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| Multicultural Beginnings | |
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| The Spanish Letter Of Columbus To Luis Sant Angel (1493) | |
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| Pedro Menendez Founds St. Augustine (1565) | |
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| Jesuit Comparison Of French And Native Life (1657-1658) | |
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| Captain John Smith Describes Founding Of Jamestown (1607) | |
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| William Bradford On Sickness Among The Indians (1633) | |
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| "Captivity Account" Of Mary Rowlandson (1675) | |
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| The Pueblo Revolt (1680) | |
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| Emerging Colonial Society | |
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| "General Considerations For The Plantation In New England" (1629) | |
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| Petition Of An Accused Witch (1692) | |
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| "Pennsylvania, The Poor Man''s Paradise" (1698) | |
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| Piracy Along The Carolina Coast (1700) | |
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| Of The Servants And Slaves In Virginia (1705) | |
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| "Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God" (1741) | |
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| Eliza Lucas, A Modern Woman (1741-1742) | |
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| Towards an American Identity | |
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| Navigation Act Of 1660 | |
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| Early New Orleans (C. 1728) | |
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| "Various Kinds Of Colonial Government" (1747) | |
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| Pennsylvania Assembly Comments On German Immigration (1755) | |
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| Edmund Burke On British Motives In The Seven Years'' War (1762) | |
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| "The Pontiac Manuscript" (1763) | |
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| "What Is An American?" (1770) | |
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| Coming of the Revolution | |
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| John Locke On Political Society And Government (1689) | |
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| Cato''s Letters (1721) | |
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| Stamp Act Debate And Virginia Response (1764-1765) | |
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| The Boston Massacre (1770) | |
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| "The Rights Of The Colonist" (1772) | |
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| Ann Hulton, Loyalist View Of Colonial Unrest (1774) | |
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| A Loyalist Perspective Of The Coming Of Revolution (1780) | |
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| Lord Chatham''s Motion To Withdraw The Troops From Boston (1775) | |
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| The War for Independence | |
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| Introduction To. Common Sense. (1776) | |
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| A Speech Against Independence (1776) | |
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| German Doctor''s Account Of War And Surgery (1777) | |
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| Treaty Of Alliance With France (1777) | |
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| Conviction Of Seago Potter For Treason (1780) | |
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| Women''s Contributions To The War Effort (1780) | |
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| The Quock Walker Decision (1783) | |
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| Towards a New Government | |
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| The Articles Of Confederation (1777) | |
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| Failure Of The Continental Congress (1786) | |
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| The Northwest Ordinance (1787) | |
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| Grievances Of The Shays Rebels (1786) | |
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| Pennsylvania Dissent To The Ratification Of The Constitution (1787) | |
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| Federalist Number 10 (1788) | |
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| Mercy Otis Warren And The New Constitution (1788) | |
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| Defining the New Nation | |
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| Voting Qualifications In Virginia (1779) | |
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| Benjamin Banneker To Thomas Jefferson, Blacks And Liberty In The New Nation (1791) | |
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| Loose Construction And The National Bank (1791) | |
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| Petition Against Excise (1792) | |
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| George Washington''s "Farewell Address" (1796) | |
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| The Virginia Resolutions (1798) | |
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| Marbury. v. Madison. (1803) | |
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| The New Nation and Its Place in the World | |
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| Jefferson''s Instructions To Robert Livingston, Minister To France (1802) | |
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| Heading West With Lewis And Clark (1804) | |
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| Failure Of The Embargo (1809) | |
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| Tecumseh On White Encroachment (1810) | |
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| Dolley Madison On British Invasion Of Washington (1814) | |
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| Tennessee Expansionists On The Adams-Onis Treaty (1819) | |
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| The Monroe Doctrine (1823) | |
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| National Power and National Identity | |
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| Resolutions Of The Hartford Convention (1815) | |
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| Richmond Enquirer. On. McCulloch v. Maryland. (1819) | |
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| Maine''s View Of The Missouri Compromise (1820) | |
