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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, 1676-169 | |
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1: 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. The Impact of European Ideas on American Culture. 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 | |
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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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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 Jeffersoni | |