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New World Encounters | |
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Clash of Cultures: The Meaning of Murder in Early Maryland | |
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Native American Histories Before Conquest | |
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A World Transformed? | |
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West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies? | |
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Europe on the Eve of Conquest? | |
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Imagining a New World? | |
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The French Claim Canada? | |
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The English Enter the Competition? | |
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Irish Rehearsal for American Settlement | |
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An Unpromising Beginning: Mystery at Roanoke? | |
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Conclusion: Marketing Dreams? | |
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Feature Essay: The Columbian Exchange: Ecological Revolution | |
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Conflicting Visions: Seventeenth-Century Colonies | |
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Profit and Piety: Competing Blueprints for English Settlement? | |
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Breaking Away? | |
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The Chesapeake: Dreams of Wealth? | |
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Reforming England in America | |
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Diversity in the Middle Colonies? | |
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Quakers in America | |
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Planting the Carolinas? | |
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The Founding of Georgia? | |
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Conclusion: Living with Diversity? | |
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Feature Essay: Capital Punishment in Early America: A Kind of Moral Theater? | |
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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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Challenge of the Chesapeake Environment? | |
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Race and Freedom in British America? | |
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Rise of a Commercial Empire? | |
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Colonial Factions Spark Revolt, 1676-1691? | |
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Conclusion: Local Aspirations Within an Atlantic Empire? | |
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Feature Essay: Anthony Johnson: A Free Black Planter on Pungoteague Creek? | |
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Law and Society: Witches and the Law: A Problem of Evidence in 1692 | |
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Frontiers 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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Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century | |
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The Impact of European Ideas on American Culture | |
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Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies? | |
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Clash of Political Cultures? | |
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Century of Imperial War? | |
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Conclusion: Rule Britannia? ? | |
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Feature Essay:Learning to Live with Diversity in the Eighteenth Century: What Is an American? | |
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The American Revolution: From Gentry Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763-1783 | |
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Rethinking the Meaning of Equality | |
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Structure of Colonial Society? | |
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Eroding the Bonds of Empire? | |
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Steps Toward Independence? | |
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Fighting for Independence? | |
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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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Feature Essay: Popular Resistance: Religion and Rebellion | |
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The Republican Experiment | |
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A New Moral Order | |
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Defining Republican Culture? | |
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Living in the Shadow of Revolution? | |
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The States: Experiments in Republicanism? | |
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Stumbling Toward a New National Government? | |
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Strengthening Federal Authority? | |
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"Have We Fought for This?" ? | |
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Whose Constitution? Struggle for Ratification? | |
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Conclusion: Success Depends on the People? | |
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Feature Essay: The Elusive Constitution: Search for Original Intent | |
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Law and Society: The Strange Ordeal of Quok Walker: Slavery on Trial in Revolutionary Massachusetts | |
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Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788-1800 | |
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Partisan Passions and 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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Charges of Treason: The Battle over Foreign Affairs? | |
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Popular Political Culture? | |
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The Adams Presidency? | |
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The Peaceful Revolution: The Election of 1800? | |
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Conclusion: Danger of Political Extremism? | |
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Feature Essay: Defense of Superiority: Science in the Service of Nationalism in the Early Republic | |
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Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision | |
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Limits of Equality | |