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| Meeting Of Three Cultures | |
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| Marco Polo Recounts His Travels Through Asia (1324) | |
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| Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain (1494) | |
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| "Indians of the Rio Grande" (1528-1536) | |
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| Jacques Cartier: First Contact with the Indians (1534) | |
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| "Of the Island of Hispaniola" (1542) | |
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| from England's Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664) | |
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| Plaus: A Settlement in New Mexico (1599) | |
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| The Founding of St Augustine, 1565 | |
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| The Columbian Exchange (1590) | |
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| The Algonquian Peoples of the Atlantic Coast (1588) | |
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| A Spanish Priest Speculates on the Origins of the Indians (1590) | |
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| Colonizing the New World | |
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| The Lost Colony (1590) | |
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| Samuel de Champlain's Battle With the Iroquois, July 1609 | |
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| An Act Concerning Servants and Slaves | |
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| Reasons for the Plantation in New England (1629) | |
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| "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630) | |
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| The Taking of the Fort at Mystic: A Brief History of the Pequot War The Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1638) | |
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| A Jesuit Priest Describes New Amsterdam (1642) | |
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| The Importance of Tobacco (1660) | |
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| The Examination and Confession of Ann Foster at Salem Village (1692) | |
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| Onandogas and Cayugas: Iroquois Chiefs Address the Governors of New York and Virginia (1684) | |
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| The Stono Rebellion (1739) | |
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| The Passage of Indentured Servants (1750) | |
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| Colonial America | |
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| Navigation Act of September13, 1660 | |
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| Nathaniel Bacon's Challenge to William Berkeley and the Governor's Response (1676) | |
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| Early French Explorations of the Mississippi River (1673) | |
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| Edward Randolph Describes King Philip's War (1685) | |
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| Excerpt from Cotton Mather's "Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions" (1689) | |
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| William Penn's Charter of Privileges (1701) | |
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| Diary (1709) | |
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| Manners and Etiquette in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| "The Storm Arising in the West," George Washington Delivers a Warning to the French (1753) | |
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| The Closing of the Frontier (1763) | |
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| The Adventures of Daniel Boone (1769) | |
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| The African Slave Trade (1788) | |
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| The Middle Passage (1788) | |
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| Prelude to Revolution | |
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| John Peter Zenger and the Responsibility of the Press (1734) | |
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| Declaration of the Injured Frontier Inhabitants [of Pennsylvania] (1764) | |
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| Testimony Against the Stamp Act (1766) | |
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| "Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania" (1767) | |
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| from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1768) | |
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| The Boston "Massacre" or Victims of Circumstance? (1770) | |
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| John Andrews to William Barrell, Letter Regarding the Boston Tea Party (1773) | |
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| Address of the Inhabitants of Anson County to Governor Martin (1774) | |
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| "What Is an American?" (1782) | |
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| The American Revolution | |
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| "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, &c." (1751) | |
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| The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1763) | |
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| The Crisis Comes to a Head: April 19, 1775 | |
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| A Freelance Writer Urges His Readers To Use Common Sense (1776) | |
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| Abigail Adams and John Adams Letters | |
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| Abigail Adams Letter to Mercy Otis Warren | |
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| Petition of "A Grate Number of Blackes of the Province" to Governor Thomas Gage and the Members of the Massachusetts General Court (1774) | |
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| "Account of the Battle of Lexington" (1775) | |
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| "Original Rough Draught" of the Declaration of Independence (1776) | |
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| Rights of Women in an Independent Republic | |
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| The Rise of Partisan Warfare in the South (1778) | |
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| Forging a Constitution | |
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| Constitution of Pennsylvania (1776) | |
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| A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1780) | |
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| The Newburgh Address (1783) | |
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| Letter to George Washington (1786) | |
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| Travels in North America (1786) | |
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| Shays's Rebellion: Letters of Generals William Shepard and Benjamin Lincoln to Governor James Bowdoin of Massachusetts (1787) | |
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| Divergent Reactions to Shays's Rebellion | |
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| The "Distracting Question" in Philadelphia (1787) | |
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| Patrick Henry Speaks Against Ratification of the Constitution (1788) | |
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| Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791) | |
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| An Introductory Lecture To a Course of Law Lectures (1791) | |
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| Valedictory Oration (1792) | |
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| The Federalist Era | |
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| James Madison Defends the Constitution (1788) | |
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| "For the Independent Gazetteer" (1790) | |
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| Final Version of "An Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish a Bank" (1791) | |
