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Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy
Taylor N. Carlson
What does it mean when Americans rely on family and friends to stay on top of politics?
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Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print
Melissa Reynolds
Around the year 1375, English merchants, artisans, farmers, and village priests found they could access medical and scientific knowledge written in the language they spoke.
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Spiritual Criminals: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial
Michelle M. Nickerson
When the FBI arrested eight people who broke into a Camden draft board in 1971, the Bureau celebrated.
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The Roots of Polarization: From the Racial Realignment to the Culture Wars
Neil A. O’Brian
Gay rights, women’s issues, immigration, gun control, and abortion politics all burst onto the political scene in the 1970s and 1980s, scrambling the parties and polarizing the electorate.
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