Chapter 1-New World Encounters
* 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 2-Conflicting Visions: England's Seventeenth-Century Colonies
* John Smith, The Starving Time (1624)
* The Laws of Virginia (1610-1611)
* John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
* Excerpt from the Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637)
Chapter 3-Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society
* Bacon's Rebellion: The Declaration (1676)
* William Bull, Report on the Stono Rebellion (1739)
* Gottlieb Mittelberger, The Passage of Indentured Servants (1750)
* Elizabeth Sprigs, Letter to Her Father (1756)
* Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage (1788)
* Alexander Falconbridge, The African Slave Trade (1788)
Chapter 4-Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America
* 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 American Revolution: From Gentry Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763-1783
* 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)
Chapter 6-The Republican Experiment
* George Washington, The Newburg Address (1783)
* Publius (James Madison), Federalist Paper #10(1788)
* George Mason, Objections to This Constitution of Government (1787)
* Petition for Access to Education (1787)
* Molly Wallace, Valedictory Oration (1792)
* Judith Sargent Murray, On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)
* Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791)
Chapter 7-Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788-1800
* George Washington, Farewell Address (1796)
* The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
Chapter 8-Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision
* Marbury v. Madison(1803)
* Meriwether Lewis, Journal (1805)
* Tecumseh, Letter to Governor William Henry Harrison (1810)
Chapter 9-Nation Building and Nationalism
* The Harbinger, Female Workers of Lowell (1836)
* Mary Paul, Letters Home (1845, 1846)
Chapter 10-The Triumph of White Men's Democracy
* Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress (1829)
* Memorial of the Cherokee Nation (1830)
* Henry Clay, Speech Opposing President Jackson's Veto of the Bank Bill (1832)
* Davy Crockett, Advice to Politicians (1833)
* Jose Maria Sanchez, from A Trip to Texas (1828)
Chapter 11-Slaves and Masters
* Nat Turner, Confession (1831)
* Benjamin Drew, Narratives of Escaped Slaves (1855)
* George Fitzhugh, The Blessings of Slavery (1857)
Chapter 12-The Pursuit of Perfection
* 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-An Age of Expansionism
* John L. O'Sullivan, The Great Nation of Futurity (1845)
* 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 Sectional Crisis
* Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Uncle Tom's Cabin(1852)
* Dred Scott v. Sanford(1857)
* Frederick Douglass, Independence Day Speech (1852)
* The Ostend Manifesto (1854)
* John Brown, Address to the Virginia Court (1859)
Chapter 15-Secession and the Civil War
* James Henry Gooding, Letter to President Lincoln (1863)
* Jefferson Davis, Second Inaugural Address as President of the 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)
Chapter 16-The Agony of Reconstruction
* Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865)
* Mississippi Black Codes (1865)
* A Sharecrop Contract (1882)
* Civil Rights Cases(1883)
* Congressional Testimony on the Actions of the Ku Klux Klan (1872)
* Henry Grady, The New South (1886)
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