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New World Encounters | |
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New World Experiments: England's Seventeenth-Century Colonies | |
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Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society | |
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Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America | |
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The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763 1783 | |
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The Republican Experiment | |
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Democracy and Dissent: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788 1800 | |
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Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision | |
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Nation Building and Nationalism | |
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The Triumph of White Men's Democracy | |
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Slaves and Masters | |
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The Pursuit of Perfection | |
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An Age of Expansionism | |
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The Sectional Crisis | |
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Secession and the Civil War | |
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The Agony of Reconstruction | |
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New World Encounters | |
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Clash of Cultures: Interpreting Murder in Early Maryland | |
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Native American Histories before Conquest | |
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The Environmental Challenge: Food, Climate, and Culture | |
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Mysterious Disappearances | |
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Aztec Dominance | |
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Eastern Woodland Cultures | |
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A World Transformed | |
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Cultural Negotiations | |
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Threats to Survival: Trade and Disease | |
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West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies | |
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Europe on the Eve of Conquest | |
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Building New Nation States | |
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Imagining a New World | |
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Myths and Reality | |
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The Conquistadores: Faith and Greed | |
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From Plunder to Settlement | |
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The French Claim Canada | |
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The English Enter the Competition | |
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Birth of English Protestantism | |
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Militant Protestantism | |
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Woman in Power | |
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Religion, War, and Nationalism | |
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An Unpromising Beginning: Mystery at Roanoke | |
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Conclusion: Campaign to Sell America | |
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The Columbian Exchange and the Global Environment: Ecological Revolution | |
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New World Experiments: England's Seventeenth-Century Colonies | |
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Profit and Piety: Competing Visions for English Settlement | |
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Breaking Away | |
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The Chesapeake: Dreams of Wealth | |
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Entrepreneurs in Virginia | |
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Spinning Out of Control | |
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"Stinking Weed" | |
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Time of Reckoning | |
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Corruption and Reform | |
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Maryland: A Troubled Refuge for Catholics | |
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Reforming England in America | |
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"The Great Migration" | |
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"A City on a Hill" | |
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Limits of Religious Dissent | |
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Mobility and Division | |
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Diversity in the Middle Colonies | |
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Anglo-Dutch Rivalry on the Hudson | |
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Confusion in New Jersey | |
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Quakers in America | |
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Quaker Beliefs and Practice | |
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Penn's "Holy Experiment" | |
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Settling Pennsylvania | |
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Planting the Carolinas | |
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Proprietors of the Carolinas | |
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The Barbadian Connection | |
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The Founding of Georgia | |
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Conclusion: Living with Diversity | |
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The Children Who Refused to Come Home: Captivity and Conversion | |
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Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society | |
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Families in an Atlantic Empire | |
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Sources of Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century | |
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Immigrant Families and New Social Order | |
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Commonwealth of Families | |
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Women's Lives in Puritan New England | |
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Social Hierarchy in New England | |
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The Challenge of the Chesapeake Environment | |
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Family Life at Risk | |
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The Structure of Planter Society | |
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Race and Freedom in British America | |
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Roots of Slavery | |
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Constructing African American Identities | |
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Rise of a Commercial Empire | |
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Response to Economic Competition | |
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Regulating Colonial Trade | |
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Colonial Factions Spark Political Revolt, 1676-1691 | |
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Civil War in Virginia: Bacon's Rebellion | |
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The Glorious Revolution in the Bay Colony | |
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Contagion of Witchcraft | |
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The Glorious Revolution in New York and Maryland | |
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Conclusion: Local Aspirations Within an Atlantic Empire | |
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Anthony Johnson: A Free Black Planter on Pungoteague | |
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Creek Witches and the Law: A Problem of Evidence in 1692 | |
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Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America | |
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Constructing an Anglo-American Identity: The Journal of William Byrd | |
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Growth and Diversity | |
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Scots-Irish Flee English Oppression | |
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Germans Search for a Better Life | |
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Convict Settlers | |
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Native Americans Stake Out a Middle Ground | |
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Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century | |
