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Blue-ballpoint and orange-marker comic linking a theater speaker, postal stamp blocking newspapers and courthouse gavel pressing a speech balloon, illustrating wartime persuasion and restrictions.

Propaganda, Wartime Civil Liberties, and Schenck

Study Schenck and wartime civil liberties for CLEP. Compare CPI propaganda, speech prosecutions, postal power and later cases with four questions.

Wax-crayon comic of workers turning interlocking gears for copper production, freight trains, food conservation, bonds and labor arbitration during First World War mobilization.

Mobilizing the Economy and the Home Front

Study the World War I home front for CLEP. Compare the draft, industry, railroads, Liberty Bonds and labor policy with four practice questions.

Reed-pen comic of Wilson balancing above the Atlantic between a British trade blockade, a German U-boat and a question-mark telegram, illustrating pressures on American neutrality.

Neutrality, Submarine Warfare, and American Entry

Gouache comic of the four 1912 candidates around a ballot-box signpost, with reform tools, factory safety and closed doors confronting a woman professional and Black employee.

The Election of 1912 and New Freedom: Reform and Limits

Colored-pencil comic of Roosevelt refereeing a coal dispute above a warming family, food inspection, railroad regulation and a debate over forest conservation and preservation.

Roosevelt’s Square Deal, Consumer Protection, and Conservation

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

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

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