A History of America in 100 Maps

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182 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The outbreak of Spanish flu in 1918 was the worst pandemic in modern history: it infected n ...

PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION, REFORM 183 correspond to the largest training and cantonment camps, for military mobilization facilitate ...

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PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION, REFORM 185 In 1906 Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, a searing account of working conditions in Chica ...

186 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS In 1890 John Wesley Powell tried to convince Congress that the future of the West hinged on ...

PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION, REFORM 187 At the time it was built, the aqueduct was the longest in the western hemisphere. Through tun ...

188 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS In the 1920s and 1930s newspapers relentlessly portrayed Chicago as a lawless town. Breathl ...

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190 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Cities across the Northeast and Midwest were transformed by the waves of African American m ...

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192 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Just as Harlem was known as the capital of black America in the interwar era, New York assu ...

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194 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS If the last map captured the geographical imagination of New Yorkers, this one reveals a vi ...

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196 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS IN SEARCH OF FREEDOM ON THE OPEN ROAD “The Great American Roadside,” Fortune (September 193 ...

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PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION, REFORM 199 The success of the Lincoln Highway, Route 66, and other roads in the interwar era increased t ...

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