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| Title | The Men who Made the Nation: An Outline of United States History from 1760 to 1865 |
| Author | Edwin Erle Sparks |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1901 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jun 12, 2007 |
| Length | 415 pages |
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