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| Preface | |
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| A Note to the Student | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Cultures Meet | |
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| Christopher Columbus, Journal (1492) | |
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| Bartoleme de Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies (1542) | |
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| John Smith Describes the Founding of Jamestown (1607) | |
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| John Winthrop, Reasons for Emigrating to New England (1629) | |
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| William Bradford on Sickness among the Natives (1633) | |
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| The Indians of the Six Nations to William & Mary College (1744) | |
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| Jesuit Comparison of French and Native Life (1657-1658) | |
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| Jesuit Observations on the "Enslavement" of Native American Women (1610-1614) | |
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| Reverend John Heckewelder Challenges European Stereotypes of Native American Gender Relations (1819) | |
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| Colonial Society | |
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| The London Company Instructs the Governor in Virginia (1622) | |
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| The Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia (1623) | |
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| Race, Gender, and Servitude in Virginia Law (1661-1691) | |
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| Trial and Interrogation of Hutchinson (1637) | |
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| Edward Randolph, the Causes and Results of King Philip's War (1675) | |
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| Mary Rowlandson, Captivity Narrative (1682) | |
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| The Examination and Confession of Ann Foster at Salem Village (1692) | |
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| Pennsylvania, the Poor Man's Paradise (1698) | |
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| Images of the Rise of a Consumer Society (1729-1750) | |
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| John Smibert, Dean Berkeley and His Entourage (The Bermuda Group) | |
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| Roy Blunt, Drayton Hall, Charleston, South Carolina | |
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| Leonard Battee, Queen Anne Highboy | |
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| John Lawson, A New Voyage to Carolina (1709) | |
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| Reverend Charles Woodmason on Religion in the Carolina Backcountry (1767-1768) | |
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| Olaudah Equiano Recalls the Horrors of the Middle Passage (1756) | |
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| Alexander Falconbridge, the African Slave Trade (1788) | |
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| A Puritan Prescription for Marital Concord (1712) | |
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| Jane Colman Turell, "Lines on Childbirth" (1741) | |
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| The Spirit of Revolution | |
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| Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741) | |
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| Thomas Hutchinson Recounts the Mob Reaction to the Stamp Act in Boston (1765) | |
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| Benjamin Franklin, Testimony Against the Stamp Act (1766) | |
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| Milcah Martha Moore, "The Female Patriots: Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America" (1768) | |
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| Captain Thomas Preston's Account of the Boston Massacre (1770) | |
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| Paul Revere, Image of The Bloody Massacre (1770) | |
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| Samuel Adams, "The Rights of the Colonists" (1772) | |
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| "Plain English," Reign of King Mob (1775) | |
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| Thomas Paine, Introduction to Common Sense (1776) | |
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| John Dickinson, A Speech Against Independence (1776) | |
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| Joseph Brant Pledges Mohawk Loyalty to Britain (1776) | |
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| Abigail and John Adams on Women's Rights (1776) | |
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| James Thacher Describes the Battle of Trenton (1777) | |
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| An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery (1780) | |
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| We the People | |
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| Thomas Jefferson Calls for Religious Freedom in Virginia (1786) | |
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| The Northwest Ordinance (1787) | |
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| General Benjamin Lincoln Recalls Shays's Rebellion (1786) | |
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| James Madison, Federalist Number 10 (1788) | |
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| Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention (1788) | |
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| The Bill of Rights (1791) | |
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| Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Race (1781-1787) | |
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| Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson (1791) | |
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| Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes" (1790) | |
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| Alexander Hamilton, Report on Manufactures (1791) | |
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| George Washington's "Farewell Address" (1796) | |
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| A Republican Broadside (1796) | |
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| James Madison, the Virginia Resolutions (1798) | |
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| A New Nation | |
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| Solomon on Gabriel's Rebellion (1800) | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801) | |
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| Thomas Jefferson Instructs Robert Livingston (1802) | |
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| John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison (1803) | |
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| Lewis and Clark Reach the Pacific Ocean (1805) | |
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| Lessons from a New England Primer (1807) | |
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| Images of American Indians (1804, 1821) | |
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| John Vanderlyn, Murder of Jane McCrea, (1804) | |
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| Charles Bird King, Young Omahaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees, (1821) | |
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| Tecumseh's Plea to the Choctaws and the Chickasaws (1811) | |
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| The Niles Weekly Register Pushes for War (1812) | |
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| Report and Resolutions of the Hartford Convention (1815) | |
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| John Luttig Describes the Western Fur Trade (1812) | |
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| James Flint Recalls the Panic of 1819 (1822) | |
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| James Tallmadge Denounces Slavery in Missouri (1819) | |
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| The Monroe Doctrine (1823) | |
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| Henry Clay Calls for Economic Development (1824) | |
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| Antebellum Politics and Reform | |
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| Margaret Bayard Smith on Andrew Jackson's Inaugural (1829) | |
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| Davy Crockett, Advice to Politicians (1833) | |
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| George Caleb Bingham, County Election (1852) | |
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| The Cherokees Resist Removal (1830) | |
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| Andrew Jackson's Second Annual Message to Congress (1830) | |
