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I read and comment on Primary Source readings out of (mostly) American History, so you can hear voices of the people who were there, rather than just historians.
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Condition of Mexico (1842)
Whenever the foreigners in California make the movement of separation, it must succeed. The department of Sonora, not half the distance from Mexico…
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Dan Allosso
A Fugitive Case (1841)
Partial View Oberlin by H. Alonzo Pease, 1838 Oberlin, Feb. 27, 1841. A scene of a most exciting character has just transpired in this place. Last…
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Cheerful View of Slavery (1841)
Charles Lyell in Glasgow, 1840. Returning home to this hospitable mansion in the dusk of the evening of the day following, I was surprised to see in a…
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On the Coast of California (1835)
The bay of Monterey is very wide at the entrance, being about twenty-four miles between the two points, Año Nuevo at the north and Pinos at the south…
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All Honest Callings are Honorable (1840)
Amongst a democratic people where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or has worked, or is born of parents who have worked…
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Ranney Letters (1839, 1842)
Illustration in an 1884 history of Michigan railroads, showing the types of "cars" that first reached Hillsdale in 1843. The series of letters kept by…
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Speech at Pennsylvania Hall (1838)
As a Southerner I feel that it is my duty to stand up here to-night and bear testimony against slavery. I have seen it — I have seen it. I know it has…
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