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Harlem, Summer 1964.
From Harlem to Ferguson: LBJ's War on Crime and America's Prison Crisis
Amish schoolhouse in 1941 Pennsylvania.
1/13/2015: Top Ten Origins: The Common Core Curriculum
Photo of FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva Guinea zone of Southeast Nicaragua, 1987
The Imperial Presidency Pushes Back
Book Cover of Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century By: Steven Conn
Hot off the Presses: Americans vs. the City
A sign that reads, "Keep Govment out of Medicade Dammit!"
An Enemy Until You Need A Friend: The Role of "Big Government" in American History
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History BluRay DVD Cover
9/24/2014: At the Movies: Catching Up With The Roosevelts
Cover of The Invisible Bridge by Rick Perlstein
There Are No Heroes Here: American Malaise in the Seventies
Marchers for LGBTQ rights
The Debate Over Same-Sex Marriage and LGBTQ Rights
Nanci Pelosi standing at a podium with many people behind and beside her
The Contentious ACA
Photo of a smiling doctor
2/11/14: "Body Politics: The History of Health Care Policy"
The front of the National Security Administration in Fort Meade, MD
America’s Big Brother
President Warring G. Harding at Walter Reed Hospital in March of 1921.
People Were Skeptical about Veterans’ Hospitals, Too: The Affordable Care Act and Health Policy Precedents
JFK and Jackie Kennedy on a sailboat
Watching JFK Live and Die Years Later
The futuristic National Security Operations Center occupies a floor of the National Security Agency's headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland.
America's "Big Brother": A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance
Young Child dressed in a Uncle Sam costume
Coming to America to Contribute
The GOP elephant and the Democratic Party's donkey.
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: America's Love Affair with the Two-Party System
Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America, by Susan Schulten Book cover.
From Sea to Shining Sea
soldiers patrolling in Iraq
The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, 10 Years Later
2012 United States presidential election results map by county.svg
Blocking the Will of the Majority Is a Fundamental Feature of the U.S. Constitutional System
The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America, by James T. Patterson Book Cover.
Capturing a Moment
Collier's 1921 Lincoln Abraham - cabinet meeting.jpg
Lincoln’s and Obama’s Teams of Non-Rivals
emancipation illustration from Harper's Weekly
President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, 150 years ago
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by Michael Lienesch Book Cover.
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
'What Hath God Wrought?': The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe Book Cover.
Mr. Bush Meet Mr. Jackson