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| Note: Each chapter concludes with "Further Reading." | |
| Interpreting the Early Republic | |
| Essays | |
| The Market Revolution | |
| Nationalism and American Identity in the Early Republic | |
| Popular Political Culture in the Early Republic | |
| Interests and Values: American Foreign Policy in the Early Republic | |
| The Compromise of 1787 and the Federalist Ascendancy | |
| Documents | |
| Alexander Hamilton Addresses the Constitutional Convention, 1787 | |
| James Madison Defends the New Federal Constitution, 1788 | |
| Mercy Otis Warren Attacks the Constitution, 1788 | |
| Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Confront the Need for a Bill of Rights, 1787, 1788: Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, December 20, 1787 | |
| James Madison, Speech to Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788 | |
| Congress Designs the Northwest Ordinance, 1787 | |
| Patrick Henry and Melancton Smith Offer Clashing Ideas About the Constitution, Slavery, and Democracy, 1788: Patrick Henry, Speech to Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 1788 | |
| Melancton Smith, Speech to New York Ratification Convention, 1788 | |
| Two Artists Portray Different Ideals of Women in the New Republic | |
| Essays | |
| Conflict, Compromise, and the Framing of the Constitution Paul Finkelman | |
| A Triumph for Slavery Jan Lewis, The Republican Wife | |
| The Political Crises of the 1790s | |
| Documents | |
| Alexander Hamilton Reports On the Public Credit, 1790 | |
| Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton Debate the Constitutionality of the National Bank, 1791 | |
| The Democratic-Republican Societies Oppose Federal Policy, 1793, 1794: Minutes, Democratic Society of Pennsylvania, May 30, 1793-July 31, 1794 | |
| Circular, Democratic Society of the City of New York, May 28, 1794 | |
| President George Washington Attacks "Certain Self-Created Societies" over the Whiskey Rebellion, 1794 | |
| An Anonymous Poet Protests the Jay Treaty, 1795 | |
| Thomas Jefferson Describes the "Aristocratical Party," 1796 | |
| President Washington Bids Farewell to His Countrymen, 1796 | |
| A Cartoonist Attacks the Degenerate French Over the XYZ Affair | |
| Congress Cracks Down on Dissent, 1798 | |
| The Kentucky Legislature Protests the Repression, 1798 | |
| A Federalist Newspaper Describes the Trial of David Brown, 1799 | |
| Thomas Jefferson's Supporters Sing of his Victory, ca. 1801 | |
| John Adams Accounts for His Defeat, 1801 | |
| Essays | |
| David Waldstreicher, Public Celebrations, Print Culture, and American Nationalism James E. Lewis, Jr | |
| Political Crisis and the "Revolution" of 1800 John Ashworth, Slavery, Democracy, and the Jeffersonians | |
| The Republican Jefferson and the Jeffersonian Republic | |
| Documents | |
| President Thomas Jefferson Offers Different Views About Political Reconciliation, 1801, 1802: Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801 | |
| Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, October 25, 1802 | |
| Wilson Cary Nicholas and Thomas Jefferson Discuss the Constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase, 1803 | |
| Republicans and Federalists Struggle over the Courts, 1801, 1803: Jefferson to John Dickinson, December 19, 1801 | |
| John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison | |
| Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery Explore the West, 1804, 1805 | |
| The Federalists Plunge into Despair, 1804: George Cabot to Timothy Pickering, February 14, 1804 | |
| Timothy Pickering to Rufus King, March 4, 1804 | |
| Thomas Jefferson Describes Indians, Slavery, and Blacks, 1787 | |
| President Jefferson Displays Machiavellian Benevolence Toward the Indians, 1803 | |
| A Shawnee Chief Offers A Parable of Resistance, 1803 | |
| A Jeffersonian Newspaper Supports the Embargo, 1807 | |
| A Maine Town's Petition Protests the Embargo, 1809 | |
| Essays | |
| Liberal Democrat Forrest McDonald | |
| Reactionary Ideologue Annette Gordon-Reed, Blacks and Jefferson | |
| The War of 1812: National Honor and Aggressive Expansion | |
| Documents | |
| A Republican Newspaper Protests British Impressment, 1811 | |
| Felix Grundy Gives the War Hawks' Battle Cry, 1811 | |
| John Quincy Adams Argues Necessity for War, 1812 | |
| Federalist Daniel Webster Criticizes the War, 1812 | |
