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I. History Bookshelf

Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)  

Mary White Rowlandson, Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)

Phillis Wheatley, Religious and Moral Poems (1773)

Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, The Federalist Papers (1787-1788)

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1788) 

Thomas Malthus, Essay on Population (1798) 

James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

Black Hawk, Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk (1833)

Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Two Volumes) (1835)

Angelina Emily Grimke, An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836

Frances Anne Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation (1838)

Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845)

Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (1847)

Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849) 

Sojourner Truth, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850)

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)

John Stuart Mill, The Contest in America (1862) 

Carl Schurz, Report on the Condition of the South (1865)

Excerpts from Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee by Captain Robert E. Lee, His Son (1904)

Catharine Esther Beecher, American Woman’s Home (1869)

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)

John Muir, The Yosemite (1890)

Rudyard Kipling, American Notes (1891)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, The Red Record (1895)

Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Short Stories (1899)

Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

Jacob Riis, The Making of an American (1901)

Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery (1901)

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

George Washington Plunkitt, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (1905) 

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)

Frederick Jackson Turner, Rise of the New West (1906) 

Gifford Pinchot, The Fight for Conservation (1910)  

Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management (1911)

Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)

James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)

Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (1917) 

Carter G. Woodson, A Century of Negro Migration (1918)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920) 

Margaret Sanger, Woman and the New Race (1920)  

Zitkala-Sa (a.k.a. Gertrude Bonnin), American Indian Stories (1921)  

Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion (1922) 

Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (1922)

 

II. Chapter by Chapter Resources

 

Chapter 1

Documents



Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh
Magna Carta
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, "Indians of the Rio Grande"
Bartolome de Las Casas, "Of the Island of Hispaniola" (1542)
Christopher Columbus, Letter to Luis de Sant' Angel (1493)
Dekanawida Myth & the Achievement of Iroquois Unity
Don Juan de Oñate, Letter from New Mexico to the Viceroy
From The Journal of Christopher Columbus (1492)
Henry VII, Letters of Patent Granted to John Cabot
Iroquois Creation Story
Jacques Cartier on Meeting the Micmac Indians (1534)
Jacques Cartier: First Contact with the Indians (1534)
John White, Letter to Richard Hakluyt (1590
Jose de Acosta, Speculations on the Origins of the Indians
Micmac Chief’s Observations of the French (1691)
Ottawa Origins Story (recorded ca. 1720)
Pima Creation Story
Privileges and Prerogatives Granted to Christopher Columbus
Thomas Hariot, On Tabacco (1588)
Thomas Hariot, The Algonquian Peoples of the Atlantic Coast

Images



Aztec Rain God, Tlaloc
Cattle Arrive in the New World
Cliff Palace in Colorado
Clovis Points
Columbus Landing at Hispaniola - Woodcut
Early Botanical Illustration - New World Plants
English Trade with Indians, as Seen by Theodor de Bry, 1634
How the Savages Roast Their Enemies, 1575
Pueblo Bonito
Pueblo Indian Ruins
Reconstructed View of Cahokia
White House Ruins - Canyon De Chelly, AZ

Video



Roundtable: The Puritans 


Lecture Launcher: The Puritans



Audio



Two-Step: Inform Your Grandma

Maps

 



Atlas Map: French America, 1608-1763
Interactive Map - Pre-Columbian Societies of the Americas


Atlas Map: Native American Peoples to 1450


Atlas Map: Native American Peoples, c. 1500


Atlas Map: Native Vegetation


Atlas Map: Physical Features


Atlas Map: Settlement in North America, c. 1660


Atlas Map: Spanish American to 1610


Atlas Map: Voyages of Exploration and Colonial Empires, c. 1700


Interactive Map - The First Americans: Location of Major Indian Groups and Culture Areas in the 1600s



Chapter 2

 

