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Lewis Hine’s 1910 photograph shows a tenement alley in New York City. More famous for his “unsettlin
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 A football game, in 1879, pits Yale against Princeton. The field was not lined or bounded, and play
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 Luna Park at Coney Island was a vast living theater in which strollers were both spectators and acto
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 Daniel Burnham’s Flatiron Building (1902) was one of the first to use steel girders to hold up the b
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The Routes of Cholera, 1832, 1873
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 In this cartoon, Boss Tweed welcomes cholera—a skeletal figure of death carrying a handbag from “Asi
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 An 1891 cartoon blames immigrants for the ills of American society: anarchy, socialism, mayhem, and
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 Percentage of Foreign-Born Whites and Native Whites of Foreign or Mixed Parentage in Total Populatio
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Immigration, 1860–1910
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 German and Irish Settlement in the Northeastern United States, 1870
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 This girl ran four spinning machines in a cotton mill in Whitnel, North Carolina. Only 4 feet, 3 inc
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 At breakfast, a middle-class husband sits absorbed in the newspaper and the public affairs of the da
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Three days after the Boston Marathon explosion, the FBI released this photograph that had been taken
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 All of the homes in this new neighborhood of Brentwood, California, are for sale, evidence of the co
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 In 2010 protesters in Washington, D.C., demanded that the Obama administration support liberalized i
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 The Increasing Cost of Health Care, 1960–2010
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President-elect Barack Obama, his daughters, and wife, Michelle, celebrate his victory in November 2
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 Annual Federal Deficit (or Surplus), 1992–2016
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 Republican candidates John McCain and Sarah Palin campaign at Franklin & Marshall University in
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 War in Iraq and Afghanistan (2 of 2)
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