DOC Arguing about Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress by William Lee Miller in History

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The American West: no period in our history has defined and shaped us more as a nation. Unique to the U.S.; the Old West exerts a power on the American imagination that can still be seen in almost every aspect of our culture. Sadly; as is the case with most other periods; historic acknowledgment of the African American contribution to the West is either totally nonexistent or nowhere near complete. In "The Black West;" historian William Loren Katz corrects the record in words and pictures; showing that; from the journeys of Lewis and Clark to the charge at San Juan Hill; African American men and women exerted an influence beyond their numbers in the discovery and definition of the American West.