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Janney, Caroline E. "Written in Stone: Gender, Race, and the Heyward Shepherd Memorial." Civil War History 52, no. 2 (June 2006): 117-141. | Journal Article | Secondary | 2005 | ||
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Boyer, Paul S. The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People. 6th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. | Book | Secondary | 2008 | ||
Hardy, William E. “South of the Border: Ulysses S. Grant and the French Intervention.” Civil War History 54, no. 1 (2008): 63-86. | Journal Article | Secondary | 2008 | ||
Horn, Stanley F. “Isham G. Harris in the Pre-War Years.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 19 (September 1960): 195-207. | Journal Article | Secondary | 1960 | ||
Booth, Edward Townsend. Country Life in America as Lived by Ten Presidents of the United States: John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. | Book | Secondary | 1947 | ||
Shackel, Paul A. "Terrible Saint: Changing Meanings of the John Brown Fort." Historical Archaeology 29, no. 4 (1995): 11-25. | Journal Article | Secondary | 1995 | ||
Frost, Karolyn Smardz. I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. | Book | Secondary | 2007 | ||
Levy, JoAnn. "Under Siege at Mission Santa Clara." Californians 7, no. 4 (1989): 30-34. | Journal Article | Secondary | 1989 | ||
Johannsen, Robert W. "Stephen A. Douglas' New England Campaign, 1860." New England Quarterly 35, no. 2 (June 1962): 162-186. | Journal Article | Secondary | 1962 | ||
Divine, Robert A. The American Story. 3rd ed. New York: Pearson Education, Inc., 2007. | Book | Secondary | 2007 |