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Colonial Society 1492-1783 1 | |
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The First Americans | |
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Peter Nabokov with Dean Snow, "Algonquiaris and Iroquoians: Farmers of the Woodlands" | |
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"Of the Naturall Inhabitants of Virginia," 1624 | |
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Recollections ' of a "White Indian" (1759), 1823 | |
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An Indian's View, 1805 | |
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The Indians of New Mexico, 1599 | |
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Colonial Beginnings: Aspirations, Obstacles, and Opportunities. | |
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Lois Green Carr, "The Rise of Daniel Clocker" | |
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Virginia, A Troubled Colony, 1622 | |
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Mayflower Compact, 1620 | |
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"We shall be as a City upon a Hill," 1630 | |
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The Enslavement of Africans in Britain's American Colonies | |
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Ira Berlin, "Human Cargo: From Africa to America" | |
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From Freedom to Slavery, 1756 (1793) | |
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"Law Appointing a Place for the More Convenient Hiring of Slaves," 1711 | |
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Slavery in New York City, 1731 | |
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Husbands and Wives, Parents and Children in Puritan Society | |
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Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg, "The Godly Family of Colonial Massachusetts" | |
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Two Poems, 1678 | |
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Monitoring Style and Behavior in Puritan Massachusetts, 1675 | |
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Good Manners for Colonial Children, 1772 | |
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Statutes, Laws, and Privileges of Harvard College, 1700 | |
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Eighteenth-Century Religion: Progress and Piety | |
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Alan Taylor, "Awakenings" | |
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On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 | |
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The Great Awakening in Connecticut, 1740 | |
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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," 1741 | |
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Urban Life in the Eighteenth Century | |
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Pauline Maier, "Boston and New York in the Eighteenth Century" | |
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Benjamin Franklin's Union Fire Company, 1738 | |
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Philadelphia, 1748 | |
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The Scourge of Yellow Fever, Philadelphia, 1793 | |
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New Orleans, 1751 | |
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People at War: Soldiers and Civilians During the American Revolution | |
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Gary B. Nash, "Foot Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army" | |
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On the Road to Valley Forge, 1777 | |
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Emily Geiger, A Heroine of the Revolution (1781) 1848 | |
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Travails of a Loyalist Wife and Mother, 1777 | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Social Life in a New Nation 1784-1877 | |
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The Onset of Industry: The Lowell Venture | |
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Thomas Dublin, "Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills" | |
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Recollections of a Strike (1836) 1898 | |
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"Regulations to Be Observed," Hamilton Manufacturing Company, 1848 | |
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A Mill Worker's Grievances, 1845 | |
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The Cherokee Removal: An American Tragedy | |
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Dee Brown, "The Trail of Tears" | |
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Cherokee Women Petition Their National Council, 1818 | |
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Cherokee Women Petition Their National Council, 1831 | |
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Removal Defended, 1830 | |
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Catherine Beecher's Appeal, 1829 | |
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Moving West | |
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Daniel Walker Howe, "The California Gold Rush" | |
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A Most Welcome Guest, c. 1849 | |
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Flush Times in Nevada, c. 1862 | |
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Emigrants to Texas, c. 1857 | |
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A Letter from Oregon Territory, 1847 | |
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Paths to Salvation: Revivalism and Communitarianism | |
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David S. Reynolds, "Revivalism's Return: The Second Great Awakening" | |
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Religious Excitability, 1835 | |
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"This COUNTRY IS RUN MAD after Preaching," c. 1830 | |
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Visiting the Shakers, c. 1841 | |
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A Letter from Brook Farm, 1841 | |
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New People in a New Land | |
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Tyler Anbinder, "From Famine to Five Points" | |
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Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Catholic Bias, 1854 | |
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Resolves of Welcome and Support, 1847 | |
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A German Immigrant Writes Home, 1857 | |
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The Age of Reform | |
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Margaret Hope Bacon, "Lucretia Mott: Pioneer for Peace" | |
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William Lloyd Garrison Inaugurates "The Liberator," 1831 | |
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Songs of the Temperance Movement, 1847 | |
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The "Reformatory and Elevating Influences" of the Public Schools, 1848 | |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: On Women's Rights, 1860 | |
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Slavery in the Antebellum South | |
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Walter Johnson, "Human Property Bought and Sold" | |
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The Domestic Slave Trade: A Planter's View, 1835 | |
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The Domestic Slave Trade: A Slave's Experience (c. 1850), 1890 | |
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Songs of Freedom, c. 1820-1860 | |
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The Soldiers' Civil War | |
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James L. McDonough, "Glory Can Not Atone: Shiloh-April 6, 7, 1862" | |
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A Black Soldier Writes to President Lincoln, 1863 | |
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Andersonville: "… death stalked on every hand," 1864 | |
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Recollections of a Confederate Veteran (1865), 1899 | |
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Reconstruction: Triumphs and Tragedies | |
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Mark Andrew Huddle, "To Educate a Race" | |
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A Letter "To My Old Master," c. 1865 | |
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The Knights of the White Camelia, 1868 | |
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"We Are Literally Slaves," 1912 | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |