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Pletcher, David M. The Diplomacy of Annexation: Texas, Oregon, and the Mexican War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1973. Book Secondary 1973 Full Record
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Bromberg, Alan B. “John Mercer Langston: Black Congressman from the Old Dominion.” Virginia Cavalcade 30, no. 2 (1980): 60-67. Journal Article Secondary 1980 Full Record
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Brown, Kent Masterson and Edgar G. Archer. "The Military Career of General Ambrose Powell Hill. Part II: Mechanicsville to Sharpsburg: The Ascendance of the ‘Light Division’." Lincoln Herald 81, no. 3 (1979): 148-158. Journal Article Secondary 1979 Full Record
Buchanan, Patrick J. "Jimmy Polk's War." National Interest no. 56 (1999): 97-105. Journal Article Secondary 1999 Full Record
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