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| Preface | |
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| The Cross and the Sword in Spain's New World: Bartolom� de Las Casas and Hern�n Cort�s | |
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| Cort�s Describes the Aztecs (1519, 1520) | |
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| An Aztec View of the Temple Massacre (ca. 1550) | |
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| Cort�s Defends Encomiendas (1522) | |
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| Las Casas Attacks Conversion by Conquest (1537) | |
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| Las Casas Attacks Encomiendas (1542) | |
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| Revolt on the Virginia Frontier: Nathaniel Bacon and William Berkeley | |
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| Frontier Planters Appeal to Governor William Berkeley (Spring 1676) | |
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| "Declaration and Remonstrance" (May 1676) | |
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| A Summary of the June Assembly's Laws (1676) | |
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| Bacon's Manifesto (July 1676) | |
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| Grievances Submitted to the King's Commissioners (1677) | |
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| Enthusiasm, Authority, and the Great Awakening: James Davenport and Charles Chauncy | |
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| "A Song of Praise" (1742) | |
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| Enthusiasm Described and Caution'd Against (1742) | |
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| "A Report on Religious Excess at New London" (1743) | |
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| Confession and Retractions (1744) | |
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| Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New-England (1743) | |
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| The Price of Patriotism: Jonathan Sewall and John Adams | |
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| "Instructions of the Town of Braintree to the Representative" (1765) | |
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| Jonathan Sewall Offers a Defense of British Authority (1771) | |
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| Jonathan Sewall on the Revolutionary Threat (1775) | |
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| "Novanglus" (1775) | |
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| The Conflict over the Constitution: Patrick Henry and James Madison | |
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| "Observations on the New Constitution" (1788) | |
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| "The Federalist No. 10" (1788) | |
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| Speech to the Virginia Convention (June 4, 1788) | |
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| Speech to the Virginia Convention (June 5, 1788) | |
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| "The Federalist No. 39" (1788) | |
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| Political Conflict in the Early Republic: Benjamin Franklin Bache and Alexander Hamilton | |
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| "To the People of the United States" (1794) | |
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| Benjamin Bache on Hamilton and the Whiskey Rebellion (1794) | |
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| "The French Revolution" (1794) | |
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| Resolutions of the Pennsylvania Democratic Society (1794) | |
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| Hamilton Defends Jay's Treaty (1795) | |
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| Benjamin Bache Assaults Jay's Treaty (1795) | |
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| Resistance and Western Expansion: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison | |
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| Letter to William Henry Harrison (1803) | |
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| Letter to William Eustis, Secretary of War (1809) | |
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| A Discourse on the Aborigines of the Ohio Valley (1839) | |
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| Tecumseh, Speech to Harrison at Vincennes (1810) | |
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| Tecumseh, "Sleep Not Longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws" (1811) | |
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| The Fruits of the Factory System: Sarah Bagley and Nathan Appleton | |
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| "The Introduction of the Power Loom, and Origin of Lowell" (1858) | |
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| Regulations of the Appleton Company (1833) | |
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| "The Pleasures of Factory Life" (1840) | |
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| "Voluntary?" (1845) | |
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| "Labor, Its Relations, in Europe and the United States, Compared" (1844) | |
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| Politics, Morality, and Race in the Abolitionist Crusade: William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass | |
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| Detail of Liberator Masthead (1831) | |
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| Garrison Announces His New Reform Policy (1837) | |
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| Douglass Recounts His Life as a Slave (1845) | |
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| Garrison Announces "No Union with Slaveholders" (1844) | |
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| Frederick Douglass Responds to William Lloyd Garrison (1853) | |
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| "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" (1852) | |
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| The Feminine Sphere in Antebellum Society: Catharine Beecher and Elizabeth Cady Stanton | |
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| "Differences Between the Sexes" (1835) | |
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| Catharine Beecher on Women's Proper Place (1837) | |
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| A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) | |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton Addresses the Seneca Falls Convention (1848) | |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton Answers the Critics of Woman's Rights (1848) | |
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| Manifest Destiny and Conquest: Thomas Larkin and Juan Bautista Alvarado | |
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| Richard Henry Dana Assesses the Californios (1840) | |
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| Thomas Larkin on the Situation in California (1845) | |
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| Juan Bautista Alvarado on the Conquest of California (1876) | |
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| Vigilante Justice in Los Angeles (1857) | |
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| The South and the Slavery Debate: Hinton Rowan Helper and George Fitzhugh | |
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| Slavery Justified (1850) | |
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| Cannibals All! (1857) | |
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| Hinton Rowan Helper on Chinese Immigrants (1855) | |
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| The Impending Crisis of the South (1857) | |
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| Reminiscences of Georgia (1850) | |
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| Yankees and "Border Ruffians" in "Bleeding Kansas": Sara Robinson and David Atchison | |
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| "Address to the People of the Southern States" (1849) | |
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| Report of the Committee to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas (1856) | |
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| Sara Robinson on "Bleeding Kansas" (1856) | |
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| Sara Robinson on the "Sack" of Lawrence (1856) | |
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| David Atchison on the "Abolitionist" Threat (1856) | |
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| Mr. Lincoln's War: Clement Vallandigham and Benjamin Wade | |
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| Benjamin Wade Assaults a Southern Colleague (1854) | |
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| Letter to Horace Greeley (1862) | |
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| The Wade-Davis Manifesto (1864) | |
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| "The Great Civil War in America" (1863) | |
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| Clement Vallandigham Attacks Benjamin Wade (1862) | |
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| Race and Redemption in the Reconstructed South: Robert Smalls and Wade Hampton | |
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| "Memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives" (1865) | |
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| Wade Hampton Protests to the President (1866) | |
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| A Northerner Assesses Southern Attitudes (1866) | |
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| Wade Hampton Testifies before a Congressional Committee (1871) | |
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| Representative Robert Smalls Protests the Withdrawal of Federal Troops (1876) | |
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| Instructions to Red Shirts (1876) | |