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| Preface for Instructors | |
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| Where to Begin | |
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| The Collision of Cultures | |
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| In Defense of the Indians (c. 1550) | |
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| Letter from New Mexico (1599) | |
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| A Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1590) | |
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| The Jesuit Relations (1640) | |
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| The English-American: A New Survey of the West Indies (1648) | |
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| Britain and its Colonies | |
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| The Generall Historie (1624) | |
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| An Indentured Servant's Letter Home (1623) | |
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| Bacon's Manifesto (1676) | |
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| General Observations and Model of Christian Charity (1629-30) | |
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| The Massachusetts Bay Colony Case against Anne Hutchinson (1637) | |
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| The Frame of Government and Laws Agreed upon in England (1682) | |
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| Colonial Ways of Life | |
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| A Captivity Narrative (1676) | |
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| Accounts of the Salem Witchcraft Trials (1693) | |
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| Articles of Belief (1728) | |
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| Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion (1743) | |
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| Letters from South Carolina (1740-42, 1760-61) | |
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| The Way to Wealth (1757) | |
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| Memoirs of an Indentured Servant (1743) | |
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| Ads for Runaway Servants and Slaves (1733-72) | |
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| From Colonies to States | |
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| The Second Treatise on Civil Government (1689) | |
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| Representation of Mr. Byrd Concerning Proprietary Governments (1699) | |
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| The Albany Plan of Union (1754) | |
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| Letters about War and Trade (1760) | |
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| Declaration of Rights and Grievances of the Colonies (1765) | |
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| Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767-68) | |
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| Common Sense (1776) | |
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| Plain Truth (1776) | |
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| Draft of the Declaration of Independence (1776) | |
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| The American Revolution | |
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| Military Journal of the American Revolution (1775-77) | |
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| An Address to General St. Clair's Brigade (1776) | |
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| On the Death of General Wooster (1778) | |
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| Petition to the Assembly of Pennsylvania against the Slave Trade (March 1780) | |
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| Massachusetts Bill of Rights (1780) | |
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| Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty (1786) | |
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| The Articles of Confederation (Ratified 1781) | |
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| Family Letters on Revolutionary Matters (1776-83) | |
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| Shaping a Federal Union | |
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| A Proclamation of Shaysite Grievances (1786) | |
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| Letters about Shays's Rebellion (1786) | |
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| Debates on Slavery (1787) | |
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| Constitution of the United States (1787) | |
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| Arguments against Ratification at the Virginia Convention (1788) | |
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| The Federalist Papers, No. 45 (1788) | |
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| The Federalist Era | |
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| A Dissertation on the Manner of Acquiring the Character and Privileges of a Citizen of the United States (1789) | |
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| Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) | |
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| Farewell Address (1796) | |
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| Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) | |
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| Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798 and 1799) | |
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| The Early Republic | |
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| First Inaugural Address (1801) | |
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| Marbury v. Madison (1803) | |
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| Reflections on the Cession of Louisiana to the United States (1803) | |
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| Journals of Exploration (1804-05) | |
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| The Olive Branch (1818 edition) | |
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| The Dynamics of Growth | |
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| The Ohio (1830s) | |
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| The Lowell Offering (1845) | |
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| Letters Home to Germany (1849-50s) | |
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| The Irish in America (1867) | |
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| Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States (1835) | |
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| Nationalism and Sectionalism | |
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| Report of Florida Expedition (1818) | |
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| Observations on Jackson and the Spanish Florida Situation (1818-19) | |
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| Reflections on the Missouri Question (1820) | |
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| Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829) | |
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| McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) | |
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| the Monroe Doctrine (1823) | |
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| On the Election, the Court, and Improvements (1823) | |
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| The Jacksonian Era | |
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| An Address to the Citizens of New-York (1831) | |
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| South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification (1832) | |
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| The President's Nullification Proclamation (1832) | |
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| A Letter to Countess de Tocqueville (1831) | |
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| The Chief's Annual Message (1831) | |
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| Worcester v. Georgia (1832) | |
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| Interpreting Visual Sources: Picturing Development Versus Nature | |
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| Lockport-Erie Canal | |
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| View of the Railroad to Utica (taken at Little Falls) | |
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| Passenger Pigeon | |
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| American Bison | |
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| Progress | |
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| The Old South | |
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| Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) | |
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| Letters from "Your Servant" (1847) | |
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| Propositions Defining Slavery and Emancipation (1833) | |
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| Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society (1833) | |
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| The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Northern Abolitionists (1836) | |
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| Prejudices against People of Color (1836) | |
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| Religion, Romanticism, and Reform | |
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| Lectures on Revivals of Religion (1835, with 1868 revisions) | |
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| Walden (1854) | |
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| Moral and Religious Education (1848) | |
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| Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) | |
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| Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848) | |
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| Address to the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio (1851) | |
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| An Empire in the West | |
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| A Pioneer Woman's Westward Journey (1849) | |
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| Interesting from Minnesota (1849) | |
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| The President's War Message to Congress (11 May 1846) | |
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| Speech about the Mexican War (1847) | |
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| The Gathering Storm | |
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| The Fugitive Slave Law (1854) | |
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| The Democratic Platform (1856) | |
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| The Republican Platform (1856) | |
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| Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) | |
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| The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) | |
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| The Impending Crisis of the South (1857) | |
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| South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession and Declaration of Independence (1860) | |
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| Speech upon Leaving the Senate (January 1861) | |
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| The War of the Union | |
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| The Reasons for Our Troubles (1862) | |
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| Letters from a Confederate Officer (1862) | |
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| The Diary of a Union Soldier (1862) | |
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| Appomattox, Virginia (1865) | |
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| Women of the War (1866) | |
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| Interpreting Visual Sources: Picturing the Civil War | |
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| Yorktown Fortifications (1862) | |
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| Antietam/Sharpsburg (1862) | |
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| Fredericksburg (1862-63) | |
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| Gettysburg (1863) | |
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| Freedman's Camp (1865) | |
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| Reconstruction: North and South | |
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| The Late Convention of Colored Men (1865) | |
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| Black Codes of Mississippi (1865) | |
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| Letter to My Old Master (1865) | |
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| Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan (1868) | |
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| Klan Terrorism in South Carolina (1872) | |
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| Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association (1867) | |
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