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The Marshall Plan: How America Built the World It Wanted to Live In
In June 1947, Secretary of State George Marshall gave a commencement address at Harvard that would change the postwar world. He proposed that the United St…
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World War Two: The War That Made America the Dominant Power on Earth
When the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War Two on December 7, 1941, America was militarily unprepared but industrial…
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The New Deal: When America Reinvented Its Government
By March 4, 1933, the day Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as the thirty-second president of the United States, the American economy was in a stat…
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The Roaring Twenties: American Consumer Culture Is Born
The nineteen twenties in America were years of dizzying transformation in the texture of everyday life. The automobile went from novelty to necessity. Radi…
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World War One and America's First Turn on the World Stage
When the guns of August opened in 1914 and Europe began tearing itself apart, most Americans wanted nothing to do with it. The war felt like exactly the ki…
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of American Global Ambition
Theodore Roosevelt became president in September 1901 at forty-two years old, following the assassination of William McKinley. He was the youngest person t…
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Immigration and the Making of American Power
Between 1880 and 1920, approximately twenty-five million immigrants arrived in the United States. They came from Southern and Eastern Europe — Italy, Pol…
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The Civil War: The Crisis That Defined What America Would Be
By 1860, the United States had been arguing about slavery for most of its existence. The founders had known it was a contradiction and had mostly chosen to…
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The Industrial Revolution in America: How a Farm Nation Became a Factory
In 1800, the United States was an agricultural country where about ninety-four percent of the population lived in rural areas and most families produced mo…