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| Preface | |
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| Cultures in Conflict: Indian-European Encounters in the American South | |
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| The Spanish and the Indians in "La Florida" | |
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| Garcilasso de la Vega, The Inca, On Hernando de Soto's Expedition, 1605 | |
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| Indians in Virginia | |
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| Address to John Smith, 1608 | |
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| The English in Virginia | |
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| Description of Indian Life and Culture, 1612 | |
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| The French on the Gulf Coast | |
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| Journal Entries, 1699 | |
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| Colonization: Religion and the Founding of Maryland | |
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| Catholic Intentions | |
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| Instructions to His Colonists, 1633 | |
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| Jesuit Missionaries | |
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| From the "Annual Letter of the English Province of the Society of Jesus," 1638 | |
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| A Violent Confrontation | |
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| Babylon's Fall, 1655 | |
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| The Crisis of the Late Seventeenth Century: Social Tensions and Rebellion in Virginia | |
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| The Servant's Experience | |
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| "The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account of His Fourteen Years Transportation at Virginia in America," c. 1680 | |
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| The Lawne's Creek Rising | |
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| Evidence from the Surry County Deed Book and the Surry County Order Book, January 1673/74 | |
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| Two Women View the Frontier | |
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| Letters, 1676 | |
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| Bacon's Rebellion | |
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| "A True Narrative of the Late Rebellion in Virginia," 1677 | |
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| The Eighteenth Century: Prosperity and the Planter Elite | |
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| A Life of Leisure | |
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| Entries from His Secret Diary, 1709 | |
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| A Woman Planter in South Carolina | |
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| Letters to her Children, to George Morly, and to Mrs. Evance, 1758 - 1760 | |
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| A Plantation Owner's Difficulties | |
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| Entries from His Diary, 1766 | |
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| Pre-Revolutionary America: The Regulators and the Carolina Backcountry in Turmoil | |
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| Pre-Revolutionary Turmoil: The North Carolina Regulators | |
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| Letters to William Tryon, 1768 | |
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| The Regulator Critique | |
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| Letter to Harmon Husbands, 1769 | |
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| A Regulator Perspective | |
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| Introduction to A Fan for Fanning and a Touch-Stone to Tryon, 1771 | |
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| The Hillsborough Riot | |
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| Reports of the Riot, 1770 | |
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| The Revolution: A Proposal for Arming Slaves | |
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| The British Call Slaves to Arms | |
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| Earl of Dunmore, Proclamation, 1775 | |
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| A Patriot's "Scheme" | |
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| Correspondence between a Slaveholder and His Son, 1776-1779 | |
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| Extreme Measures for Difficult Times | |
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| Letters, 1779 | |
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| Defeated By a "Triple-Headed Monster" | |
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| Correspondence, 1782 | |
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| The Creation of the American Republic: Slavery and the Constitution | |
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| Slavery and Representation | |
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| Debates in the Federal Convention, June 11-July 12, 1787 | |
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| The African Slave Trade | |
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| Debates in the Federal Convention, August 21-25, 1787 | |
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| A Southerner Opposes the Three-Fifths Clause | |
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| "Genuine Information," 1788 | |
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| Ratification | |
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| Debates in South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina, 1788 | |
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| The New Republic: The "Americanization" of New Orleans | |
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| Explaining the French Decision | |
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| Proclamation in the Name of the French Republic, to the Louisianians, 1803 | |
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| Establishing a Government for Orleans Territory | |
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| Correspondence, 1804 | |
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| Fears for the Church in a Secular Republic | |
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| The Ursulines of New Orleans and Thomas Jefferson Correspondence, 1804 | |
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| Creoles Demand the Civil Law | |
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| Legislative Council of the Territory of Orleans, Resolution, 1806 | |
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| Changes in New Orleans Society | |
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| Entries from His Diary, 1819 | |
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| The Age of Jackson: The Removal of the Cherokee | |
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| The Civilized State of the Cherokees | |
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| Letter to Albert Gallatin, 1826 | |
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| Disputing Georgia's Claim | |
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| Annual Message to the Cherokee Nation, 1828 | |
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| Justifying Removal | |
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| Arguments for Removal, 1830 | |
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| The Trail of Tears | |
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| Letters, 1838 | |
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| Antebellum Reform: Religion and Morality in the Debate over Slavery | |
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| A Minister Defends Slavery | |
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| The Biblical Justification for Slavery, 1822 | |
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| Slavery Defended as Moral and Beneficial | |
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| "Slavery Justified, by a Southerner," 1850 | |
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| An "Expatriate" Urges Women to Oppose Slavery | |
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| From "Appeal to the Christian Women of the South," 1836 | |
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| A Former Slave Exposes Hypocrisy | |
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| "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" 1852 | |
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| The Texas Frontier | |
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| Texas and the Union | |
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| Address Delivered at Louisville, Kentucky, 1836 | |
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| Going to Texas | |
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| A Frontier Marriage, 1830s | |
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| Life in Texas | |
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| "Route across Eastern Texas," 1857 | |
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| The Slave South: The Case of Jordan Hatcher | |
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| Trial and Conviction | |
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| Trial Record from the Case of Jordan Hatcher, 1852 | |
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| Pleading for Justice | |
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| Petitions for and against Commutation, 1852 | |
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| The Commutation | |
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| Messages to the Legislature, 1852 | |
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| Virginians React | |
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| Newspaper Articles, 1852 | |
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| The Sectional Crisis: John Brown's Raid, True Womanhood, and the Alienation of North and South | |
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| A Plea from Massachusetts | |
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| Letter to Governor Wise, 1859 | |
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| The Virginia Governor's Response | |
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| Letter to Lydia Maria Child, 1859 | |
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| What Is a True Woman to Do? | |
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| Correspondence, 1859 | |
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| The Civil War: The Minds and Hearts of the Southern People | |
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| A Confederate Officer | |
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| Letters to Eleanor Smith Nugent, 1861-1865 | |
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| A Confederate Soldier | |
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| Journal Entries, 1862 and 1863 | |
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| A Young Woman in Occupied New Orleans | |
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| From Her Diary, 1862 | |
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| A Unionist in Tennessee | |
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| Explaining Union Support from the Border States, 1862 | |
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| Black Loyalists in Louisiana | |
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| Letters and Petition, 1862, 1864 | |
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| Reconstruction: Black Freedom and the Ku Klux Klan | |
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| The Rise of the Klan | |
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| Testimony for the Joint Select Committee in Macon, Mississippi, 1871 | |
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| A Northern View | |
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| "The Ku-Klux Conspiracy," 1872 | |
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| Missionary Women and Black Education | |
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| From Seven Years among the Freedmen, 1890 | |
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| The Legacy of the Klan | |
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| "The Causes, Character, and Consequences of the Ku-Klux Organization," 1880 | |
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| Reconstruction: Black Freedom and the Ku Klux Klan | |
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| The Rise of the Klan | |
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| Testimony for the Joint Select Committee of Macon, Mississippi, 1871 | |
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| A Northern View | |
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| "The Ku-Klux Conspiracy," 1872 | |
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| Missionary Women and Black Education | |
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| From Seven Years among the Freedmen, 1890 | |
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| The Legacy of the Klan | |
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| "The Causes, Character, and Consequences of the Ku-Klux Organization," 1880 | |
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| Westward Expansion: The Texas Border Wars | |
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| Horse Thieves on the Mexican Border | |
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| Report on the Northern Frontier Question, 1875 | |
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| "In the Country of the Bad Man" | |
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| From A Woman's Reminiscences of Six Years in Camp with the Texas Rangers, 1928 | |
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| Buffalo Soldiers on the Border | |
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| Reports on the Solis Affair, 1875 | |
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| The Gilded Age: The Farmers' Alliance and Populism | |
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| What Did Farmers Want? | |
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| "Little" , Addresses to the Texas and Georgia Farmers' Alliances, 1888 and 1889 | |
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| An Economic Proposal | |
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| Committee on the Monetary System, Report, 1889 | |
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| The St. Louis Demands | |
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| The Farmer's Alliance and Industrial Union, Manifesto, 1889 | |
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| The Alliance and Southern Politics | |
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| The National Economist, the Richmond Exchange Reporter,and the Virginia Sun, Newspaper Articles, 1890-1892 | |
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| The Populist Program | |
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| The People's Party of America, Omaha Platform, 1892 | |
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| The 1890s: The New South and the "Nadir" of American Race Relations | |
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| The "Atlanta Compromise" | |
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| Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895 | |
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| Voices of Protest | |
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| Ida B. Wells and Alexander R. Manly, On Lynching, 1892 and 1898 | |
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| An Explosion of Violence | |
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| On Racial Violence in Wilmington, North Carolina, 1898 | |
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| A Plea for Justice | |
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| Address to the United States House of Representatives, 1901 | |
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| The Age of Industrialism: From Farm to Mill | |
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| Rural Life in Tennessee and Virginia | |
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| Oral History Interviews, 1939 | |
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| Moving to the Mills | |
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| "Why They Go to the Mills," 1907 | |
