Featured in Issues & Controversies in American History: Who Should Pay for the Cost of Cleaning Up Hazardous Waste Sites? In 1978, New York State health commissioner Robert Whalen declared a... read more →
Featured in Issues & Controversies in American History: Were British Soldiers or American Colonists to Blame? On the snowy evening of March 5, 1770, during a period of escalating tension between... read more →
Featured in Issues & Controversies in American History: Should African Americans Receive Reparations for Slavery? Since the United States abolished slavery in 1865, former slaves and their descendants have raised the... read more →
Featured in Issues & Controversies in American History: The Pros and Cons of U.S. Membership After World War I ended in 1918, the victorious powers negotiated a treaty that established the... read more →
Issues & Controversies in American History: This Month in History, December 2019—The Monroe Doctrine
Featured in Issues & Controversies in American History: The U.S. Closes the Western Hemisphere to European Influence In the early 1820s, U.S. leaders feared that Spain might try to reclaim its... read more →
VIETNAM "BOAT PEOPLE": Should the U.S. Admit More Vietnamese Refugees after the Vietnam War? Following the communists' victory in the Vietnam War in 1975, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees fled... read more →
Featured in Issues & Controversies in American History: Did the Iroquois Confederacy Influence the Drafting of the Constitution of the United States? When the framers of the U.S. Constitution gathered in... read more →
Featured in Issues & Controversies in American History: USA Patriot Act: Defense Against Terrorism or Restriction of Liberties? On September 11, 2001, the United States suffered a devastating series of attacks... read more →
Featured in Issues & Controversies in American History: Endangered Species Act of 1973: Should the Tellico Dam Have Been Built? In the 1970s, environmentalists and other groups sued the federal government... read more →
Featured in Issues & Controversies in American History: Hurricane Katrina: What Was Responsible for the Devastating Flooding of New Orleans? In 2005, flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Louisiana.... read more →