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| Questions Concerning the Constitutionality of the National Bank (1791) | |
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| Opposing Visions for the New Nation (1791) | |
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| An African American Calls for an End to Slavery (1791) | |
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| Backcountry Turmoil Puts the New Government to the Test (1794) | |
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| George Washington, Farewell Address (1796) | |
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| The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) | |
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| Questions of Constitutionality and the Roots of Nullification (1798) | |
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| Reverend Peter Cartwright on Cane Ridge and the "New Lights" (1801) | |
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| Marbury v. Madison (1803) | |
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| Jefferson and the Republic | |
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| "Memoirs of a Monticello Slave," as Dictated to Charles Campbell by Isaac (1847) | |
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| "First Inaugural Address" (1801) | |
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| Margaret Bayard Smith Meets Thomas Jefferson (1801) | |
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| Constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase (1803) | |
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| The United States Navy and the Bombardment of Tripoli (1803) | |
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| A Matter of Honor or Vengeance? (1804) | |
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| "The Republican. No. II" (1804) | |
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| Sacagawea Interprets for Lewis and Clark (1804) | |
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| An "Uncommon Genius" Advocates Indian Unity (1809) | |
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| Indian Hostilities (1812) | |
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| The British Attack Baltimore (1814) | |
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| Report and Resolutions of the Hartford Convention (1814) | |
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| Advice to Politicians (1833) | |
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| Economic and Social Change | |
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| "The Western Country," Extracts from Letters Published in Niles' Weekly Register (1816) | |
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| The Cherokee Treaty of 1817 | |
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| The Case for the Erie Canal | |
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| John Marshall Affirms the Power of the Federal Government | |
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| Thomas Jefferson Reacts to the "Missouri Question" (1820) | |
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| The Monroe Doctrine and a Reaction (1823) | |
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| "Defense of the American System" (1832) | |
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| Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States through Foreign Immigration (1835) | |
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| The Harbinger, Female Workers of Lowell (1836) | |
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| Notions of the Americans (1840) | |
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| Resolutions of the Boston Carpenters' Strike (1845) | |
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| The Trials of a Slave Girl | |
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| Jacksonian Democracy | |
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| Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism (1823) | |
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| A "Corrupt Bargain" or Politics as Usual? (1824) | |
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| A Disaffected Mason Speaks Out Against the Order (1826) | |
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| The "Commoner" Takes Office (1828) | |
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| First Annual Message to Congress (1829) | |
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| "Memorial of the Cherokee Nation" (1830) | |
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| Veto of the Bank Bill (1832) | |
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| President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification (1832) | |
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| The Force Bill (1833) | |
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| "Life of Black Hawk" (1833) | |
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| A French Traveler Reports on American Society (1835) | |
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| Female Industry Association, from the New York Herald (1845) | |
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| Reforming the Nation | |
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| Joshua and Sally Wilson Letters to George Wilson (1823) | |
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| Six Sermons on Intemperance (1828) | |
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| "Early Habits of Industry," The Mother's Magazine (1834) | |
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| "What a Revival of Religion Is" (1835) | |
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| Temperance and the Washingtonians (1836) | |
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| A Lowell Mill Girl Tells Her Story (1836) | |
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| "Petition of the Catholics of New York" (1840) | |
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| "Self-Reliance" (1841) | |
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| Letter to Mary Matilda Norcom (1846) | |
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| Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York (1848) | |
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| Horace Mann on Education and National Welfare | |
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| John Humphrey Noyes and Bible Communism (1845 and 1849) | |
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| Address to the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio (1851) | |
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| Manifest Destiny | |
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| The Treaties of Velasco (May 14, 1836) | |
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| The Aroostook War (1839) | |
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| Across the Plains With Catherine Sager Pringle in 1844 | |
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| "The Great Nation of Futurity" (1845) | |
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| Against the Mexican War (1847) | |
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| Oration (1854) | |
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| Antebellum South | |
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| State v. Boon (1801) | |
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| A Black Abolitionist Speaks Out (1829) | |
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| Confession (1831) | |
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| An Abolitionist Defends the Amistad Mutineers (1839) | |
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| "The Stability of the Union," (1850) | |
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| Narratives of Escaped Slaves (1855) | |
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| "The Blessings of Slavery" (1857) | |
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| The Sectional Crisis | |
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| from The Liberator (1831) | |
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| from Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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| National Convention of Colored People, Report on Abolition (1847) | |
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| A Dying Statesman Speaks out Against the Compromise of 1850 | |
