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| New World Encounters | |
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| New World Experiments: England's Seventeenth-Century Colonies | |
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| Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society | |
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| Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America | |
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| The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763 1783 | |
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| The Republican Experiment | |
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| Democracy and Dissent: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788 1800 | |
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| Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision | |
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| Nation Building and Nationalism | |
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| The Triumph of White Men's Democracy | |
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| Slaves and Masters | |
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| The Pursuit of Perfection | |
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| An Age of Expansionism | |
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| The Sectional Crisis | |
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| Secession and the Civil War | |
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| The Agony of Reconstruction | |
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| New World Encounters | |
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| Clash of Cultures: Interpreting Murder in Early Maryland | |
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| Native American Histories before Conquest | |
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| The Environmental Challenge: Food, Climate, and Culture | |
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| Mysterious Disappearances | |
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| Aztec Dominance | |
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| Eastern Woodland Cultures | |
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| A World Transformed | |
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| Cultural Negotiations | |
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| Threats to Survival: Trade and Disease | |
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| West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies | |
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| Europe on the Eve of Conquest | |
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| Building New Nation States | |
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| Imagining a New World | |
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| Myths and Reality | |
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| The Conquistadores: Faith and Greed | |
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| From Plunder to Settlement | |
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| The French Claim Canada | |
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| The English Enter the Competition | |
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| Birth of English Protestantism | |
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| Militant Protestantism | |
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| Woman in Power | |
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| Religion, War, and Nationalism | |
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| An Unpromising Beginning: Mystery at Roanoke | |
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| Conclusion: Campaign to Sell America | |
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| The Columbian Exchange and the Global Environment: Ecological Revolution | |
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| New World Experiments: England's Seventeenth-Century Colonies | |
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| Profit and Piety: Competing Visions for English Settlement | |
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| Breaking Away | |
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| The Chesapeake: Dreams of Wealth | |
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| Entrepreneurs in Virginia | |
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| Spinning Out of Control | |
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| "Stinking Weed" | |
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| Time of Reckoning | |
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| Corruption and Reform | |
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| Maryland: A Troubled Refuge for Catholics | |
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| Reforming England in America | |
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| "The Great Migration" | |
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| "A City on a Hill" | |
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| Limits of Religious Dissent | |
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| Mobility and Division | |
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| Diversity in the Middle Colonies | |
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| Anglo-Dutch Rivalry on the Hudson | |
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| Confusion in New Jersey | |
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| Quakers in America | |
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| Quaker Beliefs and Practice | |
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| Penn's "Holy Experiment" | |
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| Settling Pennsylvania | |
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| Planting the Carolinas | |
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| Proprietors of the Carolinas | |
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| The Barbadian Connection | |
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| The Founding of Georgia | |
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| Conclusion: Living with Diversity | |
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| The Children Who Refused to Come Home: Captivity and Conversion | |
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| Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society | |
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| Families in an Atlantic Empire | |
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| Sources of Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Immigrant Families and New Social Order | |
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| Commonwealth of Families | |
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| Women's Lives in Puritan New England | |
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| Social Hierarchy in New England | |
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| The Challenge of the Chesapeake Environment | |
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| Family Life at Risk | |
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| The Structure of Planter Society | |
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| Race and Freedom in British America | |
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| Roots of Slavery | |
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| Constructing African American Identities | |
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| Rise of a Commercial Empire | |
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| Response to Economic Competition | |
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| Regulating Colonial Trade | |
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| Colonial Factions Spark Political Revolt, 1676-1691 | |
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| Civil War in Virginia: Bacon's Rebellion | |
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| The Glorious Revolution in the Bay Colony | |
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| Contagion of Witchcraft | |
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| The Glorious Revolution in New York and Maryland | |
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| Conclusion: Local Aspirations Within an Atlantic Empire | |
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| Anthony Johnson: A Free Black Planter on Pungoteague | |
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| Creek Witches and the Law: A Problem of Evidence in 1692 | |
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| Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America | |
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| Constructing an Anglo-American Identity: The Journal of William Byrd | |
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| Growth and Diversity | |
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| Scots-Irish Flee English Oppression | |
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| Germans Search for a Better Life | |
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| Convict Settlers | |
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| Native Americans Stake Out a Middle Ground | |
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| Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century | |
