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New content is added regularly to the website, including online exhibitions, videos, lesson plans, and issues of the online journal History Now, which features essays by leading scholars on major topics in American history.

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Topic: Government and Civics

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Why We the People? Citizens as Agents of Constitutional Change
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President Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, 1861
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An Overview of Key Moments in the Separation of Powers and the Supreme Court; Federalism and the Two Court Systems
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Economic and Financial Crises in American History, Part 1

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Richard Sylla

Economics, Government and Civics

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World War I

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Jennifer D. Keene

Economics, Government and Civics, World History

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The Progressive Era to the New Era, 1900-1929

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Daniel T. Rodgers

Government and Civics

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Mexican Farm Labor and the Agricultural Economy of the United States

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Mary E. Mendoza

Economics

The Puerto Rican Experience in World War I

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Harry Franqui-Rivera

Government and Civics

The History of US Immigration Laws: What Students Should Know

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Jane Hong

Government and Civics

Immigrants and the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

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Terri Diane Halperin

Expelling the Poor: The Antebellum Origins of American Deportation Policy

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Hidetaka Hirota

“In the Name of America’s Future”: The Fraught Passage of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act

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Maddalena Marinari

Government and Civics

The 1965 Immigration Act: Opening the Nation to Immigrants of Color

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Tom Gjelten

Government and Civics

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