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The "go-green" movement is rampant in modern America. However, support for conservation in the early 20th century was not quite as universal. [...] »
Controversial issues are often simplified in textbooks. Discover the facts surrounding the World War II bombing of Japan. [...] »
Did Northerners all respond the same way to Brown's infamous raid? Southerners? [...] »
Was colonial trade really triangular? What kinds of work did colonists do, and what kinds of work do textbooks leave out? [...] »
Divided into two waves of immigration by textbooks, the continuity of cultural values and community within Jewish immigration to the U.S. is often overlooked. [...] »
The fight against segregation and its discriminatory practices does not begin and end with Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education. [...] »
Beginning in Europe, the Panic of 1873 quickly spread to the United States producing 65 months of depressed economic conditions. [...] »
Textbooks are silent about defining race and racism, even though the modern Civil Rights Movement and its antecedent movements were efforts to challenge and eliminate racism. [...] »
American historians have depicted the Tet Offensive as the turning point for U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. An overwhelming number of facts make an alternate case. [...] »
Tried and executed in 1822, along with many other slaves, for a plotted rebellion, how much do we actually know about Denmark Vesey and his uprising? [...] »
