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Days of destiny, crossroads in American history : America's greatest historians examine thirty-one uncelebrated days that changed the course of history, general editors, James M. McPherson, Alan Brinkley ; editor, David Rubel

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Days of destiny, crossroads in American history : America's greatest historians examine thirty-one uncelebrated days that changed the course of history, general editors, James M. McPherson, Alan Brinkley ; editor, David Rubel

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Days of destiny

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47161938

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general editors, James M. McPherson, Alan Brinkley ; editor, David Rubel

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crossroads in American history : America's greatest historians examine thirty-one uncelebrated days that changed the course of history

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Introduction / James M. McPherson and Alan Brinkley -- June 17, 1675 : King Philip's quarell / James Axtell -- October 23, 1740 : Whitefield awakens America / John Demos -- May 24, 1775 : Silas Deane's diary / Jack N. Rakove -- October 19, 1781 : the Battle of Yorktown / Robert Middlekauff -- July 16, 1787 : the day the constitution was saved / Gordon S. Wood -- June 20, 1790 : Mr. Jefferson's dinner party / Joseph J. Ellis -- March 4, 1801 : the second American Revolution / Joyce Appleby -- Mid-February 1824 : the way West / William H. Goetzmann -- January 1, 1831 : the liberator / Ira Berlin -- July 20, 1848 : the Seneca Falls Convention / Christine Stansell -- March 6, 1857 : the day of Dred Scott / Sean Wilentz -- September 13, 1862 : the lost orders / James M. McPherson -- June 13, 1866 : equality before the law / Eric Foner -- October 5, 1877 : "I will fight no more forever" / Elliott West -- February 24, 1908 : affirming the sexual divison of labor / Alice Kessler-Harris -- August 14, 1908 : the end of accommodation / David Levering Lewis -- January 1, 1913 : the routine arrest that launched a revolution / Geoffrey C. Ward -- June 20, 1917 : the great demand / Nancy F. Cott -- July 20, 1925 : the Scopes

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Crossroads in American history

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