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Preface | |
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Introduction: Using Sources to Study the Past | |
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Indians and Europeans: New World Encounters | |
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Points of View: Contact and Conquest (1502-1521) | |
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Dispatches of the Conquest from the New World | |
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A Nahua Account of the Conquest of Mexico | |
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For Critical Thinking | |
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Destruction of the Indies | |
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Description of Virginia | |
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Encounter With the Indians Father | |
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Captured by Indians | |
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Visual Portfolio: New World Images | |
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The Colonial Experience: A Rapidly Changing Society | |
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Points of View: Women in Colonial America | |
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A Business Trip Across the Colonies | |
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Leaving an Abusive Husband | |
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For Critical Thinking | |
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Testimony of Pueblo Indians | |
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The African Slave Trade | |
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On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants | |
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Defending Colonial Activities Before Parliament | |
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Assimilation and Discrimination Jews in the Early Republic | |
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Mapmaking and Colonialism in the New World Amplissima Regionis Mississippi | |
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Resistance and Revolution: Struggling for Liberty | |
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Points of View: The Boston Massacre (1770) | |
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A British Officer's Description | |
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Colonial Accounts George Robert Twelves Hewes, John Tudor, and the | |
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For Critical Thinking | |
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Visual Portfolio: Patriot and Loyalist Propaganda | |
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A Soldier's View of the Revolutionary War | |
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Choosing Sides | |
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Secret Correspondence of a Loyalist Wife | |
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Republican Motherhood | |
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Shays's Rebellion: Prelude to the Constitution | |
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Casting Their Lot With the British | |
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Defining America: The Expanding Nation | |
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Points of View: Religion in the New Nation (1800-1830) | |
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The Great Revival of 1800 | |
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An American Deist | |
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Religion in America | |
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For Critical Thinking | |
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Crossing the Continent | |
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The Trail of Tears | |
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Pulling a Handcart to the Mormon Zion | |
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How the West Was Won An Officer of the "Army of the West" | |
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Life in California Before the Gold Discovery | |
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Miners During the California Gold Rush Daguerreotype | |
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An Age of Reform: Rearranging Social Patterns | |
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Points of View: Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831) | |
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A Slave Insurrection | |
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Who is to Blame? | |
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For Critical Thinking | |
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The Lowell Textile Workers | |
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A Family Torn Apart by Slavery | |
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Life of a Female Slave | |
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A Pioneer for Women's Rights | |
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Taking Up Arms Against Slavery | |
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Visual Portfolio: Slavery and Freedom | |
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Civil War and Reconstruction: The Price of War | |
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Points of View: Winding Down the War and an Uncertain Future | |
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What the Black Man Wants | |
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A Slave Owner's Journal at the End of the Civil War | |
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For Critical Thinking | |
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Three Days of Terror | |
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The Battle of Gettysburg: at War and at Home | |
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Fighting for the Union Letters from Black Union Soldiers | |
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Healing Wounds | |
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African Americans During Reconstruction | |
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White Southerners' Reactions to Reconstruction | |
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Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865 Or 1866 Photography | |
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