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  Reconstruction: The Second Civil War | Article

  Civil Rights During Reconstruction

  Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War. 

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  America 1900 | Article

  Rise of Anarchism

  For some individuals-a loose affiliation called anarchists-only the complete elimination of the state would pave the way for a more just world.

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  Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

  Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Also a trained anthropologist, Hurston collected folklore throughout the South and Caribbean — reclaiming, honoring and celebrating Black life on its own terms.

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  Las Vegas: An Unconventional History | Primary Source

  Divorce Wins a Verdict

  In a January 4, 1943 article, Time magazine reports on the slow liberalization of divorce in America.

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  The Rockefellers | Article

  Ida Tarbell

  For over 30 years, Rockefeller had applied his uncanny shrewdness, thorough intelligence, and patient vision to the creation of an industrial organization without parallel in the world. The new century found him facing his most formidable rival ever — a 45-year-old woman 

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  The Mine Wars | Article

  Industrial Democracy

  Scholars reflect on decision-making and influence in an industrial context during the early 1900s.

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  Film

  The Donner Party

  Three years before the Gold Rush, 87 pioneers took a shortcut westward to California, only to get caught in the snows of the Sierra Nevada. The emigrants' fateful journey culminated in death and cannibalism.

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  Wyatt Earp | Image Gallery

  Wyatt Earp in Popular Culture

  Since the earliest days of film and television, Wyatt Earp has personified the ultimate Western outlaw hero.

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  God in America | Article

  Interview: Catherine Brekus

  Catherine Brekus teaches American religious history at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is the author of Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 and editor of The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past. This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted on June 23, 2009.

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  Fatal Flood | Article

  Delta Blues Music

  As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood.

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  Film

  The Sun Queen

  Scientist Mária Telkes dedicated her career to harnessing the power of the sun. Though undercut and thwarted by her male colleagues, she persevered to design the first successfully solar-heated house in 1948 and held more than 20 patents.

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  Mr. Polaroid

  Before the iPhone, the Polaroid camera let people instantly chronicle their lives. Along with instant photo mania, its company culture became the model for Silicon Valley. Mr. Polaroid is the story of Edwin Land, the man behind the camera.

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  The Hurricane of '38

  Before radar had been invented a devastating hurricane hit America, surprising residents of the East Coast and killing more than 600 people.

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  War of the Worlds | Image Gallery

  Martians: A Photo Gallery

  In the early 1900s, Martians were a hot topic in American popular culture.

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  Looking Back at the Original Drive-In Movie Theater

  How audiences first came to watch movies from behind the wheel.

   

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  MacArthur

  No soldier in modern history has been more admired — or more reviled. Douglas MacArthur, liberator of the Philippines, shogun of occupied Japan, mastermind of the Inchon invasion, was an admired national hero when he was suddenly relieved of his command. A portrait of a complex, imposing and fascinating American general. 

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  MacArthur | Article

  General George C. Marshall

  The only man to ever serve as both secretary of state and secretary of defense, his greatest achievement may have been devising the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt a devastated Europe after World War II. 

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  Secrets of a Master Builder | Article

  The Ship Railway Plan

  A railway to carry ships across Mexico? Find out more about the audacious plan Eads promoted to connect Atlantic and Pacific in the days before the Panama Canal was built.

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  Ulysses S. Grant | Article

  Grant's Funeral March

  The column of mourners who accompanied Grant was seven miles long. Among those mourners were three presidents.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt | Article

  William Rusher on Eleanor Roosevelt

  William Rusher, political strategist and columnist, offers his thoughts on Eleanor Roosevelt in this interview.