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Conquering the Northern Frontier | |
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Peoples of the Spanish Borderlands | |
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The Impact of European Ideas on American Culture | |
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Provincial Cities | |
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Ben Franklin and American Enlightenment | |
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Economic Transformation | |
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Birth of a Consumer Society | |
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Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies | |
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The Great Awakening | |
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The Voice of Evangelical Religion | |
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Clash of Political Cultures | |
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The English Constitution | |
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The Reality of British Politics | |
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Governing the Colonies: The American Experience | |
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Colonial Assemblies | |
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Century of Imperial War | |
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King William's and Queen Anne's Wars | |
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King George's War and Its Aftermath | |
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Albany Congress and Braddock's Defeat | |
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Seven Years'War | |
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Perceptions of War | |
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Conclusion: Rule Britannia? | |
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Conquest by Other Means: The Pennsylvania Walking | |
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Purchase | |
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The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763-1783 | |
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Moment of Decision: Commitment and Sacrifice | |
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Structure of Colonial Society | |
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Breakdown of Political Trust | |
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No Taxation Without Representation: The American | |
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Perspective Ideas About Power and Virtue | |
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Eroding the Bonds of Empire | |
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Paying Off the National Debt | |
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Popular Protest | |
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Failed Attempts to Save the Empire | |
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Fueling the Crisis | |
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Fatal Show of Force | |
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Last Days of Imperial Rule, 1770-1773 | |
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The Final Provocation: The Boston Tea Party | |
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Steps Toward Independence | |
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Shots Heard Around the World | |
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Beginning "The World Over Again" | |
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Fighting for Independence | |
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Building a Professional Army | |
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Testing the American Will | |
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"Times That Try Men's Souls" | |
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Victory in a Year of Defeat | |
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The French Alliance | |
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The Final Campaign | |
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The Loyalist Dilemma | |
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Winning the Peace | |
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Conclusion: Preserving Independence | |
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Popular Resistance: Religion and Rebellion | |
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The Republican Experiment | |
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A New Political Morality | |
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Defining Republican Culture | |
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Living in the Shadow of Revolution | |
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Social and Political Reform | |
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African Americans in the New Republic | |
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The Challenge of Women's Rights | |
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The States: Experiments in Republicanism | |
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Blueprints for State Government | |
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Natural Rights and the State Constitutions | |
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Power to the People | |
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Stumbling Toward a New National Government | |
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Articles of Confederation | |
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Western Land: Key to the First Constitution | |
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Northwest Ordinance: The Confederation's Major | |
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Achievement Strengthening Federal Authority | |
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The Nationalist Critique | |
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Diplomatic Humiliation | |
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"Have We Fought for This?" | |
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The Genius of James Madison | |
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Constitutional Reform | |
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The Philadelphia Convention | |
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Inventing a Federal Republic | |
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Compromise Saves the Convention | |
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Compromising on Slavery | |
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The Last Details | |
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We, the People | |
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Whose Constitution? Struggle for Ratification | |
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Federalists and Antifederalists | |
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Adding the Bill of Rights | |
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Conclusion: Success Depends on the People | |
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The Elusive Constitution: Search for Original Intent | |
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Democracy and Dissent: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788-1800 | |
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Force of Public Opinion | |
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Principle and Pragmatism: Establishing a New Government | |
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Conflicting Visions: Jefferson and Hamilton | |
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Hamilton's Plan for Prosperity and Security | |
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Funding and Assumption | |
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Interpreting the Constitution: The Bank Controversy | |
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Setback for Hamilton | |
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Charges of Treason: The Battle over Foreign Affairs | |
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The Peril of Neutrality | |
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Jay's Treaty Sparks Domestic Unrest | |
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Pushing the Native Americans Aside | |
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Popular Political Culture | |
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Informing the Public: News and Politics | |
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Whiskey Rebellion: Charges of Republican Conspiracy | |
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Washington's Farewell | |
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The Adams Presidency | |
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The XYZ Affair and Domestic Politics | |
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Crushing Political Dissent | |
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Silencing Political Opposition: The Alien and Sedition Acts | |
