Constructing the American Past: A Source Book of a People's History, Volume 1
by Gorn, Elliott J.; Roberts, Randy J.; Bilhartz, Terry D.Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-01-01
Publisher(s): Prentice Hall
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Summary
Constructing the American Pastexplores U.S. history through letters, articles, journalistic sources, photographs and posters. This book achieves a level of inclusion and depth rarely found in other primary source collections. Each chapter focuses on a particular problem or moment in American history, and provides readers with several points of view. The photographs, posters and maps included also ask the reader to "read" the visual sources of American history. Explores U.S. history through letters, articles, journalistic sources, photographs, and posters. U.S History Primary Sources. Anyone interested in exploring US History through documents, letters, articles, and other primary sources.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Contact and Conquest: The Meeting of Old and New Worlds | |
| Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus | |
| Journal of Christopher Columbus' First Voyage | |
| Bartolome de Las Casas, From The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account | |
| The Aztec Account of the Spanish Conquest, Florentine Codex, as Collected | |
| Dying and Surviving in Virginia | |
| Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh | |
| Narrative of the 1584 Voyage | |
| From A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia | |
| Narrative of the 1590 Virginia Voyage | |
| Discourse | |
| From Journal | |
| Powhatan's Speech to Captain | |
| From Nova Britannia 1609 | |
| From Laws Divine, Moral and Martial, 1611 | |
| The State of the Colony in Virginia, 1622 | |
| The Puritan Experience in New England | |
| A Model of Christian Charity | |
| Excerpts from the Trial of | |
| From The Apologia of | |
| Massachusetts School Law 1647 | |
| The New England Primer, c. 1687 | |
| The Poetry of Anne Bradstreet Increase Mather to | |
| The Sovereignty and Goodness of God | |
| Christ Knows How Many Devils There Are, 1692 | |
| Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases Ann Putnams Deposition Ann Putnams Confession | |
| Eighteenth Century American Voices | |
| The Diaries of | |
| Expanded excerpts from the Narrative of the Life of | |
| The Memoirs of | |
| Memoirs of the Life of | |
| The Memoirs of | |
| What Kind of Revolution? Justifications for Rebellion | |
| Plan of Union | |
| An Alarm to the Legislature. Benjamin Franklin on the Galloway Plan and the North Resolution | |
| From Common Sense | |
| Lord Dunmore's Proclamation and Responses | |
| Revolutionary Battle Flag God Arising and Pleading His Peoples Cause Correspondence of | |
| The Declaration of Independence | |
| From Notes on the State of Virginia | |
| Letter from Benjamin Banneker | |
| Reply of Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker | |
| Forming a More Perfect Union: The Constitution of 1787 versus Friends, Foes and the Disfranchised | |
| Selections from the Constitution of 1787 | |
| Selections from the Speeches of Patrick Henry in the Virginia State Ratifying Convention | |
| Observations on the New Constitution, and on the Federal and Conventions by a Columbian Patriot | |
| Selections from the Letters of George Washington | |
| Selections from The Federalist Papers | |
| Shouting for Glory: Camp Meeting Christianity Described, Decried, and Defended | |
| Glory! Glory! This Is the Happiest Day I Ever Saw | |
| The Melting Power of God | |
| The Smile of Heaven Shone | |
| A Fanaticism as Absurd as It Was Blasphemous | |
| Camp-Meetings, and Agricultural Fairs | |
| From An Apology for Camp Meetings | |
| Plan of the camp | |
| Living and Dying in Bondage: The Slave Conspiracy of 1822 | |
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