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      · American Beginnings: The European Presence in North
         America, 1492-1690

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       · Topic 1: Contact
     · Topic 2: Exploration
     · Topic 3: Settlement
     · Topic 4: Permanence
     · Topic 5: Power

      · Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies,
         1690-1763

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           · All Texts: Thematic (PDF)
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       · Topic 1: Growth
     · Topic 2: Peoples
     · Topic 3: Economies
     · Topic 4: Ideas
     · Topic 5: American

      · Making the Revolution: America, 1763-1791
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       · Topic 1: Crisis
     · Topic 2: Rebellion
     · Topic 3: War
     · Topic 4: Independence
     · Topic 5: Constitution

      · Living the Revolution: America, 1789-1820
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       · Topic 1: Predicaments of Early Republican Life
     · Topic 2: Religion
     · Topic 3: Politics
     · Topic 4: Expansion
     · Topic 5: Equality

      · The Triumph of Nationalism / The House Dividing:
         America, 1815-1850

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       · Topic 1: Culture of the Common Man
     · Topic 2: The Cult of Domesticity
     · Topic 3: Religion
     · Topic 4: Expansion
     · Topic 5: America in 1850

      · The Making of African American Identity:
         Vol. I, 1500-1865

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       · Topic 1: Freedom
     · Topic 2: Enslavement
     · Topic 3: Community
     · Topic 4: Identity
     · Topic 5: Emancipation

      · The Making of African American Identity:
         Vol. II, 1865-1917

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       · Topic 1: Freedom
     · Topic 2: Identity
     · Topic 3: Institutions
     · Topic 4: Politics
     · Topic 5: Forward

      · The Making of African American Identity:
         Vol. III, 1917-1968

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       · Topic 1: Segregation
     · Topic 2: Migrations
     · Topic 3: Protest
     · Topic 4: Community
     · Topic 5: Overcome?

      · The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912
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       · Topic 1: Memory
     · Topic 2: Progress
     · Topic 3: People
     · Topic 4: Power
     · Topic 5: Empire






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