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History 120 - Fall Semester
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BRIA: Laws of the Indies: Spain and the Native Peoples of the New World
BRIA: John Adams and the Boston Massacre Trials
"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine
BRIA: The Articles of Confederation
BRIA: Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau on Government
The Declaration of Independence, 1776
Faces - by David McCullough
Text of the Articles of Confederation
The Northwest Ordinance
BRIA: Declaration of Independence and Natural Rights
Text of the Treaty of Paris, 1783
BRIA: An Independent Judiciary
The 27 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
The Federalist Papers
BRIA: Who Voted in Early America?
BRIA: Separating Church and State
BRIA: The Election of 1824-25: When the House Chose the President
BRIA: Persecution of the Mormons
Reconstruction, by Frederick Douglass
BRIA: Lynching in America
The Freedmen's Bureau by W.E.B. DuBois
BRIA: Indian Removal: The Cherokees, Jackson, and the “Trail of Tears”
BRIA: Black Troops in Union Blue
BRIA: Clash of Empires: The Fight for North America
BRIA: Climate Change and Violence in the Ancient American Southwest
BRIA: Conspiracy Theories: Attacks on Jefferson Set the Pattern
BRIA: Firestorm: The Bombing of Civilians in World War Two
BRIA: "We Came to Free the Slaves": John Brown on Trial
BRIA: President Polk and the Taking of the West
BRIA: Social Darwinism and American Laissez-Faire Capitalism
BRIA: The Alien and Sedition Acts: Defining American Freedom
Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln (1863)
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1864)
BRIA: A Hero Betrayed: The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
BRIA: Educating European Immigrant Children Before World War I
Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties
BRIA: The Scopes Trial: Who Decides What Gets Taught in the Classroom?
BRIA: Race and Voting in the Segregated South
BRIA: Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Case
BRIA: FDR Tries to "Pack" the Supreme Court
BRIA: Firestorms: The Bombing of Civilians in World War II
BRIA: The UN: Fifty Years of Keeping the Peace
BRIA: How Welfare Began in the United States
BRIA: Juvenile Justice
BRIA: The Berkeley Free Speech Movement
Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Rev. Martin L. King, Jr.
BRIA: Choices: Truman, Hirohito, and the Atomic Bomb
BRIA: Theodore Roosevelt and the Panama Canal
BRIA: How Women Won the Right to Vote
A History of Key Abortion Rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court
BRIA: Karl Marx: A Failed Vision of History
BRIA: One Big Union - One Big Strike: The Story of the Wobblies
The Bisbee Deportation
BRIA: Seeking Asylum in the U.S.
BRIA: The Bush Doctrine
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
BRIA: The Debate Over Hawaii and an American Overseas Empire
BRIA: The Income Tax Amendment: Most Thought It Was a Great Idea in 1913
The Triangle Factory Fire in 1911
Can You Make Ends Meet in Brooklyn in the Early 1900s?