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History Now Essay

African American Women in World War II

Maureen Honey

African American women made meaningful gains in the labor force and US armed forces as a result of the wartime labor shortage during the Second World War, but these advances were sharply circumscribed by racial segregation, which was...

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46 | African American Soldiers Fall 2016

Collection Item

1871

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

[Group portrait of five Native American men]

No series assigned. Negative number 349.

GLC03095.94

Special Topics

American Immigration History

Widely considered a wellspring for US greatness, immigration has also been a source and expression of our deepest conflicts. Immigrant diversity made the United States different from other countries in ways that have been essential to...

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The American Fascination with the Civil War

Government and Civics

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

History Now Essay

Teaching American History to Muslim Exchange Students

Ted Widmer

Government and Civics

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Everyone knows that the election of 2004 marked a pivotal turning point for the American people. That point was brought home forcefully by the experience of teaching American history that summer to a group of twenty-one young Muslim...

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1 | Elections Fall 2004