The Pottawatomie Massacre
In response to the Caning of Charles Sumner, radical John Brown took matters into his own hands by murdering five pro-slavery settlers.
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6.3. The Transformation of the Parties
From Chapter 6, "1896: The Collapse of the Third Party System and of Laissez-faire Politics".
8.3. Theodore Roosevelt and the Conservation Crusade
From Chapter 8, "Theodore Roosevelt: The First Progressive, Part II".
10.1. Ethnoreligious Conflict and the Public Schools
From Chapter 10, "The Progressive Era and the Family".
11.4. Progressives and the Gradual Secularization of Postmillennial Pietism: Ely, Dewey, and Commons
From Chapter 11, "Origins of the Welfare State in America".
13.2. Pietism and Prohibition
From Chapter 13, "World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals".
14.2. The Road to the Federal Reserve
From Chapter 14, "The Federal Reserve as a Cartelization Device: The Early Years, 1913–1930".
14.10. From Boom to Depression
From Chapter 14, "The Federal Reserve as a Cartelization Device: The Early Years, 1913–1930".
