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Scientific Election Polling - 1936: A Crucial Turning Point in Presidential Political Polling

By: Dennis Jamison

Major Mistakes in Political Polls: Despite Serious Errors, Presidential Election Polls Survived

By: Dennis Jamison

Political Polls in the Early 1900s: Early History of Political Polls in Presidential Elections

By: Dennis Jamison

The CIA and Latin America: Operation PBSUCESS and US intervention in Guatemala, 1954

By: Michael LeFlem

The Theology of Jim Jones: Peoples Temple Patriarch Preaches "Divine Socialism"

By: Aaron D. Pendell

Mai Lai and its Legacy: The Vietnam War Massacre, its Effects, its Heroes and Villains

By: Laurence O'Sullivan

The 2000 Republican Primary: McCain, Bush, and the Nadir of American Politics

By: Aaron D. Pendell

Should the U.S. Have Taken Berlin? Second Guessing FDR and Ike

By: David Hornestay

The Election of 1960: One of the Closest and Most Dramatic in United States History

By: Feature Writer Isaac M. McPhee

1968: Chaos in America: RFK, the Democratic National Convention, and the Election of Nixon

By: Wade Olsson

Truman's Numbers Hit a New Low: How Truman Found Himself Facing the Lowest Approval Ratings Ever

By: Feature Writer Isaac M. McPhee

Could Hitler Have Won? Keeping America Out of World War II

By: David Hornestay

Peoples Temple Moves to California: Cold War Influences Jim Jones to Relocate Church

By: Aaron D. Pendell

Lucile and David Packard: Exemplary Commitment to Community Service

By: Christine Welter

Was It Really 'The Good War?': World War II Reconsidered

By: David Hornestay

1968 in America: A Year of Upheaval, Tragedy, and Near Revolution

By: Wade Olsson

St. Valentine's Day Massacre: "Bugs" Moran Gang Murdered by Rival Capone Gang

By: Jacqueline T Lynch

Origin of the Peoples Temple: The Early Career of Jim Jones

By: Aaron D. Pendell

America’s Political Families: The Clintons Are the First Husband and Wife to Seek the White House

By: Feature Writer Carroll Trosclair

New York's Battle Over Burlesque: The Skinny on Striptease in Depression-Era New York

By: Kat Long

Shirley Chisholm: a true Pioneer: She Became first African-American Woman To Run for the Presidency

By: David Moormann

1969: a Year of Triumph, Tragedy: Series of momentous Events Helped to Close the turbulent 1960s

By: David Moormann

Who Invented Television? Vladimir Zworykin in 1923 or Philo Farnsworth in 1927?

By: Feature Writer Carroll Trosclair

New Orleans Katrina Recovery: Population Down, Flood Protection Improved, Some Evacuees Return

By: Feature Writer Carroll Trosclair

Manhattan Project Changes Richland: A Small Eastern Washington Town is Changed Forever

By: Elizabeth Gibson

Rounding Up Radicals: A. Mitchell Palmer and the Red Scare

By: Steve Sagarra

Un-American Activities: Joseph McCarthy and the Second Red Scare

By: Steve Sagarra

Ken Burns Documents The War: PBS Series Focuses on 50 World War II Americans

By: Feature Writer Carroll Trosclair

For the Duration: Kids on the World War II Home Front

By: David Hornestay

20th Century American Fads: Like Many Crazes, the Wham-O Frisbee Keeps on Entertaining Millions

By: Feature Writer Carroll Trosclair

Iraq and Vietnam: Full Circle: The debate about Iraq war policy in the senate is akin to Vietnam

By: Rob Greenfield

Man Walks on the Moon: July 20, 1969: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Jr. Land on The Moon

By: Feature Writer Frank W. Hardy

Serial Killer Albert Fish: Sadist,Cannibal,Pedophile,Monster

By: Cyrus Dehkan

The Kennedy Curse? Is it true?

By: Elliot Feldman

Facts On Pearl Harbor: Details and specifics regarding the Japanese attack

By: Feature Writer Chad Criswell

The Death of Marilyn Monroe: Was it Murder or Suicide

By: Cyrus Dehkan

The Black Dahlia: The Mysterious Death of Elizabeth Short

By: Cyrus Dehkan

Johnny Roselli, the CIA's Mobster: The Plot to Assassinate Fidel Castro

By: Elliot Feldman

Cycles of US Foreign Policy: Why the 1945-73 Period Was Exceptional

By: Michael C. McHugh

The Nixon Doctrine and Detente: The Late Vietnam War and Early Post-Vietnam Consensus, 1969-74

By: Michael C. McHugh

The Middle Cold War Consensus: Global Management, 1953-73

By: Michael C. McHugh

The Post-Korea Consensus: The Limits of Global Management, 1953-62

By: Michael C. McHugh

The Legacy of Defeat in Vietnam: The Post Vietnam Consensus

By: Michael C. McHugh

Infamous American School Shootings: A review of some of the well known US school assaults

By: Cyrus Dehkan

The Virginia Tech School Shooting: The sequence of tragic events on April 16th 2007

By: Cyrus Dehkan

America in the Pacific, 1945-1947: Legacy of Victory

By: Henry Berry

The American Occupation of Haiti: The causes of Intervention

By: Ben Struck

Nazism in POW Camps During WW2: Camp Spokesman Usually Head Nazi

By: Melissa Marsh

German POWs at Fort Robinson, NE: Daily Life in a Prisoner of War Camp

By: Melissa Marsh

Axis POWs in America During WW 2: American Homefront Home to German and Italian Prisoners of War

By: Melissa Marsh

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