Voices of America Past and Present

Name: Voices of America Past and Present
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ISBN: 9780321411617

ISBN-10: 0321411617

ISBN-13: 9780321411617

Edition: 2007

Authors: William Longman, T. H. H. Breen, Robert A. Divine, George M. Fredrickson, Randy J. Roberts

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This collection of primary sources includes both classic and lesser-known documents describing the rich mosaic of American life from the pre-contact era to the present day. The sources, both public and private documents-ranging from letters, diary excerpts, stories, novels, to speeches, court cases, and government reports-tell the story of American history in the words of those who lived it.

Book details

List price: $66.65
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

About the Author: Robert A. Divine is a Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin, and is the author of Eisenhower and the Cold War and Blowing on the Wind.




New World Encounters


Christopher Columbus, Letter to Luis de Sant' Angel (1493)



"Indians of the Rio Grande" (1528 1536)



"Of the Island of Hispaniola" (1542)



From The Mississippi Voyage of Joliet and Marquette (1673)



From England's Treasure by Foreign Trade(1664)



Conflicting Visions


England's Seventeenth-Century Colonies



"The Starving Time" (1624)


The Laws of Virginia (1