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Hand-drawn paper-collage comic of NAFTA trade links among Canada, the United States and Mexico, contrasting consumer and export benefits with a concerned factory worker.

Clinton, NAFTA and the Third Way: Policy and Globalization

Study Clinton, NAFTA and the Third Way through trade, welfare, family leave and financial policy, with source comparisons and CLEP History II practice.

Hand-drawn comic of George H. W. Bush and international diplomats building a coalition bridge toward liberating Kuwait in 1991, with an uncertain aftermath beyond.

George H. W. Bush and the Gulf War: Goals and Aftermath

Compare George H. W. Bush and the Gulf War, Kuwait, Panama, German reunification and reserve mobilization through sources and CLEP History II practice.

Hand-drawn comic of AIDS patient care, collaborative research, and advocates demanding care and a voice, connected by a red awareness ribbon.

Culture Wars and the AIDS Crisis: Evidence and Public Policy

Hand-drawn sketchbook comic of Reagan and Gorbachev negotiating the INF Treaty, citizens crossing the Berlin Wall, and Iran-Contra congressional oversight.

Reagan’s Cold War: Iran-Contra, INF and Soviet Collapse

Hand-drawn comic of Reagan’s tax lever, an independent Federal Reserve wheel, PATCO workers, a family wage envelope, investor gains, and a farmer facing debt.

Reaganomics: Taxes, Union Decline and Deregulation

Hand-drawn colored-pencil comic of direct-mail organizers, voter registration, a taxpayer, religious organizing, and policy researchers before the 1980 election.

The New Right and the Election of 1980: Coalitions and Ideas

Hand-drawn comic of Ford’s 1974 pardon, Carter mediating the 1978 Camp David agreement between Sadat and Begin, and families following the Iran hostage crisis.

Ford and Carter: Human Rights, Camp David and Iran Hostages

Hand-drawn comic of a worried worker with a wage envelope, rising grocery price tags, a 1970s gasoline queue, factory job losses, and the closed 1971 gold-exchange window.

Nixon Shock, Oil Crises and Stagflation: Causes and Effects

Hand-drawn scratchboard comic of Watergate tape reels linking reporters, a judge, congressional hearings, oversight records, and Nixon’s 1974 departure.

Watergate: Executive Power, Evidence and Reform

Hand-drawn watercolor comic of Nixon, Mao, and Brezhnev at a triangular bargaining table, ping-pong diplomacy, SALT I launcher limits, and satellite verification.

Détente, China and SALT I: Diplomacy and Arms Limits

Hand-drawn comic of Nixon holding local-choice and federal-rules folders, with revenue sharing, integrated schooling, construction oversight, and environmental monitoring.

Nixon’s Domestic Record: New Federalism and Southern Strategy

Hand-drawn comic of a magnified river ecosystem and pollution plume, a sampling scientist, community organizer, EPA regulator, and 1970 Earth Day teach-in.

Modern Environmentalism and the EPA: Laws, Tools and Limits