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Education Reform in Antebellum America
Education reform is often at the heart of all great reform struggles.[1]
By the 1820s Americans were...
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New Orleans and the History of Jazz
New Orleans is a city built in a location that was by any measure a mistake.North American settlers needed a way to import and export goods via the Mississippi River, so a city was...
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The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies
From the earliest years of European settlement in North America, whites enslaved and oppressed black people. Although the Civil War finally brought about the abolition...
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The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II in the American West
The Great Depression and World War II, far and away the worst economic calamity and the...
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The Great Depression: An Overview
Herbert Hoover got many things wrong about the great economic calamity that destroyed his presidency and his historical reputation, but he...