Preface
AE Part One: A Colonizing People, 1492-1776
Chapter 1-Ancient America and Africa
* Pima Creation Story (Traditional-Ancient)
* Dekanawida Myth and the Achievement of Iroquois Unity (ca. 1500s)
* Duarte Barbosa, Excerpt from A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century (1518)
Chapter 2-Europeans and Africans Reach the Americas
* Christopher Columbus, Letter to Luis de Sant' Angel (1493)
* Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, "Indians of the Rio Grande" (1528-1536)
* Bartholome de Las Casas, "Of the Island of Hispaniola" (1542)
* Jacques Marquette, from The Mississippi Voyage of Joliet and Marquette (1673)
* Thomas Mun, from England's Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664)
Chapter 3-Colonizing a Continent in the Seventeenth Century
* John Smith, "The Starving Time" (1624)
* Bacon's Rebellion: The Declaration (1676)
* John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630)
* Excerpt from the Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637)
* Gottlieb Mittelberger, The Passage of Indentured Servants (1750)
* Elizabeth Sprigs, Letter to Her Father (1756)
* Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage (1788)
Chapter 4-The Maturing of Colonial Society
* William Bull, Report on the Stono Rebellion (1739)
* William Byrd II, Diary (1709)
* Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crevecouer, from Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
* Benjamin Franklin, "Upon Hearing George Whitefield Preach" (1771)
* Jonathan Edwards, from "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741)
* James Oglethorpe, Establishing the Colony of Georgia (1733)
Chapter 5-The Strains of Empire
* John Dickinson, from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1768)
* Address of the Inhabitants of Anson County to Governor Martin (1774)
* Patrick Henry, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" (1775)
AE Part Two: A Revolutionary People, 1775-1828
Chapter 6-A People in Revolution
* Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes" (1790)
* Molly Wallace, Valedictory Oration (1792)
* "Petition for Access to Education" (1787)
Chapter 7-Consolidating the Revolution
* George Washington, The Newburgh Address (1783)
* Publius (James Madison), Federalist Paper #10 (1788)
* George Mason, "Objections to This Constitution of Government" (1787)
Chapter 8-Creating a Nation
* Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791)
* George Washington, Farewell Address (1796)
* The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
* Marbury v. Madison (1803)
* Meriwether Lewis, Journal (1805)
Chapter 9-Society and Politics in the Early Republic
* Tecumseh, Letter to Governor William Henry Harrison (1810)
* Missouri Enabling Act (1820)
* The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
AE Part Three: An Expanding People, 1820-1877
Chapter 10-Economic Transformations in the Northeast and the Old Northwest
* Albany Daily Advertiser on the Erie Canal (1819)
* The Harbinger, Female Workers of Lowell (1836)
* Mary Paul, Letters Home (1845, 1846)
Chapter 11-Slavery and the Old South
* Nat Turner, Confession (1831)
* Benjamin Drew, Narratives of Escaped Slaves (1855)
* Frederick Douglass, Independence Day Speech (1852)
* George Fitzhugh, "The Blessings of Slavery" (1857)
Chapter 12-Shaping America in the Antebellum Age
* Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress (1829)
* "Memorial of the Cherokee Nation" (1830)
* Charles Finney, "Religious Revival" (1835)
* Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Letter from Brook Farm (1841)
* Dorothea Dix, Appeal on Behalf of the Insane (1843)
* William Lloyd Garrison, from The Liberator (1831)
* Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
Chapter 13-Moving West
* John L. O'Sullivan, "The Great Nation of Futurity" (1845)
* Jose Maria Sanchez, from "A Trip to Texas" (1828)
* Thomas Corwin, Against the Mexican War (1847)
* Henry David Thoreau, from "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
* Elizabeth Dixon Smith Greer, Journal (1847-1850)
* Chief Seattle, Oration (1854)
Chapter 14-The Union in Peril
* Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
* The Ostend Manifesto (1854)
* Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
* John Brown, Address to the Virginia Court (1859)
Chapter 15-The Union Severed
* James Henry Gooding, Letter to President Lincoln (1863)
* Jefferson Davis, Second Inaugural Address as President of Confederate States of America (1862)
* Clara Barton, Medical Life at the Battlefield (1862)
* Theodore A. Dodge, from Civil War Diary (1863)
* Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863)
* Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865)
Chapter 16-The Union Reconstructed
* Mississippi Black Codes (1865)
* A Sharecrop Contract (1882)
* Congressional Testimony on the Actions of the Ku Klux Klan (1872)
* Civil Rights Cases (1883)
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