Constructing the American Past: A Source Book of a People's History, Volume 1

by Gorn, Elliott J.; Roberts, Randy J.; Bilhartz, Terry D.

• ISBN13: 9780321484741
• ISBN10: 0321484746
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

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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