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| The First Founders | |
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| First Founders | |
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| Ancient America | |
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| A Thousand Years of Change in the Americas: A.D. 500 to 1500 Linking the Continents | |
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| Spain Enters the Americas | |
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| The Protestant Reformation Plays out in the Americas | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| European Footholds on the Fringes of North America, 1600-1660 | |
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| Spain's Ocean-Spanning Reach | |
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| France and Holland: Overseas Competition for Spain | |
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| English Beginnings on the Atlantic Coast | |
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| The Puritan Experiment | |
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| Maryland, and English Advantages | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Features | |
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| Interpreting History: The Puritan and the Archbishop | |
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| Connecting History: Colonization Then and Now | |
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| Controlling the Edges of the Continent, 1660-1715 | |
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| France and the American Interior | |
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| The Spanish Empire on the Defensive | |
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| England's American Empire Takes Shape | |
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| Four Decades of Colonial Conflict | |
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| Consequences of War and Growth | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| A Century of Colonial Expansion | |
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| African Enslavement: The Terrible Transformation | |
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| The Descent into Race Slavery | |
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| The Growth of Slave Labor Camps | |
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| England Enters the Atlantic Slave Trade | |
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| Survival in the North American Gulag | |
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| The Transformation Completed | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Features | |
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| Interpreting History: "Releese us out of this Cruell Bondegg." | |
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| An American Babel, 1713-1763 | |
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| Contested Regions in the West | |
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| Contested Borders in the East | |
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| Dramatic Changes in the English Colonies | |
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| Varieties of Christianity—Lost and Found | |
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| Wars of Empire | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| The Limits of Imperial Control, 1763-1775 | |
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| New Challenges to Spain's Expanded Empire | |
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| New Challenges to Britain's Expanded Empire | |
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| "The Unconquerable Rage of the People." | |
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| A Conspiracy of Corrupt Ministers? Launching a Revolution | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| The Unfinished Revolution | |
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| Revolutionaries at War, 1775-1783 | |
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| Declaring Independence | |
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| "Victory or Death:" Fighting for Survival | |
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| Legitimate States, a Respectable Military | |
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| The Long Road to Yorktown | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| New Beginnings—The 1780s Beating Swords into Plowshares | |
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| Competing for Control of the Mississippi Valley | |
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| Creditors and Debtors | |
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| Drafting a New Constitution | |
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| Ratification and the Bill of Rights | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Revolutionary Legacies and Beginnings, 1789-1803 | |
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| Competing Political Visions in the New Nation | |
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| People of Color: New Freedoms, New Struggles | |
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| Continuity and Change in the West | |
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| Constructing Post-Revolutionary Social Identities | |
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| Artisan-Politicians Versus Menial Laborers: The Mixed Plight of Postrevolutionary Workers | |
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| The Election of 1800: Revolution or Reversal? | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| A Nation Expands | |
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| An Emerging but Troubled Nationalism, 1803-1818 | |
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| The British Menace | |
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| Fighting on Many Fronts: The War of 1812 The Era of Good Feelings: Political and Economic Effects of the War of 1812 The Rise of the Cotton-Plantation Economy | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Fractures and Factions in a Partial Democracy, 1819-1832 | |
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| The Politics Behind Western Expansion | |
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| Nationalism and Its Discontents | |
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| Real People in the "Age of the Common Man" | |
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| The Ligaments of a Growing, Dispersing Population | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Peoples and Nations in Motion, 1832-1848 | |
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| Mass Migrations | |
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| A Multitude of Voices: The National Political Arena | |
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| Reform and Reaction | |
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| The United States Extends Its Reach | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Disunion and Reunion | |
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| The Crisis over Slavery, 1848-1860 | |
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| Regional Economies and Conflicts | |
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| Shifting Collective Identities | |