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Amistad AND (law OR legal OR case OR legislat*)
"Bass Reeves" AND (African* OR Black) AND (cowboy* OR cowgirl*)
"Bill Pickett" AND (African* OR Black) AND (cowboy* OR cowgirl*)
("Mary Fields" OR "Black Mary" OR "Stagecoach Mary") AND (African* OR Black) AND (cowboy* OR cowgirl*)
Book Note: Check out Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause.
(monument* OR landmark OR homage) AND Confedera* AND (controvers* OR scandal* OR criti* OR support* OR praise* OR oppo* OR pros OR cons)
Book Note: Check out An American Genocide: the United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873.
"The California Indian Catastrophe" OR ("California genocide" AND ("Native American" OR "Indigenous American" OR "American Indian" OR AmerIndian))
Book Note: Check out The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-speaking Californians, 1846-1890.
Book Note: Check out "From Bondage to Liberation...". Open Access historical text
"David Walker" AND (American OR "United States") AND abolition* AND (influen* OR cause* OR effect* OR legac* OR significan* OR impact* OR consequen* OR importan*)
Book Note: Can you corroborate historical facts on the Devil's Punchbowl in The War Was You and Me...?
^^^Note: Before proceeding on this research topic, please read the following database news article:
Griffey, Jan. "Devil's Punchbowl: 'Concocted Confederate propaganda,' Boxley says." Natchez Democrat, The (MS), June 17, 2022. NewsBank: America's News – Historical and Current. https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AMNEWS&docref=news/18AB68DDEC729210.
Book Note: Check out one of these titles from HCC Libraries.
Book Note: Check out some of these HCC Library Books that cover the Ft. Pillow massacre. Check out some of these HCC Library eBooks on Native American genocide in California and the U.S.
"Battle of Fort Pillow" OR "Fort Pillow Massacre"
"Bloody Island Massacre" OR (("Native American" OR "Indigenous American" OR "American Indian" OR AmerIndian) AND ("Clear Lake" OR California) AND ("mass killing" OR genocid*))
Book Note: Check out Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
"Frederick Douglass" OR "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey"
Book Note: Check out Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South at Houston Public Library.
Book Note: Check out these books from HCC Libraries.
"Harriet Tubman" AND "The Underground Railroad"
Book Note: Check out these HCC Library eBooks, Long Before Stonewall... and Charity and Sylvia...
(homosexual* OR lesbian* OR gay* OR bisexual* OR "same sex") AND ("Early America" OR "American colonies")
Book Note: Check out these HCC Library books.
("Indian Removal Act" AND 1830) OR "Trail of Tears"
Book Note: Check out this HCC Library eBook.
("J. Marion Sims" OR "J Marion Sims" OR "James Marion Sims") AND gynecolog* AND (slaves OR enslaved)
Book Note: Check out these HCC Library eBooks.
"John Brown" AND raid AND "Harper's Ferry"
Book Note: Check out these HCC Library books.
Lynching of Mexican Americans (1800s)
Check out The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas.
Book Note: Check out these eBooks and eBook excerpts.
"Massachusetts 54th Regiment" OR "54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment" OR "Robert Gould Shaw"
Book Note: Check out A Life Crossing Borders: Memoir of a Mexican-American Confederate / Las Memorias De Un Mexicoamericano En La Confederación as a book or eBook with HCC Libraries.
("U.S. Civil War" OR "American Civil War") AND (Mexicans OR "Mexican Americans" OR "Mexican-Americans" OR "Santiago Tafolla")
(Mexican* OR Mexican-American*) AND (soldier* OR officer*) AND ("U.S. Civil War" OR "American Civil War")
("Mexican American soldiers" OR "Mexican Americans") AND ("U.S. Civil War" OR "American Civil War")
Middle Passage-African Holocaust
Book Note: Check out this HCC Library eBook.
"Middle Passage" AND (slave* AND enslave*) AND (holocaust OR genocid* OR "mass murder" OR "mass killing" OR injustice* OR horror* OR inhuman* OR tortu* OR cruel*)
Book Note: Check out these HCC Library books.
"Nat Turner" AND (Virginia OR Southampton OR impact OR legacy OR "public opinion")
Book Note: Check out these eBooks and books from HCC Libraries.
"Native American Boarding Schools" OR "American Indian boarding schools" OR "American Indian residential schools" OR "Native American residential schools"
Book Note: Explore these HCC Library books.
("Native American" OR "Indigenous American" OR "American Indian" OR AmerIndian) AND (hero* OR warri*) AND "Sitting Bull"
("Native American" OR "Indigenous American" OR "American Indian" OR AmerIndian) AND (hero* OR warri*) AND "Crazy Horse"
("Native American" OR "Indigenous American" OR "American Indian" OR AmerIndian) AND (hero* OR warri*) AND "Red Cloud"
Book Note: Check out these HCC Library eBooks.
("Native American" OR "Indigenous American" OR "American Indian" OR AmerIndian) AND (faith* OR relig* OR spiritual* OR belief*)
Book Note: Check out the e/book Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South.
"Native American slaveownership" OR "Native American slave ownership" OR "Native slaveholders" OR "Native American Slaveowners" OR "Native American Slaveholders" OR ("Indian Masters" AND "black slaves")
Book Note: Check out these e/Books from HCC Libraries.
("Olaudah Equiano" OR "Gustavus Vassa") AND (influen* OR cause* OR effect* OR legac* OR significan* OR impact* OR consequen* OR importan*)
Book Note: Check out these e/Books from HCC Libraries.
