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| Preface for Instructors | |
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| Introduction for Students | |
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| Ancient America: Before 1492 | |
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| A Taino Origin Story | |
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| Ramon Pane, On Taino Religious Practices | |
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| A Seneca Origin Narrative | |
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| The Woman Who Fell from the Sky | |
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| Genesis: The Christian Origin Narrative | |
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| "In the Beginning" | |
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| Aristotle on Masters and Slaves | |
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| The Politics, ca. 300 B.C. | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Europeans Encounter the New World, 1492-1600 | |
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| The King of the Congo Writes to the King of Portugal | |
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| King Afonso and King Joao III, Correspondence, 1526 | |
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| Columbus Describes His First Encounter with "Indians" | |
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| The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 | |
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| A Conquistador Arrives in Mexico, 1519-1520 | |
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| Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain, 1632 | |
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| A Mexican Description of the Conquest of Mexico | |
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| Mexican Accounts of Conquest from the Florentine Codex | |
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| Sir Thomas More Describes New World Utopia | |
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| Utopia, 1515 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700 | |
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| Richard Frethorne Describes Indentured Servitude in Virginia | |
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| Letter to Father and Mother, March 20, April 2, 3, 1623 | |
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| Opechancanough's 1622 Uprising in Virginia | |
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| Edward Waterhouse, Declaration, 1622 | |
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| Francisco Pareja Instructs Spanish Missionaries about the Sins of Florida's Timucuan Indians | |
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| Confessionario, 1613 | |
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| Sex and Race Relations | |
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| Testimony from Virginia Court Records, 1681 | |
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| Bacon's Rebellion | |
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| Nathaniel Bacon, Declaration, 1676 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The Northern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700 | |
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| The Arbella Sermon | |
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| John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630 | |
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| Observations of New England Indians | |
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| Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America, 1643 | |
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| Keeping Order in a Puritan Community | |
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| Suffolk County Court Records, 1671-1673 | |
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| A Provincial Government Enacts Legislation | |
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| The Laws of Pennsylvania, 1682 | |
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| Words of the Bewitched | |
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| Testimony against Accused Witch Bridget Bishop, 1692 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century, 1701-1770 | |
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| Confessions of a Thief and Rapist | |
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| A Boston Broadside, 1768 | |
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| Poor Richard's Advice | |
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| Benjamin Franklin, Father Abraham's Speech from Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757 | |
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| An Anglican Criticizes New Light Baptists and Presbyterians in the South Carolina Backcountry | |
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| Charles Woodmason, Sermon on the Baptists and the Presbyterians, ca. 1768 | |
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| Advertisements for Runaway Slaves | |
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| South Carolina Gazette and Virginia Gazette, 1737-1745 | |
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| A Moravian Missionary Interviews Slaves in the West Indies, 1767-1768 | |
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| Christian George Andreas Oldendorp, History of the Evangelical Brethren's Mission on the Caribbean Islands, 1777 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis, 1754-1775 | |
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| An Oration on the Second Anniversary of the Boston Massacre | |
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| Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, March 5, 1772 | |
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| A Boston Shoemaker Recalls British Arrogance and the Boston Tea Party | |
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| George R. T. Hewes, Memoir, 1834 | |
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| Daniel Leonard Argues for Loyalty to the British Empire | |
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| To the Inhabitants of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, 1774-1775 | |
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| George Washington Concludes That the Crisis Has Arrived | |
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| Letters, 1774 | |
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| Edmund Burke Urges Reconciliation with the Colonies | |
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| Speech to Parliament, March 22, 1775 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The War for America, 1775-1783 | |
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| Thomas Paine Makes the Case for Independence | |
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| Common Sense, January 1776 | |
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| Letters of John and Abigail Adams | |
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| Correspondence, 1776 | |
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| George Washington Seeks Congressional Support for the Continental Army | |
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| Letter to John Hancock, President, Continental Congress, September 24, 1776 | |
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| Boston King Seeks Freedom by Running Away to the British Army | |
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| Memoir, 1798 | |
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| Joseph Brant Appeals to British Allies to Keep Promises | |
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| Address to British Secretary of State Lord Germain, 1776 | |
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| Message to Governor of Quebec, Frederick Haldimand, 1783 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Building a Republic, 1775-1789 | |
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| Richard Allen Founds the First African Methodist Church | |
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| Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours, 1833 | |
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| Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Race | |
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| Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782 | |
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| Making the Case for the Constitution | |
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| James Madison, Federalist Number 10, 1787 | |
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| Mercy Otis Warren Opposes the Constitution | |
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| Observations on the New Constitution, 1788 | |
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| The Rights of Man in the Age of Revolution | |
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| Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789 | |
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| Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The New Nation Takes Form, 1789-1800 | |
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| Why Free Government Has Always Failed | |