Documents



Agreement Between the Settlers at New Plymouth (Mayflower Compact)
James Oglethorpe to The Trustees
Captain John Smith to Queen Anne (1617)
Captain John Smith to the Virginia Company (1624)
Conversion Narrative of “Old Goodwife Cutter”
Father Isaac Jogues, Description of New York (1646)
George Alsop, from "A Character of the Province of Maryland"
James I of England, “A Counterblaste to Tobacco.”
James Oglethorpe, "Establishing the Colony of Georgia" (1733)
John Hammond, "Leah and Rachel"
John Smith, "The Starving Time" (1624)
John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630)
Laws of Virginia (1610-1611)
Madam Knight on a Journey from Boston to New-York (1704)
Remarks by Chief Powhatan to John Smith (ca. 1609)
The Cambridge Agreement (1629)
The Charter of Maryland (1632)
The Third Charter of Virginia (1612)
Thomas Mun, "England's Treasure by Foreign Trade" (1664)
William Bradford, from History of Plymouth Plantation
William Penn to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders
William Penn, "Model for Government" (1681)
William Penn, Description of Pennsylvania (1681)

Images



1659 Tobacco Company Advertisement


Armor from Jamestown


Cruel Conquistadores Torturing Native Amerindians


First House of Burgesses Meeting in Jamestown


John Smith Threatening Opechancanough


Mayflower replica at Plymouth, MA


Mural of Jamestown Settlement


Native American Agriculture


Pocahontas Pleading for John Smith's Life


Powhatan in Longhouse


Scene from John Smith's Memoirs


Ships at the Jamestown Settlement


Tobacco Growing in a Field


Town of Secota, 1558



Video



Lecture Launcher: Jamestown


Lecture Launcher: The Quakers  



Maps



Interactive Map - The Colonies to 1740



Chapter 3



Documents





The Cambridge Agreement


Navigation Acts


Alexander Falconbridge, The African Slave Trade (1788)


Ann Putnam's Confession (1706) 


 Ann Putnam's Deposition (1692)


Anne Bradstreet, Before the Birth of One of Her Children


Church record of a marriage conflict, Brooklyn (1663)


Declaration against the Proceedings of Nathaniel Bacon (1676)


Elizabeth Sprigs, Letter to Her Father (1756)


Gottlieb Mittelberger, The Passage of Indentured Servants 


James Oglethorpe, The Stono Rebellion (1739)


Laws of Virginia (1661, 1662, 1691, 1705)


Legal statement by Pedro Hidalgo, soldier, Santa Fe 1680


Nathaniel Bacon's Declaration (July 30, 1676)


Of the Servants and Slaves in Virginia (1705)


Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage (1788)


Onandogas and Cayugas, Two Iroquois Chiefs (1684)


Prenuptial Agreement (1653)


Richard Frethorne, Letter to His Parents (1623)


Runaway Indentured Servants (1640)


Testimony by Pedro Naranjo to Spanish authorities (1681)


The Conclusions of the Massachusetts Bay Elders (1695)


The Examination and Confession of Ann Foster at Salem


Trial of Elizabeth Clawson, Stamford, Connecticut (1692)


Trial Testimony, Accomack, Virginia (1679)


Virginia Law on Indentured Servitude (1705)


Wessell Webling, His Indenture (1622)



Images



1740s Missionary Johanna Jacob Schmick


1740s Missionary John Jacob Schmick


A Further Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches


Colonial Families - Adult and Child Reading


Diagram of Slave Ship Filled for Middle Passage


Page from The New England Primer


Phillis Wheatley


Woodcut of Witch Hangings  



Video



Roundtable: Bacon’s Rebellion


Lecture Launcher: Slavery in the Chesapeake  



Audio



Lookie There!



