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Contact and Conquest: the Meeting of the Old and New Worlds | |
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Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus: 1492 | |
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Journal of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage | |
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Bartolomÿ de Las Casas, From the Destruction of the Indies: A Brief Account | |
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The Aztec Account of the Spanish Conquest, Florentine Codex, as Collected by Bernadino de Sahagùn | |
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Colonizing North America: the Founding of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay | |
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The Documents | |
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Arthur Barlowe, "Narrative of the 1584 Voyage" | |
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Thomas Harriot, From A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia | |
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George Percy, "Discourse" | |
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John Smith, From Journal | |
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From Laws Divine, Moral and Martial, 1611 | |
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Richard Frethorne, An Indentured Servant Describes Life in Virginia in a Letter to His Parents | |
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John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity" | |
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Excerpts from the Trial of Anne Hutchinson | |
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From the Apologia of Robert Keayne | |
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Mary Rowlandson, From the Sovereignty of Goodness and God | |
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Samuel Paris, "Christ Knows How Many Devils There Are," 1692 | |
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Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases | |
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Ann Putnam's Confession, 1706 | |
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Postscript | |
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Probing the Sources | |
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Interpreting the Sources | |
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Additional Reading | |
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Eighteenth-Century Voices | |
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The Documents | |
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The Diaries of William Byrd | |
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Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | |
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The Memoirs of Jonathan Edwards | |
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Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn | |
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The Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin | |
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What Kind of Revolution? Justifications for Rebellion | |
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The Documents | |
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Joseph Galloway, "Plan of Union" | |
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Samuel Seabury, "An Alarm to the Legislature" | |
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Benjamin Franklin on the Galloway Plan and the North Resolution | |
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Thomas Paine, From Common Sense | |
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John Wesley, From "A Sermon Preached at St. Matthew's, Bethnal Green, on Sunday, Nov. 12, 1775" | |
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8. Lord Dunmore's Proclamation and Responses | |
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Revolutionary Battle Flag | |
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"God Arising and Pleading His People's Cause" | |
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Correspondence of Abigail and John Adams | |
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The Declaration of Independence | |
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Thomas Jefferson, From Notes on the State of Virginia | |
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Letter from Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson | |
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Reply of Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker | |
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Additional Reading | |
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Forming a More Perfect Union: Friends, Foes, and the Disfranchised | |
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The Documents | |
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3. Selections from the Constitution of 1787 | |
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From the Speeches of Patrick Henry in the Virginia State Ratifying Convention | |
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Mercy Otis Warren, Observations on the New Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions Columbian Patriot | |
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Selections from the Letters of George Washington | |
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Selections from the Federalist Papers | |
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Report of the Providence Society for Abolishing the Slave Trade, Providence Gazette, February 26, 1789 | |
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To the Citizens of the State of Rhode Island, Providence Gazette, February 14, 1789 | |
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Petition to the Connecticut State Assembly | |
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Postscript | |
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Probing the Sources | |
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Additional Reading | |
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Reflections on Religion: Church, State and Society in the Early Republic | |
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The Documents | |
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John Leland, the Excess of Civil Power Exploded | |
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Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists | |
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Lyman Beecher on Disestablishment in Connecticut | |
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Rev. Ezra Stiles Ely on Forming a Christian Party (1827) | |
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Fanny Lewis, "Glory! Glory! This is the Happiest Day I Ever Saw" | |
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Martin J. Spalding, "A Fanaticism as Absurd as It Was Blasphemous" | |
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Barton Stone, "The Smile of Heaven Shone" | |
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"Camp-Meetings and Agricultural Fairs" | |
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"Plan of the Camp" | |
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William Otter, "History of My Own Times" | |
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Additional Reading | |
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Living and Dying in Bondage: the Slave Conspiracy of 1822 | |
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The Documents | |
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The Trials | |
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"Gracious Heaven When I Think What I Have Escaped": Anna Hayes Johnson Letters to Her Cousin | |
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"The Conspiracy Had Spread Wider and Wider": John Potter to Langdon Cheves | |
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"White Men, Too, Would Engender Plots": Newspapers Report the Vesey Conspiracy | |
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David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World | |
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Postscript | |
