Primary Sources in American History

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3.92 avg rating — 239,363 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,129 ratings
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U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom)
U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom) 4.52 avg rating — 27,061 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3.85 avg rating — 89,879 ratings
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Common Sense
Common Sense really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38,566 ratings
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea 4.02 avg rating — 14,409 ratings
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Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit 4.40 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence 4.54 avg rating — 3,815 ratings
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United States Bill of Rights
United States Bill of Rights 4.64 avg rating — 2,847 ratings
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The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers 4.10 avg rating — 41,559 ratings
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Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays 4.06 avg rating — 17,587 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 131,993 ratings
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The Articles of Confederation (Books of American Wisdom)
The Articles of Confederation (Books of American Wisdom) 3.70 avg rating — 236 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,942 ratings
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 3.94 avg rating — 229,609 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,856 ratings
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Of Plymouth Plantation
Of Plymouth Plantation 3.50 avg rating — 2,174 ratings
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Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery 4.11 avg rating — 35,601 ratings
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The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
The Letters of John and Abigail Adams 4.15 avg rating — 373 ratings
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,315 ratings
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Walden & Civil Disobedience
Walden & Civil Disobedience 3.94 avg rating — 38,623 ratings
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I Have a Dream / Letter from Birmingham Jail
I Have a Dream / Letter from Birmingham Jail 4.60 avg rating — 2,336 ratings
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The Complete Writings of Roger Williams
The Complete Writings of Roger Williams 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Portable John Adams
The Portable John Adams 4.10 avg rating — 68 ratings
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My Beloved World
My Beloved World 4.09 avg rating — 33,500 ratings
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William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight Against Slavery: Selections from The Liberator (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight Against Slavery: Selections from The Liberator (Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.71 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Complete Writings
Complete Writings 3.66 avg rating — 397 ratings
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The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address 4.52 avg rating — 7,662 ratings
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The Rough Riders
The Rough Riders 3.78 avg rating — 3,504 ratings
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Roughing It
Roughing It 3.88 avg rating — 10,054 ratings
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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt 3.93 avg rating — 3,655 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,183 ratings
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Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address 4.25 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Washington's Inaugural address of 1789
Washington's Inaugural address of 1789 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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John F. Kennedy: The Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy: The Inaugural Address 4.47 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address 3.93 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address 3.92 avg rating — 98 ratings
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This Republic: Illuminating Republican Government
This Republic: Illuminating Republican Government 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Franklin on Faith
Franklin on Faith it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Struggle for the Georgia Coast: An 18Th-Century Spanish Retrospective on Guale and Mocama
The Struggle for the Georgia Coast: An 18Th-Century Spanish Retrospective on Guale and Mocama 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Decapitating the Union: Jefferson Davis, Judah Benjamin and the Plot to Assassinate Lincoln
Decapitating the Union: Jefferson Davis, Judah Benjamin and the Plot to Assassinate Lincoln 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Democracy in America
Democracy in America 4.05 avg rating — 26,630 ratings
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"I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife": African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era
"I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife": African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era 4.58 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream 3.83 avg rating — 168,478 ratings
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From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter
From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter 4.40 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Great Issues in American History 1: From Settlement to Revolution 1584-1776
Great Issues in American History 1: From Settlement to Revolution 1584-1776 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Life on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi 3.87 avg rating — 15,346 ratings
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The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger
The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger 3.85 avg rating — 183 ratings
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No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington
No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington 3.95 avg rating — 4,085 ratings
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Great Issues in American History, Vol 2: From the Revolution to the Civil War 1765-1865
Great Issues in American History, Vol 2: From the Revolution to the Civil War 1765-1865 3.92 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Decision Points
Decision Points 3.81 avg rating — 42,107 ratings
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The Elvis Reader: Texts and Sources on the King of Rock 'N' Roll
The Elvis Reader: Texts and Sources on the King of Rock 'N' Roll really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Confession and avoidance: A memoir
Confession and avoidance: A memoir 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians
Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians
by: Swanton
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles
Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles 4.39 avg rating — 2,538 ratings
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Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook
Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now
Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now 4.06 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson 3.87 avg rating — 1,230 ratings
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The White House Years
The White House Years 3.91 avg rating — 565 ratings
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Proslavery And Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829: An Anthology
Proslavery And Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829: An Anthology 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Political Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Monticello Monograph Series)
The Political Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Monticello Monograph Series) 4.18 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Years of Upheaval
Years of Upheaval 3.91 avg rating — 293 ratings
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Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen
Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen
by: Mark Rudd
3.73 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology
Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology 4.52 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson 2.88 avg rating — 3,572 ratings
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Years of Renewal (Henry Kissinger's Memoirs #3)
Years of Renewal (Henry Kissinger's Memoirs #3) 3.83 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America and a Stay of Several Years Along the Missouri (During the Years 1824, '25, '26, 1827) (Volume 1)
Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America and a Stay of Several Years Along the Missouri (During the Years 1824, '25, '26, 1827) (Volume 1) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Design for Obama. Posters for Change: A Grassroots Anthology
Design for Obama. Posters for Change: A Grassroots Anthology 4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Memoirs of Richard Nixon
Memoirs of Richard Nixon 4.06 avg rating — 969 ratings
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Southern Frontier Humor: An Anthology
Southern Frontier Humor: An Anthology 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 3.74 avg rating — 14,418 ratings
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Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents
Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents 3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Other America: Poverty in the United States
The Other America: Poverty in the United States 4.06 avg rating — 1,184 ratings
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The Ancient Near East, Volume 1: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures
The Ancient Near East, Volume 1: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures 3.88 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War 3.92 avg rating — 7,689 ratings
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Jackie Robinson: My Own Story
Jackie Robinson: My Own Story 4.15 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Beatles Anthology
The Beatles Anthology 4.38 avg rating — 17,684 ratings
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Marbury v. Madison
Marbury v. Madison 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Story of a Border City During the Civil War
The Story of a Border City During the Civil War it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Vanishing Georgia: Photographs from the Vanishing Georgia Collection, Georgia Department of Archives and History (Brown Thrasher Books)
Vanishing Georgia: Photographs from the Vanishing Georgia Collection, Georgia Department of Archives and History (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Neat Pieces: The Plain-Style Furniture of Nineteenth-Century Georgia
Neat Pieces: The Plain-Style Furniture of Nineteenth-Century Georgia 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Counterinsurgency Field Manual - Tactics, Intelligence, Host Nation Forces, Airpower
Counterinsurgency Field Manual - Tactics, Intelligence, Host Nation Forces, Airpower 3.82 avg rating — 610 ratings
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Cornerstones of Georgia History: Documents That Formed the State
Cornerstones of Georgia History: Documents That Formed the State 3.67 avg rating — 36 ratings
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My Life
My Life 3.74 avg rating — 49,704 ratings
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The Great American Documents: Volume I: 1620-1830 (The Great American Documents, 1)
The Great American Documents: Volume I: 1620-1830 (The Great American Documents, 1) 3.71 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Generall Historie of Virginia, Volume 1
The Generall Historie of Virginia, Volume 1 2.90 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Living History
Living History 3.76 avg rating — 34,057 ratings
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The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle
The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle 4.42 avg rating — 286 ratings
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New English Canaan: Text, Notes, Biography & Criticism
New English Canaan: Text, Notes, Biography & Criticism 3.55 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Madam Secretary
Madam Secretary 4.11 avg rating — 9,058 ratings
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The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Documentary Reader
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Documentary Reader 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Salt II Treaty Debate: The Cold War Congressional Hearings Over Nuclear Weapons and Soviet-American Arms Control
The Salt II Treaty Debate: The Cold War Congressional Hearings Over Nuclear Weapons and Soviet-American Arms Control 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents
Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents 4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630–1649: Abridged Edition
The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630–1649: Abridged Edition 2.88 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Pentagon Papers
The Pentagon Papers 3.97 avg rating — 527 ratings
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The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays
The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Creating Georgia: Minutes of the Bray Associates 1730-1732 and Supplementary Documents
Creating Georgia: Minutes of the Bray Associates 1730-1732 and Supplementary Documents 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Works of Anne Bradstreet
The Works of Anne Bradstreet 3.68 avg rating — 580 ratings
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Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions
Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Diary of Michael Wigglesworth 1653-57: The Conscience of a Puritan
Diary of Michael Wigglesworth 1653-57: The Conscience of a Puritan 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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