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This is the Enemy
This is the Enemy investigates the internment of Japanese-Americans in the United States following the attack on Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the second World War; streaming video (Flash) or Windows Media Video download (7.7MB)
The Louisiana Purchase in the Age of Revolution
In April of 1803 the United States acquired more than eight hundred thousand square miles of territory from France in what has come to be known as the largest real estate transaction in history. France’s cession of the Louisiana territory nearly doubled the size of the United States and guaranteed America’s economic and physical expansion across the Mississippi River Valley and beyond.
Responses to Immigration
Since the 1880s, immigration patterns have changed in a number of ways, but what about Americans’ responses to immigration? This video examines the various reactions to newcomers around the turn of the century and during the world wars. It also urges the viewer to compare present-day responses to those of earlier times