy | |
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| Rebuilding America and the Gilded Age 1865-1901 | |
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| Witold Rybczynski on Frederick Law Olmsted and the Building of Central Park | |
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| David Haward Bain on the First Transcontinental Railroad | |
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| H. Paul Jeffers on Grover Cleveland's Political Career | |
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| H. W. Brands on the Events of the 1890s | |
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| Ben Procter on William Randolph Hearst and the Rise of Yellow Journalism | |
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| Jean Strouse on J.P. Morgan, National Banker | |
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| Progressive Era and Reaction 1901-1929 | |
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| Linda O. McMurry on the Crusades of Ida B. Wells | |
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| Dorothy Herrmann on the Celebrity of Helen Keller | |
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| Gina Kolata on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic | |
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| Emily Bernard on Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten | |
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| Edward J. Larson on the Scopes "Monkey" Trial | |
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| Robert A. Slayton on Al Smith and the 1928 Election | |
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| Larry Tye on Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations | |
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| A. Scott Berg on Charles Lindbergh's Reluctant Public Life | |
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| Peter Collier on the Roosevelt Dynasty | |
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| Depression and War 1929-1945 | |
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| David M. Kennedy on the Great Depression and World War II | |
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| Allen Weinstein on the Early Days of Soviet Espionage | |
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| Elizabeth M. Norman on the Nurses Captured on Bataan | |
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| Amity Shlaes on the Creation of the Withholding Tax | |
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| James Bradley on Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima | |
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| Tom Brokaw on the World War II Generation | |
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| Nicholas Lemann on the Great Black Migration | |
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| Sally Bedell Smith, David Brinkley, Peter Jennings, and Early Network News | |
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| Early Cold War 1945-1957 | |
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| David Fromkin on Five Men Who Shaped the Post--World War II World | |
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| Christopher Matthews on the Unlikely Kennedy--Nixon Friendship | |
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| Jean Edward Smith on Lucius D. Clay and Postwar Berlin | |
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| Zachary Karabell on Truman Defeats Dewey | |
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| Arthur Herman on the Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy | |
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| Norman Podhoretz on the New York Intelligentsia | |
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| Social Transformation 1957-1975 | |
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| Roy Reed on Orval Faubus and the Desegregation of Central High School | |
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| Robert Dallek on Lyndon Johnson and the 1960 Election | |
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| Jay Parini on Robert Frost and the Kennedy Inauguration | |
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| Donald Kagan on the Cuban Missile Crisis | |
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| Andrew Young on Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail | |
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| Diane McWhorter on the 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing | |
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| Ben Bradlee on the Kennedy Years | |
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| Arlen Specter on the Warren Commission | |
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| Jeff Shesol on the RFK-LBJ Feud | |
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| Anthony Lewis on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan | |
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| Jon Margolis on Stories from 1964 | |
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| Tinsley E. Yarbrough on John Marshall Harlan and the Warren Court | |
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| Leonard Garment on Getting to Know Richard M. Nixon | |
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| Charles V. Hamilton on the Life and Career of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. | |
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| Elizabeth Taylor on Richard J. Daley and Chicago's Political Machine | |
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| Peter R. Kann and Frances FitzGerald on Reporting from Vietnam | |
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| Stuart I. Rochester on American POWs in Vietnam | |
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| The Culture Wars 1975-2000 | |
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| Irving Kristol, Nina J. Easton, and the Rise of the Neoconservatives | |
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| Kiron K. Skinner on the Forgotten Radio Scripts of Ronald Reagan | |
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| John A. Farrell on the Political Lore of Tip O'Neill | |
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| Shelby Steele, Cornel West, Thomas Sowell, Randall Robinson: A Symposium on Race | |
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| Don Oberdorfer on the Reagan-Gorbachev Summits | |
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| Marlin Fitzwater on Reagan, Bush, and the Press | |
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| Bob Woodward on Planning the Persian Gulf War | |
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| John Podhoretz on the Last Days of the First Bush White House | |
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| Richard E. Cohen on Dan Rostenkowski's Fall from Power | |
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| Tim Russert on a Half-Century of Meet the Press | |
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| Bonnie Angelo on Modern Presidents' Mothers | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Complete List of C-SPAN Booknotes (1989-2001) | |
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| Index | |