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Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the direction of the secretary of war, in 1853-[6] ...

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CONTENTS: v. 1. Report of the Sec. of War. Examination of the routes. Memoranda on railways. Report of Gen. Jesup -- v. 1 suppl. Suppl. report by I.I. Stevens ... route near the 47th and 49th parallels -- v. 2. Reports on routes near the 38th and…

Collection: Books and Pamphlets

Reader's Digest World [videorecording] : America in the '40's

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It was the most momentous decade of the century: ten years of triumphs and tragedies, heartaches and heroics, hopes and humor. This series looks at the fads, the fun, the hits, the headlines, the hometown life ... and the decades' best-loved stars…

Collection: Video Library

Prophets of protest : reconsidering the history of American abolitionism / edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John Stauffer

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Contents: "Truth systematised" : the changing debate over slavery and abolition, 1761-1916 / Robert P. Forbes -- Coming of age : the historiography of Black abolitionism / Manisha Sinha -- Geographies of liberty : a brief look at two cases / T.K.…

Collection: Books and Pamphlets