The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil WarDavid Brion Davis, Steven Mintz Oxford University Press, 15.10.1998 - 608 Seiten Drawing on a gold mine of primary documents--including letters, diary entries, personal narratives, political speeches, broadsides, trial transcripts, and contemporary newspaper articles--The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the past to life in a way few histories ever do. Here is a panoramic look at early American history as captured in the words of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and many other historical figures, both famous and obscure. In these pieces, the living voices of the past speak to us from opposing viewpoints--from the vantage point of loyalists as well as patriots, slaves as well as masters. The documents collected here provide a fuller understanding of such historical issues as Columbus's dealings with Native Americans, the Stamp Act Crisis, the Declaration of Independence, the Whiskey Rebellion, the Missouri Crisis, the Mexican War, and Harpers Ferry, to name but a few. Compiled by Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz, and accompanied by extensive illustrations of original documents, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the reader back in time, to meet the men and women who lived through the momentous events that shaped our nation. |
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... give to man higher rights ... than to women " 401 Angelina Emily Grimké , letter XII , October 2 , 1837 , Letters to Catherine E. Beecher 58. " The American Anti - Slavery [ Society ] ... ..divided when women were put among its officers ...
... give to man higher rights ... than to women " 401 Angelina Emily Grimké , letter XII , October 2 , 1837 , Letters to Catherine E. Beecher 58. " The American Anti - Slavery [ Society ] ... ..divided when women were put among its officers ...
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... give us our right in the Union , or allow us to go peaceably out of it " 496 Jefferson Davis , January 13 , 1861 129. " I feel that I have been ... an humble instrument in the hands of our Heavenly Father " 497 Robert A. Anderson ...
... give us our right in the Union , or allow us to go peaceably out of it " 496 Jefferson Davis , January 13 , 1861 129. " I feel that I have been ... an humble instrument in the hands of our Heavenly Father " 497 Robert A. Anderson ...
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... give some sense of the content of the doc- uments : A. Shifts in Sensibility , Family , Gender Roles , and the Rise of Humanitarianism ; B. Origins of the American Reform Tradition ; C. 1818 and 1819 : Watershed Years in American ...
... give some sense of the content of the doc- uments : A. Shifts in Sensibility , Family , Gender Roles , and the Rise of Humanitarianism ; B. Origins of the American Reform Tradition ; C. 1818 and 1819 : Watershed Years in American ...
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... give added meaning to many of the primary sources and especially to connections between or among the sources . The first and most central theme pertains to the spectrum between human power and authority , on the one hand ( whether held ...
... give added meaning to many of the primary sources and especially to connections between or among the sources . The first and most central theme pertains to the spectrum between human power and authority , on the one hand ( whether held ...
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... give way . ” A century later the kind of deference Dudley expected was much rarer , and some politi- cians were beginning to present themselves as " men of the people . " American champions of republicanism , such as Thomas Jefferson ...
... give way . ” A century later the kind of deference Dudley expected was much rarer , and some politi- cians were beginning to present themselves as " men of the people . " American champions of republicanism , such as Thomas Jefferson ...
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PART 2 EUROPEAN COLONIZATION NORTH OF MEXICO | 43 |
PART 3 A LAND OF CONTRASTS | 85 |
PART 4 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR | 123 |
PART 5 THE AGE OF REVOLUTION 17651825 | 139 |
PART 6 CREATING A NEW NATION | 211 |
PART 7 ANTEBELLUM AMERICA | 323 |
PART 8 CIVIL WAR | 501 |
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