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  McCarthy

  McCarthy chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator whose zealous anti-communist crusade would test the limits of American decency and democracy.

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  Triangle Fire | Article

  Shirtwaist Kings

  After a decade of working in New York's garment district, Isaac Harris and Max Blanck entered a partnership that earned them the nickname of the "Shirtwaist Kings."

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  Chicago: City of the Century | Article

  Marshall Field (1834-1906)

  Marshall Field's great six-story merchandising emporium catered to urban women with leisure time. Rather than "buyer beware," Field's motto was "Give the lady what she wants." 

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  The Riot Report

  When Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence in the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed a commission to find the cause for the unrest. Their findings offered an unvarnished assessment of American race relations.

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  Eisenhower

  Dwight D. Eisenhower was one of America's least understood presidents. Part of the award-winning collection The Presidents.

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  Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World | Article

  Biography: Andrew Carnegie

  Andrew Carnegie helped build the formidable American steel industry, a process that turned a poor young man into the richest man in the world.

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  Truman | Primary Source

  Declaration of Israel's Independence, 1948

  Read President Truman's declaration of Israel's Independence, 1948

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  The Man Behind Hitler

  A symbol of Nazi cruelty and a master of cynical propaganda, Joseph Goebbels was the mastermind behind Adolf Hitler's disturbing success. Goebbels, called the "genius of spin" and the "Reich-Liar-General," was a complicated man whose attitudes fluctuated between extremes of self-pity and grandiose excess. 

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  Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided | Article

  On the Eve of War

  In the North, great mill towns had begun to rise. 

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  Race for the Superbomb | Article

  Soviet Tests

  Learn about Soviet bomb tests conducted between 1949 and 1955.

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  The Great War

  Discover how WWI transformed America through the stories of those whose participation in the war to “make the world safe for democracy” has been largely forgotten.

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  Riding the Rails | Article

  Striking a Chord: Railroads and Their Musical Heritage

  Many a pulp novel, matinee movie, and Broadway melodrama has used the aura of the railroad to tell its tale.

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  American Experience | America and the Holocaust | Article

  Raoul Wallenberg (1912-?)

  In 1944, Raoul Wallenberg, a businessman and a member of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, volunteered to go to Budapest to help save Hungarian Jews.

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  Race for the Superbomb | Timeline

  Timeline

  One hundred events relating to the bomb's development.

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  Emma Goldman | Article

  Emma Goldman (1869-1940)

  For more than thirty years, she defined the limits of dissent and free speech in Progressive Era America.

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  Reconstruction: The Second Civil War | Article

  Schools and Education During Reconstruction

  Historians describe the creation of schools and focus on education — for both blacks and whites — in the South during Reconstruction.

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  Hard Hat Riot | Article

  The Rise and Fall of John Lindsay

  Charisma, crisis, and the battle to lead New York through its most turbulent years.

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  Emma Goldman | Article

  Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919)

  At the age of twenty he formed Frick & Company, a coke-producing venture in the Connellsville coal district of Pennsylvania.

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  Citizen Hearst | Article

  William Randolph Hearst and McCarthyism

  Hearst was a major force behind the anticommunist crusade that was underway for years before McCarthy arrived on the scene.

   

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  The Abolitionists

  Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called by many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union.