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| Introduction: Reading Culture | |
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| New Worlds & Old Worlds: 1490-1630 | |
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| Colonial Dreams: Imagining the "New World" | |
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| Cabinets of Curiosity John Tradescant's Collection (1638) | |
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| America (ca., 1664-66) | |
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| Mapping the "New World" Medieval T-O Map (Thirteenth Century) | |
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| Map of the World (1507) | |
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| Cordiform (Heart-shaped) Map of the World (1530) Fool's Cap (ca. 1590) | |
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| A New Voyage to Carolina (1709) Catawba Deerskin Map (ca. 1721) | |
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| Theater of the Fool's Errand | |
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| Eastward Ho (1605) | |
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| The Tempest (ca., 1611) | |
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| Picturing New Peoples & Retaining Old Notions | |
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| Bodies & Cannibalism Amerigo Vespucci, Mundus Novus (Letter from the New World) (1503) | |
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| The People of the Islands Recently Discovered (ca. 1505) | |
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| "Of Cannibals" (1580) | |
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| Land and Property Arthur Barlowe (Roanoke) (1584) | |
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| A Micmac Chief (New France) (1691) | |
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| Cosmology: Creation Stories from Native American, West African, and European Cultures | |
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| The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (Seneca Indians) Corn Mother (Penobscot Indians) | |
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| Mande Creation Narrative (West Africa) Genesis (King James version, The Bible) | |
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| Cross-Cultural Encounters: 1607-1690 | |
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| Pocahontas: Race and gender in England's colonization of Virginia Smith's narrative of his captivity & rescue | |
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| Pocahontas's kidnapping (Smith or Hamor) Rolfe's letter on marrying | |
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| Pocahontas Portrait of Pocahontas Pocahontas's last conversation with Smith Disney's Pocahontas press kit (1995) | |
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| "The Pocahontas Myth": Powhatan people response to Pocahontas | |
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| Captives: Puritans and Narratives of Crossing Cultures in the Colonial World John Winthrop | |
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| A Model of Christian Charity (1630) | |
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| "Of the vanity of all worldly creatures" (1650) | |
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| The Soveraignty and Goodness of God... (1682) Indian Captives: On Display in Europe: Frobisher's Inuits & Silmadoowa Captives from Metacom's War (1676) Eunice Williams, the "unredeemed captive" (1713) | |
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| Colonial Cultures in an Atlantic World: 1690-1760 | |
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| Confirming Difference & Inventing Race: Origins of slavery in the Americas | |
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| Middle Passage: Tales of the Atlantic slave trade Thomas Phillips | |
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| Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal (1693-94) | |
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| The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1791) | |
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| Plantations before & after slaves Court Action Involving Anthony Johnson and his Servant (1655) Testimony Concerning | |
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| A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes (1657) Virginia Slave Codes (1660-1705) | |
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| Magic & Witchcraft within European | |
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| Indian & African Cultures Tituba's Examination | |
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| Salem Witch Trials (1692) Neighbors' Testimony about a Witch (Rachel Clinton), 1687-1693 Father | |
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| The Jesuit Relations (1647-48) Father | |
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| Customs of the American Indians (1724) | |
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| The Natural History of Barbados (1750) | |
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| Cock Fights | |
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| Horse Races & Revivals: Colonial Amusements & the Great Awakening Horse racing in Virginia: Court Records & Newspaper Accounts (1674-1739) "Cock Fights," | |
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| Virginia Gazette (1751) Dancing: The Pennsylvania Gazette (1738-1747) Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole (ca., 1771) | |
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| Dangers of an Unconverted Ministry (1741) | |
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| The Life of the Rev. James Ireland (1819) | |
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| Creating a Nation: 1760-1800 | |
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| A Family Drama: Patriarchy, Independence and Colonial Rebellion | |
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| Family Drama The Wonderful Life, and Surprising Adventures of...Robinson Crusoe (1784) | |
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| A Speech to the Six Confederate Nations... (1775) | |
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| Common Sense (1776) | |
