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  • AMERICAN ISOLATIONISM BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS
    KENNETH D. ROSE
    American Isolationism Between the World Wars: The Search for a Nation's Identity examines the theory of isolationism in America between the world wars, arguing that it is an ideal that has dominated the Republic since its founding. During the interwar period, isolationists could be found among Republicans and Democrats, Catholics and Protestants, pacifists and militarists, rich...

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  • UNSPEAKABLE AWFULNESS
    KENNETH D. ROSE
    The late nineteenth century was a golden age for European travel in the United States. For prosperous Europeans, a journey to America was a fresh alternative to the more familiar ‘Grand Tour’ of their own continent, promising encounters with a vast, wild landscape, and with people whose culture was similar enough to their own to be intelligible, yet different enough to be inter...

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  • WELL WORTH SAVING
    PRICE V. FISHBACK / JONATHAN D. ROSE / KENNETH SNOWDEN
    The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership. Foreclosures at the time were rare, and when they did happen, lenders could quickly recoup their losses by selling into a strong market. But no mortgage system is equipped to deal with credit problems on the scale of the Great Depression. As fo...

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  • AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE REPEAL OF PROHIBITION
    KENNETH D ROSE
    In 1933 Americans did something they had never done before: they voted to repeal an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Eighteenth Amendment, which for 13 years had prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, was nullified by the passage of another amendment, the Twenty-First. Many factors helped create this remarkable turn of events. One factor that was ess...

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