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- American Indian Removal and the Trail to Wounded Knee
  
  Provides a detailed account of American Indian Removal policy and its culmination at the massacre at Wounded Knee, including its social and political legacy in modern America. Includes a narrative overview, biographies, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2010
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1129-4
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- The Attack on Pearl Harbor
  
  Provides a detailed account of the Pearl Harbor attack and the war in the Pacific. Covers the dramatic events of December 7, 1941; chronicles America’s victory over Japan; and explores the legacy of Pearl Harbor. Includes a narrative overview, biographies, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2009
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1069-3
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- The Battle of Gettysburg
  
  Provides a detailed account of the American Civil War and the importance of the Battle of Gettysburg. Examines the forces that contributed to the war; early military battles and the Battle of Gettysburg; and the legacy of the Civil War. Also includes biographies, primary sources, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index.
  - Publication Date: 2013
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1323-6
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- Brown v. Board of Education
  
  Provides a detailed account of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case. Explores the segregation policy in America that caused the lawsuit and the ruling’s lasting effects on society. Includes a narrative overview, biographies, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2005
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-0775-4
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- The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
  
  Provides users with a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the events leading up to the drafting and ratification of the U. S. Constitution, and the subsequent adoption of the Bill of Rights. Includes biographies of principal figures involved in this pivotal episode in U.S. history, primary source documents, and more.
  - Publication Date: April 2017
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1419-6
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- The Cuban Missile Crisis
  
  Provides users with a detailed and authoritative overview of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in October 1962 that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Includes biographies of principal figures involved in this pivotal episode in U.S. history, primary source documents, and more.
  - Publication Date: 2015
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1348-9
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- The Dream of America: Immigration 1870-1920
  
  Provides a detailed account of U.S. immigration from 1870 to 1920. Explores the forces that drove emigrants to the U.S.; shows what they experienced when they arrived; and reviews the history of U.S. immigration through the present. Includes a narrative overview, biographies, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2009
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1070-9
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- The Gilded Age
  
  Provides a detailed account of the Gilded Age. Explores the history of America’s post-war industrialization, the wealth it created during the population boom, and its lasting influence on society. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2012
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1238-3
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- The Great Depression and the New Deal
  
  Provides a detailed account of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, as well as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ambitious program of New Deal reforms. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2009
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1049-5
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- The Great Migration North, 1910-1970
  
  Provides a detailed account of the Great Migration. Explores the history of African Americans, the events leading up to their northern movement, and its lasting influence on society. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2012
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1186-7
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- The Harlem Renaissance
  
  Provides a detailed account of the emergence and development of the Harlem Renaissance and its ongoing effect on American society. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2008
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1027-3
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- The Internet Revolution
  
  Provides a detailed account of the origins and continuing development of the Internet. Explores how the Internet has and will continue to change the modern era. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2005
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-0767-9
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- Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball
  
  Provides a detailed account of Jackie Robinson’s life and career, focusing on the events surrounding the shattering of the “color barrier” in Major League Baseball. Discusses his life after baseball, his influential position in the civil rights movement, and his enduring legacy as a racial pioneer. Includes biographies, primary sources, and more.
  - Publication Date: 2013
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1327-4
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- Japanese-American Internment during World War II
  
  Provides a detailed account of the evacuation and internment of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans; describes living conditions in the camps; discusses the economic, emotional, and physical toll on interned Japanese-Americans; and ponders the legacy of internment on American society. Includes biographies, primary sources, and more.
  - Publication Date: 2014
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1333-5
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- The Korean War
  
  Provides a detailed account of the Korean War from inception to conclusion, including the continuation of hostilities into the modern era. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2004
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-0766-2
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- The Lewis and Clark Expedition
  
  Provides users with a detailed and authoritative overview of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the epic journey through the unknown western wilderness undertaken by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and their Corps of Discovery in 1803-1806. Includes biographies of principal figures involved in this pivotal episode in U.S. history, primary source documents, and more.
  - Publication Date: October 2015
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1417-2
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- McCarthyism and the Communist Threat
  
  Provides a detailed account of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his anti-Communist “witch hunts” of the 1950s. Also explores the how the McCarthy era shaped the trajectory of American politics and culture for decades to come. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2011
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1184-3
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- The Muckrakers and the Progressive Era
  
  Provides a detailed account of the muckraking movement in early 20th-century American journalism and its contribution to progressive reforms. Explores how the muckraking tradition and progressive political ideas have continued to the modern era. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2010
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1093-8
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- Plessy v. Ferguson
  
