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| Preface to the Fifth Edition | |
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| A Guide to Reading and Interpreting Documents and Images | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Diverse Beginnings | |
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| The Spanish Letter of Columbus to Luis Sant' Angel (1493) | |
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| Images of Sixteenth-Century Native American Life | |
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| Powhatan and John Smith (1608) | |
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| An Indentured Servant Writes Home (1623) | |
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| Early New York (1626) | |
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| Jesuit Comparison of French and Native Life (1657-1658) | |
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| General Considerations for the Plantation in New England (1629) | |
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| William Bradford on Sickness Among the Natives (1633) | |
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| �Captivity Account� of Mary Rowlandson (1675) | |
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| The Pueblo Revolt (1680) | |
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| The Indians and Missions of Florida (1675) | |
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| Emerging Colonial Societies | |
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| A Treaty Between the Five Nations and the New England. Colonies (1689) | |
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| Petition of an Accused Witch (1692) | |
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| �Pennsylvania, the Poor Man's Paradise� (1698) | |
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| Of the Servants and Slaves in Virginia (1705) | |
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| The Dilemma of New France (1724) | |
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| New York Slave Conspiracy (1741) | |
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| Eliza Lucas a Modern Woman (1741-1742) | |
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| Toward an American Identity | |
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| �Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God� (1741) | |
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| Chief Canassatego Speaks at the Treaty of Lancaster (1744) | |
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| Pennsylvania Assembly Comments on German Immigration (1755) | |
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| The Albany Plan of Union (1754) | |
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| Edmund Burke on British Motives in the Seven Years' War (1762) | |
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| �The Pontiac Manuscript� (1763) | |
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| �What Is an American?� (1770) | |
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| Account of the African Slave Trade (1788) | |
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| Coming of the Revolution | |
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| John Locke on Political Society and Government (1689) | |
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| Stamp Act Riots (1765) | |
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| Images of Colonial Resistance (1760s-1770s) | |
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| Ann Hulton Loyalist View of Colonial Unrest (1774) | |
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| Englishwoman's Appeal to the People of Great Britain on the Crisis in America (1775) | |
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| Abigail Smith Adams on the British Occupation of Boston (1775) | |
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| A Loyalist Perspective on the Coming of the Revolution (1780) | |
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| Introduction to Common Sense (1776) | |
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| A Speech against Independence (1776) | |
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| Creating the New Nation | |
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| German Doctor's Account of War and Surgery (1777) | |
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| Articles of Confederation (1777) | |
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| The Revolution in Indian Country | |
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| The Battle of King's Mountain and Loyalism in the Carolinas (1780) | |
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| Women's Contributions to the War Effort (1780) | |
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| European View of the American Revolution (1778/80, 1783) | |
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| Failure of the Continental Congress (1786) | |
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| The Northwest Ordinance (1787) | |
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| Grievances of the Shays Rebels (1786) | |
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| Pennsylvania Dissent to the Ratification of the Constitution (1787) | |
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| Federalist Number 10 (1788) | |
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| The Limits of Republicanism | |
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| Cato Petitions for His Freedom (1781) | |
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| Judith Sargent Murray on the Equality of the Sexes (1790) | |
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| Alexander Hamilton Speaks in Favor of the National Bank (1791) | |
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| Opposing Views of the Whiskey Rebellion (1794) | |
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| George Washington's �Farewell Address� (1796) | |
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| Description of a Conversion Experience at Cane Ridge, Kentucky (1801) | |
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| Marbury v. Madison (1803) | |
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| Resolutions of the Hartford Convention (1815) | |
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| The New Nation and Its Place in the World | |
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| Military Disaster on the Ohio Frontier (1791) | |
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| Jefferson's Instructions to Robert Livingston, Minister to France (1802) | |
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| Heading West with Lewis and Clark (1804) | |
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| Jefferson His Opponents (1800, 1807) | |
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| Tecumseh on White Encroachment (1810) | |
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| Margaret Bayard Smith on the Burning of Washington, DC (1814) | |
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| Tennessee Expansionists on the Adams-On�s Treaty (1819) | |
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| The Monroe Doctrine (1823) | |
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| The Rise of Democracy | |
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| Fanny Wright on Equality (1830) | |
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| Daniel Webster's Second Reply to Robert Y. Hayne (1830) | |
