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      • Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Chapter 1: The Ministers and Their Times
      • Chapter 2: The Minister's Calling
      • Epilogue
      • Appendix: Length of Ministerial Settlement
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    • The Congregationalists >
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      • Bibliographic Dictionary of Leaders
    • Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life >
      • Prologue: The South Pacific, 1943 >
        • Eleanor Roosevelt South Pacific
      • A Victorian Family
      • The Legacy
      • Growing Up
      • Eleanor and Franklin
      • A Politician's Wife
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      • On Her Own
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      • History as a Story
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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

BALFOUR, HUGH, AND J. WILLIAM FROST. The Quakers (1988). History and biographical dictionary of the Quakers; a volume in the authoritative Denominations in America series.

BREEN, T. H. The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (2004). John Woolman warned against the “scramble” for “cumber.” Breen shows how that scramble helped drive the colonists to revolution.

CADY, EDWIN. John Woolman (1965). Good narrative of Woolman’s life; a volume in the Great American Thinkersseries.

HAMM, THOMAS D. The Quakers in America (2003). Traces Quaker social activism from colonial times to the present.

MORETTA, JOHN. The William Penn and the Quaker Legacy (2006). Valuable brief biography of William Penn.

ROSENBLATT, PAUL. John Woolman (1969). Survey of Woolman’s life, focusing on his writing and thought; a volume in the Twayne United States Authors Series.

SWIFT, NED. A Finger in the Pye: John Woolman and the Approach of the American Revolution (Master’s Thesis, Eastern Washington University, 2002). Thoughtful and engaging account of John Woolman’s “altruistic radicalism.”

TOLLES, FREDERICK BARNES. Meeting House and Counting House: The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia, 1682–1763 (1963). A classic history of Quaker efforts to remain true to their spiritual legacy while enjoying wealth in the New World.

WEST, JESSAMYN, EDITOR. The Quaker Reader (1962). Useful anthology of Quaker writings, including works by George Fox, William Penn, and John Woolman.

WOOLMAN, JOHN. The Journal of John Woolman and a Plea for the Poor (1961). Two of Woolman’s major works, with an introduction by Frederick B. Tolles. E-text of The Journal of John Woolman (University of Virginia Library)

YANNESSA, MARY ANN. Levi Coffin, Quaker: Breaking the Bonds of Slavery in Ohio and Indiana (2001). Brief biography of Levi Coffin, a Southern Quaker who moved north and became reputedly the “president” of the underground railroad.

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