Professors Sidney Milkis and Marc Landy look at the memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency and how the presidents that followed him—Lyndon B. Johnson and Ronald Reagan—failed to establish similar legacies.
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Professors Sidney Milkis and Marc Landy look at the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. They examine how his policies changed with the onset of World War II.
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Professors Sidney Milkis and Marc Landy look at the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. They examine how Roosevelt was influenced by Lincoln's presidency.
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Professors Sidney Milkis and Marc Landy look at the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, comparing and contrasting their interpretations of progressivism and their stands on foreign affairs.
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Professor Lucas E. Morel reviews the life and views on race relations of Marcus Garvey, examining his political philosophy and its focus on establishing an African nation. Morel also looks at the Brown v. Board of Education case, the landmark Supreme Court Case in the struggle for desegregation.
Professor Diana Schaub reviews the life and views of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, particularly his criticism of emigration of freed slaves as a solution to race relations in the U.S. and his own views on how race relations could be improved.
Professor Diana Schaub looks at the views of free blacks (prior to the Civil War and emancipation) who supported emigration of free blacks and freed slaves to Africa or elsewhere away from the U.S. She considers why they believed emigration was the best choice for African Americans.
Professor Lucas E. Morel looks at the history of slavery in the U.S., examining the Founding Fathers' attitudes towards slavery and the policies on slavery written into the founding documents of the U.S.
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Professor Mackubin T. Owens traces the flow of antebellum history, up to the Civil War, examining the many changes and pushes for more change that characterized this period.