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The series opens with a discussion of In Hope Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860, James and Lois Horton's important treatment of class, race, and culture in the Colonial North.
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This session focuses on A Shopkeepers Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, Paul E. Johnson's landmark study of the national, regional, and local impacts of the Second Great Awakening, which began in Western New York.
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A discussion of Carol Sheriff's The Artifical River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862, which examines the impact of the Erie Canal on the lives of ordinary people.
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The series concludes with a conversation about Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930, Hal Barron's illuminating study of the transformation of the northern U.S. from an agricultural society ot an urban and industrial one.
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