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1 | (18) |
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Christopher Columbus, Letter to Luis de Sant' Angel (1493) |
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3 | (4) |
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, ``Indians of the Rio Grande'' (1528--1536) |
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7 | (3) |
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Bartholome de Las Casas, ``Of the Island of Hispaniola'' (1542) |
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10 | (2) |
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Jacques Marquette, from The Mississippi Voyage of Joliet and Marquette (1673) |
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12 | (3) |
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Thomas Mun, from England's Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664) |
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15 | (4) |
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Conflicting Visions: England's Seventeenth-Century Colonies |
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19 | (14) |
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John Smith, ``The Starving Time'' (1624) |
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21 | (2) |
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The Laws of Virginia (1610--1611) |
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23 | (3) |
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John Winthrop, ``A Model of Christian Charity'' (1630) |
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26 | (3) |
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Excerpt from the Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637) |
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29 | (4) |
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Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society |
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33 | (20) |
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Bacon's Rebellion: The Declaration (1676) |
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35 | (3) |
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William Bull, Report on the Stono Rebellion (1739) |
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38 | (2) |
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Gottlieb Mittelherger, The Passage of Indentured Servants (1750) |
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40 | (3) |
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Elizabeth Sprigs, Letter to Her Father (1756) |
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43 | (2) |
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Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage (1788) |
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45 | (3) |
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Alexander Falconbridge, The African Slave Trade (1788) |
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48 | (5) |
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Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America |
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53 | (12) |
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William Byrd II, Diary (1709) |
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54 | (2) |
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Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crevecouer, from Letters from an American Farmer (1782) |
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56 | (2) |
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Benjamin Franklin, ``Upon Hearing George Whitefield Preach'' (1771) |
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58 | (2) |
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Jonathan Edwards, from ``Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'' (1741) |
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60 | (2) |
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James Oglethorpe, Establishing the Colony of Georgia (1733) |
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62 | (3) |
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The American Revolution: From Gentry Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763--1783 |
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65 | (10) |
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John Dickinson, from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1768) |
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66 | (2) |
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Address of the Inhabitants of Anson County to Governor Martin (1774) |
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68 | (2) |
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Patrick Henry, ``Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death'' (1775) |
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70 | (5) |
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The Republican Experiment |
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75 | (20) |
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George Washington, The Newburg Address (1783) |
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77 | (3) |
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Publius (James Madison), Federalist Paper #10 (1788) |
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80 | (3) |
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George Mason, ``Objections to This Constitution of Government'' (1787) |
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83 | (2) |
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``Petition for Access to Education'' (1787) |
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85 | (2) |
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Molly Wallace, Valedictory Oration (1792) |
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87 | (2) |
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Judith Sargent Murray, ``On the Equality of the Sexes'' (1790) |
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89 | (2) |
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Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791) |
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91 | (4) |
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Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788--1800 |
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95 | (8) |
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George Washington, Farewell Address (1796) |
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96 | (3) |
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The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) |
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99 | (4) |
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Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision |
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103 | (10) |
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Marbury v. Madison (1803) |
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105 | (2) |
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Meriwether Lewis, Journal (1805) |
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107 | (3) |
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Tecumseh, Letter to Governor William Henry Harrison (1810) |
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110 | (3) |
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Nation Building and Nationalism |
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113 | (8) |
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The Harbinger, Female Workers of Lowell (1836) |
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114 | (3) |
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Mary Paul, Letters Home (1845, 1846) |
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117 | (4) |
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The Triumph of White Men's Democracy |
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121 | (14) |
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Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress (1829) |
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123 | (2) |
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``Memorial of the Cherokee Nation'' (1830) |
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125 | (2) |
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Henry Clay, Speech Opposing President Jackson's Veto of the Bank Bill (1832) |
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127 | (3) |
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Davy Crockett, Advice to Politicians (1833) |
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130 | (2) |
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Jose Maria Sanchez, from ``A Trip to Texas'' (1828) |
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132 | (3) |
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135 | (12) |
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Nat Turner, Confession (1831) |
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136 | (2) |
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Benjamin Drew, Narratives of Escaped Slaves (1855) |
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138 | (3) |
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George Fitzhugh, ``The Blessings of Slavery'' (1857) |
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141 | (6) |
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The Pursuit of Perfection |
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147 | (16) |
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Charles Finney, ``Religious Revival'' (1835) |
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149 | (3) |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Letter from Brook Farm (1841) |
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152 | (2) |
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Dorothea Dix, Appeal on Behalf of the Insane (1843) |
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154 | (2) |
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William Lloyd Garrison, from The Liberator (1831) |
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156 | (2) |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments (1848) |
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158 | (5) |
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163 | (18) |
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John L. O'Sullivan, ``The Great Nation of Futurity'' (1845) |
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165 | (3) |
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Thomas Corwin, Against the Mexican War (1847) |
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168 | (3) |
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Henry David Thoreau, from ``Civil Disobedience'' (1849) |
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171 | (3) |
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Elizabeth Dixon Smith Greer, Journal (1847--1850) |
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174 | (2) |
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Chief Seattle, Oration (1854) |
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176 | (5) |
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181 | (16) |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) |
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183 | (2) |
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Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) |
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185 | (2) |
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Frederick Douglass, Independence Day Speech (1852) |
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187 | (3) |
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The Ostend Manifesto (1854) |
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190 | (3) |
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John Brown, Address to the Virginia Court (1859) |
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193 | (4) |
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Secession and the Civil War |
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197 | (16) |
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James Henry Gooding, Letter to President Lincoln (1863) |
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199 | (2) |
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Jefferson Davis, Second Inaugural Address as President of the Confederate States of America (1862) |
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201 | (3) |
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Clara Barton, Medical Life at the Battlefield (1862) |
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204 | (3) |
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Theodore A. Dodge, from Civil War Diary (1863) |
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207 | (3) |
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Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) |
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210 | (3) |
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The Agony of Reconstruction |
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213 | (21) |
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Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865) |
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215 | (2) |
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Mississippi Black Codes (1865) |
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217 | (3) |
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A Sharecrop Contract (1882) |
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220 | (3) |
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Civil Rights Cases (1883) |
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223 | (3) |
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Congressional Testimony on the Actions of the Ku Klux Klan (1872) |
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226 | (4) |
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Henry Grady, ``Speech on the New South'' (1886) |
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230 | (4) |
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