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The American West in the 1930s and 1940s

Geography

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The Causes of the Great Depression

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The American West: Urban v. Rural

Geography

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War, Slavery, and Emancipation

Government and Civics

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Introduction to Supreme Court Controversies throughout History

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The End of the Cold War

Government and Civics

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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

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The Post-Revolutionary Generation

Economics, Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy

Joyce Appleby, Professor Emerita, University of California, Los Angeles, explores how the men and women born after the American Revolution experienced and developed the theoretical ideas of liberty and independence put in place by...

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The Slaughterhouse Cases

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The first major post-Civil-War Supreme Court decision, popularly know as the Slaughterhouse Cases, resulted in a pivotal interpretation of the relatively new Fourteenth Amendment. Larry Kramer, Dean at Stanford Law School, discusses...

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When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House

Government and Civics