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Chapter 1 - 'Men Prone to Wonder': America Before 1600 Chapter 2 - The European Settlement of North America: The Atlantic Coast to 1660 Chapter 3 - Empires: 1660-1702 Chapter 4 - Benjamin Franklin's World: Colonial North America, 1702-1763 Chapter 5 - Toward Independence, 1764-1783 Chapter 6 - Inventing the American Republic: The States Chapter 7 - Inventing the American Republic: The Nation Chapter 8 - Establishing the New Nation Chapter 9 - The Fabric of Change, 1800-1815 Chapter 10 - A New Epoch: 1815-1828 Chapter 11 - Political Innovation in a Mechanical Age: 1828-1840 Chapter 12 - Worker Worlds in Antebellum America Chapter 13 - The Benevolent Empire: Religion and Reform, 1825-1846 Chapter 14 - National Expansion, Sectional Division: 1839-1850 Chapter 15 - A House Dividing: 1851-1860 Chapter 16 - Civil War: 1861-1865 Chapter 17 - Reconstruction, 1865-1877 Chapter 18 - The Rise of Big Business and the Triumph of Industry: 1870-1900 Chapter 19 - An Industrial Society: 1870-1910 Chapter 20 - Politics, Industrialism, and the State: 1876-1900 Chapter 21 - A New Place in the World: 1865-1914 Chapter 22 - The Progressive Era Chapter 23 - War, Prosperity, and the Metropolis: 1914-1929 Chapter 24 - The New Deal Chapter 25 - Whirlpool of War Chapter 26 - Fighting for Freedom Chapter 27 - From Hot War to Cold War Chapter 28 - Korea, Eisenhower, and Affluence Chapter 29 - Renewal of Reform Chapter 30 - Years of Rage Chapter 31 - Conservative Revival Chapter 32 - The Reagan Revolution Chapter 33 - Inventing a New Order
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Nat Turner: FROM The Confessions of Nat Turner (1832).

Benjamin Drew: The Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives (1850).

The Fugitive Slave Act (1850).

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856)

Frederick Law Olmsted: FROM A Journey in the Seabord States (1856).

Benjamin Drew: Narratives of Escaped Slaves (1855).

George Fitzhugh: FROM The Blessings of Slavery (1857).

Mark Twain: FROM Life on the Mississippi(1883).

The Condition of the Operatives [The Voice of Industry, March 26, 1847)]

Editorial: Home in a Boarding House [The Lowell Offering, Vol. III (1842)]

The Factory Bell (FROM The Factory Girl's Garland, May 25, 1844).

FROM Harriet H. Robinson: Loom and Spindle, or Life Among the Early Mill Girls (1898)

Harriet Hanson Robinson: Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement. A General, Political, Legal and Legislative History from 1774, to 1881 (1883)

Female Workers of Lowell [The Harbinger, 1836]

A Week in the Mill [The Lowell Offering, Vol. V (1845)]

Excerpt from Lucy Larcom, Among Lowell Mill-Girls: A Reminiscence [The Atlantic Monthly, November 1881]

FROM Harriet H. Robinson, Loom and Spindle, or Life Among the Early Mill Girls (1898)

Josephine L. Baker, A Second Peep at Factory Life, [The Lowell Offering, Vol. V (1845)]

FROM Harriet H. Robinson, Loom and Spindle, or Life Among the Early Mill Girls (1898)

Excerpt from Lucy Larcom, Among Lowell Mill Girls: A Reminiscence [The Atlantic Monthly, November 1881]

FROM Harriet H. Robinson, Loom and Spindle, or Life Among the Early Mill Girls (1898)

Sarah G. Bagley, Pleasures of Factory Life [The Lowell Offering, Series I (1840)]

Abel C. Thomas, Plan for Mutual Relief [The Lowell Offering, Series I, No. 2 (1840)]

Abel C. Thomas, Editor's Valedictory [The Lowell Offering, Volume 2 (1842)]

Harriet Farley, Editorial: The Ten Hour Movement [The Lowell Offering, Vol. V (1845)]

Lowell and its Manufactories [Operatives' Magazine article]

The Turn Out at Lowell (The Man, February 22, 1834)

Factory Girls Meeting (The Man, March 8,1834)

An Appeal to Consistency (Wampanoag, and Operatives Journal, July 9, 1842)

What are we coming to (The Factory Girl, March 1, 1843)

The Operatives' Life (Factory Girls' Album, September 19, 1846)

Harriet Farley, Letters From Susan, Letter Second [The Lowell Offering, Vol. IV (June 1844)]

FROM Harriet H. Robinson, Loom and Spindle, or Life Among the Early Mill Girls (1898)

Excerpt from Lucy Larcom, Among Lowell Mill-Girls: A Reminiscence [The Atlantic Monthly, November 1881]

Josephine L. Baker, A Second Peep at Factory Life [The Lowell Offering, Vol. V (1845)]

 

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