Taking sides. The colonial period to reconstruction / Volume 1, The colonial period to reconstruction / [selected, edited and with issue framing material by] Larry Madaras, James M. SoRelle.
Is America exceptional? -- Was the Pequot War largely a product of Native American aggression? -- Was the colonial period a "golden age" for women in America? -- Were socioeconomic tensions responsible for the witchcraft hysteria in Salem -- Was there a great awakening in mid-eighteenth-century America? -- Was the American revolution a conservative movement? -- Was the Second Amendment designed to protect an individual's right to own guns? -- Was Alexander Hamilton an economic genius? -- Did the election of 1828 represent a democratic revolt of the people? -- Did educational opportunities for women expand their participation in antebellum society? -- Was antebellum temperance reform motivated primarily by religious moralism? -- Did African American slaves exercise religious autonomy? -- Was the Mexican War an exercise in American imperialism -- Was the Civil War fought over slavery? -- Are historians wrong to consider the War between the States a "total war"? -- Was Abraham Lincoln America's greatest president? -- Did reconstruction fail as a result of racism?
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