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Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions | |
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Adams's Finest Hour | |
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The Peaceful Revolution: The Election of 1800 | |
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Conclusion: Danger of Political Extremism | |
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Defense of Superiority: The Impact of Nationalism on | |
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Perceptions of the Environment | |
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Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision | |
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Limits of Equality | |
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Regional Identities in a New Republic | |
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Westward the Course of Empire | |
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Native American Resistance | |
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Commercial Life in the Cities | |
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Jefferson as President | |
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Jeffersonian Reforms | |
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The Louisiana Purchase | |
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition | |
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Conflict with the Barbary States | |
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Jefferson's Critics | |
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Attack on the Judges | |
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Politics of Desperation | |
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Murder and Conspiracy: The Curious Career of Aaron Burr | |
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The Slave Trade | |
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Embarrassments Overseas | |
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Embargo Divides the Nation | |
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A New Administration Goes to War | |
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Fumbling Toward Conflict | |
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The Strange War of 1812 | |
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Hartford Convention: The Demise of the Federalists | |
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Treaty of Ghent Ends the War | |
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Conclusion: Republican Legacy | |
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Barbary Pirates and American Captives: The Nation's First | |
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Hostage Crisis | |
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Aaron Burr: The Vice President Tried for Treason | |
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Nation Building and Nationalism | |
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A Revolutionary War Hero Revisits America in 1824 | |
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Expansion and Migration | |
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Extending the Boundaries | |
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Native American Societies Under Pressure | |
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Settlement to the Mississippi | |
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The People and Culture of the Frontier | |
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A Revolution in Transportation | |
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Roads and Steamboats | |
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The Canal Boom | |
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Emergence of a Market Economy | |
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The Beginning of Commercial Agriculture | |
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Commerce and Banking | |
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Early Industrialism | |
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The Growth of Cities | |
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The Politics of Nation Building After the War of 1812 | |
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The Republicans in Power | |
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Monroe as President | |
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The Missouri Compromise | |
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Postwar Nationalism and the Supreme Court | |
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Nationalism in Foreign Policy: The Monroe Doctrine | |
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Conclusion: The End of the Era of Good Feeling | |
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Confronting a New Environment | |
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The Triumph of White Men's Democracy | |
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Democratic Space: The New Hotels | |
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Democracy in Theory and Practice | |
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Democracy and Society | |
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Democratic Culture | |
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Democratic Political Institutions | |
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Economic Issues | |
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Labor Radicalism and Equal Rights | |
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Jackson and the Politics of Democracy | |
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The Election of 1824 and J. Q. Adams's Administration | |
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Jackson Comes to Power | |
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Indian Removal | |
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The Nullification Crisis | |
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The Bank War and the Second Party System | |
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Mr. Biddle's Bank | |
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The Bank Veto and the Election of 1832 | |
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Killing the Bank | |
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The Emergence of the Whigs | |
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The Rise and Fall of Van Buren | |
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Heyday of the Second Party System | |
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Conclusion: Tocqueville's Wisdom | |
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Racial Identity in a White Man's Democracy | |
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Slaves and Masters | |
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Nat Turner's Rebellion: A Turning Point in the Slave South | |
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The Divided Society of the Old South | |
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The World of Southern Blacks | |
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Slaves' Daily Life and Labor | |
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Slave Families, Kinship, and Community | |
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African American Religion | |
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Resistance and Rebellion | |
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Free Blacks in the Old South | |
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White Society in the Antebellum South | |
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The Planters' World | |
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Planters, Racism, and Paternalism | |
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Small Slaveholders | |
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Yeoman Farmers | |
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A Closed Mind and a Closed Society | |
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Slavery and the Southern Economy | |
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The Internal Slave Trade | |
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The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom | |
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Slavery and Industrialization | |
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The "Profitability" Issue | |
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Conclusion: Worlds in Conflict | |
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Harriet Jacobs and Maria Norcom: Women of Southern | |
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Households | |
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The Pursuit of Perfection | |
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Redeeming the Middle Class | |
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The Rise of Evangelicalism | |
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The Second Great Awakening: The Frontier Phase | |
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The Second Great Awakening in the North | |
