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| The Truth About Textbooks: Indians and the Settlement of America | |
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| Sources: History of the American People (1927) | |
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| The American Pageant (1966) | |
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| A People & A Nation (2008) | |
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| The Primary Materials of History: Childhood in Puritan New England | |
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| Sources: Elizabeth Eggington (1664) | |
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| Henry Gibbs (1670) | |
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| Letter of Samuel Mather (Age 12) to His Father (ca. 1638) | |
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| Massachusetts Court Records | |
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| Lawrence Hammond, Diary Entry for April 23, 1688 | |
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| Cotton Mather on Young Children (1690) | |
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| An Arrow against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing (1690) | |
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| Samuel Sewall on the Trials of His Fifteen-Year-Old Daughter (1696) | |
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| The Well-Ordered Family (1719) | |
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| The Duty of Children toward Their Parents (1727) | |
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| A Puritan Primer warns Against Frivolous Behavior (?) | |
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| The Roger Mowry House (ca. 1653) | |
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| The Eleazer Arnold House (ca. 1864) | |
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| Evaluating Primary Sources: Was Pennsylvania "The Best Poor Man's Country"? | |
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| Sources: An Historical and Geographical Account of Pennsylvania (1698) | |
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| Plantations in Pennsylvania (1743) | |
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| Journey to Pennsylvania (1756) | |
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| Advertisement for a Runaway (1759) | |
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| American Husbandry (1775) | |
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| William Penn on House Construction in Pennsylvania (1684) | |
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| Cabin, Berks County | |
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| Charles Norris's Mansion, Chestnut Street | |
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| Early Settlements in Pennsylvania (1696) | |
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| Wealth Distribution in Philadelphia, 1693-1774 | |
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| Acquisition of Land by Former Indentured Servants, 1686-1720 | |
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| Evaluating One Historian's Argument: The "Hidden Side" of the American Revolution | |
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| Secondary Source: The Unknown Revolution (2005) | |
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| Primary Sources: An Account of a Stamp Act Riot (1765) | |
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| A Mob Punishes Merchants (1766) | |
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| A Gentleman Comments on the Mob (1774) | |
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| Mecklenburg County Resolves (1775) | |
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| The Alternative Williamsburg (1775) | |
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| "A Dialogue between Orator Puff and Peter Easy" (1776) | |
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| Antislavery Petition of Massachusetts Free Blacks (1777) | |
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| Blacks Protest Taxation (1780) | |
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| Chief Thayendangea Pledges His Loyalty (1776) | |
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| Correspondence between Abigail and John Adams (1776) | |
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| "On the Equality of the Sexes" (1790) | |
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| Motivation in History: The Founding Fathers and the Constitution | |
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| Secondary Source: Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (2007) | |
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| Primary Sources: "Honesty is the Best Policy" (1786) | |
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| George Washington Reacts to Shay's Rebellion (1786) | |
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| The Founding Fathers Debate the Establishment of Congress (1787) | |
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| An Anti-Federalist Mocks the "Aristocratic" Party (1786) | |
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| A Founder Defends the Constitution's Restraints (1787) | |
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| Federalist #10 (1788) | |
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| Federalist #15 (1788) | |
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| Ideas in History: Race in Jefferson's Republic | |
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| Secondary Source: Within the "Bowels" of the Republic | |
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| Primary Sources: Thomas Jefferson on the Indians and Blacks (1784) | |
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| Thomas Jefferson on the Indians' Future (1803) | |
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| A Jeffersonian Treaty with the Delaware Indians (1804) | |
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| Indian Land Cessions (1800-1812) | |
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| A Denunciation of White Tyranny (1811) | |
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| Thomas Jefferson on Black Colonization (1801) | |
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| A Petition to the Virginia Legislature (1810) | |
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| A Letter from a Man of Colour (1817) | |
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| A Black Response to Colonization (1817) | |
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| The Problem of Historical Causation: The Second Great Awakening | |
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| Secondary Source: The Second Great Awakening and the Transformation of American Christianity (1989) | |
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| Primary Sources: "The Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery" (1804) | |
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| "On Predestination" (1809) | |
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| A Defense of Camp Meetings (1814) | |
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| Book of Mormon (1830) | |
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| A Methodist "Circuit-Rider" Discusses Education and the Ministry (1856) | |
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| Negro Methodists Holding a Meeting in Philadelphia (ca. 1812) | |
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| A Former Slave Discusses the Appeal of Methodism (1856) | |
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| Frances Trollope's Account of a Camp Meeting | |
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| Harriet Martineau on the Condition of American Women (1837) | |
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| Rebeccah Lee on the Appeal of Christianity | |
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| Philadelphia Journeymen Protest Their Conditions | |
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| Occupations of Methodist Converts in Philadelphia | |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville on the Condition of Americans | |
