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Gillon is one of the nation's leading experts on modern American history and politics. He has written or edited nearly a dozen books including the New York Times bestsellers, The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich and the Rivalry that Defined a Generation (Oxford, 2008) and America’s Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr. (2019)
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 January 2025. "American history" redirects here. For the history of the continents, see History of the Americas. Further information: Economic history of the United States Current territories of the United States after the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was given independence in 1994 This ...
Founded in 1981 by historians Herbert Gutman and Stephen Brier as the American-Working Class History Project, [1] the project grew out of a 1977–80 series of National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminars that introduced new social history scholarship to trade union members from diverse occupations and backgrounds, most of whom had no college experience. [2]
American modernist design and architecture enabled people to lead a modern life. Work and family life changed radically and rapidly due to the economic upswing during the 1920s. In the U.S., the car became popular and affordable for many, leisure time and entertainment gained importance and the job market opened up for women.
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose movies "The Civil War" and "The Vietnam War" chronicled two of the most difficult periods in U.S. history, said in a new interview that the nation currently ...
Heather Ann Thompson is an American historian, author, activist, professor, and speaker from Detroit, Michigan.Thompson won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for History, the 2016 Bancroft Prize, and five other awards for her work Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.
The left declares war on American history. June 23, 2020 at 7:44 PM. Dinesh D'Souza, conservative commentator and author of 'United States of Socialism,' and Ben Domenech, co-founder of The ...
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