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Additional Reading | |
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Leadership In the Age of the "Common Man": the Scope and Limitations of Jacksonian Democracy | |
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The Documents | |
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1-4. Political Broadsides | |
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From the Democratic Republican | |
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Ten Reasons for Advocating the Re-Election of General Jackson | |
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Selections from George Bancroft's the Office of the People in Art, Government and Religion: An Oration Delivered Before the Adelphi Society of Williamstown College, in August 1835 | |
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Selections from Jackson's Farewell Address entitled "The Cause of Freedom Will Continue to Triumph Over All Its Enemies" | |
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Headline: Rights of Women | |
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Why, What Evil Hath He Done? | |
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Reasons for Not Supporting the Democrats: A Satire | |
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Selections from "Radicalism" | |
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Additional Reading | |
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Remembering the Alamo | |
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Josÿ Marüa Sà nchez, A Trip to Texas in 1828 | |
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Manuel Mier y Terà n, A Mexican General Describes the Borderlands, 1828 and 1829 | |
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Petition from the Committee of Vigilance and Public Safety for the Municipality of San Augustin, 1835 | |
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Sam Houston to his Soldiers, January 15, 1863 | |
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Proclamation of Acting Governor James W. Robinson, January 19, 1863 | |
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William Barret Travis to Governor Henry Smith, February 13, 1836, From the Alamo | |
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General Antonio Lòpez de Santa Anna to the Army, February 17, 1836 | |
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William Travis to the Public, February 24, 1836 | |
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William Travis to Sam Houston, February 25, 1836 | |
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Texas Declaration of Independence, March 2, 1836 | |
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General Santa Anna to General Urrea, March 3, 1836 | |
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William Travis to Jesse Grimes, March 3, 1836 | |
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William Travis to David Ayers, March 3, 1836 | |
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General Santa Anna to his Staff, March 5, 1836 | |
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General Santa Anna to Secretary of War Josÿ Maria Tornel y Mendivil, March 6, 1836 | |
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General Santa Anna to the Citizens of Texas, March 7, 1836 | |
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Sam Houston to Colonel H. Raguet, March 13, 1836 | |
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Benjamin Goodrich to Edmund Goodrich, March 15, 1836 | |
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Eyewitness to the Alamo, Josÿ Enrique de la Peua | |
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President David G. Barnet, Proclamation on Being Sworn in as President | |
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Governor Joaquün Muuoz y Muuoz to the Citizens of Veracruz, March 23, 1836 | |
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General Thomas Rusk to President Burnet, April 22, 1836 | |
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Public Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, May 11, 1836 | |
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Mexican Secretary of War Josÿ Maria Tornel y Mendivil, 1837 | |
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Juan Seguün's Eulogy for the Defenders of the Alamo, February 25, 1837 | |
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Additional Reading | |
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Women in Antebellum America | |
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The Documents | |
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A. J. Graves, "Religious Women" | |
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Catharine Beecher, "The Peculiar Responsibilities of American Women" | |
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Sarah M. Grimkÿ, "On the Condition of Women in the United States" | |
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Harriet Jacobs, From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | |
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Words from a Native-American Female | |
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Declaration of Sentiments | |
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Lucy Larcom, From A New England Girlhood | |
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Malenda Edwards and Mary Paul Letters | |
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A House Divided: Free Labor, Slave Labor | |
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The Documents | |
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Opinion of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, March 6, 1857, in the case of Dred Scott v. John Sandford | |
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Dissenting Opinion, Justice John McClean, March 6, 1857 | |
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George Fitzhugh, From Cannibals All! | |
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Hinton Rowan Helper, From the Impending Crisis of the South | |
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, From Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly | |
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Frederick Douglass, Open Letter to Thomas Auld | |
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A War Within a War: the New York City Draft Riots | |
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Enrollment Act of 1863 | |
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Ellen Leonard, "Three Days of Terror" | |
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From the Diary of George Templeton Strong | |
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To the Laboring Men of New York | |
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Dearly Beloved! | |
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"The Raging Riot���Its Character, and the True Attitude Toward It" | |
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A Letter from One of the Rioters | |
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The $300 Exemption | |
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Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address | |
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Additional Reading | |
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Reconstruction and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan | |
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The Documents | |
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Initiation Oath of the Knights of the White Camelia | |
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Testimony of Victims of the Ku Klux Klan | |
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Congressional Inquiry into Klan Activities | |
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Hon. Job E. Stevenson of Ohio, Speech to the House of Representatives | |
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Benjamin Bryant, From Experience of a Northern Man Among the Ku-Klux | |
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W. H. Gannon, "How to Extirpate Ku-Kluxism from the South" | |
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Additional Reading | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |