BCS - Grade 8 - Social Studies - US History
American Government: Foundational Documents
American Government: Solving Problems
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Government Issues: Campaign Finance Reform
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How Candidates Spend Campaign Financing
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Government Issues: Special Interest Groups
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LBJ "Daisy" Advertisement
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Brian Williams Misquote - Rap
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Brian Williams Addresses His Rapping
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Ronald Reagan Misquote - "Just Say Yes"
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Bill Burr on Hillary Clinton
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Bill Burr on Donald Trump
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Government Issues: Pro-Illegal Immigration (Sanctuary Cities)
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Government Issues: Anti-Illegal Immigration
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Immigration Reform: Clinton and Trump
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Illegal Immigration: It's About Power
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The Struggles of Undocumented Immigrants
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High Cost of Deporting Parents
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Immigration: Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
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Sacco and Vanzetti Video Summary
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Government Issues: Pro-Foreign Aid
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Government Issues: Anti-Foreign Aid
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Foreign Aid is the Problem
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Government Issues: Affordable Social Security
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Americans Weigh In On Social Security
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Government Issues: First Amendment Cases
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First Amendment Controversy - Flag Burning
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Government Issues: Pro-Electoral College
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Government Issues: Anti-Electoral College
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Electoral College Map - 2016+2020
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Interactive Electoral College Map
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Government Issues: Student Rights
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Students Arrested In School
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School Dress Codes - Pro
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School Dress Codes - Con
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School Dress Codes Parody
American Government: Three Branches
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Jaywalking: Government
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Constitution Hall Pass: The Legislative Branch
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The Legislative Branch
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Re-Electing A Hated Congress?
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"No Term Limits" Shredded
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Term Limits?
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Legislative Branch - "Embrace the Gridlock"
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Constitution Hall Pass: The Judicial Branch
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The Judicial Branch
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Current Supreme Court
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Inside the Supreme Court
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The Silent Justice Speaks
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What It's Like Being A Supreme Court Justice
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Supreme Court Shenanigans
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Constitution Hall Pass: The Executive Branch
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The Executive Branch
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Executive Transfer of Power
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Inside Air Force One
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President Obama and Jerry Seinfeld
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Richard Nixon: War on Drugs
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Rise and Fall of Nixon
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Seedy Underbelly of the Presidency
American Government: US Congress
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Schoolhouse Rock - How a Bill Becomes a Law
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SNL - Executive Order
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Congress Debates Raising Debt Ceiling Bill
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The Filibuster
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Pork Barrel Legislation: The Bridge To Nowhere - Parody
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Casting A Vote In Congress - Obamacare "Skinny Repeal"
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Advice While Leaving Congress
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A House Divided - Start at 30:43
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Women in Congress - Start = 7:22; Stop = 47:35
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US Congress Bad Lip Reading
Conflict: American Revolution
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Seinfeld History Lesson
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British Empire - World Map
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Map of US - Proclamation of 1763
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Students Returning to School
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Political Theory - "Machiavellian"
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Sons of Liberty
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Boston Massacre
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Boston Tea Party
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Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
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Lexington and Concord - Start at 32:19
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War Battles Map
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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Thomas Paine - Common Sense
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Declaration of Independence Signatures
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Benedict Arnold
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Battle of Long Island - Start at 5:59
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Battle of Long Island - Short Version
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Crossing the Delaware Painting
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Crossing the Delaware - Humorous
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Cutting off New England
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Surviving Valley Forge
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Battle of Saratoga
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Francis Marion - Swamp Fox
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Yorktown Peninsula Map
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Battle of Yorktown
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Washington's Dream - SNL
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Who Won the American Revolution?
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Alternate History - American Revolution
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Alternate History - American Revolution (Shorter)
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After the American Revolution?
Conflict: Civil War
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The Path to Civil War
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Robert Smalls
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Raid on Harpers Ferry
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Lincoln Elected
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Battle of Fort Sumter
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John Brown Painting: "Tragic Prelude"
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North vs. South Map
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Removing Confederate Monuments?
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Crash Course: CW Part I
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U.S. Map
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Battle of Bull Run
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Battle of Antietam
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Civil War Soldiers Singing
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Battle of Fredericksburg
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Conan O'Brien - Civil War Soldier
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The Emanicipation Proclamation Strategy
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54th Massachusetts Regiment: Fort Wagner
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54th Massachusetts Regiment Anniversary
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NYC Draft Riots
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The Patriot Act Defined
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Habeas Corpus/Patriot Act Connection?
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Protesting the Patriot Act
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Support for the Patriot Act
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Union Siege of Vicksburg
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Chamberlain's Charge
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General Sherman's Terrifying Tactics
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U.S. Grant at Appomattox
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The Legacy of U.S. Grant
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Crash Course: CW Part II
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Sherman: When Georgia Howled (23:07)
Conflict: Slavery in America
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Slave Trade Regions Map
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Slave Ship Diagram
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Slave Trade Currency
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Crash Course in History - Slavery
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Malcolm X - Slave Names
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Malcolm X - Plymouth Rock
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Morgan Freeman: Black History Month
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Motives for Civil War - "The Lost Cause?"
