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American History

Great resources for learning about American history.

Article Sets 1-5 for Gary Wilson's History 1301

All articles are available to copy at the Library Circulation desk and are library use only. Articles with links are also available full text from our databases, click on the link to get the article (Must access on campus or login with your COM account for off campus access).

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Set 3

Cliffhanger: presidential candidates Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr were deadlocked in the House of Representatives with no majority for either. For seven days, as they maneuvered and schemed, the fate of the young republic hung in the ballots
Reluctant Patriot
War Is Better Than Tribute
Iron will: while William Clark is best known for the expedition he made with Meriwether Lewis, his later life was as historic--and more consequential

Set 4

Set 5

The Father of American Terrorism
Assault in the Senate
The Rise & Fall of a Fervid Third Party
Excluded, Segregated, and Forgotten
Abraham Lincoln: The First Modern President
THE TRIALS CLARA BARTON AND TRIUMPHS
Lincoln’s Great Depression
The Union Lincoln Made
Lincoln and Douglass: Dismantling the Peculiar Institution
There's a Movement Afoot
The Many Lives of Fredrick Douglass
Defeating the Conspiracy