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| List of Figures | |
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| Series Editors' Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Traveling the Early American Republic | |
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| Building the United States | |
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| Origins | |
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| First Inaugural Address of George Washington, 1789 | |
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| Tickagiska King Addresses President George Washington, 1789 | |
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| Western Pennsylvanians Petition Against Taxes, 1790 | |
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| The First American Party System | |
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| A Federalist Appeal to Voters, 1792 | |
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| Abigail Adams on the Partisan Press, 1797 | |
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| Matthew Lyon Criticizes "Aristocratic" Politics, 1797 | |
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| A Massachusetts Farmer Attacks the Federalists, 1798 | |
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| Recasting the American Nation | |
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| First Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson, 1801 | |
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| A New Name for the United States? 1803 | |
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| Rules of Etiquette in Jefferson's White House, 1803 | |
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| Clashes East and West | |
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| Whose Land? | |
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| Lewis and Clark Make American Claims in the "Great West," 1805 | |
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| Tecumseh Speaks Out Against American Policy in the Old Northwest, 1810 | |
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| An Artist's Depiction of Scalping during the War of 1812, 1812 | |
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| Conflict on Many Fronts | |
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| James Madison Justifies War with the British, 1812 | |
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| The Hartford Convention Denounces the War, 1814 | |
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| An Eyewitness Account of the Battle of New Orleans, 1816 | |
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| The Postwar Nation Looks Forward | |
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| The Year 1819 in Image and Verse | |
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| A Poem about a Panic, 1819 | |
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| Americans on Their Way to a Camp Revival, 1819 | |
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| A Satirist Looks at the American Militia, 1819 | |
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| The Future Course of the Republic? | |
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| John C. Calhoun Promotes Federal Internal Improvements, 1817 | |
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| The American Colonization Society Appeals to Congress, 1820 | |
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| Maine Answers the "Missouri Question," 1820 | |
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| The Work of a New Republic | |
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| A Nation on the Move | |
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| A Western Editor Endorses "Old Hickory," 1824 | |
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| The Erie Canal Hits the American Stage, 1830 | |
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| An Englishwoman Remembers Her First Illinois Winter, 1848 | |
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| Charles Ball Describes Moving in the Slave Trade, 1837 | |
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| Work at Home, Factory, and Field | |
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| Lydia Maria Child on the Family Economy and Soapmaking, 1830 | |
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| Two Views on the Morality of Capitalism in the Early Republic, 1834 and 1836 | |
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| Henry Bibb Describes Slave Labor in the Cotton Fields, 1849 | |
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| A New Urban America | |
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| Frances Trollope Describes Cincinnati, 1832 | |
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| A Poem Composed to Cholera, 1832 | |
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| A Raucous Omnibus Ride in New York City, 1839 | |
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| Renewal and Reform | |
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| The Soul of the Republic | |
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| Radical Quakers Appeal to Frances Wright, 1828 | |
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| Rev. Charles Finney on Changing One's Own Heart, 1836 | |
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| Zilpha Elaw Remembers Preaching in the North and South, 1846 | |
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| Improvement of Body and Soul | |
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| Boston Physicians on Temperance, 1832 | |
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| Mathew Carey Advocates Reform for Seamstresses, 1833 | |
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| Sylvester Graham Denounces "The Appetites," 1837 | |
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| Anti-Slavery to Abolition | |
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| African-American Leaders Reject Colonization Schemes, 1831 | |
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| Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1833 | |
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| Maria Stewart Speaks at the African Masonic Hall, 1833 | |
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| Jackson's America | |
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| The Rise of the "Common Man" | |
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| The Inauguration of Andrew Jackson, 1829 | |
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| David Walker Describes the Condition of Free African-Americans, 1829 | |
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| Sarah Grimke Defends the Rights of Women, 1837 | |
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| Native Americans and the Common Man | |
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| Andrew Jackson Attempts to Justify Indian Removal to Congress, 1830 | |
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| John Ross Explains the Position of the Cherokee Nation, 1834 | |
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| A Description of Native American Removal in Tennessee, 1835 | |
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| The Second American Party System | |
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| A Violent Election Season in New York City, 1834 | |
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| Henry Clay on Whig Strategy, 1838 | |
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| New Hampshire Papers Debate the "Log Cabin" Campaign, 1840 | |
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| The American Continent | |
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| The Mississippi and Beyond | |
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| Narcissa Whitman Describes Missionary Life in Oregon, 1836 | |
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| George Catlin Describes the Mandan Buffalo Dance, 1841 | |
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| Notchininga's Map of the Upper Mississippi, 1837 | |
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| The Era of Manifest Destiny | |
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| Sam Houston's Inaugural Address for the Republic of Texas, 1836 | |
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| An Editor Endorses the Idea of "Manifest Destiny," 1845 | |
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| Walter Colton on the Discovery of Gold in California, 1850 | |
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| War with Mexico | |
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| President Polk's War Message, 1846 | |
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| An American Sergeant's Perspective on the War with Mexico, 1847 | |
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| Guillermo Prieto Describes the Occupation of Mexico City, 1850 | |
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| Epilogue: The President and the Ex-Slave | |
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| Zachary Taylor's Inaugural Address, 1849 | |
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| Frederick Douglass on "Morals and Men," 1849 | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |