| |
| |
| Preface | |
| |
| |
| Prologuendash;Beginnings | |
| |
| |
| Pima Creation Story (Traditionalndash;Ancient) | |
| |
| |
| Dekanawida Myth and the Achievement of Iroquois Unity (ca. 1500s) | |
| |
| |
| A Description of the Coast of East Africa (1518) | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas | |
| |
| |
| Letter to Luis de Santrsquo; Angel (1493) | |
| |
| |
| |
| de Las Casas, ldquo;Of the Island of Hispaniolardquo; (1542) | |
| |
| |
| |
| fromThe Mississippi Voyage of Joliet and Marquette(1673) | |
| |
| |
| |
| fromEnglandrsquo;s Treasure by Foreign Trade(1664) | |
| |
| |
| |
| ldquo;The Starving Timerdquo; (1624) | |
| |
| |
| |
| ldquo;A Model of Christian Charityrdquo; (1630) | |
| |
| |
| |
| Excerpt from the Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637) | |
| |
| |
| |
| American Society in the Making | |
| |
| |
| The Declaration (1676) | |
| |
| |
| |
| Report on the Stono Rebellion (1739) | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Passage of Indentured Servants (1750) | |
| |
| |
| |
| Letter to Her Father (1756) | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Middle Passage (1788) | |
| |
| |
| |
| The African Slave Trade (1788) | |
| |
| |
| |
| Establishing the Colony of Georgia (1733) | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| America in the British Empire | |
| |
| |
| fromLetters from an American Farmer(1782) | |
| |
| |
| |
| ldquo;Upon Hearing George Whitefield Preachrdquo; (1771) | |
| |
| |
| |
| from ldquo;Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo; (1741) | |
| |
| |
| |
| fromLetters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania(1768) | |
| |
| |
| |
| Address of the Inhabitants of Anson County to Governor Martin (1774) | |
| |
| |
| |
| The American Revolution | |
| |
| |
| ldquo;Give Me Liberty or Give Me Deathrdquo; (1775) | |
| |
| |
| |
| ldquo;Account of the Battle of Lexingtonrdquo; (1775) | |
| |
| |
| |
| Letter from a Revolutionary War Soldier (1776) | |
| |
| |
| The Newburg Address (1783) | |
| |
| |
| |
| ldquo;On the Equality of the Sexesrdquo; (1790) | |
| |
| |
| |
| Valedictory Oration (1792) | |
| |
| |
| |
| Slave Petition to the General Assembly in Connecticut (1779) | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant | |
| |
| |
| Publius (James Madison),Federalist Paper #10(1788) | |
| |
| |
| ldquo;Objections to This Constitution of Governmentrdquo; (1787) | |
| |
| |
| |
| Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791)< | |
| |