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| Patriotism: Rites (and Rights) of Resistance Celebrating the Repeal of the Stamp Act, Boston Gazette (1766) | |
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| A View of the Obelisk Erected under the Liberty Tree in Boston on the Rejoicings for the Repeal of the Stamp Act (1766) | |
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| The Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught (1774) | |
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| "The Female Patriots" (1768) The Female Patriot, No | |
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| Addressed to the Tea-Drinking Ladies of New-York (1770) | |
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| Liberty's Key: Competing Visions of Freedom and Equality Freedom Petitions by African Americans in Massachusetts (1773 & 1777) | |
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| Essay on Slavery (1774) Priscilla Mason's Salutatory Oration | |
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| Philadelphia Female Academy (1794) | |
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| "The Key of Liberty" (1797) | |
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| Signs and Languages of a New Nationalism | |
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| A Poem on the Rising Glory of America (1772) | |
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| The Contrast (1787) | |
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| Dissertations on the English Language (1789) Federalist and Republican Toasts and Songs (1790s) | |
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| An Entrepreneurial & Industrial North: 1790-1840 | |
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| A Market Revolution | |
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| Creating Consumer Desire Advertisements and Trade Cards, [Philadelphia] Aurora General Advertiser (1798) | |
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| The Clockmaker; or, The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick, of Slicksville (1839) | |
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| Debates over Manufacturing | |
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| Notes on the State of Virginia (1781) | |
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| Report on Manufactures (1791) | |
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| "Laboring Classes," Boston Quarterly Review (1840) | |
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| "Factory Girls," Lowell Offering (1840) | |
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| Men on the Make: Entrepreneurs & the Mythical Culture of Self-made Men The Journal of James Guild (1818-1824) | |
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| "Dr. Stramonium," (1830) | |
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| Heart & Hearth: Sentiment, Domesticity, and Property Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple (1791) "Novel Reading | |
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| A Cause of Female Depravity" (1802) Godey's Lady's Book (1832-1837) | |
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| "Rights and Wrongs of Women" (1829) | |
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| Southern Culture of Slavery & Slave Culture: 1790-1860 | |
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| Double Consciousness as a Slave: An African American Culture Amidst Slavery | |
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| Tricksters: Slave Folk Tales "De Rabbit, de Wolf, an' de Tar Baby" "Mr. Deer's My Riding Horse" "Malitis" | |
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| "How the Boss-Man Found Out John Was Taking His Chickens" | |
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| Rebels: Slave Narratives and Resistance Solomon Northup | |
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| Twelve Years a Slave (1853) | |
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| Saddles & Spurs: Creating a Pro-slavery Ideology | |
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| Myths of Paternalist Care John Pendleton Kennedy, Swallow Barn (1851) | |
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| "Management of Negroes upon Southern Estates," DeBow's Review (1851) | |
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| The Black Gauntlet (1860) | |
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| Science for Racial Dominance | |
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| Types of Mankind (1854) | |
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| Cannibals All! (1858) | |
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| Reforming America: 1820-1860 | |
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| Meeting the Spirit: Cultural Disputes over Revivalist Religion | |
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| The Life and Religious Experiences of Jarena Lee (1836) | |
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| A History of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1839) | |
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| Fall River: An Authentic Narrative (1833) | |
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| Sensational Tales of Ruin: The Cultural Production of Reformers | |
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| Ten Nights in a Bar-Room (1854) | |
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| A Lecture to Young Men on Chastity (1837) | |
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| New Freedoms from the Bodies of Slaves: Abolitionism | |
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| Colonization & Woman's Rights "A Man of Sense," | |
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| The Colonization Herald (1839) Antislavery Song: A Man's a Man for a' That (1843) | |
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| Letters on the Equality of the Sexes (1838) Seneca Falls Convention | |
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| Declaration of Sentiments (1848) | |
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| Culture of Democracy: 1820-1870 | |
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| Nature's Vistas & Visages: Cultural Meanings of Expansionism & the Western Frontier | |
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| American Scenery Thomas Cole, "Lecture on American Scenery" (1841) | |
