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In Volume II Issue 9

  • Secrets and Spies
    Dr. Franklin bonds with a French spy in covert meeting
  • �Looking at Flowers Hurts My Eyes�
    Young seamstress speaks about factory life
  • Blackwell Breaks the Barrier
    After 28 rejections, what happens when this woman finally gets her chance
  • Washington Wins One for the Crown
    Young George has more than a colonel of knowledge
  • Join or Die
    Franklin�s ultimatum for the colonies
  • The Secret Song
    A gourd points the way to freedom
  • Buffalo Soldiers
    A Plains Indian tells a tale of life and the pursuit of all things bison


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  • Secrets and Spies
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  • Stourzh, Gerald. Benjamin Franklin and American Foreign Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.
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  • Blackwell, Elizabeth. Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women. Longmans, Green, & Co, 1895.
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  • Hirschfelder, Arlene. Native Americans: A History in Pictures. New York: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc., 2000.
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  • Oswalt, Wendell H., and Sharlotte Neely. This Land Was Theirs: A Study of North American Indians, 5th ed. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1996.
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  • Fleming, Thomas. Liberty!: The American Revolution. New York: Viking, 1997.
  • Young, Robert. The Real Patriots of the American Revolution. Parsippany, New Jersey: Dillon Press, 1997.
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