Constructing the American Past, Volume I

by Gorn, Elliot J.; Roberts, Randy W.; Bilhartz, Terry D.

Edition:

4th

ISBN13:

9780321093424

ISBN10:

0321093429

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

1/1/2002

Publisher(s):

Longman

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This popular collection consists of a variety of primary sources, all grouped around central themes in American history to 1877. Each chapter in this book focuses on a particular problem in American history to 1877, such as the making of the Constitution in 1787, providing the reader with several points of view from which to examine the historical evidence. For anyone interested in American history to 1877.

Preface

xiii

Introduction Doing History

Contact and Conquest: The Meeting of the Old and New Worlds

(20)

Historical Context

(4)

The Documents

(14)

Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus: 1492

(1)

Journal of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage

(5)

Bartolome de Las Casas, From The Destruction of the Indies: A Brief Account

(4)

The Aztec Account of the Spanish Conquest, Florentine Codex, as Collected

(4)

Bernadino de Sahagun

Postscript

(1)

Questions

(1)

Defining Terms

(1)

Probing the Sources

(1)

Interpreting the Sources

(1)

Additional Reading

(1)

Dying and Surviving in Virginia

(22)

Historical Context

(4)

The Documents

(16)

Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh: 1584

(1)

``Narrative of the 1584 Voyage''

(2)

Arthur Barlowe

From A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

(1)

Thomas Harriot

``Narrative of the 1590 Virginia Voyage''

(1)

John White

``Discourse''

(2)

George Percy

From Journal

(1)

John Smith

Powhatan's Speech to Captain John Smith: 1609

(1)

From Nova Britannia, 1609

(2)

From Laws Divine, Moral and Martial, 1611

(1)

``The State of the Colony in Virginia,'' 1622

(2)

An Indentured Servant Describes Life in Virginia in a Letter to His Parents

(2)

Richard Frethorne

Postscript

(1)

Questions

(1)

Defining Terms

(1)

Probing the Sources

(1)

Interpreting the Sources

(1)

Additional Reading

(1)

The Puritan Experience in New England

(22)

Historical Context

(3)

The Documents

(17)

``A Model of Christian Charity''

(2)

John Winthrop

Excerpts From the Trial of Anne Hutchinson

(1)

From The Apologia of Robert Keayne

(1)

Education and Literacy

(3)

Home and Family

(2)

From The Sovereignty and Goodness of God

(4)

Mary Rowlandson

Salem's Struggle with Satan

(3)

Questions

(1)

Defining Terms

(1)

Probing the Sources

(1)

Interpreting the Sources

(1)

Additional Reading

(1)

Eighteenth-Century American Voices

(26)

Historical Context

(2)

The Documents

(21)

The Diaries of William Byrd

(7)

Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

(2)

The Memoirs of Jonathan Edwards

(2)

Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn

(3)

The Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

(6)

Questions

(1)

Defining Terms

(1)

Probing the Sources

(1)

Interpreting the Sources

(1)

Additional Reading

(2)

What Kind of Revolution? Justifications for Rebellion

(26)

Historical Context

(4)

The Documents

(20)

``Plan of Union''

(1)

Joseph Galloway

``An Alarm to the Legislature''

(2)

Samuel Seabury

Benjamin Franklin on the Galloway Plan and the North Resolution

(1)

From Common Sense

(4)

Thomas Paine

From ``A Sermon Preached at St. Matthew's, Bethnal Green, on Sunday, Nov. 12, 1775''

103

(2)

John Wesley

Lord Dunmore's Proclamation and Responses

105

(2)

Correspondence of Abigail and John Adams

107

(2)

The Declaration of Independence

109

(3)

From Notes on the State of Virginia

112

(1)

Thomas Jefferson

Letter from Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson

113

(1)

Reply of Thomas Jefferson to benjamin Banneker

114

(1)

Questions

115

(1)

Defining Terms

115

(1)

Probing the Sources

115

(1)

Interpreting the Sources

115

(1)

Additional Reading

115

(2)

Forming a More Perfect Union: The Constitution of 1787 versus Friends, Foes, and the Disfranchised

117

(18)

Historical Context

117

(2)

The Documents

119

(12)

Selections from the Constitution of 1787

119

(5)

From the Speeches of Patrick Henry in the Virginia State Ratifying Convention

124

(2)

Observations on the New Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions by a Columbian Patriot

126

(3)

Mercy Otis Warren

Selections from the Letters of George Washington

129

(1)

Selections from The Federalist Papers

130

(1)

Postscript

131

(1)

Questions

132

(1)

Defining Terms

132

(1)

Probing the Sources

132

(1)

Interpreting the Sources

132

(1)

Additional Reading

133

(2)

Shouting for Glory: Camp Meeting Christianity Described, Decried, and Defended

135

(12)

Historical Context

135

(2)

The Documents

137

(8)

``Glory! Glory! This Is the Happiest Day I Ever Saw''

137

(1)

Fanny Lewis

``The Melting Power of God''

138

(1)

William Thacher

``The Smile of Heaven Shone''

139

(1)

Barton Stone

``A Fanaticism as Absurd as It Was Blasphemous''

140

(1)

Martin J. Spalding

``Camp-Meetings, and Agricultural Fairs''

141

(2)

From An Apology for Camp Meetings

143

(2)

Questions

145

(1)

Defining Terms

145

(1)

Probing the Sources

145

(1)

Interpreting the Sources

145

(1)

Additional Reading

145

(2)

Living and Dying in Bondage: The Slave Conspiracy of 1822

147

(20)

Historical Context

147

(3)

The Documents

150

(14)

The Trials

151

(5)

``Gracious Heaven When I Think What I Have Escaped'': Ann Hayes Johnson Letters to Her Cousin

156

(2)

``The Conspiracy Had Spread Wider and Wider'': John Potter to Langdon Cheves

158

(1)

``White Men, Too, Would Engender Plots'': Newspapers Report the Vesey Conspiracy

159

(3)

David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World

162

(2)

Postscript

164

(1)

Questions

164

(1)

Defining Terms

164

(1)

Probing the Sources

165

(1)

Interpreting the Sources

165

(1)

Additional Reading

165

(2)

Remembering the Alamo

167

(26)

Historical Context

167

(3)

The Documents

170

(21)

The Prelude

170

(4)

The Battle

174

(10)

The Aftermath

184

(7)

Postscript

191

(1)

Questions

191

(1)

Defining Terms

191

(1)

Probing the Sources

191

(1)

Interpreting the Sources

192

(1)

Additional Reading

192

(1)

Women in Antebellum America

193

(20)

Historical Context

193

(2)

The Documents

195

(16)

``Religious Women''

195

(1)

A. J. Graves

``The Peculiar Responsibilities of American Women''

196

(2)

Catharine Beecher

``On the Condition of Women in the United States''

198

(3)

Sarah M. Grimke

From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

201

(3)

Harriet Jacobs

Declaration of Sentiments

204

(2)

From A New England Girlhood

206

(3)

Lucy Larcom

Malenda Edwards and Mary Paul Letters

209

(2)

Questions

211

(1)

Defining Terms

211

(1)

Probing the Sources

211

(1)

Interpreting the Sources

211

(1)

Additional Reading

211

(2)

A House Divided: Free Labor, Slave Labor

213

(20)

Historical Context

213

(2)

The Documents

215

(15)

From Cannibals All!

216

(3)

George Fitzhugh

From The Impending Crisis of the South

219

(3)

Hinton Rowan Helper

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

222

(3)

From Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly

225

(2)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Open Letter to Thomas Auld

227

(3)

Frederick Douglass

Questions

230

(1)

Defining Terms

230

(1)

Probing the Sources

230

(1)

Interpreting the Sources

230

(1)

Additional Reading

231

(2)

A War within a War: The New York City Draft Riots

233

(20)

Historical Context

233

(3)

The Documents

236

(15)

Enrollment Act of 1863

236

(1)

``Three Days of Terror''

237

(7)

Ellen Leonard

From the Diary of George Templeton Strong

244

(2)

To the Laboring Men of New York

246

(1)

Dearly Beloved!

247

(1)

``The Raging Riot-Its Character, and the True Attitude Toward It''

248

(2)

A Letter from One of the Rioters

250

(1)

The $300 Exemption

250

(1)

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

250

(1)

Questions

251

(1)

Defining Terms

251

(1)

Probing the Sources

252

(1)

Interpreting the Sources

252

(1)

Additional Reading

252

(1)

Reconstruction and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan

253

(20)

Historical Context

253

(2)

The Documents

255

(15)

Initiation Oath of the Knights of the White Camelia

256

(2)

Testimony of Victims of the Ku Klux Klan

258

(1)

Congressional Inquiry into Klan Activities

259

(5)

Hon. Job E. Stevenson of Ohio, Speech to the House of Representatives

264

(3)

From Experience of a Northern Man Among the Ku-Klux

267

(2)

Benjamin Bryant

``How to Extirpate Ku-Kluxism from the South''

269

(1)

W. H. Gannon

Questions

270

(1)

Defining Terms

270

(1)

Probing the Sources

270

(1)

Interpreting the Sources

270

(1)

Additional Reading

270

(3)

Credits

273

(6)

Index

279

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