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Note: Each chapter concludes with "Further Reading." | |
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Interpreting the Early Republic | |
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The Market Revolution | |
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Nationalism and American Identity in the Early Republic | |
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Popular Political Culture in the Early Republic | |
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Interests and Values: American Foreign Policy in the Early Republic | |
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The Compromise of 1787 and the Federalist Ascendancy | |
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Alexander Hamilton Addresses the Constitutional Convention, 1787 | |
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James Madison Defends the New Federal Constitution, 1788 | |
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Mercy Otis Warren Attacks the Constitution, 1788 | |
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Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Confront the Need for a Bill of Rights, 1787, 1788: Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, December 20, 1787 | |
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James Madison, Speech to Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788 | |
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Congress Designs the Northwest Ordinance, 1787 | |
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Patrick Henry and Melancton Smith Offer Clashing Ideas About the Constitution, Slavery, and Democracy, 1788: Patrick Henry, Speech to Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 1788 | |
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Melancton Smith, Speech to New York Ratification Convention, 1788 | |
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Two Artists Portray Different Ideals of Women in the New Republic | |
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Conflict, Compromise, and the Framing of the Constitution Paul Finkelman | |
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A Triumph for Slavery Jan Lewis, The Republican Wife | |
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The Political Crises of the 1790s | |
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Alexander Hamilton Reports On the Public Credit, 1790 | |
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Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton Debate the Constitutionality of the National Bank, 1791 | |
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The Democratic-Republican Societies Oppose Federal Policy, 1793, 1794: Minutes, Democratic Society of Pennsylvania, May 30, 1793-July 31, 1794 | |
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Circular, Democratic Society of the City of New York, May 28, 1794 | |
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President George Washington Attacks "Certain Self-Created Societies" over the Whiskey Rebellion, 1794 | |
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An Anonymous Poet Protests the Jay Treaty, 1795 | |
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Thomas Jefferson Describes the "Aristocratical Party," 1796 | |
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President Washington Bids Farewell to His Countrymen, 1796 | |
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A Cartoonist Attacks the Degenerate French Over the XYZ Affair | |
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Congress Cracks Down on Dissent, 1798 | |
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The Kentucky Legislature Protests the Repression, 1798 | |
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A Federalist Newspaper Describes the Trial of David Brown, 1799 | |
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Thomas Jefferson's Supporters Sing of his Victory, ca. 1801 | |
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John Adams Accounts for His Defeat, 1801 | |
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David Waldstreicher, Public Celebrations, Print Culture, and American Nationalism James E. Lewis, Jr | |
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Political Crisis and the "Revolution" of 1800 John Ashworth, Slavery, Democracy, and the Jeffersonians | |
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The Republican Jefferson and the Jeffersonian Republic | |
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President Thomas Jefferson Offers Different Views About Political Reconciliation, 1801, 1802: Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801 | |
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Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, October 25, 1802 | |
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Wilson Cary Nicholas and Thomas Jefferson Discuss the Constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase, 1803 | |
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Republicans and Federalists Struggle over the Courts, 1801, 1803: Jefferson to John Dickinson, December 19, 1801 | |
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John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison | |
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Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery Explore the West, 1804, 1805 | |
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The Federalists Plunge into Despair, 1804: George Cabot to Timothy Pickering, February 14, 1804 | |
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Timothy Pickering to Rufus King, March 4, 1804 | |
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Thomas Jefferson Describes Indians, Slavery, and Blacks, 1787 | |
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President Jefferson Displays Machiavellian Benevolence Toward the Indians, 1803 | |
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A Shawnee Chief Offers A Parable of Resistance, 1803 | |
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A Jeffersonian Newspaper Supports the Embargo, 1807 | |
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A Maine Town's Petition Protests the Embargo, 1809 | |
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Liberal Democrat Forrest McDonald | |
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Reactionary Ideologue Annette Gordon-Reed, Blacks and Jefferson | |
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The War of 1812: National Honor and Aggressive Expansion | |
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A Republican Newspaper Protests British Impressment, 1811 | |
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Felix Grundy Gives the War Hawks' Battle Cry, 1811 | |
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John Quincy Adams Argues Necessity for War, 1812 | |
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Federalist Daniel Webster Criticizes the War, 1812 | |
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Tecumseh Confronts Governor William Henry Harrison, 1810 | |
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Governor William Henry Harrison Describes Tecumseh and the Indian Threat, 1811 | |
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A Newspaper Reports on the Burning of Washington, D.C., 1814 | |
