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The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens
The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry
Series: Critical Moments in American History
The American South is so identified with the Civil War that people often forget that the key battles from the final years of the American Revolution were fought in Southern states. The Southern backcountry was the center of the fight for independence, but backcountry devotion to the Patriot cause...
Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Freedom to Serve
Truman, Civil Rights, and Executive Order 9981
Series: Critical Moments in American History
On the eve of America’s entry into World War II, African American leaders pushed for inclusion in the war effort and, after the war, they mounted a concerted effort to integrate the armed services. Harry S. Truman’s decision to issue Executive Order 9981 in 1948, which resulted in the integration...
Published October 3rd 2012 by Routledge
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The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Political Trauma and American Memory
Series: Critical Moments in American History
On November 22nd, 1963 the assassination of President John F. Kennedy set into motion a series of events that irrevocably changed American politics and culture. The media frenzy spawned by the controversy surrounding the death of JFK has since given way to a powerful public memory that continues to...
Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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The Battle of the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn
Custer's Last Stand in Memory, History, and Popular Culture
Series: Critical Moments in American History
In June of 1876, the U.S. government’s plan to pressure the Lakota and Cheyenne people onto reservations came to a dramatic and violent end with a battle that would become enshrined in American memory. In the eyes of many Americans at the time, the Battle of Little Bighorn represented a symbolic...
Published July 19th 2012 by Routledge
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Threshold of Nuclear War
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The Nativist Movement in America: Religious Conflict in the 19th Century
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The 1980 Presidential Election: Ronald Reagan and the Shaping of the American Conservative Movement
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The Louisiana Purchase: American Domestic and Foreign Affairs in a Global Perspective
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The Fort Pillow Massacre: North, South, and the Status of African-Americans in the Civil War Era
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Watergate: Twentieth-Century Constitutional Crisis
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The Spanish American War: Progressive Reform and Foreign Policy in 1898
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From Selma to Montgomery to Freedom: The Long March to Freedom
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