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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

Compare Ford and Carter, human rights, Camp David, SALT II and the Iran hostage crisis through historical sources and CLEP U.S. History II practice.

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

Trace the Nixon Shock, oil crises, stagflation and industrial change through distinct policies and evidence, with CLEP U.S. History II practice.

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

Hand-drawn comic of gay liberation organizers and disability-rights activists sharing support, with a visibility march, accessible entrance, interpreter, and 1977 Section 504 folder.

Gay Liberation and Disability Rights: Organizing and Access

Hand-drawn printshop comic of Mexican American and Filipino farmworkers, Native treaty-rights organizers, and Asian American students and tenants producing distinct movement artwork.

Chicano, Red Power and Asian American Movements: Claims and Strategies

Hand-drawn comic of women comparing work, care, and choice around a table, with Title IX, an unratified ERA proposal, and access to law, education, employment, and care.

Second-Wave Feminism: Family Change, the ERA and Roe

Hand-drawn comic showing a campus free-speech table, students discussing the 1962 Port Huron Statement inside a megaphone, counterculture musicians, and a skeptical worker.

The New Left, Counterculture and Student Protest: Ideas and Evidence

Hand-drawn comic contrasting college and factory workers facing the draft, a diverse antiwar coalition, a television showing 1968 Chicago, and a young voter in 1971.

The Antiwar Movement and the Draft: 1968, Protest and Reform

Hand-drawn watercolor history panels showing Tet in 1968, American troop withdrawal, Cambodia in 1970, the Paris agreement in 1973, and a Vietnamese family facing the fall of Saigon in 1975.

Tet and Vietnamization: Cambodia, Withdrawal and Saigon