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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945
David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. Freedom from Fear focuses primarily on political and economic developments, recounting how presidents and citizens responded to the two great...
Elizabeth Varon - "Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War"
Elizabeth Varon is the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History and the associate director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. Order Armies of Deliverance at the Gilder...
Washington, Grant, Marshall: Three Soldiers and American Ways of War, Part 1: Washington
Josiah Bunting III is president of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and the author of Ulysses S. Grant (2004). In a series of three lectures, Josiah Bunting III examines the lives of George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and...
The Right to Vote, Part 1: The Early Republic through the Civil War
The Right to Vote: Part 1 The Early Republic through the Civil War
Who could vote in the founding and Jacksonian eras? Scroll through to view the exhibition (above). Recorded readings of select components in the exhibition...
Infographic: The Civil Rights Revolution: Interpreting Statistics
African American Voter Registrations Questions to Think About What difference did the Voting Rights Act make in black voter participation in the states that had been part of the Confederacy? In which states was the impact greatest?
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