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| Independence Day Speech (1852) | |
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| Kansas Begins to Bleed (1856) | |
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| A White Southerner Speaks Out Against Slavery (1857) | |
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| Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) | |
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| "A House Divided" (1858) | |
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| The Civil War | |
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| Address to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America (1861) | |
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| The "Cornerstone Speech" (1861) | |
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| A Confederate Lady's Diary (1861) | |
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| Why They Fought (1861) | |
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| A Confederate General Assesses First Bull Run (1861) | |
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| Three Letters from the Civil War Front (1862) | |
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| Medical Life at the Battlefield (1862) | |
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| Letter to President Lincoln (1863) | |
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| Gettysburg Address (1863) | |
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| Passages from a Journal (1863) | |
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| A Firsthand Account of the New York Draft Riots (1863) | |
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| Reminiscences of an Army Laundress (1902) | |
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| General William Tecumseh Sherman on War (1864) | |
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| Reconstruction | |
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| Report on the Condition of the South (1865) | |
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| Plain Counsels for Freedmen (1865) | |
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| Mississippi Black Code (1865) | |
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| Report on Land Reform in the South Carolina Islands (1865, 1866) | |
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| The Memphis Riot (1866) | |
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| The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) | |
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| Letter on Ku Klux Klan Activities (1870) | |
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| The Nation, "The State of the South" (1872) | |
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| Susan B. Anthony and the "New Departure" for Women (1873) | |
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| Testimony Before U.S. Senate Regarding the Agricultural Labor Force in the South (1880) | |
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| A Sharecrop Contract (1882) | |
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| New South, Expanding West | |
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| Six Months in the Gold Mines (1850) | |
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| Diary of Westward Travel (1852) | |
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| An Overland Journey (1860) | |
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| Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest (1874) | |
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| from A Century of Dishonor (1881) | |
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| Congressional Report on Indian Affairs (1887) | |
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| Tragedy at Wounded Knee (1890) | |
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| Report on Wounded Knee Massacre and the Decrease in Indian Land Acreage (1891) | |
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| The Omaha Platform of the Populist Party (1892) | |
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| From Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | |
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| from "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others" (1903) | |
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| Industrializing America | |
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| "The Life of the Street Rats" (1872) | |
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| Progress and Poverty (1879) | |
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| The Gilded Age (1880) | |
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| from Coney Island Frolics (1883) | |
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| Address by George Engel, Condemned Haymarket Anarchist (1886) | |
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| from Looking Backward (1888) | |
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| The Assassination of President Garfield (1889) | |
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| from A Red Record (1895) | |
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| Atlanta Exposition Address (1895) | |
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| United States Sanitary Commission, Sketch of Its Purposes (1864) | |
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| from The Shame of the Cities (1904) | |
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| Etiquette for the Upper Classes (1919) | |
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| Scientific Management (1919) | |
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| Immigrant and Urban Nation | |
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| Memorial of the Chinese Six Companies to U.S. Grant, President of the United States (1876) | |
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| Plain Facts for Old and Young (1884) | |
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| Anglo-Saxon Culture Under Siege (1885) | |
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| How the Other Half Lives (1890) | |
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| The People's Party Platform (1892) | |
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| The Secret Oath of the American Protective Association (1893) | |
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| The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century (1899) | |
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| Life of a Chinese Immigrant (1903) | |
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| from The Shame of the Cities (1904) | |
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| from Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (1905) | |
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| From The Bitter Cry of Children (1906) | |
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| The Promised Land (1912) | |
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| America Around the Globe | |
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| from Our Country (1885) | |
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| "The Business World vs. the Politicians" (1895) | |
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| "The March of the Flag" (1898) | |
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| The Spanish-American War (1898) | |
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| "Decision on the Philippines" (1900) | |
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| The Boxer Rebellion (1900) | |
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| Third Annual Message to Congress (1903) | |
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| "Incident in the Philippines" (1924) | |
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| The Progressive Era | |
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| "A Piece-Rate System" (1896) | |
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| What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883) | |
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| "The Outlook for Socialism in the United States" (1900) | |
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| Platform Adopted by the National Negro Committee (1909) | |
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| Chairman of the National Legislative Committee of the American | |
