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Divining America:
Religion in American History

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  Religion in the Public Schools
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17th & 18th Centuries
Essays
Native American Religion
Deism and the Founding of
    the United States

Puritanism and Predestination
The Legacy of Puritanism
Witchcraft in Salem Village
The First Great Awakening
Religious Pluralism in the
    Middle Colonies

Church and State in British
    North America

Separation of Church and State
    from the American Revolution
    to the Early Republic

The Church of England
Religion, Women, and the Family
Religion and the American Revolution
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19th Century
Essays
The Foreign Missionary Movement
American Jewish Experience - 19th C.
Mormonism and the American
    Mainstream

Evangelicalism/Second Great
    Awakening

Evangelicalism as a Social Movement
American Abolitionism and Religion
Religion in the Civil War:
    The Southern Perspective

Religion in the Civil War:
    The Northern Perspective

The Religious Origins of
    Manifest Destiny

African American Christianity, Pt. I
African American Christianity, Pt. II
Roman Catholics and Immigration
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20th Century
Essays
The Foreign Missionary Movement
    (located in 19th C. section)
Religious Liberalism
The Rise of Fundamentalism
Apocalypticism in American
    Culture

The Scopes Trial
African American Christianity, Pt. II
    (located in 19th C. section)
Marcus Garvey & the UNIA
The Social Gospel and the
    Progressive Era

Religious Diversity in America
Roman Catholics & American
    Mainstream

American Jewish Experience - 20th C.
Islam in America
Religion in Post-World War II America
The Christian Right
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Nature Transformed:
The Environment in American History

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Native Americans and the Land
Essays
Indian Country Today
American Indians: The Image of the
    Indian

Pleistocene Die-Off
The Columbian Exchange
Indian Removal
Buffalo Tales
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Wilderness and American Identity
Essays
The Roots of Preservation: Emerson,
    Thoreau, and the Hudson River School
The Puritan Origins of the American
    Wilderness Movement
The Challenge of the Arid West
Rachel Carson and the Awakening of
    Environmental Consciousness
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The Use of the Land
Essays
Cities and Suburbs
History with Fire in Its Eye
The Civil War: An Environmental View
Roads, Highways, & Ecosystems
Three Worlds, Three Views
Environmental Justice for All
Choosing Future Population
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Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History
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1609-1865
Essays
The Varieties of Slave Labor
How Slavery Affected African
    American Families

Slave Resistance
The Demise of Slavery
Rooted in Africa, Raised in America:
    The Traditional Arts and Crafts
    of African-Americans Across Five
    Centuries
Beyond the Written Document:
    Looking for Africa in
    African American Culture
How to Read a Slave Narrative
Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs:
    American Slave Narrators


1865-1917
Essays
Reconstruction and the Formerly
    Enslaved

“Somewhere” in the Nadir of African
    American History, 1890-1920

Racial Uplift Ideology in the Era of
    "The Negro Problem"

Pigmentocracy
Segregation
The Trickster in African American
    Literature


1917 and Beyond
Essays
African American Protest Poetry
The New Negro and the Black Image:
    From Booker T. Washington to
    Alain Locke

The Image of Africa in the Literature of
    the Harlem Renaissance

Jazz and the African American
    Literary Tradition

The Civil Rights Movement: 1919-1960s
The Civil Rights Movement: 1968-2008







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