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Motives for Civil War - Preserving Slavery
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Two Worlds: North vs. South Map
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Whitney Plantation Museum
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Present-Day Reparations Plan
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Reparations: Counter Argument
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Modern Day Slavery
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U.R.R. = Start 37:57; Start 49:10 (S.H. = End 1:27:00)
Conflict: War of 1812
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College Humor - War of 1812
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Barbary States Map
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Captain Phillips - Hijacking
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Crash Course - War of 1812
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Native American Lands Lost
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Tecumseh - Until 5:11; 1:05:28 to End
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Tecumseh's War
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Crash Course - Natives and the English
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USS Constitution
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White House Burning
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Dolly Madison - Comedy Central
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The Battle of Fort McHenry - Francis Scott Key
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The Battle of New Orleans
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Andrew Jackson - 43:52 Start
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War of 1812 Documentary - Part I
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War of 1812 Documentary - Part II
Conflict: World War I
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The Balkan Peninsula
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The Archduke's Assassination
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WWI Misconceptions
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World War I Bar Fight
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Trench Warfare
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The Sinking of the Lusitania
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The Zimmerman Telegram
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Harlem Hellfighters
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Why Veterans Miss War
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The Battle of the Argonne Forest
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"Coward"
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The Treaty of Versailles
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Killing During Wartime
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WWI Documentary
Conflict: World War II
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German Inflation Post WWI
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Why Isn't Communism Hated Like Nazism?
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Joseph Stalin
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Emperor Hirohito
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German Society Post-WWI
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The Munich Agreement
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Blitzkrieg Tactics
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Photo - Hitler in Paris
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France Falls to Germany
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Battle of Britain Dogfights
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Pearl Harbor Battle Scene
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FDR Pearl Harbor Speech
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Roosevelt Meeting With Cabinet - P.H. Response
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U.S. Revenge Raid on Japan
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"Who's Going Left?!"
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U.S. War Production
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Japanese Internment Camps
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Japanese Internment Camps - Short Version
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The Conscientious Objector
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Battle of Midway
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Stalingrad - Start at 32:35
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D-Day Invasion
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Hitler's Last Day
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Island Hopping Map
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Island Hopping - Iwo Jima
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Kamikaze Attacks
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Kamikaze Warfare
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Hiroshima: Dropping the Bomb
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Truman's Basis for Dropping the Bomb
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Hiroshima: 24 Hours After
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Atomic Bomb Pro: Truman's Statement
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Atomic Bomb Pro: Why the Bomb was Dropped
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Atomic Bomb Con: Bombing Hiroshima
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Atomic Bomb Con: Dropping the Bomb
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Japanese Surrender
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The Nuremberg Trials
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Jewish Deportation
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Warsaw Ghetto Photos
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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Mordechai Anielewicz - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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Emanuel's Letter - Life in the Warsaw Ghetto
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Auschwitz
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Liberation
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German Citizens Confront Nazi Atrocities
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The Story of Us: WWII
Economics: Basic Terms and Early Trade
Economics: Economics and War
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Post World War II Impact on Germany: Four Zones
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The Berlin Wall
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From World War to Cold War
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The Marshall Plan: Video
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The Marshall Plan - Homework Article
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The Truman Doctrine: Video
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Korean Peninsula - 38th Parallel
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Korean Peninsula - 38th Parallel - Conan
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North Korea: Hermit Kingdom
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Kim: Taking the World Stage
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The Real North Korea
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The North Korean Legal/Prison System
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Vietnam - 17th Parallel Map
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JFK Cronkite Interview on Vietnam
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LBJ Speech on Vietnam Escalation - 1965
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Vietnam: Operation Rolling Thunder Footage
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Vietnam Bombing Raids - Bad Company
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Vietnam Veteran: Marine Sniper Interview
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Middle East Map
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Kuwaiti Oil Wells on Fire
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What Happened In The Persian Gulf War?
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Persian Gulf War: Concise Documentary
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Operation Desert Storm = 21:18 Start
Economics: Financial Investments and Credit
Economics: Industrial Revolution
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Crash Course: Industrial Revolution
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Lowell Mills
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Photos That Ended Child Labor
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Interstate Highway System
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Erie Canal Map
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The Building of the Erie Canal
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Traversing the American Midwest Before Railroads
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Technology: Hacking
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Technology and Surveillance
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Technology and Surveillance in Schools
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Business Titans - Empire of Steel
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America in the Modern Age
Economics: International Trade
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US Trade with China
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Trump: The China Challenge
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China - Why Some Economists Hate Tariffs
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China Documentary
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Economic Fact-Finding Mission: China
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US Trade with Saudi Arabia
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Saudi Arabia Documentary
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Economic Fact-Finding Mission: Saudi Arabia
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Tom Brokaw: Canada to Americans
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Conan: Canadian Border Patrol
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Conan O'Brien - Hockey Tryouts
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Canada Documentary
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Economic Fact-Finding Mission: Canada
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US Documentary
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Economic Fact-Finding Mission: U.S.A.