| Tecumseh Confronts Governor William Henry Harrison, 1810 | |
| Governor William Henry Harrison Describes Tecumseh and the Indian Threat, 1811 | |
| A Newspaper Reports on the Burning of Washington, D.C., 1814 | |
| Francis Scott Key Immortalizes the American Victory in Baltimore, 1814 | |
| The Hartford Convention Lists Its Grievances, 1814 | |
| A Hero Is Born, Undated | |
| Essays Reginald Horsman | |
| The Improbable American Success Gregory Evans Dowd | |
| The Indian Resistance Crushed | |
| Religious Revivals and the Second Great Awakening | |
| Documents | |
| Thomas Jefferson Codifies Religious Freedom, 1777, 1786 | |
| A Participant Describes a Kentucky Camp Meeting, 1801 | |
| A Diarist Recalls a Religious Awakening at Yale, 1802 | |
| Charles Grandison Finney Sermonizes on Sin and Redemption, 1836 | |
| A "Fanny Wright Mechanic" Attacks Religious Reform, 1831 | |
| Richard Allen Founds the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1793 | |
| A.J Graves Gives a Scriptural Justification for Women's Domesticity | |
| Joseph Smith Recounts his First Visitation, 1832 | |
| Essays | |
| Northern Revivalism Elizabeth B. Clark, Religion, Cruelty, and Sympathy in Antebellum America Mitchell Snay | |
| The Southern Clergy and the Sanctification of Slavery | |
| The Rise of Northern Capitalism | |
| Documents | |
| Mary Graham Describes Life on a Commercializing Farm, 1835-1844 | |
| A Self-Made Man Explains His Success, 1843 | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville Reports on American Acquisitiveness, 1840 | |
| "Susan" Describes Conditions in the Lowell Mills, 1844 | |
| Lowell's Female Workers Give Voice to Protest, 1845 | |
| A British Cabinetmaker Describes His Life in New York City, 1846 | |
| A Newspaper Exposes Conditions among New York Tradesmen, 1845 | |
| Thomas Skidmore Urges Redistribution with "The Rights of Man to Property," 1829 | |
| Philadelphia Workers Declare Themselves "Wage Slaves," 1836 | |
| Alonzo Potter Justifies Wage Labor, 1840 | |
| Essays | |
| Christopher Clark, Northern Capitalism: Creation and Costs Christine Stansell | |
| Working Class Youth: The Gals and Boys of the Bowery | |
| The Slaveholders' Regime | |
| Documents | |
| A Louisiana Planter Instructs His Son, 1841 | |
| J.H. Hammond Instructs His Overseer, 1840-1850 | |
| Kidnap Victim Solomon Northup Recalls Life under Slavery, 1853 | |
| Overseer George Skipwith Writes His Absentee Master, 1847 | |
| Lizzie Williams Looks Back on the Days of Slavery, 1937 | |
| Messrs. Brooke and Hubbard Announce a Slave Auction, 1823 | |
| Free Blacks Petition the Virginia State Legislature, 1838 | |
| Slave Rebel Nat Turner Confesses, 1831 | |
| The Virginia Legislature Debates Ending Slavery, 1832 | |
| Thomas Roderick Dew Defends Slavery, 1832 | |
| Essays | |
| The Chattel Principle Stephanie McCurry, Gender and Proslavery in Antebellum South Carolina | |
| Struggles for the West | |
| Documents | |
| The Cherokee Design a Nation, 1827 | |
| Congress Votes to Remove "Civilized Tribes," 1830 | |
| Andrew Jackson Endorses Removal, 1830 | |
| Theodore Frelinghuysen Attacks the Indian Removal Bill, 1830 | |
| Citizens of Rock River, Illinois, Petition for Protection from Sac and Fox, 1831 | |
| Black Hawk Surrenders, 1832 | |
| A Mexican General Describes the Borderland, 1828, 1829 | |
| A Texas Settler Sounds the Alarm, 1836 | |
| Lieutenant-Colonel Jose Enriqu? de la Pe?a Recalls the Battle of the Alamo, 1836 | |
| An Emigrant Reaches the Sacramento Valley, 1846 | |
| James H. Carson Describes Life in the Gold Mines, 1848 | |
| Essays | |
| The Transformation of a Rural Community William Cronon | |
| A Prairie Landscape | |
| The Era of Bad Feelings | |
| Documents | |
| John Jacob Astor and an English Traveler Explain the Origins and Impact of the Panic of 1819: 1818, 1820 | |
| Thomas Jefferson Hears "A Fire Bell in the Night" during the Missouri Crisis, 1820 | |
| Congress Debates the Missouri Crisis, 1819, 1820: Rufus King Opposes the Introduction of Slavery into Missouri, 1819 | |
| Timothy Fuller Attacks Slavery as Unrepublican, 1819 | |
| William Smith Defends Slavery, 1820 | |
| President John Quincy Adams Describes His View of Liberty and Power, 1825 | |
| Philadelphia Craft Workers Organize a Union | |
| Martin Van Buren Proposes a New Opposition Party, 1827 | |
