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Pencil-and-marker comic of private ballot booths, a senator redirected to voters, an income-tax treasury funnel and remaining registration barriers, illustrating changes in political power.

Structural Reform: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments

Review structural reform for CLEP: the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments, primaries, initiative, referendum and recall. Try four questions.

Dip-pen and watercolor comic connecting an investigative reporter, child-labor photographer, classroom inquiry and laboratory research through an unfurled newspaper to a public meeting.

Progressivism, Muckraking, Pragmatism, and Social Investigation

Review Progressivism for CLEP: muckrakers, Hine, pragmatism, medical reform and land-grant education. Compare evidence with four practice questions.

Colored-pencil map-diorama comic of a Panama Canal lock and Caribbean workers, an open Chinese market, naval power, finance and recognition tools, and island residents watching treaty decisions.

The Open Door, the Panama Canal, and Competing Diplomacies

Charcoal and chalk comic of an open treaty book becoming Cuban and Philippine island scenes, independence advocates, a Black American regular soldier and a treaty pen casting a shadow across the islands.

The Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars

Reed-pen and gouache comic of Queen Liliuokalani and Native Hawaiian petition organizers, plantation workers, sugarcane curling into a sea route, and a naval strategist examining Pacific bases.

The Roots of Expansionism and the Annexation of Hawaii

Crayon and linocut-style comic of Japanese and Mexican sugar-beet workers clasping hands before courthouse locks, with Chinese American legal petitioners, mutual aid and Japanese American family property and school documents.

Mexican American and Asian American Citizenship and Resistance

Violet ink and copper watercolor comic of Ida B. Wells investigating at her desk, a paper path connecting Black schools, community banking and clubwomen, and portraits of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois.

Ida B. Wells, Washington and Du Bois: Black Resistance

Pencil and terracotta comic of Homer Plessy and a legal committee, two first-class tickets opening into unequal rail compartments, a courthouse and discriminatory voter registration barriers.

Disfranchisement, the Civil Rights Cases, and Plessy

Colored-pencil comic of farmers and a worker comparing a broad reform platform at a forked road, with crop warehouses, giant silver and gold coins, and the opposing 1896 campaigns of Bryan and McKinley.

Farmers’ Alliances, Populism, and the Realignment of 1896

Pastel and ballpoint comic of a farm couple balancing a fixed mortgage against more wheat, household egg and butter income, a Grange meeting and competing paper, silver and gold money.

The Money Question, Agrarian Distress, and the Grange

Fountain-pen and gouache comic of rival party organizers pulling a ribbon around a federal desk, patronage envelopes beside a civil-service exam, and customs duties, farmers and veterans pensions.

Party Stalemate, Civil Service, and the Tariff

Ink and pastel street-scene comic connecting Jane Addams and neighborhood research, settlement classes and milk service, workers and a minister, ragtime piano, a five-cent cinema and urban shopping.

Settlement Houses, the Social Gospel and Mass Culture

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