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    River of dreams imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain / by Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979-

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the American Nile : "ultima thule" -- Empire : Jefferson and "the Mississippi we must have" -- Frontier : Jackson and the "half-horse, half-alligators" -- Travel and tourism : Europeans on "this foul stream" -- Moving panoramas : the "useful illusion" of the visual Mississippi -- Crime and punishment : "extraordinary metaphysical scamps" in the Mississippi underworld -- Epilogue : the Civil War and Mark Twain.…”
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    Traveling south travel narratives and the construction of American identity / by Cox, John David

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…Representing America : the American as traveler in the work of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and William Bartram -- Moving slaves : Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, and the politics of travel in antebellum America -- Domestic travel : the narratives of Fanny Kemble and Harriet Jacobs -- Yeomen all : Frederick Law Olmsted and the consolidation of the American economy and culture -- Tourists with guns (and pens) : Union soldiers and the Civil War South.…”
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    Lincoln and the Constitution by Dirck, Brian R., 1965-

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Lincoln and the Constitution : early years -- Lincoln, the Constitution, and slavery during the sectional crisis -- Lincoln and the Declaration of Independence -- Becoming president, and defending the Union -- The war, civil liberties, and ex parte merryman -- Congress and winning the war -- Lincoln and the radicals -- The war and African Americans.…”
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