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| Commentary on Elections in Jacksonian America (1832) | |
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| The American System (1832) | |
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| Andrew Jackson's Bank Veto Message (1832) | |
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| The Cherokee Phoenix on Georgia Policy Toward the Cherokee (1832) | |
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| South Carolina Nullifies the Tariff (1832) | |
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| Images of Jacksonian Politics | |
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| Society and Economy in the North | |
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| Promoting the Erie Canal (1818) | |
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| Differing Views of a Changing Society (1827, 1836) | |
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| Charles G. Finney Describes the Rochester Revival (1830-1831) | |
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| American Mania for Railroads (1834) | |
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| �Americans on the Move� (1835) | |
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| A Petition to Integrate the Schools (1842) | |
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| Women Workers Protest �Lowell Wage Slavery� (1847) | |
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| �On Irish Emigration� (1852) | |
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| Social Reform | |
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| �Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World� (1829) | |
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| William Lloyd Garrison on Slavery (1831) | |
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| Evidence Against the Views of the Abolitionists (1833) | |
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| Sarah Grimk� Argues for Gender Equality (1837) | |
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| The Temperance Crusade (1818, 1846) | |
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| �Declaration of Sentiments,� Seneca Falls Convention (1848) | |
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| Manifest Destiny | |
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| Mid-Nineteenth Century Images of Race and Nation | |
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| Texas and California Annexation (1845) | |
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| American Description of Mexican Women in Santa Fe (1845) | |
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| Life on the Overland Trail (1846) | |
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| Mexican View of U.S. Occupation (1847) | |
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| Mormons Describe Entering the Salt Lake Valley (1848) | |
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| Local Reaction to the Gold Rush (1848) | |
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| Images of Chinese Immigrants (1852, 1860) | |
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| �Civil Disobedience� (1849) | |
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| The Question of Cuban Annexation (1853) | |
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| Slavery and the Old South | |
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| The Alabama Frontier (1821) | |
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| The Trial of Denmark Vesey (1822) | |
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| A Reaction to the Nat Turner Revolt (1831) | |
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| The Plantation Labor Force (1838-1839) | |
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| Labor at the Tredegar Iron Works (1847) | |
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| Martin Delany and African American Nationalism (1852) | |
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| A Slave Describes Sugar Cultivation (1853) | |
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| A Defense of Southern Society (1854) | |
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| Images of Slave Life (1858, 1860) | |
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| The Southern Yeomen (1860) | |
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| Origins of the Civil War | |
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| An African American Minister Responds to the Fugitive Slave Law (1851) | |
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| Southern Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) | |
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| American (know nothing) Party Platform (1856) | |
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| Charles Sumner on �Bleeding Kansas� (1856) | |
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| Chicago Tribune on the Dred Scott v. Sanford Decision (1851) | |
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| Sensible Hints to the South (1858) | |
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| Frederick Douglass on John Brown (1859) | |
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| Cartoonists Depict the Issues of the Day (1860) | |
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| Inaugural Address of South Carolina Governor Francis Pickens (1860) | |
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| Northern Participation in the Slave Trade (1862) | |
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| The Civil War | |
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| Mary Boykin Chesnut, the Attack on Fort Sumter (1861) | |
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| �A War to Preserve the Union� (1861) | |
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| Jefferson Davis Responds to the Emancipation Proclamation (1862) | |
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| Images of African Americans in the Civil War (1863, 1865) | |
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| George Pickett on the �Charge� (1863) | |
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| New York City Draft Riots (1863) | |
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| The Southern Home Front (1863) | |
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| General William T. Sherman on War (1864) | |
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| Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865) | |
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| Reconstruction | |
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| A Northern Teacher's View of the Freedmen (1863-1865) | |
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| Charleston, South Carolina, at the Conclusion of the Civil War (1865) | |
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| African Americans Seek Protection (1865) | |
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| Thaddeus Stevens on Reconstruction and the South (1865) | |
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| A White Southern Perspective on Reconstruction (1868) | |
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| African American Suffrage in the South (1867, 1876) | |
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| An African American Congressman Calls for Civil Rights (1874) | |
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| The Situation for African Americans in the South (1879) | |