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| Out of Many: A History of the American People | |
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| Volume I | |
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| By Faragher / Buhle / Czitrom / Armitage | |
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| A continent of Villages, to 1500 | |
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| The Story of the Creation of the World, Told by a Zuni Priest in 1885 | |
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| The Discovery of Corn and Tobacco, as Recounted by a Penobscot Elder in 1907 | |
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| A Cherokee Explains the Origins of Disease and Medicine in the 1890s | |
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| A Story of the Trickster Rabbit, told by a Micmac Indian in the 1870s | |
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| Two Nineteenth-Century Archaeologists Provide the First Scientific Description of the Indian Mounds of the Mississippi Valley 1848 | |
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| A Jesuit Missionary Reports on the Society of the Natchez of the Lower Mississippi in 1730 | |
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| The Constitution of the Five nation Confederacy Records the Innovation of an Iroquis Founding Father of the Fifteenth Century | |
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| When Worlds Collide, 1492-1588 | |
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| Christopher Columbus Writes of His First View of the New World in 1492 | |
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| An Aztec Remembers the Conquest of Mexico a Quarter Century Afterwards, in 1550 | |
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| An Early Proponent for the Native Rights Condemns the Torture of the Indians in 1565 | |
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| A Shipwrecked Spaniard Writes of His Incredible Journey through North America from 1528-1536 | |
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| A French Captain Describes his First Contact with the Indians in 1534 | |
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| A French Jesuit Describes the cosmology of the Montagnais Indians in 1534 | |
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| An English Scientist Writes of the Algonquian Peoples of the Atlantic Coast in 1588 | |
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| The Governor of Roanoke Describe His Return to the "Lost Coloyn" in 1590 | |
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| Planting Colonies in North America, 1588-1700 | |
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| The Spanish Governor Reports on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 | |
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| A Pueblo Rebel in 1681 Explains the Reason Behind the Pueblo Revolt | |
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| John Smith Writes about the Chesapeake Indians of 1608 | |
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| Roger Williams Argues for Freedom of Conscience in 1644 | |
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| Two Poems on Family by Anne Bradstreet published in 1650 | |
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| A "Possessed" Girl Names Her Accuser in 1692 | |
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| William Penn's 1681 Plans for the Province of Pennsylvania | |
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| Iroquois Chiefs Address the Governors of New York and Virginia in 1684 | |
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| Slavery and Empire, 1441-1770 | |
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| EnglandAsserts her Dominion through Legislation in 1660 | |
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| MarylandAddresses the Status of Slaves in 1664 | |
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| A Slave Tells of His Capture in Africa in 1798 | |
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| A Salve Ship Surgeon Writes about the Salve Trade in 1788 | |
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| An African Captive Tells of the Story of Crossing the Atlantic in a slave ship in 1789 | |
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| A Virginian Describes the Difference between Servants and Slaves in 1722 | |
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| The Slaves Revolt in South Carolina in 1739 | |
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| An Early Abolitionist Speaks Out Against Slavery in 1757 | |
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| Slave Stories told to a Folklorist in South Carolina in the 1910s | |
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| The Cultures of Colonial North America, 1700-1780 | |
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| The Rev. John Williams Tells of His Experiences as an Indian Captive, 1707 | |
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| An Iroquois Chief Argues for His Tribe's Property Rights in 1742 | |
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| A Boston Woman Writes About Her Trip to New York in 1704 | |
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| A colonial Planter Tours the Backcountry in 1728 | |
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| A Swedish Visitor Tells About Philadelphia, 1748 | |
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| An Older businessman Advises a Young One in 1748 | |
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| A Puritan Preacher Admonishes His Flocks in 1741 | |
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| From Empire to Independence, 1750-1776 | |
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| BritainForbids Americans Western Settlement, 1763 | |
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| An American Colonist Opposes New Taxes and Asserts the Rights of Colonists, 1764 | |
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| An American Moderate Speaks Against the Stamp Act, 1767 | |
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| To the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1768 | |
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| The First American Congress Meets, 1774 | |
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| A Colonist Makes an Impassioned Call to Arms, 1775 | |
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| An Anglican Preacher Denounces the American Rebels, 1775 | |
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| An American Patriot Denounces the King, 1775 | |
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| The Colonists Declare Their Independence, 1776 | |
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| The Creation of the United States, 1776-1786 | |
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| An American Patriot Tries to Stir Up the Soldiers of the American Revolution, 1776 | |
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| A Colonial Woman Argues for Equal Rights, 1776 | |
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| An African American Petitions the government for Emancipation of All Slaves, 1776 | |
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| A Common Soldier Tells About the Battle of Yorktown, 1781 | |
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| Treaty with the Delawares, 1778 | |
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| Britain signs Treaty Ending Revolutionary War, 1783 | |
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| Congress Decides What to Do with the Western Lands, 1785 | |
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| Territorial Governments are Established by Congress, 1787 | |
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| MassachusettsFarmers Take Up Arms in Revolt Against Taxes, 1786 | |
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| The United States of North America, 1787-1800 | |
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| Constitutional Convention Delegate Blasts Federal government, 1787 | |
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| The Father of the Constitution Defends Republicanism, 1787 | |
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| Seneca Chiefs Petition Washington for Return of Their Land, 1790 | |
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| The Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury Battle about the Constitution, 1791 | |
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| Farmers Protest the New Whiskey Tax, 1790 | |
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| A Frenchman Comments on the American Character, 1782 | |
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| A Post-Revolutionary Woman Argues for Women's Equality, 1790 | |
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| An American School Teacher Calls for an American Language, 1789 | |
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| The Agrarian Republic, 1800-1824 | |
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| Two Explorers Meet the Shoshone, 1805 | |
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| Supreme Court Retains Right to Overrule Legislation, 1803 | |
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| A Shawnee Argues for a United Indian Resistance, 1810 | |
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| A War Hawk Speaks about the British, 1811 | |
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| The President Asks Congress for Declarations of War, 1812 | |
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| Supreme Court Bolsters Federal Power, 1819 | |
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| MissouriAdmitted to Statehood, Slavery at Issue, 1820 | |
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| The President Addresses the Union, 1823 | |
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| A Seneca Chief Addresses Missionaries, 1805 | |
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| A Camp Meeting Heats Up, 1829 | |
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| The Growth of Democracy, 1824-1840 | |
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| A Legal Scholar opposes Spreading the Vote, 1821 | |
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| What shall Be the Role of Government, 1834 | |
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| The Cherokee are Sent to the Indian Territory, 1835 | |
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| A Cherokee Speaks for His Tribe, 1826 | |
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| A Choctaw Chief Bids Farewell, 1832 | |
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| American Senator Opposes Nullification, 1830 | |
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| South CarolinaRefuses the Tariff, 1832 | |
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| A Woman's rights Advocate Calls for Equality, 1843 | |
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| Transcendentalist Promotes Individualism, 1841 | |
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| The South and Slavery, 1780s-1850s | |
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| Congress Prohibits Importation of Slaves, 1807 | |
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| State Laws Govern Slavery, 1824 | |
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| An Architect Describes African American Music and Instruments in 1818 | |
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| Slave Culture Documented in Song, 1867 | |
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| Southern Novel Depicts Slavery, 1832 | |
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| A Slave Tells of His Sale at Auction, 1848 | |
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| A Farm Journal Reports on the Care and Feeding of Slaves, 1836 | |
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| A Slave Girl Tells of Her Life, 1861 | |
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| A Muslim Slave Speaks Out, 1831 | |
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| Industry and the North, 1790s-1850s | |
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| A German Colonist Writes about the new American Settlements in Illinois in 1819 | |
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| The Treasure Secretary Reports on the Future of Industry in 1791 | |
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| Employers Advertise for Help Wanted in the 1820s | |
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| The Carpenters of Boston Go on Strike in 1825 | |
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| A New England Factory Issues Regulations for Workers 1825 | |
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| A Young Woman Writes of the Evils of Factory Life in 1845 | |
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| A Woman Worker Writes Home to Her Father in 1845 | |
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| A New England Woman Describes the Responsibilities of American Women in 1847 | |
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| Coming to Terms with the New Age, 1820s-1850s | |
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| A Plan to Equalize Wealth in 1829 | |
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| Irish Laborers Get an Endorsement in 1833 | |
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| Women's Rights Proponents Hold a Convention, 1848 | |
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| Social Philosopher Advocates Communities, 1840 | |
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| Noted Educator Speaks on Public Schooling in 1848 | |
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| An African American Abolitionist Advocates Racial Action in 1829 | |
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| Abolitionist Demands Immediate End to Slavery, 1831 | |
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| Southern Belle Denounces Slavery, 1838 | |
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| A Black Feminist Speaks Out in 1851 | |
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| The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1830s-1850s | |
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| A Tejano Describes the Beginning of the Texas Revolution in 1835-36 | |
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| The Texans Declare their Independence in 1836 | |
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| A Newspaper Man Declares the "Manifest Destiny" of the United States in 1845 | |
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| A Young Pioneer Writes of Her Journey to California in 1846 with the Donner Party | |
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| The President Asks Congress to Declare Ware on Mexico in 1846 | |
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| An Illinois Representative Attacks President Polk's View of the War in 1848 | |
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| A Californian Describes the "Bear Flag" Insurrection in California | |
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| An Indian Chief Discusses the differences Between his People and the Americans in 1854 | |
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| An American Army Officer Describes the Beginning of the California Gold Rush in 1848 | |
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| The Coming Crisis, 1848-1861 | |
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| The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 | |
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| Northern State Defies Fugitive Slave Act, 1855 | |
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| A New England Writer Portrays Slavery in 1852 | |
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| An African American Decries the Fourth of July in 1852 | |
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| A Slave Sues for Freedome in 1857 | |
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| A Senatorial Candidate Addresses the Questions of Slavery in 1858 | |
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| An Abolitionist is Given the Death Sentence in 1859 | |
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| Lincolnis elected and Southern Secession Begins in 1860 | |
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| A New President is Sworn In | |
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| The Civil War, 1861-1865 | |
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| A Civil War Nurse Writes of conditions of Freed Slaves, 1864 | |
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| President Abraham Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 | |
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| The Working-Men of Manchester, England, Write to President Lincoln on the question of Slavery in 1862 | |
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| President Lincoln Responds to the Working-Men of Manchester on the Subject of Slavery in 1863 | |
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| The New York Times Prints Opinion on the New York Draft Riots in 1863 | |
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| An African American Soldier Writes to the President Appealing for Equality in 1863 | |
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| A Nurse Writes of the Destruction on the Battlefields of Virginia in 1863 | |
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| President Abraham Lincoln Delivers the Gettysburg Address in 1863 | |
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| A Union Captain Describes Sherman's March to the Sea in 1864 | |
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| A Southern Lady Recounts the Fall of Richmond in 1865 | |
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| Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | |
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| Charlotte Forten, Life on the Sea Islands, 1864 | |
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| Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, 1865 | |
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| The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 1865 | |
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| Black Code of Mississippi, 1865 | |
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| Frederick Douglass, Speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1865 | |
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| The Civil Rights Act of 1866 | |
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| President Johnson's Veto of the Civil Rights Act, 1866 | |
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| The First Reconstruction Act, 1867 | |
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| Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan, 1868 | |
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| Blanche K. Bruce, Speech in the Senate, 1867 | |
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| A Sharecrop Contract, 1882 | |