American Record Vol. 1 : Images of the Nation's Past

by Graebner, William; Richards, Leonard

• ISBN13: 9780072949582
• ISBN10: 0072949589
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-25
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Using primary and secondary source material and numerous photographs and illustrations,The American Recordpresents history through a broad perspective. Blending the traditional approach to American history (centered on politics, economics, diplomacy, and war) with the modern approach (including histories of women and children, people of color, and the poor and economically marginal), it offers a version of our national past that is inclusive, complex, and dynamic. Volume 1 covers the span from the European conquest of America through Reconstruction; Volume 2 covers Reconstruction to the present.

Table of Contents

Preface	xii
Chapter 1 The European Conquest of America	1	(32)
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Indians' New World
James H. Merrell	3	(18)
SOURCES
The Indians as Seen by European Artists	21	(1)
ILLUSTRATIONS:
John White's Engraving of Indians Making a Canoe near Roanoke, 1588;
A Settlement of Virginia Indians;
Florida Battle Scene, 1564
Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico	21	(8)
@ ON THE WEB: JOHN WHITE'S ENGRAVINGS OF VIRGINIA INDIANS	22	(7)
@ ON THE WEB: MORE ABOUT THE AZTECS	29	(1)
Race War: The New England Experience	29	(1)
King Philip's War: A Contemporary Account	30	(1)
Defeat of King Philip: Increase Mather's Account	31
@ ON THE WEB: CULTURAL, GENDER, AND HISTORICAL IMPLICATIONS OF KING PHILIP'S WAR	31	(1)
THE BIG PICTURE	32	(1)
Chapter 2 Jamestown	33	(20)
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Labor Problem at Jamestown, 1607-	-1618	(1665)
Edmund S. Morgan	35	(11)
@ ON THE WEB: JAMESTOWN AND THE EFFORTS TO "REDISCOVER" IT	46	(1)
SOURCES
Jamestown: The Physical Setting	47	(8)
ILLUSTRATIONS OF JAMESTOWN
VOICES: LIFE AND DEATH IN VIRGINIA: RICHARD FRETHORNE'S ACCOUNT, 1623	47	(5)
THE BIG PICTURE	52	(1)
@ ON THE WEB: A VIRTUAL TOUR OF JAMESTOWN	52	(1)
Chapter 3 Puritan Order	53	(24)
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
Anne Marbury Hutchinson: This Great and Sore Affliction
Willard Sterne Randall and Nancy Nahra	55	(10)
@ ON THE WEB: A TRANSCRIPT OF ANNE HUTCHINSON'S TRIAL	65	(1)
SOURCES
The New England Primer, 1690	66	(1)
ILLUSTRATIONS: The New England Primer
Harvard, 1636-1642 From "New England's First Fruits," 1643	66	(5)
Three Early New England Portraits	71	(2)
ILLUSTRATIONS:
Henry Gibbs;
Thomas Smith's Self-Portrait;
Ann Pollard
The Spiritual Journey of Anne Bradstreet Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning by Anne Bradstreet	73	(3)
THE BIG PICTURE	76	(1)
@ ON THE WEB: DISCUSSION OF THE LEGACY OF THE PURITANS	76	(1)
Chapter 4 The Have-Nots in Colonial Society	77	(31)
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Origin and Consolidation of Unfree Labor Peter Kokhin	79	(13)
@ ON THE WEB: 17TH CENTURY LAWS ENACTED TO SECURE SHIFT' FROM INDENTURED SERVITUDE TO SLAVERY	91	(1)
SOURCES
Portraits of Poverty	92	(4)
ILLUSTRATIONS:
Hogarth Engraving;
Elizabethan Beggar
VOICES: THE EXPERIENCE OF BONDAGE: GOTTLIEB MITTELBERGER'S ACCOUNT, 1754	93	(3)
@ ON THE WEB: VIRGINIA COLONY LAWS ENACTED TO CONTROL INDENTURED SERVANTS	96	(1)
Wanted: Runaway Servants	96	(3)
Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Advertisements for Runaway Servants	96	(3)
Portraits of Slavery	99	(5)
ILLUSTRATIONS:
Slaves on the Bark Wildfire;
Slaves on the West Coast of Africa;
Engraving by Alexander Anderson;
Shock of Enslavement;
Diagram of the Slave Ship La Vigilante de Nantes;
Standard Equipment for the Middle Passage;
Advertisement in a Charleston, South Carolina, Newspaper, 1766
@ ON THE WEB: EXPERIENCE OF THE "MIDDLE PASSAGE"	103	(1)
Wanted: Runaway Slaves	104	(6)
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Advertisements for Runaway Slaves	104	(3)
THE BIG PICTURE	107	(1)
Chapter 5 The American Revolution	108	(22)
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Shoemaker and the Revolution
Alfred F. Young	110	(11)
SOURCES
George III	121	(1)
ILLUSTRATIONS:
Woodcut of George II;
Pulling Down the Statue of George III
