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Cahokia
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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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English Trade with Indians
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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
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Date: |
1640
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| Author: |
Virginia General Court
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| Description: |
Court Judgment
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| Type: |
Text
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Indians of New Netherlands Account for the Creation
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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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Early Evidence of Sexual Tensions Within Slavery
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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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The Wonders of the Invisible World
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
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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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Washington's Farewell Address
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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...
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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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Rules for Husbands and Wives
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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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Veto of the Bank of the United States
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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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Proprietors of the Charles River Bridge vs.
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Date: |
1837
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| Author: |
Roger B. Taney
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| Description: |
Supreme Court decision on monopolies
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| Type: |
Text
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Removal of the Eastern Indians
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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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Domestic Economy
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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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Manifest Destiny
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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
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Date: |
1853
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| Author: |
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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| Description: |
Author's defense of the factual basis of her novel
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| Type: |
Text
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South Carolina Defines the Causes of Secession
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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
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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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Louisiana Black Code
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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
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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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American Woman's Home
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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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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Assesses the Black Soldier
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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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Political Symbols
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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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Strike of 1877
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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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Whitman Salutes the Indo-Hispanic Conrtibution to America
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Date: |
1883
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| Author: |
Walt Whitman
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| Description: |
Indian & Hispanic role in the growth of the U.S.
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| Type: |
Text
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Montana v. Rehberg
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Date: |
1885
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| Author: |
Anonymous
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| Description: |
Court Transcript
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| Type: |
Text
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Chinese in San Francisco
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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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How the Other Half Lives
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Date: |
1890
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| Author: |
Jacob Riis
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| Description: |
Life of the poor in the city
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| Type: |
Text
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Consumerism
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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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Populist Party Platform
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Date: |
1892
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| Author: |
Populist Party
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| Description: |
New political party calls for radical changes
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| Type: |
Text
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The Significance of the Frontier in American History
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Date: |
1893
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| Author: |
Frederick Jackson Turner
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| Description: |
Importance of the frontier in shaping American character
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| Type: |
Text
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Mahan Defines Security in Terms of Sea Power
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Date: |
1897
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| Author: |
Alfred Thayer Mahan
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| Description: |
Military/Geo-Political Theory
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| Type: |
Text
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Booker T. Washington and Others
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Date: |
1903
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| Author: |
W. E. B. Du Bois
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| Description: |
Criticism of Washington's views
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| Type: |
Text
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Attack on the Meatpackers
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Date: |
1906
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| Author: |
Upton Sinclair
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| Description: |
"Muckraker's" indictment
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| Type: |
Text
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The Visual Image of the Enemy
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Date: |
1913
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| Author: |
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| Description: |
Political Cartoon
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| Type: |
Illustration
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American Neutrality Policy
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Date: |
1914
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| Author: |
Woodrow Wilson
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| Description: |
Statement of WWI neutrality in Europe
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| Type: |
Text
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Date: |
1928
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| Author: |
U.S. Government
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| Description: |
Multilateral treaty for world peace
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| Type: |
Text
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Susan LaFollette on Marriage and Divorce
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Date: |
1929
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| Author: |
Susan LaFollette
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| Description: |
A view of divorce in the 1920s
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| Type: |
Text
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Depression and the New Deal
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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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Oct. 29, Dies Irae
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Date: |
1929
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| Author: |
James N. Rosenberg
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| Description: |
Events of October 29, 1929
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| Type: |
Political Cartoon
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Broke—Baby Sick—Car Trouble
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Date: |
1937
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| Author: |
Dorothea Lange
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| Description: |
A family moving west
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| Type: |
Photograph
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World War II Homefront
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Date: |
1942
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| Author: |
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| Description: |
Internal Migration
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| Type: |
Map
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Effects of the Atomic Bomb
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Date: |
1945
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| Author: |
The United States Bombing Survey
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| Description: |
Government Report
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| Type: |
Text
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Truman Doctrine
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Date: |
1947
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| Author: |
Harry S. Truman
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| Description: |
A call to action
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| Type: |
Text
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Father Knows Best
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Date: |
1954
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| Author: |
Anonymous
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| Description: |
Sitcom Still
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| Type: |
Photograph
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Watts Riots
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Date: |
1965
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| Author: |
California Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots
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| Description: |
Compilation of L.A. police records
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| Type: |
Text
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Voting Literacy Test
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Date: |
1965
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| Author: |
Anonymous
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| Description: |
State Voting Test
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| Type: |
Text
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John Kerry Questions a War Gone Wrong
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Date: |
1971
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| Author: |
U.S. Government
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| Description: |
Congressional hearing on Vietnam
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| Type: |
Text
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Support for the Contras
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Date: |
1984
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| Author: |
Ronald Reagan
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| Description: |
U.S. involvement in Nicaragua
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| Type: |
Text
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Challenger: An Accident Rooted in History...
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Date: |
1986
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| Author: |
Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
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| Description: |
Pictograph of O-ring Damage
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| Type: |
Chart
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Events in Waco: House Judiciary Committee Investigation
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Date: |
1993
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| Author: |
Janet Reno
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| Description: |
Attorney General's Testimony
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| Type: |
Text
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Country of Origin and Year of Entry into the U.S.
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Date: |
1997
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| Author: |
U.S. Census Bureau
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| Description: |
Foreign-born citizenship status
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| Type: |
Table
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Lewis & Clark: A Modern View
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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 |