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| A Historical Mystery: What Happened at Roanoke? | |
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| Colonization promotional literature | |
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| Early travelers' reports on America | |
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| John White's drawings of Native Americans | |
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| Accounts from the Roanoke Colony | |
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| Images of Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth | |
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| The Threat of Anne Hutchinson | |
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| Excerpts from the trial of Anne Hutchinson | |
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| Colonies, Commerce, and Empire: The British Plantations System in the Chesapeake and the Caribbean | |
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| Statistics from the Chesapeake and Barbados in population, wealth distribution, agricultural production, slavery | |
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| What Really Happened in the Boston Massacre? The Trial of Captain Thomas Preston | |
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| Map of the site of the Boston Massacre | |
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| Excerpts from Captain Preston's deposition | |
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| Excerpts from trial testimony of witnesses | |
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| Attorneys' summary remarks to the jury | |
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| Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre | |
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| The Evolution of American Citizenship: The Louisiana Purchase, 1803-1812 | |
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| Treaties | |
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| Congressional debates and speeches | |
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| Letter of President Jefferson | |
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| Official letters | |
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| Louisiana Governance Acts | |
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| Petition | |
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| Church, State, and Democracy: The Sunday Mail Controversy, 1827-1831 | |
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| Pamphlets | |
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| Speeches | |
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| Senate committee reports | |
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| Land, Growth, and Justice: The Removal of the Cherokees | |
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| Excerpt from President Andrew Jackson's First Annual Message to Congress | |
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| Excerpt from President Thomas Jefferson's letter to Captain Hendrick regarding the decline of the Indian population | |
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| Excerpt from William Penn (pseudonym for Jeremiah Evarts) | |
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| Excerpt from speech in Congress by Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen | |
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| Petition from a Cherokee woman | |
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| Excerpt from John Ridge letter | |
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| Excerpts from the Cherokee Phoenix | |
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| Excerpt from letter by John Ross, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation | |
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| Fighting for Women's Equality | |
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| Americans debate the nature of the sexes and women's equality | |
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| The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments | |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton defends women's rights | |
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| The "Peculiar Institution": Slaves Tell Their Own Story | |
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| Reminiscences and narratives of former slaves | |
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| Slave songs | |
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| Excerpts from the writings of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and John Thompson | |
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| Civil Liberties in Time of War: The Case of Clement Vallandigham | |
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| Numerous speeches by Clement Vallandigham, both in the House of Representatives and on the stump | |
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| Congressional resolutions | |
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| Petitions | |
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| President Lincoln's reply | |
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| Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Political Cartoonist and Public Opinion | |
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| Cartoons of Thomas Nast | |