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Reading the American Past, Volume I: To 1877: Selected Historical Documents / Edition 4
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- 9780312459673
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- 01/04/2008
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- Bedford/St. Martin's
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- ISBN-13:
- 9780312459673
- Pub. Date:
- 01/04/2008
- Publisher:
- Bedford/St. Martin's
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Overview
This two-volume primary-source collection provides a diverse selection of voices from the nation’s past while emphasizing the important social, political, and economic themes of a U.S. history survey course. Edited by one of the authors of The American Promise and designed to complement the textbook, Reading the American Past features over 150 documents, each accompanied by a headnote and questions for discussion to encourage students’ understanding of the sources.
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ISBN-13: | 9780312459673 |
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Publisher: | Bedford/St. Martin's |
Publication date: | 01/04/2008 |
Edition description: | Fourth Edition |
Pages: | 368 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
MICHAEL P. JOHNSON (Ph.D., Stanford University) is a professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University. He has written or edited six books, including No Chariot Let Down: Charleston’s Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War (1984) and The American Promise.
Table of Contents
Preface for Instructors
Introduction for Students
1. ANCIENT AMERICA: BEFORE 1492
1-1 A Taino Origin Story
Ramón Pané, On Taino Religious Practices
1-2 A Seneca Origin Narrative
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
1-3 Genesis: The Christian Origin Narrative
“In the Beginning”
1-4 Aristotle on Masters and Slaves
The Politics, ca. 300 B.C.
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
2. EUROPEANS ENCOUNTER THE NEW WORLD, 1492- 1600
2-1 The King of the Congo Writes to the King of Portugal
King Afonso and King João III, Correspondence, 1526
2-2 Columbus Describes His First Encounter with “Indians”
The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492- 1493
2-3 A Conquistador Arrives in Mexico, 1519- 1520
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain, 1632
2-4 A Mexican Description of the Conquest of Mexico
Mexican Accounts of Conquest from the Florentine Codex
2-5 Sir Thomas More Describes New World Utopia
Utopia, 1515
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
3. THE SOUTHERN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, 1601- 1700
3-1 Richard Frethorne Describes Indentured Servitude in Virginia
Letter to Father and Mother, March 20, April 2, 3, 1623
3-2 Opechancanough's 1622 Uprising in Virginia
Edward Waterhouse, Declaration, 1622
3-3 Francisco Pareja Instructs Spanish Missionaries about the Sins of Florida's Timucuan Indians
Confessionario, 1613
3-4 Sex and Race Relations
Testimony from Virginia Court Records, 1681
3-5 Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon, Declaration, 1676
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
4. THE NORTHERN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, 1601- 1700
4-1 The Arbella Sermon
John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630
4-2 Observations of New England Indians
Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America, 1643
4-3 Keeping Order in a Puritan Community
Suffolk County Court Records, 1671- 1673
4-4 A Provincial Government Enacts Legislation
The Laws of Pennsylvania, 1682
4-5 Words of the Bewitched
Testimony against Accused Witch Bridget Bishop, 1692
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
5. COLONIAL AMERICA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1701- 1770
5-1 Confessions of a Thief and Rapist
A Boston Broadside, 1768
5-2 Poor Richard's Advice
Benjamin Franklin, Father Abraham's Speech from Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757
5-3 An Anglican Criticizes New Light Baptists and Presbyterians in the South Carolina Backcountry
Charles Woodmason, Sermon on the Baptists and the Presbyterians, ca. 1768
5-4 Advertisements for Runaway Slaves
South Carolina Gazette and Virginia Gazette, 1737- 1745
5-5 A Moravian Missionary Interviews Slaves in the West Indies, 1767- 1768
Christian George Andreas Oldendorp, History of the Evangelical Brethren's Mission on the Caribbean Islands, 1777
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
6. THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE COLONIAL CRISIS, 1754- 1775
6-1 An Oration on the Second Anniversary of the Boston Massacre
Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, March 5, 1772
6-2 A Boston Shoemaker Recalls British Arrogance and the Boston Tea Party
George R. T. Hewes, Memoir, 1834
6-3 Daniel Leonard Argues for Loyalty to the British Empire
To the Inhabitants of the Province of Massachusetts- Bay, 1774- 1775
6-4 George Washington Concludes That the Crisis Has Arrived
Letters, 1774
6-5 Edmund Burke Urges Reconciliation with the Colonies
Speech to Parliament, March 22, 1775
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
7. THE WAR FOR AMERICA, 1775- 1783
7-1 Thomas Paine Makes the Case for Independence
Common Sense, January 1776
7-2 Letters of John and Abigail Adams
Correspondence, 1776
7-3 George Washington Seeks Congressional Support for the Continental Army
Letter to John Hancock, President, Continental Congress, September 24, 1776
7-4 Boston King Seeks Freedom by Running Away to the British Army
Memoir, 1798
7-5 Joseph Brant Appeals to British Allies to Keep Promises