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Francis Scott Key Immortalizes the American Victory in Baltimore, 1814 | |
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The Hartford Convention Lists Its Grievances, 1814 | |
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A Hero Is Born, Undated | |
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Essays Reginald Horsman | |
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The Improbable American Success Gregory Evans Dowd | |
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The Indian Resistance Crushed | |
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Religious Revivals and the Second Great Awakening | |
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Thomas Jefferson Codifies Religious Freedom, 1777, 1786 | |
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A Participant Describes a Kentucky Camp Meeting, 1801 | |
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A Diarist Recalls a Religious Awakening at Yale, 1802 | |
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Charles Grandison Finney Sermonizes on Sin and Redemption, 1836 | |
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A "Fanny Wright Mechanic" Attacks Religious Reform, 1831 | |
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Richard Allen Founds the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1793 | |
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A.J Graves Gives a Scriptural Justification for Women's Domesticity | |
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Joseph Smith Recounts his First Visitation, 1832 | |
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Northern Revivalism Elizabeth B. Clark, Religion, Cruelty, and Sympathy in Antebellum America Mitchell Snay | |
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The Southern Clergy and the Sanctification of Slavery | |
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The Rise of Northern Capitalism | |
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Mary Graham Describes Life on a Commercializing Farm, 1835-1844 | |
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A Self-Made Man Explains His Success, 1843 | |
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Alexis de Tocqueville Reports on American Acquisitiveness, 1840 | |
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"Susan" Describes Conditions in the Lowell Mills, 1844 | |
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Lowell's Female Workers Give Voice to Protest, 1845 | |
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A British Cabinetmaker Describes His Life in New York City, 1846 | |
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A Newspaper Exposes Conditions among New York Tradesmen, 1845 | |
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Thomas Skidmore Urges Redistribution with "The Rights of Man to Property," 1829 | |
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Philadelphia Workers Declare Themselves "Wage Slaves," 1836 | |
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Alonzo Potter Justifies Wage Labor, 1840 | |
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Christopher Clark, Northern Capitalism: Creation and Costs Christine Stansell | |
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Working Class Youth: The Gals and Boys of the Bowery | |
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The Slaveholders' Regime | |
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A Louisiana Planter Instructs His Son, 1841 | |
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J.H. Hammond Instructs His Overseer, 1840-1850 | |
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Kidnap Victim Solomon Northup Recalls Life under Slavery, 1853 | |
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Overseer George Skipwith Writes His Absentee Master, 1847 | |
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Lizzie Williams Looks Back on the Days of Slavery, 1937 | |
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Messrs. Brooke and Hubbard Announce a Slave Auction, 1823 | |
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Free Blacks Petition the Virginia State Legislature, 1838 | |
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Slave Rebel Nat Turner Confesses, 1831 | |
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The Virginia Legislature Debates Ending Slavery, 1832 | |
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Thomas Roderick Dew Defends Slavery, 1832 | |
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The Chattel Principle Stephanie McCurry, Gender and Proslavery in Antebellum South Carolina | |
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Struggles for the West | |
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The Cherokee Design a Nation, 1827 | |
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Congress Votes to Remove "Civilized Tribes," 1830 | |
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Andrew Jackson Endorses Removal, 1830 | |
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Theodore Frelinghuysen Attacks the Indian Removal Bill, 1830 | |
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Citizens of Rock River, Illinois, Petition for Protection from Sac and Fox, 1831 | |
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Black Hawk Surrenders, 1832 | |
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A Mexican General Describes the Borderland, 1828, 1829 | |
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A Texas Settler Sounds the Alarm, 1836 | |
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Lieutenant-Colonel Jose Enriqu? de la Pe?a Recalls the Battle of the Alamo, 1836 | |
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An Emigrant Reaches the Sacramento Valley, 1846 | |
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James H. Carson Describes Life in the Gold Mines, 1848 | |
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The Transformation of a Rural Community William Cronon | |
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A Prairie Landscape | |
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The Era of Bad Feelings | |
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John Jacob Astor and an English Traveler Explain the Origins and Impact of the Panic of 1819: 1818, 1820 | |
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Thomas Jefferson Hears "A Fire Bell in the Night" during the Missouri Crisis, 1820 | |
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Congress Debates the Missouri Crisis, 1819, 1820: Rufus King Opposes the Introduction of Slavery into Missouri, 1819 | |
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Timothy Fuller Attacks Slavery as Unrepublican, 1819 | |
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William Smith Defends Slavery, 1820 | |
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President John Quincy Adams Describes His View of Liberty and Power, 1825 | |
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Philadelphia Craft Workers Organize a Union | |
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Martin Van Buren Proposes a New Opposition Party, 1827 | |
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John C. Calhoun Theorizes About States' Rights, 1828 | |
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John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson Battle for the Presidency, 1828 | |
