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| Title | A History of the American People, Volume 2 A History of the American People, Woodrow Wilson |
| Author | Woodrow Wilson |
| Publisher | Harper & brothers, 1918 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Nov 2, 2007 |
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