The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil WarDavid Brion Davis, Steven Mintz 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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... Peace , Commerce and Liberty ... are hourly rising " 307 Columbian Centinel , September 5 , 1812 77. " Our Northern & Western Armies seemed to be doomed to misfortune and Disgrace " 308 Benjamin Tallmadge , November 29 , 1812 78. " The ...
... Peace , Commerce and Liberty ... are hourly rising " 307 Columbian Centinel , September 5 , 1812 77. " Our Northern & Western Armies seemed to be doomed to misfortune and Disgrace " 308 Benjamin Tallmadge , November 29 , 1812 78. " The ...
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... we End the Rebellion ... Coax it , or Crush it ? 546 " The Two Roads to Peace , " n.d. 41. " I think a majority of the soldiers are for Lincoln❞ 550 Andrew Knox , September 10 , 1864 42. " The cry [ is ] ... on to CONTENTS xxix.
... we End the Rebellion ... Coax it , or Crush it ? 546 " The Two Roads to Peace , " n.d. 41. " I think a majority of the soldiers are for Lincoln❞ 550 Andrew Knox , September 10 , 1864 42. " The cry [ is ] ... on to CONTENTS xxix.
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... peace " beyond the line , " an invisible longitudinal barrier in the Atlantic that marked the lim- its of European treaties . By Thomas Jefferson's time , however , many Americans ( and even some Europeans ) had concluded that America ...
... peace " beyond the line , " an invisible longitudinal barrier in the Atlantic that marked the lim- its of European treaties . By Thomas Jefferson's time , however , many Americans ( and even some Europeans ) had concluded that America ...
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... peace , nothing seemed more alarming than the prospect of more British troops to the South and the West . A novel way to read the documents concerning the famous struggle over the nation- al debt and Alexander Hamilton's program for a ...
... peace , nothing seemed more alarming than the prospect of more British troops to the South and the West . A novel way to read the documents concerning the famous struggle over the nation- al debt and Alexander Hamilton's program for a ...
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... peace .... They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes ; and those who remain , have been incited by emissaries , books and pictures to servile insurrection . For twenty - five years this agitation has ...
... peace .... They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes ; and those who remain , have been incited by emissaries , books and pictures to servile insurrection . For twenty - five years this agitation has ...
Contents
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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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