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Preface | |
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Cultures in Conflict: Indian-European Encounters in the American South | |
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The Spanish and the Indians in "La Florida" | |
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Garcilasso de la Vega, The Inca, On Hernando de Soto's Expedition, 1605 | |
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Indians in Virginia | |
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Address to John Smith, 1608 | |
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The English in Virginia | |
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Description of Indian Life and Culture, 1612 | |
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The French on the Gulf Coast | |
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Journal Entries, 1699 | |
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Colonization: Religion and the Founding of Maryland | |
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Catholic Intentions | |
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Instructions to His Colonists, 1633 | |
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Jesuit Missionaries | |
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From the "Annual Letter of the English Province of the Society of Jesus," 1638 | |
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A Violent Confrontation | |
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Babylon's Fall, 1655 | |
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The Crisis of the Late Seventeenth Century: Social Tensions and Rebellion in Virginia | |
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The Servant's Experience | |
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"The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account of His Fourteen Years Transportation at Virginia in America," c. 1680 | |
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The Lawne's Creek Rising | |
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Evidence from the Surry County Deed Book and the Surry County Order Book, January 1673/74 | |
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Two Women View the Frontier | |
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Letters, 1676 | |
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Bacon's Rebellion | |
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"A True Narrative of the Late Rebellion in Virginia," 1677 | |
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The Eighteenth Century: Prosperity and the Planter Elite | |
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A Life of Leisure | |
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Entries from His Secret Diary, 1709 | |
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A Woman Planter in South Carolina | |
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Letters to her Children, to George Morly, and to Mrs. Evance, 1758 - 1760 | |
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A Plantation Owner's Difficulties | |
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Entries from His Diary, 1766 | |
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Pre-Revolutionary America: The Regulators and the Carolina Backcountry in Turmoil | |
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Pre-Revolutionary Turmoil: The North Carolina Regulators | |
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Letters to William Tryon, 1768 | |
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The Regulator Critique | |
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Letter to Harmon Husbands, 1769 | |
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A Regulator Perspective | |
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Introduction to A Fan for Fanning and a Touch-Stone to Tryon, 1771 | |
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The Hillsborough Riot | |
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Reports of the Riot, 1770 | |
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The Revolution: A Proposal for Arming Slaves | |
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The British Call Slaves to Arms | |
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Earl of Dunmore, Proclamation, 1775 | |
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A Patriot's "Scheme" | |
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Correspondence between a Slaveholder and His Son, 1776-1779 | |
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Extreme Measures for Difficult Times | |
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Letters, 1779 | |
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Defeated By a "Triple-Headed Monster" | |
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Correspondence, 1782 | |
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The Creation of the American Republic: Slavery and the Constitution | |
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Slavery and Representation | |
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Debates in the Federal Convention, June 11-July 12, 1787 | |
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The African Slave Trade | |
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Debates in the Federal Convention, August 21-25, 1787 | |
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A Southerner Opposes the Three-Fifths Clause | |
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"Genuine Information," 1788 | |
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Ratification | |
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Debates in South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina, 1788 | |
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The New Republic: The "Americanization" of New Orleans | |
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Explaining the French Decision | |
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Proclamation in the Name of the French Republic, to the Louisianians, 1803 | |
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Establishing a Government for Orleans Territory | |
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Correspondence, 1804 | |
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Fears for the Church in a Secular Republic | |
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The Ursulines of New Orleans and Thomas Jefferson Correspondence, 1804 | |
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Creoles Demand the Civil Law | |
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Legislative Council of the Territory of Orleans, Resolution, 1806 | |
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Changes in New Orleans Society | |
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Entries from His Diary, 1819 | |
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The Age of Jackson: The Removal of the Cherokee | |
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The Civilized State of the Cherokees | |
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Letter to Albert Gallatin, 1826 | |
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Disputing Georgia's Claim | |
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Annual Message to the Cherokee Nation, 1828 | |
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Justifying Removal | |
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Arguments for Removal, 1830 | |
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The Trail of Tears | |
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Letters, 1838 | |
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Antebellum Reform: Religion and Morality in the Debate over Slavery | |
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A Minister Defends Slavery | |
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The Biblical Justification for Slavery, 1822 | |
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Slavery Defended as Moral and Beneficial | |
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"Slavery Justified, by a Southerner," 1850 | |
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An "Expatriate" Urges Women to Oppose Slavery | |
