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| PART I COLONIAL AMERICANS |
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1 New Ways: Indian and European |
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How Indian and European daily lives changed because of their contact. |
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From Colin Calloway, New Worlds for All. |
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2 The Creation of a Slave Society in the Chesapeake |
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A description of how the Chesapeake became a slave society of African Americans. |
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From Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. |
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The important and largely independent economic role of colonial women and their crucial contribution to colonial America. |
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From Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, "Martha Ballard and Her Girls," in Stephen Innes, ed, Work and Labor in Early America. |
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The beliefs and anxieties of ministers and common people about the danger of Satan, and the fate of those accused of practicing witchcraft. |
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From John C. Miller, This New Man, The American. |
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| PART II REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLES |
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5 Native American Women-From Princesses to Wenches |
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The powerful position of Native American women and the dramatically different views whites held of their gender in the colonial period. |
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From Eirlys M. Barker, "Princesses, Wives, and Wenches: White Perceptions of Southeastern Indian Women to 1770," in Larry D. Eldridge, ed., Women and Freedom in Early America. |
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6 German Immigrant Survival Tactics |
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The importance of ethnic identity and communications within the German community of colonial America. |
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From Aaron S. Fogleman, Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775. |
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The appalling conditions of starvation and suffering as well as the courage of the farmers, laborers, servants, and freed slaves who fought in Washington's army. |
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From John E. Ferling, A Wilderness of Miseries: War and Warriors in Early America. |
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How women coped with the revolutionary era as loyalists and revolutionaries. |
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From Joan R. Gundersen, To Be Useful to the World, Women In Revolutionary America, 1740-1790. |
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9 Sailors and Slaves in the Revolution |
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How the actions of the "motley crew" influenced beliefs and actions in the Revolutionary era. |
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From Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantio. |
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| PART III THE TRIALS OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC |
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10 Neighborhood and Class in an Industrial Age |
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How the industrial revolution changed the lives of many Americans and created distinctions in American society. |
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From Walter Licht, Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century |
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A tragic chapter in United States-Indian relations-the rounding up of the Cherokee Indians and their forced removal beyond the Mississippi River. |
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From Dale Van Every, Disinherited: The Lost Birthright of the American Indian. |
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12 The Affectionate Family |
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Changes in the relations of husband and wife and parents and children, which led to a new, more supportive and individualistic family life. |
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From Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg, Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. |
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13 Getting Rid of Demon Alcohol |
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The popular and successful campaign to reduce or stop drinking in pre-Civil War America. |
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From Ronald G. Walters, American Reformers, 1815-1860 second edition. |
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| PART IV INDUSTRIAL NORTH AND PLANTER SOUTH |
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A description of changes in midwestern farming, as commercialization accelerated, and of the life and labor of men and women. |
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From John M. Faragher, Women and Men on the Overland Trail. |
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15 The African-American Family |
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A description of the auction block and the slave trade, and the effects of the selling of loved ones upon the black family. |
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From Leslie H. Owens, This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South. |
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16 A Nation of Immigrants |
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Motivations for leaving Ireland, living and working conditions in America, and the stereotypes of Irish men and women in a hostile environment. |
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From David A. Gerber, The Making of an American Pluralism: Buffalo, New York, 1825-60. |
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The role of the crowd and violence in Protestant-Catholic conflict in nineteenth-century Philadelphia. |
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From Michael Feldberg, The Turbulent Era: Riot and Disorder in Jacksonian America. |
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| PART V WESTERN EXPANSION AND CIVIL WAR |
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A description of the way in which migrants on the long trail west cooperated with each other, and were assisted by the Indians whose lands they crossed. |
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From John D. Unruh, Jr., The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1860. |
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19 Early Texans-The Common Ground Between Anglos and Tejanos in Republican Texas |
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What easterners and Mexicans shared in antebellum Texas. |
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From Jesús F. de la Teja, "Discovering the Tejano Community of "Early" Texas," Journal of the Early Republic, 1998, 74-98. |
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20 Why Soldiers Went to War |
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Soldiers on both sides reveal if slavery was the reason they fought and how their reasons changed during the four-year conflict. |
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From James M. McPherson, What they Fought For, 1861-1865. |
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The realities of living in the South with northern troops present or close at hand. |
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From Stephen V. Ash. When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865. |
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22 Political Violence During Reconstruction |
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How attempts to transform the social and economic structure of the South in the years after the Civil War fell victim to racism and violence. |
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From Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., Pistols and Politics. |
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