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Fifty years after Jaws was released in U.S. theaters, ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½revisits how Americans reacted to the movie then and how many have seen it today.

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In 1947, Americans weren't sold on whether the U.S. should buy Greenland for $1 billion. Polls showed 33% in favor, 38% opposed and 28% unsure.

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On the 25th anniversary of "Titanic," ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½looks back at the romance-disaster film's public popularity at the time.

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¿Û¿Û´«Ã½polls in 1942, 1947, 1974 and 1980 provide insight into how Americans reacted to inflation when the rate was consistently over 10%.

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Throughout her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II was broadly admired by the American public.

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Americans have favored daylight saving time for decades but not necessarily year-round. Majorities supported it for the entire year during World War II and in 1973 to deal with the energy situation.

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A majority of Americans favored lowering the voting age to 18 long before the 26th Amendment, which did this, was ratified in 1971.

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In June 1971, after The New York Times published excerpts from a classified report on the Vietnam War, the so-called Pentagon Papers, the majority of Americans familiar with the articles approved of them.

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During Women's History Month, ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½takes a dive into the archives to see what Americans thought about women working before it was the norm.

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When Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech 75 years ago, Americans were reluctant to form a military alliance with the U.K. and were unsure of how to respond to Russia's postwar moves.

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A sizable minority of Americans have historically been reluctant to take new vaccines, with a gap in willingness by party affiliation since 1957.

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¿Û¿Û´«Ã½looks back at Americans' opinions as the Little Rock Nine desegregated an all-White high school six decades ago.

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Polling data at the time found a majority of Americans backing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but with differences by race and region.

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Reviewing Black Americans' preferred term for their race in 1969 and a half-century later, in 2019.

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COVID-19 sparks a return of the World War II-era "victory gardens" trend.

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In 1935, Americans had mixed views on the effect of Prohibition's repeal. In later years, most said they would vote against reinstating Prohibition.

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¿Û¿Û´«Ã½was founded during the Great Depression, and many of its early questions asked about the economy and the government's role in reviving it.

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The first question ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½asked about race or racism came amid a high-profile stance against discrimination from first lady Eleanor Roosevelt in 1939.

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On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. At the time, Americans favored supporting the Poles, up to a point.

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Americans mostly supported statehood for Hawaii in the decades leading up to its admission into the union.