The Significance of the Frontier in American History, Paperback - Frederick Jackson Turner

Reducere. DescriptionThe Significance of the Frontier in American History is a classic essay about the importance of the frontier.

Reducere. The Frontier in American History By Frederick Jackson Turner

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In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned ...

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Reducere. A devastating loss of life and a community's response March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in Collinwood, Ohio, a village about ten miles outside...

Frederick Douglass was a key figure in helping to secure the abolition of slavery in America - discover his Narrative this Black History Month. A p...

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States of Exception in American History brings to light the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Const...

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Frederick Douglass's pioneering autobiography that played a key part in the abolition of slavery.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Frederick Dougl...

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