VOICES FROM AMERICA’S PAST

THE BEGINNINGS OF AMERICA

1607-1763

Edited by

Richard B. Morris

Gouverneur Morris Professor of History

Columbia University

New York, New York

James Woodress

Chairman, Department of English

San Fernando Valley State College

Northridge, California

WEBSTER PUBLISHING COMPANY

ST. LOUIS ATLANTA DALLAS PASADENA

VOICES FROM AMERICA’S PAST

_The Beginnings of America 1607-1763_

_The Times That Tried Men’s Souls 1770-1783_

_The Age of Washington 1783-1801_

_The Jeffersonians 1801-1829_

_Jacksonian Democracy 1829-1848_

_The Westward Movement 1832-1889_

_A House Divided: The Civil War 1850-1865_

(_Other titles in preparation_)

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