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9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Pro and Con: Historic Statue Removal in the United States

Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

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Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.

6 Wars of Independence

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9 Mind-Altering Plants

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6 Questions About the History of Money and Banking Answered

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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How Deadly Is Quicksand?

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Why Was Nazi Germany Called the Third Reich?

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Born	May 16, 1886 • Lynchburg • Virginia
Died	June 13, 1953 (aged 67) • Virginia
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize
Subjects Of Study	Confederate States of America

Henry Adams

American historian

Robert Caro

American historian and author

David McCullough

American historian

Allan Nevins

American author

Samuel Eliot Morison

American historian and biographer

Albert J. Beveridge

United States senator and historian

Dumas Malone

American historian, editor, and the author

Laura E. Richards

American author

Charles Edward Russell

American writer

Leon Edel

American critic and biographer

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

American historian and educator

Justin Kaplan

American writer, biographer, and editor

Richard Ellmann

American scholar

Ralph Barton Perry

American philosopher

W. Jackson Bate

American biographer

Carl Van Doren

American critic

Ray Stannard Baker

American writer

Herschel Vespasian Johnson

American politician and jurist

Varina Davis

first lady of the Confederate States

Richard S. Ewell

Confederate general

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