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| The Making of the Mill Community | |
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| Interview with Flossie Moore Durham, 1976 | |
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| The Progressive Era: Woman Suffrage and Progressivism in the South | |
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| A Woman's Place Is in Politics | |
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| Arguments for Woman Suffrage, 1912 and 1914 | |
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| Southern Arguments against Suffrage | |
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| Antisuffrage Leaflets, 1915 and c. 1919 | |
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| "The Pulse of the South" | |
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| The Southern Review, "How the South Really Feels about Woman Suffrage," 1920 | |
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| World War I: The Debate about Intervention | |
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| Public Opinion | |
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| Literary Digest, "American Sympathies in the War," 1914 | |
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| The Case for Preparedness | |
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| Arguments for Intervention, 1915 and 1916 | |
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| An Opponent of War | |
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| Speech before Congress, 1917 | |
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| The 1920s: Fundamentalism and The Scopes Trial | |
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| The Fundamentalist Case | |
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| From Hell and the High Schools, 1923 | |
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| The Scopes Trial | |
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| Outlook, "Evolution in Tennessee," 1925 | |
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| Surveying the Scene | |
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| "Behind the Scenes in Tennessee," 1925 | |
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| Fundamentalism's Legacy | |
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| Editorial, 1925 | |
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| The Great Depression: The New Deal and the New South | |
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| The Appeal of the Communist Party | |
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| From You Cannot Kill the Working Class, c. 1934 | |
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| Sharing the Wealth | |
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| "Every Man a King", 1934 | |
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| The Tennessee Valley Authority and Grass-Roots Democracy | |
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| From A Foreigner Looks at the TVA, 1937 | |
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| World War II: "The War that Brought Old Dixie Down"? | |
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| Serving in a Jim Crow Army | |
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| Letters to the Editor, 1943 and 1944 | |
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| A Liberating Experience for African Americans | |
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| On How the War's Impact on Medgar Evers, 1967 | |
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| The Impact on Women | |
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| Recollections of War jobs, 1943-on | |
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| Structural Changes in the South | |
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| "Gold Rush Down South," 1943 | |
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| The McCarthy Era: Frank Porter Graham and the Ordeal of Southern Liberalism | |
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| Dr. Frank Attacked | |
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| "Looking at Dr. Frank Graham's Record," 1948 | |
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| Frank Graham Defended | |
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| "In Fairness to a Great American" | |
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| The Fulton Lewis Broadcaset | |
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| Accusation and Response, 1949 | |
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| HUAC and Southern Liberalism | |
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| House Un-American Activities Committee , Report on Frank Graham, 1949 | |
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| The Civil Rights Movement: Murder in Mississippi | |
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| Opening the "Closed Society" | |
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| Interviews, 1970s | |
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| "Big Ambitions" | |
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| Letter to Anne Braden, 1964 | |
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| The Sovereignty Commission Investigates | |
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| Reports, 1964 | |
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| The Response of the White Community | |
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| From Witness in Philadelphia, 1977 | |
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| "Be Sick and Tired with Me" | |
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| Eulogy for James Chaney, 1964 | |
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| The Vietnam War: The South Divided | |
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| The War and Public Opinion | |
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| Oral History, 1990 | |
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| Civil Rights and Foreign Policy | |
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| "A Time to Break Silence," 1967 | |
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| Race Relations in the Armed Services | |
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| Oral Histories, 1981 and 1984 | |
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| Criticism of Protesters | |
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| Speeches in Louisiana and Alabama, 1969 | |
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| Student Protest and Community Response | |
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| "Concerned Students for Peace" and Washington, North Carolina, Residents, Letters to the Editor, 1970 | |
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| The 1970s: The ERA and the Rise of the Pro-Family Movement | |
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| The President Pledges His Support | |
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| Remarks on Signing Proclamation 4515, 1977 | |
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| ERA Supporters Speak Out | |
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| Statements in Favor of Ratification, 1977 | |
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| Southern Conservatives Fight the ERA | |
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| Statements against Ratification, 1971, 1975, and 1980 | |
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| Failures and Successes | |
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| Rosalyn Carter, Reflections on the Carter Administration's Record on Women's Rights, 1984 | |
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| Contemporary America: The New Immigration in South Florida | |
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| The Cuban Experience | |
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| Business Week, "How the Immigrants Made It in Miami" and "South Florida's Melting Pot Is about to Boil," 1971 and 1985 | |
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| Haitian Boat People | |
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| Accounts of Haitian Refugees, 1982 and 1984 | |
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| Assimilation and Conflict | |
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| "Black and Cuban American: Bias in Two Worlds," 1977 | |
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