Frontier Settlement Video

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• The Settlement of Illinois, by John Mack Faragher, Ph.D., Yale University.
• The Expansion of Slavery, White Racial Attitudes, and the Settlement of Illinois, by Michael Johnson, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
• Singing on the Illinois Frontier, by John Mack Faragher, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Mary Todd Lincoln's Frontier Life, by Julie Roy Jeffrey, Ph.D., Goucher College.
• Education, Culture, and the Patterns of Frontier Settlement, by Kathryn Kish Sklar, Ph.D., SUNY - Binghamton.
• African-Americans and Black Codes in the Antebellum North, by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
• Frontier Settlement and the Vision of an All-White Society, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Lincoln's Ambitions and Attitudes Toward Frontier Life, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
• Public Land Law and the Settlement of the Frontier , by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• Commercial Law and the Settlement of the Frontier, by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• Brunson v. Kedzie: The Law of Contracts and Frontier Settlement, by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• Law and Commerce on the Frontier, by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• Southerners on the Frontier, by Edward L. Ayers, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• Origins of the Compromise of 1850, by Michael F. Holt, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• Stephen Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, by Michael F. Holt, Ph.D., University of Virginia.

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