The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil WarDavid Brion Davis, Steven Mintz Oxford University Press, 2000 M01 13 - 608 páginas 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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... United States, with a view of distracting our governments, and promoting divisions.” Only “{v}igilance in watching, and vigour in acting,” Washington felt, could prevent the new nation from losing everything that had been won in the ...
... United States, with a view of distracting our governments, and promoting divisions.” Only “{v}igilance in watching, and vigour in acting,” Washington felt, could prevent the new nation from losing everything that had been won in the ...
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... United States. The autocratic government that the Jefferson administration imposed on the people of Louisiana evoked an interesting memorial to Congress in 1804 from “Planters, Merchants and other inhabitants of Louisiana": Without any ...
... United States. The autocratic government that the Jefferson administration imposed on the people of Louisiana evoked an interesting memorial to Congress in 1804 from “Planters, Merchants and other inhabitants of Louisiana": Without any ...
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... united Northerners and Southerners by instilling allegiance to the Democratic or Whig Parties, can be understood as a way of promoting nationalism, mitigating sectionalism, and suppressing public discussion of the explosive issue of ...
... united Northerners and Southerners by instilling allegiance to the Democratic or Whig Parties, can be understood as a way of promoting nationalism, mitigating sectionalism, and suppressing public discussion of the explosive issue of ...
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... United States from a racial “war of extermination” and from “the vengeance of Heaven.” In a fascinating earlier letter, Garrison compares his own incarceration in a Baltimore jail to the much worse sufferings of the poor slave: “My food ...
... United States from a racial “war of extermination” and from “the vengeance of Heaven.” In a fascinating earlier letter, Garrison compares his own incarceration in a Baltimore jail to the much worse sufferings of the poor slave: “My food ...
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... United States, the South Carolinians set forth the principle “that the failure of one of the contracting parties to perform a material part of the agreement, entirely releases the obligation of the other.” For many years, the ...
... United States, the South Carolinians set forth the principle “that the failure of one of the contracting parties to perform a material part of the agreement, entirely releases the obligation of the other.” For many years, the ...
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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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