This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the change in women's roles following World War II, as the same women who were once encouraged to work in factories to support the war effort were urged to stay home and care for their families.

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Professor Esther Katz of New York University says that the New Deal presented new opportunities for women to organize grassroots movements, but their achievements did not last long beyond the New Deal.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces Danish immigrant Jacob Riis, who recorded the underbelly of urban life in his photography.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the emergence of a new, gritty realism in 19th-century writing and painting.

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As runaway slaves crossed into the North, they demanded their freedom from the Union government. But the Lincoln administration wasn't prepared to deal with them, says Columbia University Professor Eric Foner.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the expansion of communist ideology after World War II, and western governments' fears of a domino effect as countries succumbed to communism. The Truman Doctrine called for action to contain the communist threat, by economic or military action, if necessary.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the American public's great interest in tabloid accounts of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, which helped lead to the Spanish-American War.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces elements of state constitutions, like branches of power and checks and balances, that were eventually incorporated into the national constitution.

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A panel of professors examine what led the U.S. to enter Vietnam and begin the Vietnam War and consideration of whether this was or was not a mistake.

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Josh Brown of the American Social History Project examines a cartoon by Thomas Nast that lampoons the Democratic Party right after the Civil War.

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