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| Grand Theory and History: Democracy and the Frontier | |
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| Secondary Source: The Significance of the Frontier in American History Primary Sources: Sketch of Trappers (1837) | |
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| N. J. Wyeth's Instructions for Robert Evans at the Fort Hall Trading Post (1834) | |
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| Scene of the San Gabriel Mission (1832) | |
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| Autobiography (1833) | |
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| On Settling in Missouri (1839) | |
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| View of the Valley of the Mississippi (1832) | |
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| Daguerreotype of The Stump Orator (1847) | |
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| Brigham Young on Land Distribution (1848) | |
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| Life in the Gold Fields (1849) | |
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| A San Francisco Saloon (1855) | |
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| An English-Chinese Phrase Book (1875) | |
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| The Pioneer Cowpen (1849) | |
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| We Went to Kansas (1862) | |
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| History as Biography: Historians and Old Hickory | |
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| Secondary Source: Andrew Jackson (2005) | |
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| Primary Sources: Jackson on His Experiences During the Revolution (n.d.) | |
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| Andrew Jackson to Charles Henry Dickinson (1806) | |
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| Andrew Jackson to Rachel Jackson (1813) | |
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| Andrew Jackson to William Blount (1812) | |
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| Old Hickory (1819) | |
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| Andrew Jackson (1820) | |
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| Andrew Jackson to John Coffee (1832) | |
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| Andrew Jackson to Joel Poinsett (1832) | |
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| Andrew Jackson's Nullification Proclamation (1832) | |
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| History "From the Bottom Up": Historians and Slavery | |
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| Secondary Source: Community, Culture, and Conflict on an Antebellum Plantation (1980) | |
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| Primary Sources: Leaves from a Slave's Journal of Life (1842) | |
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| Harry McMillan, Interviewed by the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission (1863) | |
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| Charity Bowery (1847-1848) | |
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| Uncle Ben (1910) | |
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| Sarah Fitzpatrick (1938) | |
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| A Slave's Letter to His Former Master (1844) | |
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| Lynchburg Negro Dance, an Artist's View of Slavery (1853) | |
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| A Slave Spiritual (ca. 1863) | |
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| Brer Rabbit Outsmarts Brer Fox | |
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| A Slave Child's Doll (ca. 1850) | |
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| A Plantation Plan (ca. 1857) | |
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| Ideology and Society: The Bounds of Womanhood in the North and South | |
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| Secondary Sources: The Bonds of Womanhood (1997) | |
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| Domestic Ideology in the South (1998) | |
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| Primary Sources: Woman in America (1841) | |
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| Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) | |
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| Lowell Offering (1845) | |
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| The Evils of Factory Life (1845) | |
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| The Times That Try Men's Souls (1837) | |
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| A'n't I a Woman (1851) | |
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| "Virtue, Love, & Temperance" (1851) | |
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| The Ideal Southern Woman (1835) | |
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| "Woman's Progress" (1853) | |
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| "Memoir on Slavery" (1853) | |
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| Journal of Mary Moragn? (1842) | |
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| Mary Boykin Chesnut on Slavery and Sex (1861) | |
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| Grand Theory, Great Battles, and Historical Causes: Why Secession Failed | |
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| Secondary Sources: Blue over Gray: Sources of Success and Failure in the Civil War (1875) | |
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| Why the North Won (1988) | |
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| Primary Sources: The Impending Crisis (1857) | |
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| The Cotton Kingdom (1861) | |
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| An Account of the Battle of Gettysburg (1863) | |
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| General Ulysses S. Grant to Edwin M. Stanton (1865) | |
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| Affidavit of a Tennessee Freedman (1865) | |
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| Reverend Garrison Frazier on the Aspirations of His Fellow Blacks (1865) | |
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| Southern Women Feeling the Effects of Rebellion and Creating Bread Riots (1863) | |
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| Excerpt from Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston (1862) | |
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| "Kate," A Letter to a Friend (1862) | |
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| Account of a Slaveholding Family During Sherman's March (1864) | |
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| The Importance of Historical Interpretation: The Meaning of Reconstruction | |
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| Secondary Sources: Seeds of Failure in Radical Race Policy (1966) | |
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| Forever Free (2006) | |
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| Primary Sources: Colored Rule in a Reconstructed (?) State (1874) | |
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| The Ignorant Vote--Honors Are Easy (1876) | |
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| Black Response to a South Carolina White Taxpayers' Convention Appeal to Congress (1874) | |
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| Statement of Colored People's Convention in Charleston, South Carolina (1865) | |
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| A Republican Newspaper's Description of a Local Political Meeting (1867) | |
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| Testimony of Abram Colby (1872) | |
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| Lewis McGee to the Governor of Mississippi (1875) | |
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| Testimony of Emanuel Fortune (1872) | |
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| Testimony of Henry M. Turner (1872) | |