Tales from our cousins to the West, telling of their independence from Britain, their bloody civil war, their runaway prosperity, and the slender thread by which it hangs.
In replying to a letter of support from Manchester’s cotton workers,
US President Lincoln showed how deeply touched he had been.
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A Declaration of Independence
ByThomas Jefferson
On July 4th, 1776, a group of American colonists gathered in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, to present delegates of the Thirteen Colonies with a historic document.
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Home, Sweet Home
ByAlexis de Tocqueville
French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville visited the USA in the 1830s,
and found a degree of contentment that he rarely found in Europe.
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A Moral and Religious People
ByJohn Adams
John Adams, the second President of the USA, told army officers in
Massachusetts that the Constitution he had helped to draw up could not guarantee them liberty.
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John Brown of Osawatomie
ByD. H. Montgomery
Shortly before the American Civil War, an attack by pro-slavery
militants on the city of Lawrence prompted John Brown to try to clean up Kansas.
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The Battle of Gettysburg
ByD. H. Montgomery
Two years into the American Civil War, the Union army responded to
a dispiriting defeat at Chancellorsville with a decisive and historic victory at Gettysburg.