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From Revivalism to Reform | |
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Domesticity and Changes in the American Family | |
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Marriage for Love | |
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The Cult of Domesticity | |
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The Discovery of Childhood | |
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Institutional Reform | |
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The Extension of Education | |
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Discovering the Asylum | |
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Reform Turns Radical | |
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Divisions in the Benevolent Empire | |
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The Abolitionist Enterprise | |
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Black Abolitionists | |
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From Abolitionism to Women's Rights | |
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Radical Ideas and Experiments | |
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Conclusion: Counterpoint on Reform | |
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The War Against "Demon Drink" | |
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The Legal Rights of Married Women: Reforming the Law of | |
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Coverture | |
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An Age of Expansionism | |
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The Spirit of Young America | |
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Movement to the Far West | |
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Borderlands of the 1830s | |
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The Texas Revolution | |
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The Republic of Texas | |
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Trails of Trade and Settlement | |
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The Mormon Trek | |
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Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War | |
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Tyler and Texas | |
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The Triumph of Polk and Annexation | |
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The Doctrine of Manifest Destiny | |
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Polk and the Oregon Question | |
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War with Mexico Settlement of the Mexican-American War | |
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Internal Expansionism | |
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The Triumph of the Railroad | |
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The Industrial Revolution Takes Off | |
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Mass Immigration Begins | |
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The New Working Class | |
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Conclusion: The Costs of Expansion | |
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Hispanic America After 1848: A Case Study in | |
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Majority Rule | |
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The Sectional Crisis | |
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Brooks Assaults Sumner in Congress | |
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The Compromise of 1850 | |
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The Problem of Slavery in the Mexican Cession | |
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The Wilmot Proviso Launches the Free-Soil Movement Squatter Sovereignty and the Election of 1848 | |
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Taylor Takes Charge | |
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Forging a Compromise | |
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Political Upheaval, 1852-1856 | |
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The Party System in Crisis | |
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| |
The Kansas-Nebraska Act Raises a Storm | |
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| |
An Appeal to Nativism: The Know-Nothing Episode | |
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Kansas and the Rise of the Republicans | |
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| |
Sectional Division in the Election of 1856 | |
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The House Divided, 1857-1860 | |
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Cultural Sectionalism | |
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The Dred Scott Case The Lecompton Controversy | |
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Debating the Morality of Slavery | |
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The South's Crisis of Fear | |
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The Election of 1860 | |
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Conclusion: Explaining the Crisis | |
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The Enigma of John Brown | |
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The Case of Dred and Harriet Scott: Blurring the Borders of | |
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Politics and Justice | |
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Secession and the Civil War | |
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| |
The Emergence of Lincoln | |
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The Storm Gathers | |
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The Deep South Secedes | |
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The Failure of Compromise And the War Came | |
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Adjusting to Total War | |
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Prospects, Plans, and Expectations | |
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Mobilizing the Home Fronts | |
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Political Leadership: Northern Success and Southern Failure | |
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Early Campaigns and Battles | |
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The Diplomatic Struggle | |
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Fight to the Finish | |
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The Coming of Emancipation | |
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African Americans and the War | |
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The Tide Turns | |
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Last Stages of the Conflict | |
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Effects of the War | |
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Conclusion: An Organizational Revolution | |
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Soldiering in the Civil War | |
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The Agony of Reconstruction | |
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Robert Smalls and Black Politicians During Reconstruction | |
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| |
The President vs. Congress | |
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Wartime Reconstruction | |
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Andrew Johnson at the Helm | |
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| |
Congress Takes the Initiative | |
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| |
Congressional Reconstruction Plan Enacted | |
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The Impeachment Crisis | |
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Reconstructing Southern Society | |
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Reorganizing Land and Labor | |
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| |
Black Codes: A New Name for Slavery? | |
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| |
Republican Rule in the South | |
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Claiming Public and Private Rights | |
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Retreat from Reconstruction | |
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| |
Rise of the Money Question | |
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| |
Final Efforts of Reconstruction | |
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| |
A Reign of Terror Against Blacks | |
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| |
Spoilsmen vs. Reformers | |
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| |
Reunion and the New South | |
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The Compromise of 1877 | |
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"Redeeming" a New South | |
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The Rise of Jim Crow | |
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Conclusion: Henry McNeal Turner and the "Unfinished | |
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Revolution" | |
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Changing Views of Reconstruction | |