Common Sense, 1776
Thomas Paine	122	(4)
Silencing the Tories	126	(6)
ILLUSTRATION: A London Cartoon
VOICES: LETTER FROM ANN HULTON TO MRS. LIGHTBODY, 1774	128	(1)
THE BIG PICTURE	129	(1)
@ ON THE WEB: VIRTUAL MARCHING TOUR OF THE PHILADELPHIA CAMPAIGN (1777)	129	(1)
Chapter 6 Creating the Constitution	130	(23)
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Framers and the People
Alfred F Young	132	(7)
@ ON THE WEB: THE CONSTITUTION AND THE FIRST TEN AMENDMENTS	139	(1)
SOURCES
Ratification	140	(2)
TABLE:
Order of Ratification;
Map: Voting for Ratification
DEBATES: THE VIRGINIA DEBATES	142	(1)
The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Edited by Jonathan Elliott	142	(5)
@ ON THE WEB: DEBATES SURROUNDING THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION	146	(1)
The Meaning of the Slave Trade Provision	147	(2)
Arguments of Charles Coatesworth Pinckney and James Wilson
@ ON THE WEB: THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AND THE INTERNATIONAL SLAVE TRADE	148	(1)
Designing the Nation's Capitol	149	(6)
ILLUSTRATIONS:
Capitol Building Designs Submitted by Samuel Dobie, Charles Wintersmith, Etienne Hallet, James Diamond, and William Thornton;
Portrait of William Thornton
THE BIG PICTURE	152	(1)
Chapter 7 Federalists and Republicans	153	(23)
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Hamiltonian Miracle
John Steele Gordon	155	(12)
ILLUSTRATION: Alexander Hamilton Engraving
SOURCES
The Fight Begins	167	(2)
Truth Versus Treason	169	(2)
ILLUSTRATIONS:
Federalist Depiction of Washington Putting Down the Whiskey Rebellion;
Republican Handbills, 1804 and 1807
Roughhouse Politics	171	(1)
ILLUSTRATION: Cartoon Lampooning Lyon-Griswold Brawl
Affairs of Honor	172	(6)
ILLUSTRATIONS:
DeWitt Clinton and John Swartout Duel;
Dueling Pistols Used in Burr-Hamilton Duel
@ ON THE WEB: MORE ABOUT THE FEDERALIST ERA	175	(1)
THE BIG PICTURE	175	(1)
Chapter 8 The Transformation of Northern Society	176	(31)
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
Civilizing the Machine
John F. Kasson	178	(1667)
SOURCES
Lowell, as It Was and as It Is,	1845
Henry A. Miles	199	(4)
@ ON THE WEB: MORE ABOUT THE "BIRTHPLACE" OF INDUSTRY	203	(1)
Portraits of Industrialism	203	(6)
ILLUSTRATIONS:
View of Lowell, Massachusetts;
Title Page of the Lowell Offering;
Engraving by Winslow Homer Depicting Textile Workers of Lawrence, Massachusetts;
Striking Women and Local Militia
@ ON THE WEB: ADDITIONAL PORTRAITS OF INDUSTRIALISM AT THE LOWELL MILLS	206	(1)
THE BIG PICTURE	206	(1)
Chapter 9 Jacksonian Democracy	207	(25)
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Hunger for Indian Land in Andrew Jackson's America
Anthony F.C. Wallace	209	(6)
@ ON THE WEB: REMOVAL OF THE CHEROKEE AND THE TRAIL OF TEARS	215	(1)
SOURCES
The Election of Jackson	216	(1)
MAP: Results of the 1828 Presidential Election
@ ON THE WEB: THE LIFE AND PRESIDENCY OF ANDREW JACKSON	216	(1)
Removal of Eastern Tribes	217	(1)
ILLUSTRATION: Expulsion of Eastern Tribes
The Anti Jacksonian	218	(2)
ILLUSTRATIONS: Anti-Jackson Cartoon and Broadside
"King Andrew"	220	(1)
ILLUSTRATIONS: Anti-Jackson Cartoons
The Art of Democratic Politics Davy Crockett	221	(2)
The Election of 1840	223	(2)
ILLUSTRATION: Painting Depicting Harrison Campaign
@ ON THE WEB: MAP OF THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION OF 1840	224	(1)
Rally for William Henry Harrison in St. Louis, Missouri, as Reported by the St. Louis New Era	225	(2)
The Artist's View of Politics
George Caleb Bingham	227	(4)
ILLUSTRATIONS:
Canvassing for a Vote;
County Election;
Verdict of the People;
Stump Speaking
THE BIG PICTURE	231	(1)
Chapter 10 Antislavery	232	(23)
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Commitment to Immediate Emancipation
James Brewer Stewart	234	(9)
@ ON THE WEB: ABOLITION AND THE MOVEMENT FOR COLONIZATION IN LIBERIA	243	(1)
SOURCES
Commission to Theodore Dwight Weld, 1834	244	(1)
From Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimké Weld, and Sarah GrimkÉ, 1822-1844, Edited by Gilbert H. Barnes and Dwight L. Dumond	244	(4)
The Anti-Slavery Record, 1835-1836	248	(3)
ILLUSTRATIONS: Images from the Front Page of the Anti-Slavery Record
"Fathers and Rulers" Petition	251	(1)
From Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Gimké Weld, and Sarah Grimké, 1822-1844, Edited by Gilbert H. Barnes and Dwight L. Dumond	251	(1)
Slavery as It Is, 1839 Theodore Dwight Weld	252	(2)
@ ON THE WEB: THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY AND ITS EFFORTS TO END SLAVERY	253	(1)
@ ON THE WEB: SLAVERY AS IT IS IN ITS ENTIRETY	253	(1)
THE BIG PICTURE	254	(1)
Chapter 11 Westward Expansion	255	(25)
MAP: Overland Routes to California	256	(1)
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The World Rushed In
J.S. Holliday	257	(13)
SOURCES
Two Views of the West	270	(4)
ILLUSTRATIONS:
Manifest Destiny, John Gast;
1849 Cartoon Spoofing the Wild Rush to Get to California;
1849 Cartoon of a Greenhorn Setting Off for the Gold Fields;
Another Greenhorn Going West;
The True Value of California Gold;
California Justice
Poker Flat and Points West	274	(1)
MAP: The California Gold Fields Showing Some of the More Important Mining Camps, c. 1850	274	(1)
VOICES: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY
Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins	275	(7)
ILLUSTRATION: Sarah Winnemucca, Nevada Historical Society.
@ ON THE WEB: "EXPERIENCE" THE GOLD RUSH FOR YOURSELF	278	(1)
THE BIG PICTURE	279	(1)
Chapter 12 Sectional Conflict	280	(26)
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Quest for Room
William L. Barney	282	(1)
MAP: Westward Expansion	282	(11)
@ ON THE WEB: WHAT NOTABLE HISTORIANS HAVE HAD TO SAY ABOUT WESTWARD EXPANSION AND SLAVERY	293	(1)
SOURCES
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854	294	(1)
MAP: The United States, 1854	294	(1)
@ ON THE WEB: CONGRESSIONAL DEBATES ON THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 AND OTHER ISSUES	294	(1)
Two Portraits of the West	295	(3)
ILLUSTRATIONS:
Cartoon from Punch Magazine;
Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Free-Soiler
@ ON THE WEB: NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS ADDRESSING THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT AND OTHER ISSUES	297	(1)
DEBATES: THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES, 1858	297	(1)
From Political Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois	298	(7)
ILLUSTRATIONS:
Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas;
Abraham Lincoln in 1858@
@ ON THE WEB: FULL TEXT OF THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES	304	(1)
THE BIG PICTURE	305	(1)
Chapter 13 The Civil War	306	(30)
MAP: The Union Disintegrates; Table: Deaths in the Civil War and Other Wars	307	(2)
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
A Band of Brothers
James M. McPherson	309	(10)
@ ON THE WEB: COLLECTIONS OF AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS' DIARIES AND LETTERS	319	(1)
SOURCES
The Photographers' War	320	(7)
ILLUSTRATIONS:
Abraham Lincoln, 1860 and 1865;
Civil War Dead;
Private Edwin Francis Jennison;
The 107th U.S. Colored Infantry;
Powder Monkey, USS New Hampshire;
Ruins of Charleston, South Carolina, 1865;
Union Dead;
Union Wounded;
The Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Depot, 1865;
Richmond, Virginia, at War's End;
Freedmen in Richmond, Virginia;
John Wilkes Booth's Accomplices
@ ON THE WEB: ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE CIVIL WAR	326	(1)
Sherman's March Through Georgia
David P. Conyngham	327	(7)
@ ON THE WEB: THE CIVIL. WAR'S IMPACT ON THE SOUTHERN HOMEFRONT	334	(1)
THE BIG PICTURE	335	(1)
Chapter 14 Reconstruction	336
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
Promised Land Elizabeth
Rauh Bethel	338	(12)
@ ON THE WEB: THE EXPERIENCE OF RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE CIVIL WAR	350	(1)
SOURCES
VOICES: THE MEANING OF FREEDOM	351	(1)
Letter from Jourdon Anderson to his former master, from The Freedmen's Book, Edited by Lydia Maria Child, 1865	351	(2)
The Cartoonist's New of Reconstruction	353	(10)
ILLUSTRATIONS: Ten Political Cartoons by Thomas Nast, 1865-1876
@ ON THE WEB: THOMAS NAST AND HIS POLITICAL CARTOONS RELATIVE TO RECONSTRUCTION	362	(1)
The South Redeemed	363	(1)
MAP: The Barrow Plantation, 1860 and 1880	363	(1)
@ ON THE WEB: FREDERICK DOUGLASS'S PERCEPTION OF RECONSTRUCTION	363	(1)
THE BIG PICTURE	364