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  2. Conscription in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, military conscription, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the U.S. federal government in six conflicts: the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The fourth incarnation of the draft came into being in 1940, through the Selective ...

  3. Euthanasia in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Involuntary Euthanasia is currently illegal in all 50 states of the United States. [1] Assisted suicide is legal in 10 jurisdictions in the US: Washington, D.C. [2] and the states of California, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico, Maine, [3] New Jersey, [4] Hawaii, and Washington. [5] The status of assisted suicide is disputed in Montana ...

  4. Oxford History of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Books. The Oxford History of the United States is an ongoing multivolume narrative history of the United States published by Oxford University Press. Conceived in the 1950s and launched in 1961 under the co-editorship of historians Richard Hofstadter and C. Vann Woodward, the series has been edited by David M. Kennedy since 1999.

  5. United States Live - Wikipedia

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    United States Live is the first live album and third overall album by avant-garde singer-songwriter Laurie Anderson. Released as a 5-record boxed set (later reissued on four CDs), the album was recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City in February 1983. United States was Anderson's magnum opus performance-art piece featuring ...

  6. United States v. Price - Wikipedia

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    United States v. Cecil Price, et al., also known as the Mississippi Burning trial or Mississippi Burning case, was a criminal trial where the United States charged a group of 18 men with conspiring in a Ku Klux Klan plot to murder three young civil rights workers (Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman) in Philadelphia, Mississippi on June 21, 1964 during Freedom Summer.

  7. The United States vs. Billie Holiday - Wikipedia

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    The United States vs. Billie Holiday is a 2021 American biographical drama film about singer Billie Holiday, based on the book Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari. Directed by Lee Daniels, the film stars Andra Day in the title role, along with Trevante Rhodes, Garrett Hedlund, Leslie Jordan (in his ...

  8. COVID-19 pandemic in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Weekly confirmed COVID-19 deaths Map of cumulative COVID-19 death rates by U.S. state. In the United States, the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in 103,436,829 confirmed cases with 1,187,771 all-time deaths, the most of any country, and the 20th highest per capita worldwide.

  9. The Suppression of the African Slave-trade to the United ...

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    W. E. B. Du Bois. Language. English. Publication date. 1894. The Suppression of the African Slave-trade to the United States of America (1894) was W. E. B. Du Bois 's doctoral thesis for Harvard University which he finished while teaching at Wilberforce University. [1] This thesis made Du Bois the first African-American to earn a Ph.D from Harvard.