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| Conquering the Northern Frontier | |
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| Peoples of the Spanish Borderlands | |
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| The Impact of European Ideas on American Culture | |
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| Provincial Cities | |
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| Ben Franklin and American Enlightenment | |
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| Economic Transformation | |
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| Birth of a Consumer Society | |
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| Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies | |
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| The Great Awakening | |
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| The Voice of Evangelical Religion | |
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| Clash of Political Cultures | |
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| The English Constitution | |
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| The Reality of British Politics | |
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| Governing the Colonies: The American Experience | |
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| Colonial Assemblies | |
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| Century of Imperial War | |
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| King William's and Queen Anne's Wars | |
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| King George's War and Its Aftermath | |
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| Albany Congress and Braddock's Defeat | |
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| Seven Years'War | |
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| Perceptions of War | |
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| Conclusion: Rule Britannia? | |
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| Conquest by Other Means: The Pennsylvania Walking | |
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| Purchase | |
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| The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763-1783 | |
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| Moment of Decision: Commitment and Sacrifice | |
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| Structure of Colonial Society | |
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| Breakdown of Political Trust | |
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| No Taxation Without Representation: The American | |
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| Perspective Ideas About Power and Virtue | |
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| Eroding the Bonds of Empire | |
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| Paying Off the National Debt | |
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| Popular Protest | |
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| Failed Attempts to Save the Empire | |
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| Fueling the Crisis | |
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| Fatal Show of Force | |
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| Last Days of Imperial Rule, 1770-1773 | |
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| The Final Provocation: The Boston Tea Party | |
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| Steps Toward Independence | |
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| Shots Heard Around the World | |
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| Beginning "The World Over Again" | |
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| Fighting for Independence | |
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| Building a Professional Army | |
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| Testing the American Will | |
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| "Times That Try Men's Souls" | |
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| Victory in a Year of Defeat | |
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| The French Alliance | |
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| The Final Campaign | |
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| The Loyalist Dilemma | |
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| Winning the Peace | |
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| Conclusion: Preserving Independence | |
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| Popular Resistance: Religion and Rebellion | |
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| The Republican Experiment | |
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| A New Political Morality | |
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| Defining Republican Culture | |
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| Living in the Shadow of Revolution | |
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| Social and Political Reform | |
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| African Americans in the New Republic | |
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| The Challenge of Women's Rights | |
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| The States: Experiments in Republicanism | |
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| Blueprints for State Government | |
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| Natural Rights and the State Constitutions | |
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| Power to the People | |
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| Stumbling Toward a New National Government | |
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| Articles of Confederation | |
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| Western Land: Key to the First Constitution | |
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| Northwest Ordinance: The Confederation's Major | |
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| Achievement Strengthening Federal Authority | |
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| The Nationalist Critique | |
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| Diplomatic Humiliation | |
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| "Have We Fought for This?" | |
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| The Genius of James Madison | |
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| Constitutional Reform | |
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| The Philadelphia Convention | |
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| Inventing a Federal Republic | |
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| Compromise Saves the Convention | |
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| Compromising on Slavery | |
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| The Last Details | |
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| We, the People | |
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| Whose Constitution? Struggle for Ratification | |
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| Federalists and Antifederalists | |
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| Adding the Bill of Rights | |
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| Conclusion: Success Depends on the People | |
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| The Elusive Constitution: Search for Original Intent | |
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| Democracy and Dissent: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788-1800 | |
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| Force of Public Opinion | |
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| Principle and Pragmatism: Establishing a New Government | |
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| Conflicting Visions: Jefferson and Hamilton | |
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| Hamilton's Plan for Prosperity and Security | |
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| Funding and Assumption | |
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| Interpreting the Constitution: The Bank Controversy | |
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| Setback for Hamilton | |
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| Charges of Treason: The Battle over Foreign Affairs | |
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| The Peril of Neutrality | |
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| Jay's Treaty Sparks Domestic Unrest | |
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| Pushing the Native Americans Aside | |
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| Popular Political Culture | |
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| Informing the Public: News and Politics | |
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| Whiskey Rebellion: Charges of Republican Conspiracy | |
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| Washington's Farewell | |
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| The Adams Presidency | |
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| The XYZ Affair and Domestic Politics | |
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| Crushing Political Dissent | |
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| Silencing Political Opposition: The Alien and Sedition Acts | |
