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History in Dispute, Vol. 3: American Social and Political Movements, 1900-1945: Pursuit of Progress from Gale Virtual Reference Library
In this volume, historians evaluate the historical events and trends of the first half of the century, looking at the men and women who shaped the nation in these decades, and at the issues that troubled Americans. The historians evaluating these issues take different positions on the major issues, and on many of the minor issues in dispute. They offer different evaluations and interpretations of the players and positions from 1900 to 1945.
Topics covered include
- Agricultural advances
- Atomic bomb
- Eugenics
- FDR's Supreme Court
- Fundamentalism
- Good Neighbor
- Great Depression: causes
- Great Depression: ending
- Great Migration
- Harlem Renaissance
- Huey Long
- Influenza epidemic
- Japanese internment
- Lindbergh kidnapping
- Marcus Garvey
- Mexican revolution
- Narcotics
- Native American New Deal
- New Deal
- New Deal and farmers
- New Women
- The 1920s
- 1930s civil rights
- 1930s labor movement
- Progressive Era women
- Progressive movement
- Racism in World War II
- Red scare
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Theodore Roosevelt
- United States and the Jews
- Urban bosses
- Washington and Du Bois
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September 13, 2010
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