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Founding the New Nation, c. 33,000 B.C.A.D. 1783 | |
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New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.A.D. 1769 | |
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The geology of the New World | |
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Native Americans before Columbus | |
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Europeans and Africans | |
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The ecological consequences of Columbus's discovery | |
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Spain builds a New World empire | |
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Makers of America: The Spanish Conquistadores | |
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The Planting of English America 15001733 | |
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England in the age of expansion | |
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The planting of Jamestown, 1607 | |
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The growth of Virginia and Maryland | |
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England in the Caribbean | |
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Settling the Carolinas and Georgia | |
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Makers of America: The Iroquois | |
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Settling the Northern Colonies 16191700 | |
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The Puritan faith Plymouth Colony, 1620 | |
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The Puritan commonwealth of Massachusetts | |
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Bay Colony, 1630 | |
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The expansion of New England | |
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New Netherland becomes New York | |
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Pennsylvania and the Middle Colonies | |
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Makers of America: The English | |
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Varying Viewpoints: Europeanizing | |
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America or Americanizing Europe? | |
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American Life in the Seventeenth Century 16071692 | |
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Life and labor in the Chesapeake region | |
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Indentured servants and Bacon's | |
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Rebellion in Virginia, 1676 | |
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Slavery and African-American culture | |
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Families in New England | |
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The Salem witchcraft trials, 1692 | |
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The changing New England way of life | |
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Makers of America: From African to African-American | |
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Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 17001775 | |
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Population growth and ethnic diversity | |
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Colonial society and economy | |
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The Atlantic economy | |
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The Great Awakening of the 1730s | |
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Education and culture Political patterns | |
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Makers of America: The Scots-Irish | |
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Varying Viewpoints: Colonial America: Communities of Conflict or Consensus? | |
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The Duel for North America 16081763 | |
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New France Anglo-French colonial rivalries | |
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The French and Indian War, 17541763 | |
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The ousting of France from North America, 1763 | |
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The consequences of war Makers of America: The French | |
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The Road to Revolution 17631775 | |
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The merits and menace of mercantilism | |
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The Stamp Act crisis, 1765 | |
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The Townshend Acts, 1767 | |
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The Boston Tea Party, 1773 | |
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The Intolerable Acts and the Continental Congress, 1774 | |
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Lexington, Concord, and the gathering clouds of war, 1775 | |
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Varying Viewpoints: Whose Revolution? | |
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America Secedes from the Empire 17751783 | |
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Early skirmishes, 1775 American "republicanism" | |
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The Declaration of Independence, 1776 | |
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Patriots and Loyalists | |
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The fighting fronts | |
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The French alliance, 1778 Yorktown, 1781 | |
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The Peace of Paris, 1783 | |
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Makers of America: The Loyalists | |
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Building the New Nation 17761860 | |
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The Confederation and the Constitution 17761790 | |
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Changing political sentiments | |
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Economic troubles | |
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The Articles of Confederation, 17811788 | |
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The Northwest Odinance, 1787 Shays's Rebellion, 1786 | |
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The Constitutional Convention, 1787 | |
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Ratifying the Constitution, 17871790 | |
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Varying Viewpoints: The Constitution: Revolutionary or Counterrevolutionary? | |
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Launching the New Ship of State 17891800 | |
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Problems of the young Republic The first presidency, 17891793 | |
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The Bill of Rights, 1791 | |
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Hamilton's economic policies | |
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The emergence of political parties | |
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The impact of the French Revolution | |
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Jay's Treaty, 1794 | |
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President Adams keeps the peace | |
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The Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798 | |
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The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, 17981799 | |
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Federalists versus Republicans | |
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The Triumphs and Travails of Jeffersonian Democracy 18001812 | |
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The "Revolution of 1800" | |
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The Jefferson presidency John Marshall and the Supreme Court | |
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The Louisiana Purchase, 1803 | |
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The Embargo, 18071809 | |
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Napoleon manipulates | |
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Madison Battle with the Shawnees | |
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A declaration of war 12 | |
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The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism 18121824 | |
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Invasion of Canada, 1812 | |
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The war on land and sea | |
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The Treaty of Ghent, 1814 | |
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The Hartford Convention, 18141815 | |
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A new national identity | |
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The "American System" | |
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James Monroe and the Era of Good Feelings Westward expansion | |
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The Missouri Compromise, 1820 | |
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The Supreme Court under John Marshall Canada and Florida | |
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The Monroe Doctrine, 1823 | |
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Makers of America: Settlers of the Old Northwest | |
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The Rise of a Mass Democracy 18241840 | |
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The "corrupt bargain" of 1824 | |
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President John Quincy Adams, 18251829 | |
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The triumph of Andrew Jackson, 1828 | |
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The "Tariff of Abominations," 1828 | |
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The spoils system | |
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The South Carolina nullification crisis, 18321833 | |
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Indian removal Jackson's war on the Bank of the United States | |
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The emergence of the Whig Party, 1836 | |
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Martin Van Buren and the depression of 1837 | |
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The Texas revolution William Henry | |
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Harrison's "log cabin" campaign, 1840 | |
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The establishment of the two-party system | |
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Makers of America: Mexican or Texican? | |
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Varying Viewpoints: What Was Jacksonian Democracy? | |
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Forging the National Economy 17901860 | |
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The westward movement Irish and German immigrants | |
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Nativism and assimilation | |
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The coming of the factory system | |
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Women and the economy | |
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The ripening of commercial agriculture | |
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The transportation revolution | |
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Overseas trade and communication | |
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Makers of America: The Irish Makers of America: The Germans | |
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The Ferment of Reform and Culture 17901860 | |
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Religious revivals | |
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The Mormons Educational advances | |
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The roots of reform Women's roles and women's rights | |
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Utopian experiments | |
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A national literature Makers of America: The Oneida Community | |
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Varying Viewpoints: Reform: Who? What? How? and Why? | |
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Testing the New Nation 18201877 | |
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The South and the Slavery Controversy 17931860 | |
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The economy of the Cotton Kingdom | |
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Poor whites and free blacks | |
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The plantation system | |
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The human face of the "peculiar institution" | |
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The abolitionist crusade | |
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Southern and northern responses to abolitionism | |
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Varying Viewpoints: What Was the True Nature of Slavery? | |
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Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 18411848 | |
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"Tyler Too" becomes President, 1841 | |
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The annexation of Texas, 1845 | |
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Oregon and California James K. Polk, the "dark horse" of 1844 | |
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War with Mexico, 18461848 | |
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Makers of America: The Californios | |
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Renewing the Sectional Struggle 18481854 | |
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"Popular sovereignty" | |
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The Compromise of 1850 | |
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The inflammatory Fugitive Slave | |
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Law President Pierce and expansion, 18531857 | |
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Senator Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 | |
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Drifting Toward Disunion 18541861 | |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin and the spread of abolitionist sentiment in the North | |
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The contest for Kansas | |
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The election of James Buchanan, 1856 | |
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The Dred Scott case, 1857 | |
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The Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858 | |
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, 1859 | |
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Lincoln and Republican victory, 1860 | |
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Secession Varying Viewpoints: The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible? | |
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Girding for War: The North and the South 18611865 | |
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The attack on Fort Sumter, April 1861 | |
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The crucial Border States | |
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The balance of forces | |
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Diplomacy and the threat of European intervention | |
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Lincoln and civil liberties | |
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Men in uniform Wartime finance and economy | |
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Women and the war | |
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The fate of the South | |
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The Furnace of Civil War 18611865 | |
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Bull Run ends the "ninety-day war" | |
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The Peninsula campaign | |
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The Union wages total war | |
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The battle of Antietam | |
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The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 | |
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Black soldiers Confederate high tide at Gettysburg | |
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Politics in wartime Appomattox, 1865 | |
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The assassination of Lincoln, April 1865 | |
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The legacy of wa | |