Our History | Steven M. Gillon

- 1Out of Old Worlds, New Worlds
- 2The First Experiments: 1540–1680
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  - 2.1Struggles for New World Dominion, 1540–1680
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  - 2.2England’s Southern Plantings, 1607–1680
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  - 2.3The New England Colonies, 1620–1680
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  - 2.4Colonists and Indians: Coexistence and Conflict, 1630–1680
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  - 2.5Conclusion
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  - 2.6Chapter Summary
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  - 2.7Competing Voices: Race, Land, and Political Rights on the Frontier
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- 3Imperial Connections, 1660–1748
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  - 3.1The Restoration Colonies, 1660–1685
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  - 3.2Shaping Imperial Commerce
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  - 3.3Crises at Home and Abroad, 1685–1700
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  - 3.4Politics and Culture in the New Century, 1700–1748
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  - 3.5Conclusion
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  - 3.6Chapter Summary
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  - 3.7Competing Voices: Two Views of Colonial Opportunity
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- 4Colonial Maturation and Conflict, 1680–1754
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  - 4.1Growth and Diversity in the Colonies
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  - 4.2Varieties of Life in the North
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  - 4.3Varieties of Life in the South
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  - 4.4Maturity Brings Conflict, 1739–1754
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  - 4.5Conclusion
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  - 4.6Chapter Summary
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  - 4.7Competing Voices: Two Views About Transatlantic Slave Trading
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- 5Forging the American Experiment, 1754–1775
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  - 5.1The Great War for the Empire, 1754–1763
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  - 5.2Rethinking Empire, 1763–1765
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  - 5.3Deepening Commitment, Rising Violence, 1765–1770
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  - 5.4Toward Independence, 1770–1773
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  - 5.5Forging a Political Community, 1774–1775
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  - 5.6Conclusion
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  - 5.7Chapter Summary
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  - 5.8Competing Voices: Two Views of the Boston Massacre, 1770
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- 6Winning Independence 1775–1783
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  - 6.1The Decision for Independence, 1775–1776
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  - 6.2The Revolution in Earnest, 1776–1778
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  - 6.3The Character of War
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  - 6.4The New Republican Order
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  - 6.5Winning the War, 1778–1783
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  - 6.6Conclusion
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  - 6.7Chapter Summary
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  - 6.8Competing Voices: War’s Miseries—Two Views
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- 7The Federal Experiment, 1783–1800
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  - 7.1The Critical Period, 1783–1787
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  - 7.2The National Founding
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  - 7.3Forming A National Government
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  - 7.4Federalists Versus Democratic-Republicans
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  - 7.5Factions, Interests, and American Identity
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  - 7.6Conclusion
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  - 7.7Chapter Summary
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  - 7.8Competing Voices: Subduing the Old Northwest
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- 8Striving for Nationhood, 1800–1824
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  - 8.1Democratic-Republicans in Power
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  - 8.2Expansion and the Agrarian Republic
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  - 8.3America in the World, 1800–1815
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  - 8.4Conclusion
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  - 8.5Chapter Summary
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  - 8.6Competing Voices: Frontier Expansion and War
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- 9An Emerging Capitalist Nation, 1790–1840
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  - 9.1New Social Identities
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  - 9.2Transforming the Empire for Liberty
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  - 9.3New Regional Identities
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  - 9.4Tensions in the Empire for Liberty
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  - 9.5Conclusion
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  - 9.6Chapter Summary
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  - 9.7Competing Voices: Houses in the Early Republic
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- 10Transforming the Political Culture, 1820–1840
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  - 10.1Popular Politics, 1820–1828
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  - 10.2The Jacksonian Persuasion
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  - 10.3The Experiment in Action, 1829–1836
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  - 10.4Dissenting Strains, 1832–1840
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  - 10.5Conclusion
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  - 10.6Chapter Summary
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  - 10.7Competing Voices: Cherokee Removal
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- 11Industry and Reform in the North, 1820–1850
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  - 11.1Immigration and Urbanization
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  - 11.2The Accelerating Industrial Experiment
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  - 11.3Varieties of Reform
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  - 11.4Conclusion
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  - 11.5Chapter Summary
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  - 11.6Competing Voices: Two Views on Working Conditions
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- 12Living with Slavery, North and South: 1820–1850
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  - 12.1Abolition and Antislavery Movements
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  - 12.2Southern Society
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  - 12.3African-American Culture
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  - 12.4Planters and Yeomen
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  - 12.5Conclusion
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  - 12.6Chapter Summary
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  - 12.7Competing Voices: The Controversy Over Slavery
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- 13The Westward Experiment, 1820–1850
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  - 13.1A Great Transfer of Peoples
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  - 13.2Destinations and Encounters
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  - 13.3Expansion and Sectionalism, 1840–1848
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  - 13.4Conclusion
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  - 13.5Chapter Summary
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  - 13.6Competing Voices: The Passage West
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- 14The Sectional Challenge, 1848–1860
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  - 14.1Territory and Politics
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  - 14.2A New Party System Emerges
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  - 14.3The Slide into War, 1856–1859
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  - 14.4Lincoln and the Union, 1856–1860
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  - 14.5Conclusion
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  - 14.6Chapter Summary
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  - 14.7Competing Voices: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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- 15Transforming the Experiment: The Civil War, 1861–1865
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  - 15.1The War Begins, 1861
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  - 15.2Stalemate on the Battlefield, 1861–1862
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  - 15.3Mobilizing for War, 1861–1863
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  - 15.4War and Society, 1861–1865
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  - 15.5The Decisive Year, 1863
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  - 15.6A New Experiment in Warfare, 1864–1865
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  - 15.7Conclusion
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  - 15.8Chapter Summary
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  - 15.9Competing Voices: Civil War Songs
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- 16Reconstruction and the New South, 1865–1900
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  - 16.1Presidential Reconstruction: The First Experiment, 1864–1866
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  - 16.2Congressional Reconstruction: The Radical Experiment, 1866–1870
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  - 16.3The Radical Experiment in the South, 1865–1872
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  - 16.4President Grant and the Divided North, 1868–1876
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  - 16.5The Failure of Reconstruction, 1870–1877
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  - 16.6The New South, 1870–1900
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  - 16.7Conclusion
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  - 16.8Chapter Summary
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  - 16.9Competing Voices: Order Versus Freedom in the Reconstructed South
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