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From "Appeal to the Christian Women of the South," 1836 | |
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A Former Slave Exposes Hypocrisy | |
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"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" 1852 | |
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The Texas Frontier | |
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Texas and the Union | |
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Address Delivered at Louisville, Kentucky, 1836 | |
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Going to Texas | |
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A Frontier Marriage, 1830s | |
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Life in Texas | |
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"Route across Eastern Texas," 1857 | |
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The Slave South: The Case of Jordan Hatcher | |
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Trial and Conviction | |
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Trial Record from the Case of Jordan Hatcher, 1852 | |
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Pleading for Justice | |
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Petitions for and against Commutation, 1852 | |
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The Commutation | |
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Messages to the Legislature, 1852 | |
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Virginians React | |
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Newspaper Articles, 1852 | |
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The Sectional Crisis: John Brown's Raid, True Womanhood, and the Alienation of North and South | |
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A Plea from Massachusetts | |
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Letter to Governor Wise, 1859 | |
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The Virginia Governor's Response | |
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Letter to Lydia Maria Child, 1859 | |
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What Is a True Woman to Do? | |
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Correspondence, 1859 | |
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The Civil War: The Minds and Hearts of the Southern People | |
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A Confederate Officer | |
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Letters to Eleanor Smith Nugent, 1861-1865 | |
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A Confederate Soldier | |
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Journal Entries, 1862 and 1863 | |
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A Young Woman in Occupied New Orleans | |
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From Her Diary, 1862 | |
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A Unionist in Tennessee | |
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Explaining Union Support from the Border States, 1862 | |
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Black Loyalists in Louisiana | |
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Letters and Petition, 1862, 1864 | |
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Reconstruction: Black Freedom and the Ku Klux Klan | |
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The Rise of the Klan | |
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Testimony for the Joint Select Committee in Macon, Mississippi, 1871 | |
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A Northern View | |
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"The Ku-Klux Conspiracy," 1872 | |
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Missionary Women and Black Education | |
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From Seven Years among the Freedmen, 1890 | |
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The Legacy of the Klan | |
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"The Causes, Character, and Consequences of the Ku-Klux Organization," 1880 | |
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Reconstruction: Black Freedom and the Ku Klux Klan | |
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The Rise of the Klan | |
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Testimony for the Joint Select Committee of Macon, Mississippi, 1871 | |
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A Northern View | |
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"The Ku-Klux Conspiracy," 1872 | |
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Missionary Women and Black Education | |
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From Seven Years among the Freedmen, 1890 | |
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The Legacy of the Klan | |
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"The Causes, Character, and Consequences of the Ku-Klux Organization," 1880 | |
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Westward Expansion: The Texas Border Wars | |
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Horse Thieves on the Mexican Border | |
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Report on the Northern Frontier Question, 1875 | |
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"In the Country of the Bad Man" | |
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From A Woman's Reminiscences of Six Years in Camp with the Texas Rangers, 1928 | |
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Buffalo Soldiers on the Border | |
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Reports on the Solis Affair, 1875 | |
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The Gilded Age: The Farmers' Alliance and Populism | |
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What Did Farmers Want? | |
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"Little" , Addresses to the Texas and Georgia Farmers' Alliances, 1888 and 1889 | |
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An Economic Proposal | |
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Committee on the Monetary System, Report, 1889 | |
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The St. Louis Demands | |
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The Farmer's Alliance and Industrial Union, Manifesto, 1889 | |
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The Alliance and Southern Politics | |
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The National Economist, the Richmond Exchange Reporter,and the Virginia Sun, Newspaper Articles, 1890-1892 | |
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The Populist Program | |
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The People's Party of America, Omaha Platform, 1892 | |
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The 1890s: The New South and the "Nadir" of American Race Relations | |
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The "Atlanta Compromise" | |
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Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895 | |
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Voices of Protest | |
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Ida B. Wells and Alexander R. Manly, On Lynching, 1892 and 1898 | |
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An Explosion of Violence | |
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On Racial Violence in Wilmington, North Carolina, 1898 | |
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A Plea for Justice | |
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Address to the United States House of Representatives, 1901 | |
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The Age of Industrialism: From Farm to Mill | |
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Rural Life in Tennessee and Virginia | |
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Oral History Interviews, 1939 | |
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Moving to the Mills | |
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"Why They Go to the Mills," 1907 | |