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| American Progress (1873) | |
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| The Pigeon's Egg Head Going to and Returning from Washington (1832) | |
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| Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians (1842) | |
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| Expansionism and Conquest | |
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| History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) | |
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| Relations between Texas, the United States of America, and the Mexican Republic (1837) | |
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| The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California (1845) | |
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| Legends of Mexico (1847) Augustine Duganne, "Manifest Destiny" (1855) | |
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| Commercial Popular Entertainment & Political Culture | |
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| Theater & the Astor Place Riot Washington Irving | |
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| Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, gent. (1824) | |
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| Diary of William Macready (1846-1849) | |
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| Placards and Broadsides (May 10, 1849) "The Macready Riot," Home Journal (New York) (May 12, 1849) | |
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| Jim Crow & Zip Coon: Black-face Minstrelsy in America The Autobiography of Mark Twain (1917) Songs: "Jim Crow," (1828) and "Zip Coon," (1834) | |
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| Frederick Douglass's Opposition to Blackfaced Entertainment (1848-49) | |
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| Partisan Politics as Popular Entertainment Sally McCarty Pleasants | |
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| Old Virginia Days and Ways (1916) Lydia Maria Child | |
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| "What a shame that women can't vote!" (1856) | |
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| Struggles and Triumphs (1869) | |
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| Sectional Conflict and Civil War | |
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| Uncle Tom's Cabin and Anti-Uncle Tom Novels Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
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| Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) | |
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| North and South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts (1852) | |
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| Ellen; or, the Fanatic's Daughter (1860) B. John Brown's Body: Symbols & Meanings of the Civil War | |
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| In Song and Verse "John Brown's Body" "Battle Hymn of the Republic" "Who Will Care for Mother Now?" "Kiss Me Before I Die | |
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| Mother!" "A Hint to Poets: Showing How to Make a War Song," Vanity Fair (1862) | |
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| Gender and the Civil War Fanny Fern | |
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| "Soldiers' Wives" (1862) | |
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| "A Call to My Country-Women" (1863) Comic Valentine: "Home Guard" Comic Valentine: "Dodging the Draft" | |
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| God's Mission, but for Whom? | |
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| "The Mission of the War," (1864) | |
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| Gideon's Water-Lappers (1864) | |
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| "Our Obligations to the Dead" (1865) | |
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| A Second American Revolution: 1865-1877 | |
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| Free at Last!: African American freedom--The Black Man's Vote and White Women's Suffrage Letter to the Editor | |
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| National Anti-Slavery Standard (1865) | |
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| "This is the Negro's Hour" National Anti-Slavery Standard (1865) | |
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| Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution (proposed) (1870) | |
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| Speech before the National Woman's Suffrage Convention (1869) | |
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| Frederick Douglass on Voting Rights for Women and African Americans (1868 & 1869) | |
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| White Terror | |
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| The Klan as Minstrelsy: Humor and Terror "A Terrified Negro" Nashville Union and American (1868) | |
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| "Ku Klux in a Safe" Nashville Union and American (1868) "K.K.K.K. | |
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| Nashville Union and American (1868) | |
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| Testimony Taken at the Sub-Committee of Election in Louisiana (1870) | |
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| Sut Lovingood's Yarns (1867) | |
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| Sexualization of Politics & the Work of White Supremacy U.S. Senate Investigation of the Ku-Klux-Klan (1872) | |
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| Tracks of Conflict: Railroads and Chinese Immigration Daniel Webster | |
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| "Opening of the Northern Railroad," (1847) | |
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| "The Chinese in California," New York Tribune (1869) | |
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| Chinese Immigrants Challenge Nativist Discrimination--California State Senate Investigation (1876) | |
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| A "Striker," "Fair Wages" North American Review (1877) | |
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| "The Recent Strikes," North American Review (1877) | |