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Planters and Puritans | |
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An Elizabethan Ideal: An Exhortation, concerning good order & obedience (1562), The Clergy of England | |
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Contact: Address to John Smith (1608), Powhatan 3 | |
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First Privileges: The Virginia Ordinance of 1619 | |
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The Underside of Privilege: Virginia Slavery Legislation (1630-1691) | |
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A Landed Elite: The Will of Augustine Washington (1743) | |
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A Puritan Vision: A Model of Christian Charity (1630) | |
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A New England Woman: Two Poems (ca. 1660) | |
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The Congregational Way: A Vindication of the New England Churches (1717) | |
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The Hand of Empire: The Navigation Acts (1660-1764) | |
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Breaking Away | |
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Diversity and Abundance: Letter from Pennsylvania (1725) | |
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Reason and Self-Improvement: The Junto Queries (1729) | |
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Frontier Diplomacy: Address to Imperial Officials (1753) | |
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Class Tension and Frontier Violence: The Lancaster Massacres (1764) | |
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A Demand for Privacy: Attack on the Writs of Assistance (1761) | |
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Ideology and Agitation: The Crisis, Number One (1776) | |
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A Republican Army: The Newburgh Address (1783) | |
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Securing Liberty: The Federalist, Number Ten (1787) | |
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Nationalists and Partisans | |
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An Industrial Vision: On Manufactures (1791) | |
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A Nationalist Diplomacy: Farewell Address (1796) | |
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The Revolution of 1800: Inaugural Address (1801) | |
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Hemispheric Designs: The Monroe Doctrine (1823) | |
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The Spectre of Sectionalism: South Carolina Exposition and Protest (1828) | |
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Politics and Democracy: Rotation in Office (1829), Bank Veto Message (1832) | |
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Trail of Tears: Appeal of the Cherokee Nation (1830) | |
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When the Eagle Screamed: Annexation (1845) | |
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The Age of Reform | |
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Educating Women: Address to the New York Legislature (1819) | |
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The Evangelical Impulse: Christ the Remedy for Intemperance (1828) | |
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The Struggles of Early Labor: Address to the General Trades Union (1833) | |
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Resolutions of the Journeymen Carpenters of Boston (1845) | |
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The Crusade for Public Schools: Report on the Common Schools (1838) | |
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Women at Work: Letters from Lowell (1844), The Lowell Offering | |
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Women's Rights: The Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848 | |
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The Crisis of Slavery | |
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Insurrection: Statement to the Court (1831) | |
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Of Human Bondage: That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833) | |
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A Southern Warning: Speech on Abolition and Slavery (1837) | |
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The Antislavery Impulse: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) | |
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Patriotism: Slavery and the Fourth of July (1852) | |
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Race, Slavery, and the Constitution: Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) | |
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Liberty and Union: The Republican Party Platform of 1860 | |
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Flight from Union: Mississippi Resolutions on Secession (1860) | |
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Touched with Fire | |
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Union Inviolate: First Inaugural Address (1861) | |
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Anthems of War: Maryland My Maryland (1861) | |
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Battle Hymn of the Republic (1862) | |
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The Impact of Emancipation: A Confederate Letter (1862) | |
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A New York Diary (1863), Maria Daly | |
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A New Birth of Freedom: The Gettysburg Address (1863) | |
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Faces of War: Message to the Atlanta City Council (1864) | |
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Diary of a Georgia Girl (1864) | |
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Binding Wounds: Second Inaugural Address (1865) | |
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The Agony of Reconstruction | |
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A Hunger for Literacy: Congressional Report on the Freedmen's Bureau (1868) | |
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The Color Line: Constitution and Ritual of the Knights of the White Camellia (ca. 1868) | |
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The Politics of Intimidation: Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction (1872) | |
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Turning Away: What the Centennial Ought to Accomplish (1875), Scribner's Monthly | |
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Aftermath: Address to the Louisville Convention (1883) | |
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