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In this volume Professor Notestein employs his mastery of the source material of the seventeenth century to recreate the character of the English people at a time when many Englishmen were making a new start on this continent. He gives a lively picture of English society and institutions on the eve of the great migration to America. Here is depicted what went into the making of that New World society and character which was eventually to be called...
16) The federalists and anti-federalists: how and why political parties were formed in young America
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Rosen Central Primary Source
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Explains how the United States Constitution came to be, including events leading up to the Constitutional Convention, and explores how the Constitution changed the way the United States was governed.
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English
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"The Confederate Nation has yet to be superseded as the standard title on the subject. " -Journal of Southern History, 2007
"Incisive and insightful…. As good a short history of the Southern war effort was we have." -T. Harry Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln and His Generals
Emory M. Thomas's critically acclaimed chronicle of the Confederacy remains widely recognized as the standard history of the South during the Civil War....
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HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Historian Eric Foner chronicles the way in which Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. He addresses the quest of emancipated slaves searching for economic autonomy and equal citizenship, and describes the remodeling of Southern society, the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations, and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority...