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Gods Messengers: Religious Leadership in Colonial New England, 1700-1750
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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
Abbreviations
The Congregationalists
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Timeline
Bibliographic Dictionary of Leaders
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life
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Prologue: The South Pacific, 1943
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Eleanor Roosevelt South Pacific
A Victorian Family
The Legacy
Growing Up
Eleanor and Franklin
A Politician's Wife
Grief
Public Service
First Lady
The Democratic Crusade
On Her Own
American Realities (Book)
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History as a Story
A Note on Wikipedia as a Source
Volume One
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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
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Two Soldiers
Volume Two
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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
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Norsemen in the New World
The Fair and the Falls
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Part I: Possessing the Falls
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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
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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
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Chapter Ten: From Spokane to Paris
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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
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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
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Chapter Twenty-One: Spokane Falls, An American Environment
The Fair and the Falls Map
Part I: Possessing the Falls
"I determined that I would possess it."
- James Glover
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
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Part II: Rediscovering the Falls