Economics: Marketing and Consumerism
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Levittowns
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The Suburbs
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1950's Paradise?
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1950's and 1960's Commercials
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Chuck Berry
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Elvis Presley
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Times Square
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Fenway Park - Then
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Fenway Park - Today
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NASCAR Jump Suit
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The Secret Science of Advertising
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Advertising Psychology
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Product Placement in Movies
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Marketing Fails
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Making Commercials at Home
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Conan = Taco Bell
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Conan = Commercial Auditions
Ethnicity in America: Immigration History
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Crash Course - Immigration
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Ellis Island - A History
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Seinfeld: Immigration
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Seinfeld: The Pony Remark
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Gangs of New York: Nativists on Immigration
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Gangs of New York: Nativists vs. Immigrants
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NYC Tenements
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IIRIRA Act
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America's Border Crisis
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American Migrant Crisis
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Citizenship Test
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Overpopulation and Sustainable Cities
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U.S. Running Out of People?
Ethnicity in America: Race Relations
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Crash Course: Reconstruction
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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
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The Ku Klux Klan
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Minority Farming Today
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Issues Facing African-Americans Today
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Is America Racist?
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White Privilege
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Quotes on the Street
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Growing Up Black
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A Conversation With Police About Race
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Don't Judge Ethnic Groups Differently
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Minority Politics
Maine Studies: State Overview
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White Pine Cone and Tassel
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White Pine Tree
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Chickadee
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Landlocked Salmon
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Tourmaline
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Moose Crossing Road
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Maine Coon Cats
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Honeybee
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820
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Pronouncing Maine Names
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Irish People Try Maine Snacks
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Californians Try Maine Food
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Maine County Song
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Paper Industry - The Magic City
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Bath Iron Works
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Potato Harvest Break
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For the Love of Lobster
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The Opioid Effect - Maine's Fishing Community
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The Last True Hermit
Native American Studies: North America
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Christopher Columbus - Positive View
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Christopher Columbus - Negative View
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Columbus Cringe
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Study History Intelligently
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Painting: American Progress
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Louisiana Purchase Map
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Manifest Destiny - Louisiana Purchase
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Current Native American Issues
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Native Americans - BIA Issues Today
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"Trail of Tears" Map
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"Trail of Tears" Documentary
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American Indian Boarding Schools Documentary
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Taking Back Hawaii
Watershed Eras: Civil Rights
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Jackie Robinson
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The Little Rock Nine
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Civil Rights Civil Disobedience Protest Footage
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Brown v. Board of Education Information Link
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Brown v. Board of Education Video
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Brown v. Board of Education Today
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The Greensboro Four
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Dr. King - "I Have a Dream" - 13:00
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Malcolm X - Fiery Speech
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Malcolm X - Plymouth Rock
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Malcolm X and Dr. King: Similarities
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Malcolm X and Dr. King: Differences
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Malcolm X: Lost Tapes
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Who Was Malcolm X?
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The Black Panthers: Documentary
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Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers
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Race Riots - 1960's
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Watts Race Relations Today
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Kids Speak Their Minds on Race
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Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner - Woodstock
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Vietnam War Protest Song: "Fixing to Die Rag"
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Sample List of Vietnam War Protest Songs
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Documentary: Civil Rights
Watershed Eras: Great Depression
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Crash Course: The Great Depression
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Stock Market Crash of 1929
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Hoover and the Great Depression
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The Real Herbert Hoover
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Hoovervilles and the Bonus Army
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Daily Life in the Great Depression
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FDR Inaugural Address
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FDR Fireside Chat Photo
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Pro-New Deal Video
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Anti-New Deal Video
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Social Security = Insecure?!
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The Dust Bowl and the Depression
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The Dust Bowl Again?
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Renters in America Today
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How Poor People Survive in the U.S.
Watershed Eras: Roaring Twenties
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Crash Course: Roaring 20's
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Prohibition
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Prohibition and the Mafia
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Al Capone's Chicago
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Prohibition Today?
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Legislating Morality?
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Legalization of Marijuana - Pros and Cons
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Women's Suffrage
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19th Amendment and African-Americans
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"If We Must Die"
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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
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1920's Fashion - Women
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1920's - Zoot Suit
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1920's Dancing
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1920's Silent Film - Charlie Chaplin - "The Kid"
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1920's Silent Film - Charlie Chaplin - "Lion"
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1920's Silent Film - Charlie Chaplin - "Boxing"
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1920's Silent Film - Charlie Chaplin - "Prison"