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“Characteristics of the Early Factory Girls” (1898)
Harriet Hanson Robinson
Excerpts from Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Quizzes on Procrastination and Causes
Andrew Jackson's Second Annual Message
Andrew Jackson
"The Trail of Tears" article
Dee Brown
Declaration of Sentiments (Seneca Falls 1848)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Excerpt from "The Excuse of Paternalism in the Antebellum South: Ideology or Practice"
Josh Cole
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass
Excerpts from John O’Sullivan’s articles
John O’Sullivan
Abraham Lincoln's Letter to Horace Greeley
Abraham Lincoln
Louisiana Black Codes (1865)
A Sharecropper's Contract
Fourteenth Amendment
U.S. Government
Excerpts "Plessy v. Ferguson"
Chief Joseph's Speech, Washington, DC 1879
Chief Young Joseph
Treaty of Point Elliott, 1855
Washington Territory
Luther Standing Bear (Lakota) on his experience at Carlisle Indian School, 1879
Luther Standing Bear
The School Days of an Indian Girl by Zitkala-Sa
Zitkala-Sa
Rules for Indian Schools, 1890
Environmentalism: Gifford Pinchot and John Muir
Assorted Readings
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