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| Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions | |
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| Adams's Finest Hour | |
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| The Peaceful Revolution: The Election of 1800 | |
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| |
| Conclusion: Danger of Political Extremism | |
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| Defense of Superiority: The Impact of Nationalism on | |
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| Perceptions of the Environment | |
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| Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision | |
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| Limits of Equality | |
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| Regional Identities in a New Republic | |
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| |
| Westward the Course of Empire | |
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| |
| Native American Resistance | |
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| |
| Commercial Life in the Cities | |
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| |
| Jefferson as President | |
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| Jeffersonian Reforms | |
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| The Louisiana Purchase | |
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| The Lewis and Clark Expedition | |
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| Conflict with the Barbary States | |
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| |
| Jefferson's Critics | |
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| Attack on the Judges | |
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| Politics of Desperation | |
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| Murder and Conspiracy: The Curious Career of Aaron Burr | |
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| |
| The Slave Trade | |
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| Embarrassments Overseas | |
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| Embargo Divides the Nation | |
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| |
| A New Administration Goes to War | |
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| Fumbling Toward Conflict | |
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| The Strange War of 1812 | |
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| Hartford Convention: The Demise of the Federalists | |
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| Treaty of Ghent Ends the War | |
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| |
| Conclusion: Republican Legacy | |
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| Barbary Pirates and American Captives: The Nation's First | |
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| Hostage Crisis | |
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| Aaron Burr: The Vice President Tried for Treason | |
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| Nation Building and Nationalism | |
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| |
| A Revolutionary War Hero Revisits America in 1824 | |
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| Expansion and Migration | |
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| Extending the Boundaries | |
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| Native American Societies Under Pressure | |
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| Settlement to the Mississippi | |
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| The People and Culture of the Frontier | |
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| A Revolution in Transportation | |
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| Roads and Steamboats | |
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| The Canal Boom | |
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| |
| Emergence of a Market Economy | |
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| The Beginning of Commercial Agriculture | |
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| Commerce and Banking | |
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| Early Industrialism | |
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| The Growth of Cities | |
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| The Politics of Nation Building After the War of 1812 | |
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| The Republicans in Power | |
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| Monroe as President | |
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| The Missouri Compromise | |
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| Postwar Nationalism and the Supreme Court | |
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| Nationalism in Foreign Policy: The Monroe Doctrine | |
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| Conclusion: The End of the Era of Good Feeling | |
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| Confronting a New Environment | |
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| The Triumph of White Men's Democracy | |
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| Democratic Space: The New Hotels | |
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| Democracy in Theory and Practice | |
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| Democracy and Society | |
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| Democratic Culture | |
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| Democratic Political Institutions | |
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| Economic Issues | |
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| Labor Radicalism and Equal Rights | |
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| Jackson and the Politics of Democracy | |
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| The Election of 1824 and J. Q. Adams's Administration | |
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| Jackson Comes to Power | |
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| Indian Removal | |
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| The Nullification Crisis | |
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| The Bank War and the Second Party System | |
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| Mr. Biddle's Bank | |
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| The Bank Veto and the Election of 1832 | |
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| Killing the Bank | |
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| The Emergence of the Whigs | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Van Buren | |
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| Heyday of the Second Party System | |
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| Conclusion: Tocqueville's Wisdom | |
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| Racial Identity in a White Man's Democracy | |
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| Slaves and Masters | |
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| Nat Turner's Rebellion: A Turning Point in the Slave South | |
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| The Divided Society of the Old South | |
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| The World of Southern Blacks | |
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| Slaves' Daily Life and Labor | |
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| Slave Families, Kinship, and Community | |
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| African American Religion | |
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| Resistance and Rebellion | |
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| Free Blacks in the Old South | |
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| White Society in the Antebellum South | |
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| The Planters' World | |
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| Planters, Racism, and Paternalism | |
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| Small Slaveholders | |
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| Yeoman Farmers | |
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| A Closed Mind and a Closed Society | |
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| Slavery and the Southern Economy | |
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| The Internal Slave Trade | |
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| The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom | |
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| Slavery and Industrialization | |
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| The "Profitability" Issue | |
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| Conclusion: Worlds in Conflict | |
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| Harriet Jacobs and Maria Norcom: Women of Southern | |
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| Households | |
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| The Pursuit of Perfection | |
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| Redeeming the Middle Class | |
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| The Rise of Evangelicalism | |
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| The Second Great Awakening: The Frontier Phase | |
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| The Second Great Awakening in the North | |