  Provides a detailed account of the legal drama that established the “separate but equal” doctrine. Details the postwar Reconstruction era; the legal issues involved in Plessy v. Ferguson; the spread of discriminatory Jim Crow laws; the effects of segregation on African Americans; and the efforts to overturn Plessy. Includes biographies, primary sources, and more.
  - Publication Date: 2014
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1329-8
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- Prohibition
  
  Provides a detailed account of Prohibition. Explores the enduring legacy of Prohibition in the modern era. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2004
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-0768-6
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- Reconstruction
  
  Provides users with a detailed and authoritative overview of the tumultuous period immediately following the Civil War, when the United States faced the enormous challenges of restoring ties with the shattered South and helping four million formerly enslaved people make the transition to new lives as free citizens. Includes biographies of principal figures involved in this pivotal episode in U.S. history, primary source documents, and more.
  - Publication Date: Aug. 2016
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1510-0
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- Roe v. Wade
  
  Provides a detailed account of the history of abortion in America, describing the Roe v. Wade case, explaining the decision and its implications, examining the continuing debate over abortion rights, and analyzing its impact on American society and politics. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2008
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1026-6
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- The Scopes "Monkey Trial"
  
  Provides a detailed account of the famous Scopes “Monkey Trial” and the continuing debate over evolution and religion in American society. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2007
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-0955-0
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- The September 11 Terrorist Attacks
  
  Provides a detailed account of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Explores the history of Islamist terrorism, America’s military reaction, and the events’ lasting influence on society. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2012
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1240-6
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- The Spanish-American War
  
  Provides a detailed account of the Spanish-American War. Explores the history of America’s territorial expansion, the events leading up to the conflict, and its lasting influence on society. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2012
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1235-2
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- The Stonewall Riots
  
  Provides users with a detailed and authoritative overview of the Stonewall Riots, beginning with the June 28, 1969, raid on a popular gay bar by New York City police that launched a six-day series of violent protests and inspired the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) civil rights movement in the United States. Includes biographies of principal figures involved in this pivotal episode in U.S. history, primary source documents, and more.
  - Publication Date: March 2016
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1442-4
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- The Underground Railroad
  
  Provides users with a detailed and authoritative overview of the Underground Railroad, a network of safe houses and secret routes used by thousands of enslaved African Americans in the 1800s to escape to free states. Includes biographies of principal figures involved in these efforts, primary source documents, and more.
  - Publication Date: July 2015
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1346-5
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- The Vietnam War
  
  Provides a detailed account of the American military involvement in Vietnam from inception to withdrawal. Explores how the lessons and consequences of the conflict continue to influence the modern era. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2007
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-0954-3
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- The Voting Rights Act of 1965
  
  Provides a detailed account of the events that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Explores both the racial discrimination and violence that pervaded the South and the civil rights protests that changed American voting rights. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2009
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1048-8
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- Watergate
  
  Provides a detailed account of the Watergate scandal. Explores how the consequences and lessons from Watergate have continued into the modern era. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2004
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-0769-3
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- Women’s Suffrage
  
  Provides a detailed account of the history of the women’s suffrage movement and its impact on American life and society. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2006
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-0776-1
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- Woodstock
  
  Provides a detailed account of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Places Woodstock within the context of the 1960s; describes the festival itself; details how Woodstock changed American popular music; and explores the festival’s enduring significance. Includes a narrative overview, biographies, primary sources, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index.
  - Publication Date: Oct 2012
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1284-0
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- Workers Unite! The American Labor Movement
  
  Provides a detailed account of the American labor movement and explores the movement’s lasting social, economic, and political impact into the modern era. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
  - Publication Date: 2011
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1130-0
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- World War I and the Age of Modern Warfare
  
  Provides a detailed account of the alliances and tensions that triggered the Great War; details the horrors of trench warfare and the new weapons used in the conflict; provides an overview of the war’s key offensives; and explains the legacy of the war. Includes biographies, primary sources, and more.
  - Publication Date: 2013
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1325-0
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- The WPA—Putting America to Work
  
  Provides a detailed account of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the centerpiece of the New Deal programs put in place by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to tame the Great Depression and get America back on its feet. Includes biographies, primary sources, and more.
  - Publication Date: 2014
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1331-1
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- The Zoot Suit Riots
  
  Provides a detailed account of the political events, social trends, and racial attitudes that contributed to a week-long outbreak of violence in Los Angeles in 1943 by white servicemen and civilians against young Mexican-American ‘zoot suiters.’ Includes a narrative overview, biographies, primary sources, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index.
  - Publication Date: Dec 2012
  - ISBN: 978-0-7808-1285-7
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