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Supplement #1 - Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War

Supplement #2 - The Assassination of Julius Caesar

Supplement #3 - History and Homosexuality

Supplement #4 - The Deferred Politics of Christ's Kingdom

Supplement #5 - Pope Urban Calls for a Crusade

Supplement #6 - The Medieval Relationship of Abelard and Heloise

Supplement #7 - Thomas Aquinas on the Existence of God

Supplement #8 - Islam and the Non-Muslim World

Supplement #9 - Giovanni Boccaccio Describes the Black Death

Supplement #10 - Dr. Chanca and Columbus's Second Voyage

Supplement #11 - The Council of Trent on Catholics and Protestants

Supplement #12- Galileo on Science and the Bible

Supplement #13 - The Delusion of Dutch Tulip Mania

Supplement #14 - Voltaire Promotes Religious Toleration

Supplement #15 - The Chippewa Attack on Fort Michilimackinac

Supplement #16 - Samuel Johnson Defends Taxing the American Colonies

Supplement #17 - Alexander Hamilton and Presidential Accountability

Supplement #18 - Alexis de Tocqueville on the French Revolution

Supplement #19 - George Washington on Party Spirit and More

Supplement #20 - Black Slavery in Black Africa

Supplement #21 - Three Important Cases of the Marshall Court

Supplement #22 - An Early Abolitionist Tract by a Free Black

Supplement #23 - Southern Sisters Condemn Slavery

Supplement #24 - Remembering the Trail of Tears

Supplement #25 - John C. Calhoun and the Conquest of Mexico

Supplement #26 - Karl Marx and the Coming Communist Revolution

Supplement #27 - An Appeal for Limited Government in France

Supplement #28 - Dred Scott, Black Status, and the Constitution

Supplement #29 - The 19th Century Pivot on Abortion

Supplement #30 - Preserving White Status

Supplement #31 - Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses

Supplement #32 - Susan B. Anthony and Women's Rights

Supplement #33 - The Last Battle between Native American Tribes

Supplement #34 - God and Evolution

Supplement #35 - German Anti-Semitism

Supplement #36 - Andrew Carnegie on Wealth Inequality

Supplement #37 - Christian Nation

Supplement #38 - Ida B. Wells-Barnett on Lynching

Supplement #39 - The Second Amendment

Supplement #40 - Johann Most and Emma Goldman Defend Anarchism

Supplement #41 - Forced Prostitution

Supplement #42 - Social Darwinism and World War I

Supplement #43 - Witness to Child Labor

Supplement #44 - Unworthy Life and Nazi Genocide

Supplement #45 - The Struggle for Suffrage

Supplement #46 - Contrasting Presidents: A Progressive and a Conservative

Supplement #47 - Samuel Gompers Opposes Labor Radicalism

Supplement #48 - Eugenics

Supplement #49 - Driving and Maintaining Your Model T

Supplement #50 - The Problem with Prohibition

Supplement #51 - Norman Thomas Advocates for Socialism

Supplement #52 - Franklin Roosevelt Speaks Up for Social Action

Supplement #53 - Herbert Hoover on the Bureaucratic Threat

Supplement #54 - The Double Standard of Capitalist Folklore

Supplement #55 - Education and Japan's Road to War

Supplement #56 - A German Jew Chronicles the Third Reich

Supplement #57 - Arriving at Auschwitz

Supplement #58 - Jews Who Opposed Zionism

Supplement #59 - Gulag

Supplement #60 - Why the Chinese Communists Came to Power

Supplement #61 - Communism in the United States

Supplement #62 - McCarthyism

Supplement #63 - Martin Luther King on the Black Family

Supplement #64 - One Vietnam POW's Story

Supplement #65 - Martin Luther King on What's Next

Supplement #66 - J. Edgar Hoover

Supplement #67 - Mao's Doctor

Supplement #68 - Unrestrained Supreme Court Decisions

Supplement #69 - The CIA and the Constitution

Supplement #70 - Waking Up to Toxic Waste

Supplement #71 - Excessive Force (Not)

Supplement #72 - Black Crime

Supplement #73 - Ryazan and the Russian Regime

Supplement #74 - Misled on Iraq

Supplement #75 - Unsettled Climate Science

Supplement #76 - Runaway Healthcare Costs