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A Historical Mystery: What Happened at Roanoke? | |
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Colonization promotional literature | |
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Early travelers' reports on America | |
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John White's drawings of Native Americans | |
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Accounts from the Roanoke Colony | |
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Images of Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth | |
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The Threat of Anne Hutchinson | |
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Excerpts from the trial of Anne Hutchinson | |
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Colonies, Commerce, and Empire: The British Plantations System in the Chesapeake and the Caribbean | |
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Statistics from the Chesapeake and Barbados in population, wealth distribution, agricultural production, slavery | |
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What Really Happened in the Boston Massacre? The Trial of Captain Thomas Preston | |
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Map of the site of the Boston Massacre | |
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Excerpts from Captain Preston's deposition | |
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Excerpts from trial testimony of witnesses | |
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Attorneys' summary remarks to the jury | |
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Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre | |
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The Evolution of American Citizenship: The Louisiana Purchase, 1803-1812 | |
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Treaties | |
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Congressional debates and speeches | |
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Letter of President Jefferson | |
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Official letters | |
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Louisiana Governance Acts | |
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Petition | |
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Church, State, and Democracy: The Sunday Mail Controversy, 1827-1831 | |
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Pamphlets | |
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Speeches | |
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Senate committee reports | |
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Land, Growth, and Justice: The Removal of the Cherokees | |
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Excerpt from President Andrew Jackson's First Annual Message to Congress | |
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Excerpt from President Thomas Jefferson's letter to Captain Hendrick regarding the decline of the Indian population | |
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Excerpt from William Penn (pseudonym for Jeremiah Evarts) | |
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Excerpt from speech in Congress by Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen | |
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Petition from a Cherokee woman | |
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Excerpt from John Ridge letter | |
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Excerpts from the Cherokee Phoenix | |
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Excerpt from letter by John Ross, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation | |
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Fighting for Women's Equality | |
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Americans debate the nature of the sexes and women's equality | |
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The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments | |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton defends women's rights | |
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The "Peculiar Institution": Slaves Tell Their Own Story | |
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Reminiscences and narratives of former slaves | |
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Slave songs | |
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Excerpts from the writings of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and John Thompson | |
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Civil Liberties in Time of War: The Case of Clement Vallandigham | |
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Numerous speeches by Clement Vallandigham, both in the House of Representatives and on the stump | |
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Congressional resolutions | |
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Petitions | |
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President Lincoln's reply | |
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Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Political Cartoonist and Public Opinion | |
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Cartoons of Thomas Nast | |