Address to British Secretary of State Lord Germain, 1776
Message to Governor of Quebec, Frederick Haldimand, 1783
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
8. BUILDING A REPUBLIC, 1775- 1789
8-1 Richard Allen Founds the First African Methodist Church
Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours, 1833
8-2 Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Race
Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782
8-3 Making the Case for the Constitution
James Madison, Federalist Number 10, 1787
8-4 Mercy Otis Warren Opposes the Constitution
Observations on the New Constitution, 1788
8-5 The Rights of Man in the Age of Revolution
Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789 Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
9. THE NEW NATION TAKES FORM, 1789- 1800
9-1 Why Free Government Has Always Failed
William Manning, The Key of Libberty, 1798
9-2 A French Sugar Planter Describes the French and Saint Domingue Revolutions
A Sugar Planter of Saint Domingue Experiences Revolution in France and Saint Domingue, 1791
9-3 Mary Dewees Moves West to Kentucky
Journal, 1788- 1789
9-4 Alexander Hamilton on the Economy
Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791
9-5 President George Washington's Parting Advice to the Nation
Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 1796
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
10. REPUBLICANS IN POWER, 1800- 1824
10-1 A Jeffersonian Sailmaker's Fourth of July Address
Peter Wendover, Oration, July 4, 1806
10-2 James Hamilton's Path to Enlistment during the War of 1812
Confession, 1818
10-3 James Forten Protests Pennsylvania Law Threatening Enslavement of Free African Americans
Letters from a Man of Colour, on a Late Bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania, 1813
10-4 President Thomas Jefferson's Private and Public Indian Policy
Letter to Governor William H. Harrison, February 27, 1803
Address to the Wolf and People of the Mandan Nation, December 30, 1806
10-5 Meriwether Lewis Describes the Shoshone
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1805
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
11. THE EXPANDING REPUBLIC, 1815- 1840
11-1 David Crockett Hunts Bear in Western Tennessee
A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee, 1834
11-2 President Andrew Jackson's Parting Words to the Nation
Farewell Address, March 4, 1837
11-3 Cherokees Debate Removal
John Ross, Answer to Inquiries from a Friend, 1836
Elias Boudinot, A Reply to John Ross, 1837
11-4 Sarah Grimké on the Status of Women
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, 1838
11-5 David Walker Demands Emancipation
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, 1829
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
12. THE NEW WEST AND FREE NORTH, 1840- 1860
12-1 The Anxiety of Gain: Henry W. Bellows on Commerce and Morality
The Influence of the Trading Spirit upon the Social and Moral Life of America, 1845
12-2 That Woman Is Man's Equal: The Seneca Falls Declaration
Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
12-3 A Farmer's View of His Wife
Eliza Farnham, Conversation with a Newly Wed Westerner, 1846
12-4 A Texan Enlists to Fight in the Mexican War
James K. Holland, Diary, 1846
12-5 Gold Fever
Walter Colton, California Gold Rush Diary, 1849- 1850
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
13. THE SLAVE SOUTH, 1820- 1860
13-1 Madison Hemings Recalls Life as Thomas Jefferson's Enslaved Son
Interview, 1873
13-2 Plantation Rules
Bennet Barrow, Highland Plantation Journal, May 1, 1838
13-3 Nat Turner Explains Why He Became an Insurrectionist
The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831
13-4 The Proslavery Argument
James Henry Hammond, Letter to an English Abolitionist, 1845
13-5 Hinton Helper Demands Abolition for the Good of White Southerners
The Impending Crisis of the South, 1857
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
14. THE HOUSE DIVIDED, 1846- 1861
14-1 The Kansas- Nebraska Act
Abraham Lincoln, Speech in Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854
14-2 The Antislavery Constitution
Frederick Douglass, The Constitution of the United States: Is It Proslavery or Antislavery? 1860
14-3 The Proslavery Constitution
Jefferson Davis, Speech before the U.S. Senate, May 1860
14-4 A Free African American Concludes Emigration Is Necessary
Granville B. Blanks, Letter to the Editor, 1852
14-5 Abolitionist Lydia Maria Child Defends John Brown and Attacks the Slave Power
Correspondence between Lydia Maria Child and Virginia Governor Henry A. Wise, 1859
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
15. THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR, 1861- 1865
15-1 President Lincoln's War Aims
Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862
The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
15-2 A Former Slave's War Aims
Statement from an Anonymous Former Slave, New Orleans, 1863
15-3 The New York Draft Riots
Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York, 1863
15-4 A Virginia Woman Confronts Union Foragers
Nancy Emerson, Diary, 1864
15-5 General William T. Sherman Explains the Hard Hand of War
Correspondence, 1864
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
16. RECONSTRUCTION, 1863- 1877
16-1 Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South
Report on the Condition of the South, 1865
16-2 Black Codes Enacted in the South
Mississippi Black Code, November 1865
16-3 Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families
Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865- 1870
16-4 A Black Convention in Alabama
Address of the Colored Convention to the People of Alabama, 1867
16-5 Klan Violence against Blacks
Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS