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Updated: Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023

• Union Restored or Union Renewed? Presidential vs. Radical Reconstruction
• Reconstruction and the Fate of the “Freedmen”
• Westward Expansion, Native America, and Assimilation
• The Great Transformation: Industrialism
• Eight Hours for What We Will: Unionization and the Labor Movement
• Lochner v. New York: The Lochner Decision
• Farmer Brown Strikes Back: The Populist Revolt against Industrialism
• The Other Half: Immigration, Urban Life, and Assimilation in the Industrial Era