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The Missouri Crisis, Slavery, and the Rise of the Jacksonians Sean Wilentz | |
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Jeffersonian Anti-Slavery and the Missouri Crisis Matthew H. Crocker | |
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The Missouri Compromise, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Southern Strategy | |
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Jacksonians, Whigs, and the Politics of the 1830s | |
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President Jackson and Henry Clay Fight Over Internal Improvements: Jackson's Veto Message, May 27, 1830 | |
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Henry Clay Responds, 1830 | |
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Henry Clay Defends the American System, 1832 | |
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Andrew Jackson Vetoes the Bank, 1832: Jackson's Veto Message, July 10, 1832 | |
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Daniel Webster's Reply, July 11, 1832 | |
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South Carolina Proclaims Nullification, 1832: Governor Robert Y. Hayne, Inaugural Address, December 13, 1832 | |
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Andrew Jackson, Proclamation on Nullification, December 10, 1832 | |
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The Whigs Attack President Jackson, 1834 | |
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William Leggett Describes the Conflict Between the Rich and the Poor, 1834 | |
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Philip Hone Complains About Democratic Party, 1834 | |
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Congress Debates the Gag Rule, 1837 | |
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The Whigs Take to the Woods, 1840 | |
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Calvin Colton Outlines Whig Ideals, 1844 | |
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Culture Wars and the Election of 1828 Charles Sellers | |
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The Jacksonians' Democratic Assault on the Bank Daniel Walker Howe | |
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The Party of Moral Discipline: Whig Values | |
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Perfecting the Nation and the World | |
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Lyman Beecher Preaches Temperance, 1826 | |
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Women Declare Equality with Men at Seneca Falls, 1848 | |
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Samuel F. B. Morse Expounds on the Popish Plot, 1835 | |
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A Nativist Mob Destroys a Massachusetts Convent, 1834 | |
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Horace Mann Proposes Public Schooling, 1846 | |
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Dorothea Dix Petitions New Jersey Legislature on Asylum Reform, 1845 | |
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Sylvester Graham Urges Restraint on Sexuality, 1833 | |
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George Henry Evans Touts Land Reform, 1846 | |
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Middle-Class Women and Moral Reform Paul E. Johnson, Declaring and Defying Perfection | |
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Abolitionism, Antiabolitionism, and Proslavery | |
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David Walker Appeals to the Colored Citizens of the World, 1829 | |
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William Lloyd Garrison Demands Immediate Abolition, 1831 | |
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The New England Anti-Slavery Society Urges on Immediatism, 1833 | |
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William Jay Mocks and Dismisses the Proslavery Argument, 1836 | |
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Angelina Grimk? | |
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Appeals to the Christian Women of the South, 1836 | |
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T.R. Sullivan Attacks Immediate Abolition, 1835 | |
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The Anti-Abolitionists Ridicule Anti-Slavery Radicals, 1839 | |
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J.H. Hammond Defends Slavery, 1836 | |
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A Christian Justifies Slavery, 1845 | |
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Henry Highland Garnet Calls for Slaves to Resist, 1843 | |
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Northern Women and Abolitionism Eugene D. Genovese | |
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The Proslavery Argument | |
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Toward an American Culture | |
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Timothy Dwight Describes "The Destruction of the Pequods," 1794 | |
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John Trumbull Imagines the Nation's Founding, 1820 | |
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Davy Crockett Hunts a Bear, 1834 | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Addresses "The American Scholar," 1837 | |
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Sarah Josepha Hale Celebrates the Family Romance, 1835 | |
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The Knickerbocker Base-Ball Club Codifies the Game's Rules, 1845 | |
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A Democratic Culture? | |
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Robert M. Lewis, Organized Baseball and American Culture | |
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Manifest Destiny, Slavery, and the Politics of Expansion | |
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John L. O'Sullivan Celebrates Manifest Destiny, 1845 | |
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President James K. Polk Urges War with Mexico, 1846 | |
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A Mexican Assesses the War, 1848 | |
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Antislavery Congressmen Concoct the Wilmot Proviso to Halt Slavery's Advance, 1846 | |
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Free Soil Democrat Walt Whitman Justifies the War, 1846, 1847 | |
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Abolitionist Frederick Douglass Decries the War, 1846 | |
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James Russell Lowell Satirizes the Mexican War, 1848 | |
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Northern Whig Charles Sumner Protests the War, 1846 | |
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Senator John C. Calhoun Offers a Southern Perspective on the War's Outcome, 1847 | |
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The Political System Fractures: Party Platforms, 1848 | |
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The Anxieties of Manifest Destiny Robert W. Johannsen | |
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Young America and the War with Mexico Jonathan Earle | |
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Jacksonian Antislavery and the Roots of Free Soil | |