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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Prologue: Native Americans and Europeans up to 1600 | |
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| Colonial New England | |
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| "The Country is Not So As We Did Expect It." | |
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| Roger Williams, the Narragansetts, and the Pequots | |
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| Anne Hutchinson and the Tradition of Dissent | |
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| And the World Kept On Changing | |
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| The Colonial South | |
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| Jamestown: Pocahontas and John Smith | |
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| Jamestown: Tobacco and Slaves | |
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| Colonial Virginia: 1622, 1676, and 1705 | |
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| From Barbados to South Carolina: Trade, War, and Slavery | |
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| An American Mosaic | |
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| Colonial Society | |
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| William Byrd: Colonizing Nature | |
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| Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, the Great Awakening (and Benjamin Franklin, Too) | |
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| Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney | |
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| Changing Identities | |
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| The Coming of the Revolution | |
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| On the Road to Revolutions | |
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| Abigail Adams | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness | |
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| The American Revolution | |
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| An Overview | |
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| George Washington: Man of Contradictions | |
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| Mary Jemison: Seneca and Loyalist | |
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| Joseph Plumb Martin: A Common Soldier in the Continental Army | |
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| Anthony Allaire: A New York Loyalist in the Carolinas | |
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| Perceptions: African-Americans and the War of Independence | |
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| The Constitutional Period | |
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| Washington and Madison: At the Constitutional Convention | |
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| The Constitution: Debating the Future | |
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| Mary Dewees: Heading West | |
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| Benjamin Banneker | |
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| The Constitution: Intentions and Consequences | |
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| Politics and Society in the Early Republic | |
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| Of Midwives and Monarchs | |
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| Alexander Hamilton | |
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| Nancy Shippen | |
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| John Marshall's Supreme Court | |
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| The United States on the World Stage | |
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| Money, War, and Power | |
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| Citizen Genet: French Diplomacy with a Twist | |
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| The Barbary Wars: 1784-1805 | |
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| Sacagawea and the Corps of Discovery | |
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| Foreign Policy: Transatlantic and Transcontinental | |
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| The War of 1812 | |
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| Irritations, Aggravations, and Failed Diplomacies | |
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| Dolley Madison | |
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| Tecumseh: Independence Lost | |
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| The Star-Spangled Banner | |
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| Andrew Jackson and America | |
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| The Story of Jackson | |
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| The Democratic Age | |
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| Presidential Turmoil | |
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| Love and Politics: A Jacksonian Postscript | |
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| The Republic of Texas | |
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| The United States and the Antebellum West | |
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| Narcissa Whitman: On a Mission to the Oregon Country | |
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| All That Glitters: The West Through Mark Twain's Eyes | |
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| The Mexican-American War and California | |
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| The West: An Environmental Perspective | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Slavery | |
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| Perspectives | |
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| Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | |
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| Rebecca Felton: The Mind of a White Southerner | |
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| Nat Turner and Slave Resistance | |
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| Solomon Northup: Slave Migrations and the West | |
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| "The Love of Freedom" | |
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| The Coming of the Civil War | |
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| A Slow-Building Fire | |
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| North and South Go Their Separate Ways | |
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| Abolitionists in Society: William Lloyd Garrison | |
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| The Grimke Sisters and The Seneca Falls Convention | |
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| Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth | |
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| The Southern Response to Abolition | |
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| The Civil War | |
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| Strategies and Realities | |
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| Abraham Lincoln: Part 1 | |
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| Rose O'Neale Greenhow: Confederate Spy | |
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| Mathew Brady and War Photography | |
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| Emma LeConte and William Tecumseh Sherman: The Coming of the End Through Southern Eyes | |
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| Abraham Lincoln: Part 2 | |
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| After the Civil War | |
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| The Difficulties of Reconstruction | |
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| Reconstruction: Black and White | |
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| Mary Ames: A New England Woman in Dixie | |
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| W.E.B. DuBois and the "Problem of the Color Line" | |
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| About the Author | |