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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction: Sources and Interpretations | |
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A Colonizing People | |
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Past Traces Brief Relation of the Journey to New France (1633)/ "Jesuit Observations on the 'Enslavement' of Native American Women" (1710) | |
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Reading "Imagining the Other: First Encounters" | |
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Past Traces Richard Frethorne's Letter Home (1623) | |
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Reading "Anthony Johnson: Patriarch on Pungoteague Creek" | |
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Past Traces "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630) | |
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Reading "Migrants and Motives: Religion and the Settlement of New England, 1630-1640" | |
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Past Traces The Stranger on Slave Recreation (1772) | |
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Reading "Patterns of Slave Resistance" | |
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Past Traces "Thoughts on Her Husband and Children" (1650) | |
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Reading "The Small Circle of Domestic Concerns" | |
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Past Traces "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741) | |
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Reading "American Awakener" | |
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A Revolutionary People | |
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Past Traces John Andrews to William Barrell on the Boston Tea Party (1773) | |
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Reading "George Robert Twelves Hewes: The Revolution and the Rise of Popular Politics" | |
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Past Traces "A Brief Narrative of the Ravages of the British and Hessians at Princeton" (1777) | |
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Reading "A 'Most Undisciplined, Profligate Crew': Protest and Defiance in the Continental Ranks, 1776-1783" | |
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Past Traces "On the Equality of the Sexes" (1790) | |
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Reading "Women in the American Revolution" | |
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Past Traces "Second Essay Opposing the Constitution" (1787) | |
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Reading "The Constitution and the Competing Political Cultures of Late-Eighteenth-Century America" | |
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Past Traces "Letter to Thomas Jefferson on the African American Intellect" (1791) | |
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Reading "Thomas Peters: Millwright and Deliverer" | |
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Past Traces Little Turtle on the Treaty of Greenville (1795)/Tecumseh on Land Cessions (1810) | |
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Reading "The Revolution in Indian Country" | |
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An Expanding People | |
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Past Traces The American Belisarius (c. 1790s) | |
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Reading "Culture and Cultivation: Agriculture and Society in Thoreau's Concord" | |
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Past Traces Resolutions of the Journeymen Carpenters/Resolutions of the Master Carpenters (1845) | |
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Reading "God and Workingmen: Popular Religion and the Formation of Philadelphia's Working Class, 1790-1830" | |
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Past Traces "An Idyll of Work" (1884) | |
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Reading "Women, Children, and the Uses of the Street: Class and Gender Conflict in New York City, 1850-1860" | |
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Past Traces The Stuart-Bennett Duel (1819) | |
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Reading "Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch": The Social Significance of Fighting in the Southern Backcountry | |
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Past Traces William Swain's Letter from the California Gold Fields (1850) | |
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Reading "No Boy's Play: Migration and Settlement in Gold Rush California" | |
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Past Traces "Reminiscences of an Army Laundress" (1902) | |
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Reading "Husbands and Wives: Southern Marriages During the Civil War" | |
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