| John C. Calhoun Theorizes About States' Rights, 1828 | |
| John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson Battle for the Presidency, 1828 | |
| Essays | |
| The Missouri Crisis, Slavery, and the Rise of the Jacksonians Sean Wilentz | |
| Jeffersonian Anti-Slavery and the Missouri Crisis Matthew H. Crocker | |
| The Missouri Compromise, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Southern Strategy | |
| Jacksonians, Whigs, and the Politics of the 1830s | |
| Documents | |
| President Jackson and Henry Clay Fight Over Internal Improvements: Jackson's Veto Message, May 27, 1830 | |
| Henry Clay Responds, 1830 | |
| Henry Clay Defends the American System, 1832 | |
| Andrew Jackson Vetoes the Bank, 1832: Jackson's Veto Message, July 10, 1832 | |
| Daniel Webster's Reply, July 11, 1832 | |
| South Carolina Proclaims Nullification, 1832: Governor Robert Y. Hayne, Inaugural Address, December 13, 1832 | |
| Andrew Jackson, Proclamation on Nullification, December 10, 1832 | |
| The Whigs Attack President Jackson, 1834 | |
| William Leggett Describes the Conflict Between the Rich and the Poor, 1834 | |
| Philip Hone Complains About Democratic Party, 1834 | |
| Congress Debates the Gag Rule, 1837 | |
| The Whigs Take to the Woods, 1840 | |
| Calvin Colton Outlines Whig Ideals, 1844 | |
| Essays | |
| Culture Wars and the Election of 1828 Charles Sellers | |
| The Jacksonians' Democratic Assault on the Bank Daniel Walker Howe | |
| The Party of Moral Discipline: Whig Values | |
| Perfecting the Nation and the World | |
| Documents | |
| Lyman Beecher Preaches Temperance, 1826 | |
| Women Declare Equality with Men at Seneca Falls, 1848 | |
| Samuel F. B. Morse Expounds on the Popish Plot, 1835 | |
| A Nativist Mob Destroys a Massachusetts Convent, 1834 | |
| Horace Mann Proposes Public Schooling, 1846 | |
| Dorothea Dix Petitions New Jersey Legislature on Asylum Reform, 1845 | |
| Sylvester Graham Urges Restraint on Sexuality, 1833 | |
| George Henry Evans Touts Land Reform, 1846 | |
| Essays | |
| Middle-Class Women and Moral Reform Paul E. Johnson, Declaring and Defying Perfection | |
| Abolitionism, Antiabolitionism, and Proslavery | |
| Documents | |
| David Walker Appeals to the Colored Citizens of the World, 1829 | |
| William Lloyd Garrison Demands Immediate Abolition, 1831 | |
| The New England Anti-Slavery Society Urges on Immediatism, 1833 | |
| William Jay Mocks and Dismisses the Proslavery Argument, 1836 | |
| Angelina Grimk? | |
| Appeals to the Christian Women of the South, 1836 | |
| T.R. Sullivan Attacks Immediate Abolition, 1835 | |
| The Anti-Abolitionists Ridicule Anti-Slavery Radicals, 1839 | |
| J.H. Hammond Defends Slavery, 1836 | |
| A Christian Justifies Slavery, 1845 | |
| Henry Highland Garnet Calls for Slaves to Resist, 1843 | |
| Essays | |
| Northern Women and Abolitionism Eugene D. Genovese | |
| The Proslavery Argument | |
| Toward an American Culture | |
| Documents | |
| Timothy Dwight Describes "The Destruction of the Pequods," 1794 | |
| John Trumbull Imagines the Nation's Founding, 1820 | |
| Davy Crockett Hunts a Bear, 1834 | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson Addresses "The American Scholar," 1837 | |
| Sarah Josepha Hale Celebrates the Family Romance, 1835 | |
| The Knickerbocker Base-Ball Club Codifies the Game's Rules, 1845 | |
| Essays | |
| A Democratic Culture? | |
| Robert M. Lewis, Organized Baseball and American Culture | |
| Manifest Destiny, Slavery, and the Politics of Expansion | |
| Documents | |
| John L. O'Sullivan Celebrates Manifest Destiny, 1845 | |
| President James K. Polk Urges War with Mexico, 1846 | |
| A Mexican Assesses the War, 1848 | |
| Antislavery Congressmen Concoct the Wilmot Proviso to Halt Slavery's Advance, 1846 | |
| Free Soil Democrat Walt Whitman Justifies the War, 1846, 1847 | |
| Abolitionist Frederick Douglass Decries the War, 1846 | |
| James Russell Lowell Satirizes the Mexican War, 1848 | |
| Northern Whig Charles Sumner Protests the War, 1846 | |
| Senator John C. Calhoun Offers a Southern Perspective on the War's Outcome, 1847 | |
| The Political System Fractures: Party Platforms, 1848 | |
| Essays | |
| The Anxieties of Manifest Destiny Robert W. Johannsen | |
| Young America and the War with Mexico Jonathan Earle | |
| Jacksonian Antislavery and the Roots of Free Soil | |
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