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| William Manning, The Key of Libberty, 1798 | |
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| A French Sugar Planter Describes the French and Saint Domingue Revolutions | |
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| A Sugar Planter of Saint Domingue Experiences Revolution in France and Saint Domingue, 1791 | |
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| Mary Dewees Moves West to Kentucky | |
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| Journal, 1788-1789 | |
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| Alexander Hamilton on the Economy | |
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| Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791 | |
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| President George Washington's Parting Advice to the Nation | |
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| Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 1796 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Republicans in Power, 1800-1824 | |
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| A Jeffersonian Sailmaker's Fourth of July Address | |
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| Peter Wendover, Oration, July 4, 1806 | |
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| James Hamilton's Path to Enlistment during the War of 1812 | |
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| Confession, 1818 | |
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| James Forten Protests Pennsylvania Law Threatening Enslavement of Free African Americans | |
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| Letters from a Man of Colour, on a Late Bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania, 1813 | |
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| President Thomas Jefferson's Private and Public Indian Policy | |
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| Letter to Governor William H. Harrison, February 27, 1803 | |
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| Address to the Wolf and People of the Mandan Nation, December 30, 1806 | |
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| Meriwether Lewis Describes the Shoshone | |
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| The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1805 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The Expanding Republic, 1815-1840 | |
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| David Crockett Hunts Bear in Western Tennessee | |
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| A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee, 1834 | |
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| President Andrew Jackson's Parting Words to the Nation | |
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| Farewell Address, March 4, 1837 | |
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| Cherokees Debate Removal | |
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| John Ross, Answer to Inquiries from a Friend, 1836 | |
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| Elias Boudinot, A Reply to John Ross, 1837 | |
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| Sarah Grimke on the Status of Women | |
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| Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, 1838 | |
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| David Walker Demands Emancipation | |
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| Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, 1829 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The New West and Free North, 1840-1860 | |
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| The Anxiety of Gain: Henry W. Bellows on Commerce and Morality | |
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| The Influence of the Trading Spirit upon the Social and Moral Life of America, 1845 | |
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| That Woman Is Man's Equal: The Seneca Falls Declaration | |
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| Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 | |
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| A Farmer's View of His Wife | |
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| Eliza Farnham, Conversation with a Newly Wed Westerner, 1846 | |
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| A Texan Enlists to Fight in the Mexican War | |
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| James K. Holland, Diary, 1846 | |
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| Gold Fever | |
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| Walter Colton, California Gold Rush Diary, 1849-1850 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The Slave South, 1820-1860 | |
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| Madison Hemings Recalls Life as Thomas Jefferson's Enslaved Son | |
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| Interview, 1873 | |
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| Plantation Rules | |
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| Bennet Barrow, Highland Plantation Journal, May 1, 1838 | |
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| Nat Turner Explains Why He Became an Insurrectionist | |
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| The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831 | |
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| The Proslavery Argument | |
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| James Henry Hammond, Letter to an English Abolitionist, 1845 | |
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| Hinton Helper Demands Abolition for the Good of White Southerners | |
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| The Impending Crisis of the South, 1857 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The House Divided, 1846-1861 | |
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| The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Speech in Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854 | |
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| The Antislavery Constitution | |
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| Frederick Douglass, The Constitution of the United States: Is It Proslavery or Antislavery? 1860 | |
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| The Proslavery Constitution | |
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| Jefferson Davis, Speech before the U.S. Senate, May 1860 | |
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| A Free African American Concludes Emigration Is Necessary | |
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| Granville B. Blanks, Letter to the Editor, 1852 | |
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| Abolitionist Lydia Maria Child Defends John Brown and Attacks the Slave Power | |
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| Correspondence between Lydia Maria Child and Virginia Governor Henry A. Wise, 1859 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The Crucible of War, 1861-1865 | |
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| President Lincoln's War Aims | |
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| Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862 | |
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| The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863 | |
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| The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 | |
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| A Former Slave's War Aims | |
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| Statement from an Anonymous Former Slave, New Orleans, 1863 | |
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| The New York Draft Riots | |
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| Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York, 1863 | |
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| A Virginia Woman Confronts Union Foragers | |
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| Nancy Emerson, Diary, 1864 | |
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| General William T. Sherman Explains the Hard Hand of War | |
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| Correspondence, 1864 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | |
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| Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South | |
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| Report on the Condition of the South, 1865 | |
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| Black Codes Enacted in the South | |
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| Mississippi Black Code, November 1865 | |
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| Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families | |
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| Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865-1870 | |
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| A Black Convention in Alabama | |
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| Address of the Colored Convention to the People of Alabama, 1867 | |
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| Klan Violence against Blacks | |
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| Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |