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A National Income Tax
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Building a Transcontinental Railroad
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Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency
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Creating an Interstate Highway System
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Federal Highway Act of 1956
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Juvenile Delinquency and Mail-Order Guns
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Reclaiming the West with Water
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The 1929 Stock Market Crash
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