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Study scope and sources
Colonial encounters; Revolution and Constitution; expansion and statehood; slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction; industry, rights and modern federal milestones.
This is a selective, source-backed corpus. A gap in the timeline or map is a coverage gap, not evidence that no community or polity existed. Sources and historical qualifications accompany every selected record.