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Facing the New Millennium
In 1941, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, Time magazine publisher Henry Luce predicted that the twentieth century would become...
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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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September 11, 2001
“9/11” has emerged as shorthand for the four coordinated terrorist attacks on the United...
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A Local and National Story: The Civil Rights Movement in Postwar Washington, DC
The history of the Civil Rights Movement is the story of numerous grassroots campaigns loosely coordinated and assisted by a small number of national organizations. Every local...
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The Zimmermann Telegram and American Entry into World War I
The fact that the telegram before him bore Arthur Zimmermann’s name made its contents that much harder for Walter Hines Page to believe. Page was the American...
