| Title | | Details |
Cahokia
| | Chapter: | 1
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| Date: | c. 1200
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| Author: | Lloyd K. Townsend
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| Description: | Monk's Mound
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| Type: | Painting
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Indians
of New Netherlands Account for the
Creation
| | Chapter: | 1
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| Date: | c. 1650s
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| Author: | Indians of New Netherlands
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| Description: | An Indian Creation Story
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| Type: | Text
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English
Trade with Indians
| | Chapter: | 2
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| Date: | 1634
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| Author: | Theodor de Bry
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| Description: | A trade encounter between the Indians and the
English
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| Type: | Drawing
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Indentured
Servitude in the Chesapeake
| | Chapter: | 4
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| Date: | 1640
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| Author: | Virginia General Court
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| Description: | Court Judgement
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| Type: | Text
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The
Wonders of the Invisible World
| | Chapter: | 4
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| Date: | 1693
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| Author: | Cotton Mather
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| Description: | Public Exhortation
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| Type: | Text
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Land
Division in New Orleans
| | Chapter: | 5
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| Date: | c. 1720
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| Author: | unknown
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| Description: | The "long lot" system
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| Type: | Map
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Virginia
Gentleman Weighs "a Frail Woman's"
Class
| | Chapter: | 5
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| Date: | c. 1730
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| Author: | William Byrd, II
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| Description: | A response to the elopement of an upper-class
woman with an overseer
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| Type: | Text
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Charleston,
SC Sons of Liberty
| | Chapter: | 7
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| Date: | 1766
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| Author: | Anonymous
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| Description: | Patriot List
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| Type: | Text
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The
Copley Family
| | Chapter: | 7
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| Date: | 1776-1777
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| Author: | John Singleton Copley
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| Description: | Family Portrait
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| Type: | Painting
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A
Profile of Loyalist Claims
| | Chapter: | 8
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| Date: | 1780
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| Author: | Wallace Brown
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| Description: | Claimant List
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| Type: | Text
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Washington's
Farewell Address
| | Chapter: | 10
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| Date: | 1796
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| Author: | George Washington
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| Description: | Our first President cautions the young
nation
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| Type: | Text
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Lewis
& Clark: A Scientific
Interest...
| | Chapter: | 11
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| Date: | 1805
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| Author: | Meriweather Lewis
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| Description: | Journal Entry
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| Type: | Illustration/Text
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Lewis
& Clark: A Modern View
| | Chapter: | 11, 44
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| Date: | 1998
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| Author: | John Klossner
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| Description: | Cartoon
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| Type: | Illustration
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Veto
of the Bank of the United States
| | Chapter: | 14
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| Date: | 1832
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| Author: | Andrew Jackson
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| Description: | Speech
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| Type: | Text
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Removal
of the Eastern Indians
| | Chapter: | 14
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| Date: | 1840
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| Author: |
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| Description: | Forced Migration Routes
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| Type: | Map
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Eli
Whitney's Cotton Gin
| | Chapter: | 15
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| Date: | 1794
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| Author: | Houghton Mifflin Company
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| Description: | Animation of the operation of a cotton
gin
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| Type: | Animation
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Domestic
Economy
| | Chapter: | 15, 16
|
| Date: | 1841
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| Author: | Catherine E. Beecher
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| Description: | Essay
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| Type: | Text
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Rules
for Husbands and Wives
| | Chapter: | 16
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| Date: | 1830
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| Author: | Mathew Carey
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| Description: | Views on the Role of Women
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| Type: | Text
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Early
Evidence of Sexual Tensions Within
Slavery
| | Chapter: | 17
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| Date: | 1681
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| Author: | unknown
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| Description: | A white woman testifies of sexual assualt by a
mulatto man
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| Type: | Text
|
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Manifest
Destiny
| | Chapter: | 18
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| Date: | 1845
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| Author: | John L. Sullivan
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| Description: | The origins
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| Type: | Text
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Black
Potential and the Key to Uncle Tom's
Cabin
| | Chapter: | 20
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| Date: | 1853
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| Author: | Harriet Beecher Stowe
|
| Description: | Author's defense of the factual basis of her
novel
|
| Type: | Text
|
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South
Carolina Defines the Causes of
Secession
| | Chapter: | 20
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| Date: | 1860
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| Author: | unknown
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| Description: | South Carolina's reasons for
Secession
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| Type: | Text
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Confederate
Dead at Gettysburg
| | Chapter: | 22
|
| Date: | 1863
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| Author: | Alexander Gardner et al.