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The Making of the Mill Community | |
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Interview with Flossie Moore Durham, 1976 | |
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The Progressive Era: Woman Suffrage and Progressivism in the South | |
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A Woman's Place Is in Politics | |
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Arguments for Woman Suffrage, 1912 and 1914 | |
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Southern Arguments against Suffrage | |
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Antisuffrage Leaflets, 1915 and c. 1919 | |
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"The Pulse of the South" | |
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The Southern Review, "How the South Really Feels about Woman Suffrage," 1920 | |
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World War I: The Debate about Intervention | |
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Public Opinion | |
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Literary Digest, "American Sympathies in the War," 1914 | |
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The Case for Preparedness | |
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Arguments for Intervention, 1915 and 1916 | |
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An Opponent of War | |
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Speech before Congress, 1917 | |
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The 1920s: Fundamentalism and The Scopes Trial | |
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The Fundamentalist Case | |
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From Hell and the High Schools, 1923 | |
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The Scopes Trial | |
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Outlook, "Evolution in Tennessee," 1925 | |
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Surveying the Scene | |
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"Behind the Scenes in Tennessee," 1925 | |
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Fundamentalism's Legacy | |
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Editorial, 1925 | |
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The Great Depression: The New Deal and the New South | |
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The Appeal of the Communist Party | |
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From You Cannot Kill the Working Class, c. 1934 | |
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Sharing the Wealth | |
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"Every Man a King", 1934 | |
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The Tennessee Valley Authority and Grass-Roots Democracy | |
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From A Foreigner Looks at the TVA, 1937 | |
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World War II: "The War that Brought Old Dixie Down"? | |
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Serving in a Jim Crow Army | |
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Letters to the Editor, 1943 and 1944 | |
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A Liberating Experience for African Americans | |
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On How the War's Impact on Medgar Evers, 1967 | |
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The Impact on Women | |
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Recollections of War jobs, 1943-on | |
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Structural Changes in the South | |
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"Gold Rush Down South," 1943 | |
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The McCarthy Era: Frank Porter Graham and the Ordeal of Southern Liberalism | |
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Dr. Frank Attacked | |
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"Looking at Dr. Frank Graham's Record," 1948 | |
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Frank Graham Defended | |
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"In Fairness to a Great American" | |
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The Fulton Lewis Broadcaset | |
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Accusation and Response, 1949 | |
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HUAC and Southern Liberalism | |
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House Un-American Activities Committee , Report on Frank Graham, 1949 | |
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The Civil Rights Movement: Murder in Mississippi | |
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Opening the "Closed Society" | |
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Interviews, 1970s | |
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"Big Ambitions" | |
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Letter to Anne Braden, 1964 | |
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The Sovereignty Commission Investigates | |
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Reports, 1964 | |
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The Response of the White Community | |
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From Witness in Philadelphia, 1977 | |
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"Be Sick and Tired with Me" | |
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Eulogy for James Chaney, 1964 | |
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The Vietnam War: The South Divided | |
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The War and Public Opinion | |
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Oral History, 1990 | |
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Civil Rights and Foreign Policy | |
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"A Time to Break Silence," 1967 | |
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Race Relations in the Armed Services | |
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Oral Histories, 1981 and 1984 | |
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Criticism of Protesters | |
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Speeches in Louisiana and Alabama, 1969 | |
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Student Protest and Community Response | |
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"Concerned Students for Peace" and Washington, North Carolina, Residents, Letters to the Editor, 1970 | |
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The 1970s: The ERA and the Rise of the Pro-Family Movement | |
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The President Pledges His Support | |
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Remarks on Signing Proclamation 4515, 1977 | |
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ERA Supporters Speak Out | |
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Statements in Favor of Ratification, 1977 | |
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Southern Conservatives Fight the ERA | |
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Statements against Ratification, 1971, 1975, and 1980 | |
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Failures and Successes | |
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Rosalyn Carter, Reflections on the Carter Administration's Record on Women's Rights, 1984 | |
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Contemporary America: The New Immigration in South Florida | |
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The Cuban Experience | |
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Business Week, "How the Immigrants Made It in Miami" and "South Florida's Melting Pot Is about to Boil," 1971 and 1985 | |
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Haitian Boat People | |
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Accounts of Haitian Refugees, 1982 and 1984 | |
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Assimilation and Conflict | |
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"Black and Cuban American: Bias in Two Worlds," 1977 | |
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