DAGUERREIAN HISTORY:
A SEARCH FOR AMERICA
through one collection of primary source photography and John William Draper's The Civil War in America

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION--CLICK HERE:
THE ENGLISH HERITAGE

PART TWO--CLICK HERE:
THE OLD NORTHWEST TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

PART THREE--CLICK HERE:
ERIE CANAL TO THE RISE OF SECTIONALISM IN AMERICA

PART FOUR--CLICK HERE:
MEXICAN WAR, GOLDRUSH, AND THE WEST

PART FIVE--CLICK HERE:
THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 TO ABOLITION IN AMERICA

PART SIX--CLICK HERE:
BLOODY KANSAS TO THE COMING OF LINCOLN

CONCLUSION--CLICK HERE:
SECESSION OF THE SOUTH AND CIVIL WAR

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