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| From Revivalism to Reform | |
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| Domesticity and Changes in the American Family | |
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| Marriage for Love | |
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| The Cult of Domesticity | |
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| The Discovery of Childhood | |
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| Institutional Reform | |
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| The Extension of Education | |
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| Discovering the Asylum | |
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| Reform Turns Radical | |
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| Divisions in the Benevolent Empire | |
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| The Abolitionist Enterprise | |
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| Black Abolitionists | |
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| From Abolitionism to Women's Rights | |
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| Radical Ideas and Experiments | |
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| Conclusion: Counterpoint on Reform | |
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| The War Against "Demon Drink" | |
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| The Legal Rights of Married Women: Reforming the Law of | |
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| Coverture | |
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| An Age of Expansionism | |
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| The Spirit of Young America | |
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| Movement to the Far West | |
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| Borderlands of the 1830s | |
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| The Texas Revolution | |
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| The Republic of Texas | |
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| Trails of Trade and Settlement | |
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| The Mormon Trek | |
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| Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War | |
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| Tyler and Texas | |
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| The Triumph of Polk and Annexation | |
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| The Doctrine of Manifest Destiny | |
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| Polk and the Oregon Question | |
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| War with Mexico Settlement of the Mexican-American War | |
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| Internal Expansionism | |
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| The Triumph of the Railroad | |
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| The Industrial Revolution Takes Off | |
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| Mass Immigration Begins | |
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| The New Working Class | |
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| Conclusion: The Costs of Expansion | |
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| Hispanic America After 1848: A Case Study in | |
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| Majority Rule | |
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| The Sectional Crisis | |
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| Brooks Assaults Sumner in Congress | |
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| The Compromise of 1850 | |
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| The Problem of Slavery in the Mexican Cession | |
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| The Wilmot Proviso Launches the Free-Soil Movement Squatter Sovereignty and the Election of 1848 | |
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| Taylor Takes Charge | |
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| Forging a Compromise | |
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| Political Upheaval, 1852-1856 | |
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| The Party System in Crisis | |
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| The Kansas-Nebraska Act Raises a Storm | |
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| An Appeal to Nativism: The Know-Nothing Episode | |
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| Kansas and the Rise of the Republicans | |
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| Sectional Division in the Election of 1856 | |
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| The House Divided, 1857-1860 | |
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| Cultural Sectionalism | |
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| The Dred Scott Case The Lecompton Controversy | |
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| Debating the Morality of Slavery | |
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| The South's Crisis of Fear | |
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| The Election of 1860 | |
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| Conclusion: Explaining the Crisis | |
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| The Enigma of John Brown | |
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| The Case of Dred and Harriet Scott: Blurring the Borders of | |
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| Politics and Justice | |
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| Secession and the Civil War | |
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| The Emergence of Lincoln | |
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| The Storm Gathers | |
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| The Deep South Secedes | |
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| The Failure of Compromise And the War Came | |
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| Adjusting to Total War | |
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| Prospects, Plans, and Expectations | |
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| Mobilizing the Home Fronts | |
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| Political Leadership: Northern Success and Southern Failure | |
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| Early Campaigns and Battles | |
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| The Diplomatic Struggle | |
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| Fight to the Finish | |
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| The Coming of Emancipation | |
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| African Americans and the War | |
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| The Tide Turns | |
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| Last Stages of the Conflict | |
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| Effects of the War | |
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| Conclusion: An Organizational Revolution | |
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| Soldiering in the Civil War | |
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| The Agony of Reconstruction | |
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| Robert Smalls and Black Politicians During Reconstruction | |
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| |
| The President vs. Congress | |
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| Wartime Reconstruction | |
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| Andrew Johnson at the Helm | |
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| Congress Takes the Initiative | |
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| Congressional Reconstruction Plan Enacted | |
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| The Impeachment Crisis | |
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| Reconstructing Southern Society | |
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| Reorganizing Land and Labor | |
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| Black Codes: A New Name for Slavery? | |
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| Republican Rule in the South | |
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| Claiming Public and Private Rights | |
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| Retreat from Reconstruction | |
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| Rise of the Money Question | |
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| Final Efforts of Reconstruction | |
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| A Reign of Terror Against Blacks | |
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| Spoilsmen vs. Reformers | |
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| Reunion and the New South | |
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| The Compromise of 1877 | |
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| "Redeeming" a New South | |
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| The Rise of Jim Crow | |
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| Conclusion: Henry McNeal Turner and the "Unfinished | |
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| Revolution" | |
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| Changing Views of Reconstruction | |