"Reconstruction era" AND "United States"
Book Note: Check out Be Free or Die... or Life Upon These Shores...
"Civil War" AND "United States" AND ("Robert Smalls" OR "Black hero" OR "Black heroes")
Book Note: Check out Places in Mind: Public Archaeology As Applied Anthropology (eBook) and see the chapter on The Seneca Village Project.
"Seneca Village" AND (1857 OR "eminent domain" OR "Central Park")
Book Note: Check out The Borderlands of Slavery...
"slave codes" AND (influen* OR cause* OR effect* OR legac* OR significan* OR impact* OR consequen* OR importan*) AND (states OR "United States" OR "The South" OR "The Confederacy" OR "The Union")
Book Note: Check out Slave Culture...
("United States" OR "Early America" OR "Early America") AND ("slave music" OR "slave culture")
Book Note: Check out these books and eBooks.
Book Note: Check out From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime...
("North America" OR "North American" OR Canada OR Canadian OR "Early America" OR "United States" OR "Early American" OR "Pre-Civil War" OR "Pre Civil War" OR Mexico OR Mexican OR Spanish#American OR Hispanic#American) AND ("slave treatment" OR "slave punishment" OR "slave conditions" OR "slave health" OR "slave livelihood" OR "slave abuse" OR "slave mistreatment" OR "slave torture")
("South America" OR "South American" OR Bra#ilian OR Bra#il OR "Latin America" OR "Latin American" OR Argentin* OR Colombia* OR Chile* OR Peru* OR Paraguay* OR Uruguay* OR Venezuela* OR Ecuador* OR Bolivia* OR Guyan* OR Surinam* OR "French Guiana" OR Arub* OR Trinidad* OR Tobag* OR "Islas Malvinas" OR "Falkland Islands" OR Curacao OR Panama*) AND ("slave treatment" OR "slave punishment" OR "slave conditions" OR "slave health" OR "slave livelihood" OR "slave abuse" OR "slave mistreatment" OR "slave torture") AND ("19th century" OR "Nineteenth century" OR 1800s OR "18th century" OR "Eighteenth century" OR 1700s OR "17th century" OR "Seventeenth century" OR 1600s OR "16th century" OR "Sixteenth century" OR 1500s OR "15th century" OR "Fifteenth century" OR 1400s)
Book Note: Check out these HCC Library eBooks.
("United States" OR "Early America" OR "Early American") AND abolition* AND ("major figures" OR hero* OR "major players" OR proponent* OR supporter* OR advoca*)
Book Note: Check out these e/Books from HCC Library.
"Sojourner Truth" OR "Isabella Baumfree"
Book Note: Check out this eBook from HCC Library's CREDO database.
(Berdache* OR ininiikaazo OR ikwekaazo OR two#spirit OR nádleehi OR nádleeh OR tayagigux' OR ayagigux' OR ninauh-oskitsi-pahpyaki OR ááwowáakii OR a'yai-kik-ahsi OR iskwêw ka-napêwayat OR napêw iskwêwisêhot OR înahpîkasoht OR ayahkwêw OR napêhkân OR iskwêhkân OR batée OR wíŋkte OR "tida wena" OR lhamana OR indig#queer) AND histor* NOT fiction
Book Note: Check out The Essential Lewis & Clark or Dear Brother... at HCC Library.
"Lewis and Clark" AND York AND (explor* OR scout* OR map* OR adventur*) AND (legac* OR accomplish* OR importan* OR significan* OR consequen* OR influen* OR impact* OR effect* OR contribut* OR cause*) AND histor*
Book Note: Check out these HCC Library eBooks and books.
Mormon* AND "United States" AND (origin* OR start* OR begin* OR split OR histor*)
Book Note: Check out these HCC Library eBooks and books.
"Texas Rangers" AND (Tejano* OR "Mexican-Americans" OR "Mexican Americans" OR Mexicans) AND (legacy OR reput* OR impact* OR importan* OR crim* OR exploit* OR notor*) AND histor*
Book Note: Check out Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (p. 119).
("Juan Nepomuceno Cortina" OR "Juan Cortino" OR "Juan N. Cortino" OR "Juan Nepomuceno Cortina Goseacochea" OR "Cheno Cortina" OR "Red Robber of the Rio Grande" OR "Rio Grande Robin Hood") AND ("Mexican Frontier" OR "Republic of Texas" OR Te#as OR "Rio Grande Valley" OR Mexico) AND (bandit* OR renegad* OR vigilant* OR hero* OR outlaw* OR rebel* OR criminal* OR outcast*)
("Tiburcio Vásquez" OR "Tiburcio Vázquez") AND California AND (bandit* OR renegad* OR vigilant* OR hero* OR outlaw* OR rebel* OR criminal* OR outcast*)
Book Note: See Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World on Vicente Guerrero.
("Vicente Ramón Guerrero" OR "Vicente Guerrero") AND Mexic* AND histor*
Book Note: See The Willie Lynch letter and The making of a slave.
("Willie Lynch letter" OR "William Lynch speech") AND relevan*
^^^Note: Before proceeding on this research topic, please read the following web news article:
Garcia, Mayra. "Historian Dispels Myths Surrounding Slavery: Forgery Revealed Through Confession from Source." The Advocate: The Student Voice of Contra Costa College, Nov. 19, 2014. https://cccadvocate.com/1366/news/historian-dispels-myths-surrounding-slavery/.
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