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| John C. Calhoun, South Carolina Exposition and Protest (1828) | |
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| Daniel Webster's Second Reply to Robert Y. Hayne (1830) | |
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| Bishop McIlvaine Decries the Curse of Intemperance (Undated) | |
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| Dorothea Dix Calls for Humane Treatment of the Mentally Ill (1843) | |
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| Horace Mann on Educational Reform (1840) | |
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| Women Workers Protest "Lowell Wage Slavery" (1847) | |
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| David Walker, Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829) | |
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| William Lloyd Garrison on Slavery (1831) | |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments (1848) | |
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| Social and Cultural Change, 1820-1865 | |
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| Joshua and Sally Wilson, Letters to George Wilson (1823) | |
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| Catharine Beecher on Domestic Economy (1841) | |
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| Henry Clarke Wright on Marriage and Parentage (1858) | |
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| Peter Cartwright, "A Muscular Christian" (1830) | |
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| Joseph Smith, The Wentworth Letter (1842) | |
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| Frances Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1831) | |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835) | |
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| The Wonders of Phrenology Revealed (1841) | |
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Letter from Brook Farm (1841) | |
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| John Humphrey Noyes on Free Love at Oneida (1865) | |
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| "Jim Crow," A Minstrel Song (undated) | |
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| Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" (1855) | |
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| John Neagle, Pat Lyon at the Forge (1826-1827) | |
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| Slavery and the Old South | |
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| Anne Newport Royall Describes the Alabama Frontier (1821) | |
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| Life in the Pine Woods (1831) | |
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| Managing the Butler Estate (1828) | |
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| Fanny Kemble Describes Plantation Slavery (1863) | |
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| Religion as Social Control: A Catechism for Slaves (1854) | |
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| George Fitzhugh Defends Southern Society (1854) | |
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| Daniel Hundley, The Southern Yeoman (1860) | |
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| Nat Turner's "Confession" (1831) | |
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| Frederick Douglass on Slavery (1845) | |
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| Uncle Ben on the Punishment of Slaves (1910) | |
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| Slave Music and Resistance | |
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| Benjamin Drew, Narratives of Escaped Slaves (1855) | |
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| Images of Slavery | |
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| A Slave Auction in Virginia (1861) | |
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| Five Generations on Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina (1862) | |
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| Household Servant with Child, circa 1860 | |
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| Untitled Image of Whipping Scars (1863) | |
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| Moving Westward | |
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| Sharitarish on Indian Life (1822) | |
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| George Catlin on Pigeon's Egg Head (1837-1839, 1842) | |
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| Richard Henry Dana on the Coast of California (1835) | |
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| General Manuel de Mier y Teran on Texas (1828) | |
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| John O'Sullivan on Annexation (1845) | |
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| Thomas Corwin Opposes the Mexican War (1847) | |
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| Jose Fernando Ramirez Describes the U.S. Occupation of Mexico City (1847) | |
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| Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience" (1849) | |
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| Elizabeth Dixon Smith Greer Describes Life on the Frontier (1847-1850) | |
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| Alonzo Delano, A Forty-Niner (1849-1850) | |
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| A House Divded | |
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| John C. Calhoun, Proposal to Preserve the Union (1850) | |
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| William H. Seward, "Higher Law" Speech (1850) | |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) | |
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| The Know-Nothing Party Platform | |
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| Charles Sumner on "Bleeding Kansas" (1856) | |
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| Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) | |
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| Hinton Rowan Helper, The Impending Crisis (1857) | |
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| The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) | |
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| John Brown and His Critics (1859) | |
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| The Civil War | |
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| John Smith Preston Advocates Secession (1861) | |
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| Horace Greeley and Abraham Lincoln on Slavery and the Union (1862) | |
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| Jefferson Davis Responds to the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) | |
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| Clara Barton, Medical Life at the Battlefield (1862) | |
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| Tally Simpson, Letter from Fredericksburg (1862) | |
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| Corporal James Kendall Hosmer, On the Firing Line (1863) | |
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| Anna Elizabeth Dickinson Describes the New York Draft Riots (1863) | |
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| James Henry Gooding, Letter to President Lincoln (1863) | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863) | |
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| Mary Boykin Chesnut Describes Richmond at War (1863-1864) | |
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| Robert E. Lee on the Use of Slaves as Soldiers (1865) | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865) | |
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| Reconstruction | |
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| African Americans and the Impact of Freedom | |
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| Testimony of Mingo White | |
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| Testimony of Charles Davenport | |
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| Elizabeth Hyde Botume, A Northern Teacher's View of the Freedmen (1863-1865) | |
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| The Louisiana Black Code (1865) | |
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| African Americans Seek Protection (1865) | |
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| Thaddeus Stevens Attacks Presidential Reconstruction (1865) | |
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| President Johnson Opposes Black Suffrage (1867) | |
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| A White Planter Responds to Emancipation (1866) | |
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| Howell Cobb, A White Southern Perspective on Reconstruction (1868) | |
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| Equal Rights Association Proceedings (1869) | |
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| Susan B. Anthony on Women's Rights (1873) | |
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| Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction (1872) | |