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      • Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Chapter 1: The Ministers and Their Times
      • Chapter 2: The Minister's Calling
      • Epilogue
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    • The Congregationalists >
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      • Prologue: The South Pacific, 1943 >
        • Eleanor Roosevelt South Pacific
      • A Victorian Family
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      • Volume One >
        • The Native Americans
        • The English Background
        • The British American
        • Reform in Colonial America
        • Divided Loyalties
        • The American Revolution
        • Testing the Constitution
        • Republican Nationalism
        • The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy
        • Abolitionists and Anti-abolitionists
        • Texas Revolution
        • Reform in the Early Republic
        • Manifest Destiny
        • A Slave's Story
        • The Civil War >
          • Two Soldiers
      • Volume Two >
        • The “Taming” of the West
        • Beyond Emancipation
        • The New Industrial Era
        • The Birth of Environmentalism
        • New Immigrants
        • Expanding American Democracy
        • World War I
        • Modernity versus Tradition
        • The New Deal
        • Total War
        • The Cold War
        • The Civil Rights Movement
        • Turmoil on the Campuses
        • The New Computer Age
        • America, the Cold War, and Beyond
      • Additional Essays >
        • Norsemen in the New World
    • The Fair and the Falls >
      • Part I: Possessing the Falls >
        • Chapter One: James Glover: Purchasing the Falls
        • Chapter Two: Waiting for the Indians
        • Chapter Three: Harnessing the Falls
        • Chapter Four: "The World's Fair of the Northwest"
        • Chapter Five: The City Beside the Falls
      • Part II: Rediscovering the Falls >
        • Chapter Six: The Twilight of Old Spokane
        • Chapter Seven: Urban Blight and Urban Renewal
        • Chapter Eight: King Cole and The Heart of a City
        • Chapter Nine: Visualizing a World's Fair
      • Part III Redesigning the Falls >
        • Chapter Ten: From Spokane to Paris >
          • Tom Foley's Turn
        • Chapter Eleven: Wooing the Foreign Exhibitors
        • Chapter Twelve: Wooing the Domestic Exhibitors
        • Chapter Thirteen: The Environmental Debate
        • Chapter Fourteen: Building the Fair
        • Chapter Fifteen: Marketing, Money, and Management
      • Part IV: The Fair by the Falls >
        • Chapter Sixteen: Opening Day
        • Chapter Seventeen: A Mingling of Peoples
        • Chapter Eighteen: Days at the Fair
        • Chapter Nineteen: The Press of New Ideas
        • Chapter Twenty: The Final Tally
      • Part V: An American Environment >
        • Chapter Twenty-One: Spokane Falls, An American Environment
      • The Fair and the Falls Map
Bibliography

DIXON, CHRIS. Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America (1997). Focuses on eight abolitionist couples, including the Garrisons and the Stantons, and explores the relationship between their abolitionism and their marriages.

HARROLD, STANLEY. The Abolitionists and the South, 1831–1861 (1995). An account of the least known, and arguably the most courageous, of the abolitionists.

———. The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves (2004). Argues that by the early 1840s, abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison, were advocating slave rebellion.

JEFFREY, JULIE ROY. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (1998). Explores ways that ordinary women, many living in small towns and on farms, took part in the abolitionist movement.

KRADITOR, AILEEN S. Means and Ends in American Abolitionism (1968). Sympathetic assessment of supposed fanaticism of Garrison and other radical abolitionists.

MAYER, HENRY. All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery (1998). Evocative account of Garrison’s passion for reform by a writer who was a devoted activist during the 1960s.

MCCARTHY, TIMOTHY PATRICK, AND JOHN STAUFFER, EDITORS. The Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism (2006). A collection of essays demonstrating the wide-ranging backgrounds of the abolitionists.

MERRILL, WALTER M., AND LOUIS RUCHAMES, EDITORS. The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison (1971–1981). Well-edited multi-volume collection with many rich and informative letters.

RICHARDS, LEONARD L. “Gentlemen of Property and Standing”: Anti-Abolitionist Mobs in Jacksonian America (1970).Description and analysis of northern hostility to abolitionists.

THOMAS, JOHN L. The Liberator (1963). Prize-winning biography of Garrison.

WALTERS, RONALD G. The Antislavery Appeal (1976). Discusses the character of the abolitionist supporters.

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