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Unfamiliar Fishes
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Sarah Vowell |
From the bestselling author of *The Wordy Shipmates*, comes an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn.
Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, … |
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Dancing at the Odinochka
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Kirkpatrick Hill |
In the 1860s, Erinia Pavaloff's life at a trading post in Russian America gets more complicated when the region is annexed to the United States and members of the small community become American Alas… |
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Land pacts
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Susan Dudley Gold |
Discusses the three treaties that tripled the land holdings of the United States during the nineteenth century: the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the Guadalupe-Hidalgo treaty in 1848, and the Alaska Pu… |
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The purchase of Alaska, March 30, 1867
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Peter P. Sgroi |
An account of the purchase of Alaska by the United States from Russia in 1867. |
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Papers relating to foreign affairs
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United States. Department of State. |
Consists primarily of correspondence to and from W.H. Seward. |
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