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The abolitionist movement, which was a campaign to end the practice of slav...More
The labor movement espoused social equality and honest labor through the fo...More
The Environmental Movement introduces readers to this significant movement,...More
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Thanks largely to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case o...More
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During Reconstruction, the nation sought to reestablish itself in the after...More
The Civil War brought enormous hardship and tragedy to America's female pop...More
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The stories of the men and women who served as spies in the Civil War offer...More
Reform Movements in American History is a compelling eight-volume set that ...More
Between 1811 and 1816, there was no national bank in the United States. A s...More
You have the right to remain silent is the well-known introduction to a ser...More
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke familiarizes students with...More
A presidential scandal that rocked the country resulted in this landmark Su...More
Unable to pay for a lawyer, a man arrested for breaking and entering was fo...More
In the summer of 1967, William Henry Furman broke into a house in Savannah,...More
Both the women's suffrage and civil rights movements laid the groundwork fo...More
Though the present-day United States stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to t...More
The Great Supreme Court Decisions series spotlights important Supreme Court...More
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