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  2. The Emigrants (novel series) - Wikipedia

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    The American television series The New Land (1974) starred Scott Thomas, Bonnie Bedelia, and Kurt Russell, and was broadcast by ABC. The series was loosely based on the 1971 and 1972 film adaptations. 13 episodes were produced, but only 6 aired. The Swedish musical Kristina från Duvemåla (1995) was based on the novels.

  3. Category:Films set in the 1850s - Wikipedia

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    Santa Fe Trail (film) September Dawn; Seven Angry Men; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Shipwrecked (1990 film) Sisi (miniseries) Sissi – The Young Empress; Skin Game; Slave Ship (film) Slaves (film) The Song of Bernadette (film) Song of Love (1947 film) Stardust (2007 film) Stormskerry Maja; Story of a Poor Young Man (1942 film) Suez (film ...

  4. David Copperfield - Wikipedia

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    It was published as a serial in 1849 and 1850 and then as a book in 1850. David Copperfield is also a partially autobiographical novel: [2] "a very complicated weaving of truth and invention", [3] with events following Dickens's own life. [4] Of the books he wrote, it was his favourite. [5]

  5. The Scarlet Letter - Wikipedia

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    The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. [2] Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.

  6. Social class in American history - Wikipedia

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    The existence of class differences in American society has long been the focus of popular culture, whether in the form of books, films, or plays. Social class, for example, is a theme used in the 1948 production Mister Roberts , in a scene where the ship's captain displays resentment toward the title character, contrasting his own impoverished ...

  7. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Wikipedia

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    Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War".

  8. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident.' The Declaration of ...

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    In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political ...

  9. Bibliography of early American publishers and printers

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    Full title: An inquiry into the nature and form of the books of the ancients; with a history of the art of bookbinding, from the times of the Greeks and Romans to the present day; interspersed with bibliographical references to men and books of all ages and countries; Hansard, Thomas Curson (1825).