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| Preface Prologue-Beginnings | |
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| Pima Creation Story (Traditional-Ancient) | |
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| Dekanawida Myth and the Achievement of Iroquois Unity (ca. 1500s) | |
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| Duarte Barbosa, A Description of the Coast of East Africa (1518) | |
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| Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas | |
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| Christopher Columbus, Letter to Luis de Sant' Angel (1493) | |
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| Bartholome de Las Casas, "Of the Island of Hispaniola" (1542) | |
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| Jacques Marquette, from The Mississippi Voyage of Joliet and Marquette (1673) | |
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| Thomas Mun, from England's Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664) | |
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| John Smith, "The Starving Time" (1624) | |
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| John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630) | |
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| Excerpt from the Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637) | |
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| American Society in the Making | |
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| Bacon's Rebellion: The Declaration (1676) | |
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| William Bull, Report on the Stono Rebellion (1739) | |
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| Gottlieb Mittelberger, The Passage of Indentured Servants (1750) | |
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| Elizabeth Sprigs, Letter to Her Father (1756) | |
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| Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage (1788) | |
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| Alexander Falconbridge, The African Slave Trade (1788) | |
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| James Oglethorpe, Establishing the Colony of Georgia (1733) | |
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| America in the British Empire | |
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| Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crevecouer, from Letters from an American Farmer (1782) | |
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| Benjamin Franklin, "Upon Hearing George Whitefield Preach" (1771) | |
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| Jonathan Edwards, from "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741) | |
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| John Dickinson, from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1768) | |
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| Address of the Inhabitants of Anson County to Governor Martin (1774) | |
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| The American Revolution | |
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| Patrick Henry, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" (1775) | |
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| Joseph Warren, "Account of the Battle of Lexington" (1775) | |
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| Letter from a Revolutionary War Soldier (1776) | |
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| George Washington, The Newburg Address (1783) | |
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| Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes" (1790) | |
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| Molly Wallace, Valedictory Oration (1792) | |
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| Slave Petition to the General Assembly in Connecticut (1779) | |
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| The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant | |
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| Publius (James Madison), Federalist Paper #10 (1788) | |
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| George Mason, "Objections to This Constitution of Government"(1787) | |
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| Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791) | |
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| "Petition for Access to Education" (1787) | |
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| George Washington, Farewell Address (1796) | |
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| The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) | |
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| Jeffersonian Democracy | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801) | |
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| Marbury v. Madison (1803) | |
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| Meriwether Lewis, Journal (1805) | |
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| National Growing Pains | |
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| Tecumseh, Letter to Governor William Henry Harrison (1810) | |
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| Missouri Enabling Act (1820) | |
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| The Monroe Doctrine (1823) | |
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| Toward a National Economy | |
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| Albany Daily Advertiser on the Erie Canal (1819) | |
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| The Harbinger, Female Workers of Lowell (1836) | |
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| Mary Paul, Letters Home (1845, 1846) | |
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| Jacksonian Democracy | |
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| Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress (1829) | |
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| "Memorial of the Cherokee Nation" (1830) | |
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| Henry Clay, Speech Opposing President Jackson's Veto of the Bank Bill (1832) | |
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| Davy Crockett, Advice to Politicians (1833) | |
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| The Making of Middle-Class America | |
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| Charles Finney, "Religious Revival"(1835) | |
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Letter from Brook Farm (1841) | |
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| Dorothea Dix, Appeal on Behalf of the Insane (1843) | |
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| William Lloyd Garrison, from The Liberator (183 | |