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Death and the Civil War, Chapter 1

Death and the Civil War, Chapter 1

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The Gettysburg Address

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Brown Dominates His Trial

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Lincoln Announces Freedom

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Jesse Owens in Hitler's Germany

Jesse Owens' victories at the 1936 Berlin Olympics were an affront to Nazi beliefs.
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