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| Daniel Webster''s Second Reply To Robert Y. Hayne (1830) | |
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| South Carolina Nullifies The Tariff (1832) | |
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| Jacksonian Politics | |
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| Fanny Wright On Equality (1828-1830) | |
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| The American System (1832) | |
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| Andrew Jackson''s Bank Veto Message (1832) | |
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| The. Cherokee Phoenix. On Georgia Policy Toward The Cherokee (1832) | |
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| Commentary On Elections In Jacksonian America | |
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| "Spirit Of Jacksonism" (1832) | |
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| Diversifying Society and Economy | |
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| Description of A Conversion Experience at Cane Ridge, KY (1801) | |
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| Promoting The Erie Canal (1818) | |
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| Charles G. Finney Describes The Rochester Revival (1830-1831) | |
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| "Americans On The Move" (1835) | |
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| American Mania For Railroads (1834) | |
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| New York City Trade Union Strike (1836) | |
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| Women Workers Protest "Lowell Wage Slavery" (1847) | |
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| "On Irish Emigration" (1852) | |
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| Social Reform | |
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| "Appeal To The Colored Citizens Of The World" (1829) | |
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| William Lloyd Garrison On Slavery (1831) | |
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| Georgia Legislature''s Response To William L. Garrison (1831) | |
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| Horace Mann On Educational Reform (1840) | |
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| Lyman Beecher On Intemperance (1825) | |
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| Sarah Grimk? Argues For Gender Equality (1837) | |
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| "Declaration Of Sentiments," Seneca Falls Convention (1848) | |
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| Manifest Destiny And American Expansion | |
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| Texas And California Annexation (1845) | |
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| American Description Of Mexican Women In Santa Fe (1845) | |
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| Mob Violence Against Mormons (1846) | |
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| Mexican View of U.S. Occupation (1847) | |
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| San Francisco And The California Gold Rush (1848) | |
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| "Civil Disobedience" (1849) | |
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| Slavery And The Old South | |
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| Olaudah Equiano Describes The "Middle Passage" (1789) | |
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| The Trial Of Denmark Vesey (1822) | |
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| The Alabama Frontier (1821) | |
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| A Reaction To The Nat Turner Revolt (1831) | |
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| The Plantation Labor Force (1838-1839) | |
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| Martin Delany And African-American Nationalism (1852) | |
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| A Slave Describes Sugar Cultivation (1853) | |
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| A Defense Of Southern Society (1854) | |
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| William And Ellen Craft, "Escape To Freedom" (1860) | |
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| The Southern Yeomen (1860) | |
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| Origins of the Civil War | |
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| An African-American Minister Responds To The Fugitive Slave Law (1851) | |
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| Southern Review Of. Uncle Tom''s Cabin. (1852) | |
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| Charles Sumner On "Bleeding Kansas" (1856) | |
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| Chicago Tribune. On The. Dred Scott. v. Sanford. Decision (1857) | |
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| The Freeport Doctrine | |
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| Republican Party Platform (1860) | |
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| Inaugural Address Of South Carolina Governor Francis Pickens (1860) | |
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| The Civil War | |
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| Mary Boykin Chesnut, The Attack On Fort Sumter (1861) | |
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| "A War To Preserve The Union" (1861) | |
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| Jefferson Davis Responds To The Emancipation Proclamation (1862) | |
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| New York City Draft Riots (1863) | |
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| African-American Troops In Combat (1863) | |
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| General William T. Sherman On War (1864) | |
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| The Georgia "Burnt Country" (1864) | |
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| Lincoln''s Second Inaugural Address (1865) | |
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| Reconstruction | |
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| A Northern Teacher''s View Of The Freedmen (1863-1865) | |
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| African Americans Seek Protection (1865) | |
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| Thaddeus Stevens On Reconstruction And The South (1865) | |
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| Andrew Johnson Vetoes The First Reconstruction Act (1867) | |
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| A White Southern Perspective On Reconstruction (1868) | |
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| The Ku Klux Klan During Reconstruction (1872) | |
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| "The Problem At The South" (1871) | |