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| Description: | Battle Aftermath
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| Type: | Photograph
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Thomas
Wentworth Higginson Assesses the Black
Soldier
| | Chapter: | 22
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| Date: | 1870
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| Author: | Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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| Description: | Account of a black Civil War regiment by their
commander
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| Type: | Text
|
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Louisiana
Black Code
| | Chapter: | 23
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| Date: | 1865
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| Author: | Louisiana
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| Description: | Reconstruction-era "black codes" restrict
blacks' rights in the South
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| Type: | Text
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Southern
Skepticism of the Freedmen's
Bureau
| | Chapter: | 23
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| Date: | 1866
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| Author: | James D. B. De Bow
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| Description: | A leading Southern writer's
comments
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| Type: | Text
|
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Political
Symbols
| | Chapter: | 24
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| Date: | 1874
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| Author: | Thomas Nast
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| Description: | Political Cartoon
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| Type: | Illustration
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Chinese
in San Francisco
| | Chapter: | 24
|
| Date: | 1885
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| Author: | San Francisco Board of
Supervisors
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| Description: | Living conditions in Chinatown
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| Type: | Text
|
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Strike
of 1877
| | Chapter: | 25
|
| Date: | 1877
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| Author: | Allan Pinkerton
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| Description: | "Pinkerton-men" as
strikebreakers
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| Type: | Text
|
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American
Woman's Home
| | Chapter: | 26
|
| Date: | 1869
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| Author: | Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher
Stowe
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| Description: | Patternbook Perspective Drawing &
Floor-plan
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| Type: | Illustration
|
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Montana
v. Rehberg
| | Chapter: | 26, 27
|
| Date: | 1885
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| Author: | Anonymous
|
| Description: | Court Transcript
|
| Type: | Text
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Consumerism
| | Chapter: | 26, 34
|
| Date: | 1890-1926
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| Author: |
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| Description: | Personal & Business Income
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| Type: | Table
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How
the Other Half Lives
| | Chapter: | 26
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| Date: | 1890
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| Author: | Jacob Riis
|
| Description: | Life of the poor in the city
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| Type: | Text
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Booker
T. Washington and Others
| | Chapter: | 26
|
| Date: | 1903
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| Author: | W. E. B. Du Bois
|
| Description: | Criticism of Washington's views
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| Type: | Text
|
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Whitman
Salutes the Indo-Hispanic Conrtibution to
America
| | Chapter: | 27
|
| Date: | 1883
|
| Author: | Walt Whitman
|
| Description: | Indian & Hispanic role in the growth of the
U.S.
