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The legal status of abortion in the United States has undergone dramatic shifts, while its practice has been consistent. Throughout

(1860–1935), Progressive Era political activist. Jane Addams was one of the nation’s most admired and effective

The modern concept of “adolescence”—the word comes from the Latin adolescere, meaning “to grow up”—dates back to an early

Since ancient times and in all human cultures, children have been transferred from adults who would not or could not

The term “affirmative action” first appeared in a legislative context in the 1935 National Labor Relations Act and was later

Two powerful and recurring motifs have marked the African American experience in the United States, resistance and flight: resistance

The African American community has its roots in the great migration of peoples from the Old World to the New.

By the early twenty-first century, Africans had a full presence in the new global migration circuits. According to the U.S.

Alaska was purchased by the United States in 1867 from Russia. It had been a Russian colony since being claimed

On 20 November 1969, more than eighty American Indians from the organization Indians of All Tribes (IAT) claimed Alcatraz,

Alcohol looms large in American history, and attitudes toward it have been linked to myriad reformist causes, have reflected many

The wartime experience of aliens—or noncitizens—in the United States has varied considerably since the country’s independence from Great Britain: America’s

(1760–1831), founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Richard Allen was born in 1760, probably

The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) arose out of an effort by a prominent Los Angeles high school principal

Of the various forms of ethnic and racial nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s, the American Indian Movement

The American Legion, an organization open to all military wartime veterans, was founded in 1919 by a handful of World

The Americanization movement aimed to bring new immigrants into citizenship and to acculturate them to American society. It emerged in