Contents include: Bannekar, Benjamin * Boston Tea Party * Dutch Mennonites * Farrakhan, Louis * Fitzhugh, George * Great Flint Sitdown * Guerilla Girls * Hay Market Bombing in Chicago * Heaven's Gate Suicide * Knights of Labor * Ku Klux Klan * Leary, Timothy * Memorial Day Massacre * Naturist Movement * Oklahoma City bombing * Oneida Community * Palmer Raids * Riot at Stonewall Bar * Shakers * Universal Negro Improvement Association * World Trade Organization Conference in Seattle, 1999 * and many more. Contents listed are tentative and may differ in printed book
Neil Hamilton is a Professor of History at Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL. He is a major contributor to the Atlas of the Baby Boom Generation. He is also the author of the ABC-CLIO Companion to the 1960's Counter-culturein America and Founders of the Modern Nations.
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