|
| Type: | Text
|
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The
Significance of the Frontier in American
History
| | Chapter: | 27
|
| Date: | 1893
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| Author: | Frederick Jackson Turner
|
| Description: | Importance of the frontier in shaping American
character
|
| Type: | Text
|
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Populist
Party Platform
| | Chapter: | 28
|
| Date: | 1892
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| Author: | Populist Party
|
| Description: | New political party calls for radical
changes
|
| Type: | Text
|
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Mahan
Defines Security in Terms of Sea
Power
| | Chapter: | 29, 30
|
| Date: | 1897
|
| Author: | Alfred Thayer Mahan
|
| Description: | Military/Geo-Political Theory
|
| Type: | Text
|
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Attack
on the Meatpackers
| | Chapter: | 31
|
| Date: | 1906
|
| Author: | Upton Sinclair
|
| Description: | "Muckraker's" indictment
|
| Type: | Text
|
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American
Neutrality Policy
| | Chapter: | 32
|
| Date: | 1914
|
| Author: | Woodrow Wilson
|
| Description: | Statement of WWI neutrality in
Europe
|
| Type: | Text
|
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The
Visual Image of the Enemy
| | Chapter: | 33
|
| Date: | 1913
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| Author: |
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| Description: | Political Cartoon
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| Type: | Illustration
|
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Susan
LaFollette on Marriage and Divorce
| | Chapter: | 33
|
| Date: | 1929
|
| Author: | Susan LaFollette
|
| Description: | A view of divorce in the 1920s
|
| Type: | Text
|
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Kellogg-Briand
Pact
| | Chapter: | 35
|
| Date: | 1928
|
| Author: | U.S. Government
|
| Description: | Multilateral treaty for world
peace
|
| Type: | Text
|
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Oct.
29, Dies Irae
| | Chapter: | 35
|
| Date: | 1929
|
| Author: | James N. Rosenberg
|
| Description: | Events of October 29, 1929
|
| Type: | Political Cartoon
|
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Depression
and the New Deal
| | Chapter: | 36
|
| Date: | 1929-1942
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| Author: |
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| Description: | Unemployment Figures
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| Type: | Chart
|
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Broke—Baby
Sick—Car Trouble
| | Chapter: | 36
|
| Date: | 1937
|
| Author: | Dorothea Lange
|
| Description: | A family moving west
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| Type: | Photograph
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World
War II Homefront
| | Chapter: | 38
|
| Date: | 1942
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| Author: |
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| Description: | Internal Migration
|
| Type: | Map
|
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Effects
of the Atomic Bomb
| | Chapter: | 38
|
| Date: | 1945
|
| Author: | The United States Bombing
Survey
|
| Description: | Government Report
|
| Type: | Text
|
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Truman
Doctrine
| | Chapter: | 39
|
| Date: | 1947
|
| Author: | Harry S. Truman
|
| Description: | A call to action
|
| Type: | Text
|
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Father
Knows Best
| | Chapter: | 40
|
| Date: | 1954
|
| Author: | Anonymous
|
| Description: | Sitcom Still
|
| Type: | Photograph
|
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Watts
Riots
| | Chapter: | 41
|
| Date: | 1965
|
| Author: | California Governor's Commission on the Los
Angeles Riots
|
| Description: | Compilation of L.A. police
records
|
| Type: | Text
|
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Voting
Literacy Test
| | Chapter: | 41
|
| Date: | 1965
|
| Author: | Anonymous
|
| Description: | State Voting Test
|
| Type: | Text
|
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John
Kerry Questions a War Gone Wrong
| | Chapter: | 42
|
| Date: | 1971
|
| Author: | U.S. Government
|
| Description: | Congressional hearing on
Vietnam
|
| Type: | Text
|
|
Support
for the Contras
| | Chapter: | 43
|
| Date: | 1984
|
| Author: | Ronald Reagan
|
| Description: | U.S. involvement in Nicaragua
|
| Type: | Text
|
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Challenger:
An Accident Rooted in History...
| | Chapter: | 43
|
| Date: | 1986
|
| Author: | Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle
Challenger Accident
|
| Description: | Pictograph of O-ring Damage
|
| Type: | Chart
|
|
Events
in Waco: House Judiciary Committee
Investigation
| | Chapter: | 43
|
| Date: | 1993
|
| Author: | Janet Reno
|
| Description: | Attorney General's Testimony
|
| Type: | Text
|
|
Country
of Origin and Year of Entry into the
U.S.
| | Chapter: | 44
|
| Date: | 1997
|
| Author: | U.S. Census Bureau
|
| Description: | Foreign-born citizenship status
|
| Type: | Table
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