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| Testimony Before Congress (1910) | |
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| Twenty Years at Hull House (1910) | |
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| from The New Nationalism (1910) | |
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| "Birmingham under the Commission Plan" (1911) | |
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| "Getting Out the Vote" (1911) | |
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| Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It (1913) | |
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| from The New Freedom (1913) | |
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| Progressive Democracy (1914) | |
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| World War One | |
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| The Great War Boy Scouts of America from, "Boy Scouts Support the War Effort" (1917) | |
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| Letters from the Great Migration (1917) | |
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| American Troops in the Trenches (1918) | |
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| A "Doughboy" Describes the Fighting Front (1918) | |
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| "The Treatment of German-Americans" (1918) | |
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| An Official Report Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918) | |
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| Campaign Speech at Boston (1920) | |
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| "Big Ideas from Big Business" (1921) | |
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| The 1920s and Modern America | |
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| "Address of Welcome to the Men Who Have Returned from the Battlefront" (1919) | |
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| The Sahara of the Bozart (1920) | |
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| National Origins Quota Act, 1924 | |
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| Advertisements (1925, 1927) | |
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| Family Planning 1926 | |
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| Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Court Statement (1927) | |
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| Depression and New Deal | |
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| Speech at New York City (1932) | |
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| FDR's First Inauguration Speech (1932) | |
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| Speech at San Francisco (1932) | |
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| Share the Wealth The Victims of the Ku Klux Klan (1935) | |
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| "A Third Party" (1936) | |
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| Letter to President Roosevelt (1938) | |
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| World War Two | |
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| Letter to President Roosevelt (1939) | |
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| Radio Address (1941) | |
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| The Four Freedoms (1941) | |
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| Annual Message to Congress (1941) | |
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| "Why Should We March?" (1942) | |
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| Japanese Relocation Order, February 19, 1942 | |
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| "Out of Their Mouths" (1942) | |
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| Cold War | |
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| "Long Telegram" (1946) | |
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| "The Unfinished Work" (1946) | |
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| The Marshall Plan (1947) | |
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| Containment (1947) | |
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| The Truman Doctrine (1947) | |
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| Testimony Before the House Un-American Activities Committee (1947) | |
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| from Speech Delivered to the Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia (1950) | |
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| National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 (1950) | |
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| Senator Joseph McCarthy's telegram to President Truman following the 'Wheeling [W. Va.] Speech,' February 11, 1950 | |
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| Consensus and Conformity | |
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| The Kinsey Report (1948) | |
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| Brown v. Board of Education(1954) | |
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| "Young Mother" (1956) | |
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| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Statement of Purpose (1960) | |
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| The Changing Liberal State | |
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| Decision Not to Intervene at Dien Bien Phu (1954) | |
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| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Memorandum (1961) | |
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| Cuban Missile Address (1962) | |
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| Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962) | |
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| Address at the March on Washington (1963) | |
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| The Civil Rights Act of 1964 | |
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| The Tonkin Gulf Incident (1964) | |
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| Commencement Address at Howard University (1965) | |
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| Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton, from Black Power (1967) | |
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| "The Situation in Watts Today" (1967) | |
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| Vietnamization (1969) | |
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| The Struggle For Social Change | |
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| Inaugural Address (1961) | |
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| The Feminist Mystique (1963) | |
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| The War on Poverty (1964) | |
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| National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose (1966) | |
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| The Gay Liberation Front, Come Out (1970) | |
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| Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971) | |
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| Roe v. Wade (1973) | |
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| Southie Won't Go (1975) | |
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| The "Malaise" Speech (1979) | |
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| America at the Millennium | |
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| House Judiciary Committee, Conclusion on Impeachment Resolution (1974) | |
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| First Inaugural Address (1981) | |
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| Speech to the House of Commons (1982) | |
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| Address to the National Association of Evangelicals (1983) | |
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| "My Case for Reagan" (1984) | |
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| The Supply-Side Revolution (1984) | |
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| Speech to the American Security Council Foundation (1985) | |
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| "The New Class" (1985) | |
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| Address to the Nation Announcing Allied Military Action in the Persian Gulf (1991) | |
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