Maps



Interactive Map: African Slave Trade, 1500-1870 


Interactive Map: Native American Population Loss, 1500—1700


Atlas Map: African Slave Trade, 1500-1870



Chapter 4

Documents



Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Albany Plan of Union
Benjamin Franklin on George Whitefield (1771)
Benjamin Wadsworth, from A Well-Ordered Family (1712)
Crévecoeur, Letters From an American Farmer (1782)
Declaration of the Injured Frontier Inhabitants [of Pennsylvania]
English Bill of Rights, 1689
Franklin, "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind"
Jonathan Edwards, "Some Thoughts" (1742)
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
The Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges (October 28, 1701)

Images



Colonel George Washington 1772 by C. W. Peale


First Political Cartoon in an American Newspaper, by Ben Franklin


Jonathan Edwards


Richard Allen - Portrait



Video



Roundtable: The Great Awakening


Roundtable: The Struggle for Dominance


Lecture Launcher: The Enlightenment in America


Lecture Launcher: The Struggle for Dominance



Audio

 

The Connecticut Peddler

Maps



Interactive Map: Native American Population Loss, 1500—1700


Interactive Map: European Claims in America, c. 1750


Interactive Map - The Seven Years’ War


Atlas Map: European Claims in America, c. 1750


Atlas Map: Native American Population Loss, 1500-1700


Atlas Map: Settlement in North America, c. 1763


Atlas Map: The Seven Years War

 



Chapter 5

Documents



"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine
Adams Family Letter (March, April, May 1776)
Address of the Inhabitants of Anson County to Governor Martin
Benjamin Franklin, Testimony Against the Stamp Act (1766)
Boston Gazette Description of the Boston Massacre (1770)
Crevecoeur, Sketches of Eighteenth Century America
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
Hewes, "A Retrospect on the Boston Tea Party" (1834)
Jefferson, "Rough Draft" of the Declaration of Independence
John Adams to Abigail Adams (July 3, 1776)
John Adams, Thoughts on Government (1776)
John Andrews to William Barrell, Boston Tea Party (1773)
John Dickinson, from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania  
Joseph Warren, "Account of the Battle of Lexington" (1775)
Legal inventory of Benjamin Curtis’s Household (1773)
Letter from a Revolutionary War Soldier
The New Jersey Constitution of 1776
Oliver Revolution: Tory View 1781
Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved
PA Constitution 1776
Patrick Henry, "Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death" (1775)
Paul Revere Family
Petition of "A Grate Number of Blackes" (1774)
Proclamation of Gov. Thomas Gage (June 12, 1775)
Royal Proclamation of Rebellion (1775)
Slave Petition to the General Assembly in Connecticut
Slave Petition to the Massachusetts House of Representatives
The Virginia Nonimportation Resolutions (1769)

Images



1765 Stamp Act Protest


1774 Illustration - List of Crimes by Massachusetts Governor


Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man - Cartoon


Bronze of Paul Revere in Boston


Common Sense - Title Page


Daughter of Liberty - 1774 Woodcut


George Washington at Valley Forge


Handbill "On the Death of Five Young Men"


Hanging of Major John Andre


Independence Hall


New York Burning - 1776


Paul Revere Etching of Boston Massacre


Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, ca. 1794-1802


Stamp Act Stamps


Surrender at Yorktown


The Signing of the Declaration of Indpendence, Copy of John Trumball Painting, 1817-1818


The Tory's Day of Judgment - Engraving


Women Signing an Anti-Tea Agreement



Video



Roundtable: Declaration of Independence 


Roundtable: The American Revolution


Lecture Launcher: American Revolution



Audio



The Liberty Song



Maps



Interactive Map: Territorial Claims in Eastern America after Treaty of Paris


Atlas Map: Revolutionary War: Northern Theater, 1775-1780


Atlas Map: Revolutionary War: Southern Theater, 1776-1781


Atlas Map: Territorial Claims in Eastern America after Treaty of Paris


Interactive Map - Colonial Products


Interactive Map: Revolutionary War: Northern Theater, 1775-1780


Interactive Map - The American Revolution



Chapter 6

Documents



The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 reported by James Madison: June 15
Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791)
Federalist Number 51 (February 6, 1788)
George Washington to Robert Morris, April 12, 1786
George Washington, The Newburgh Address (1783)
James Madison Defends the Constitution (1788)
James Madison Speech in Defense of the Bill of Rights
James Madison, The Virginia (or Randolph) Plan (1787)
Letter describing the celebration at Rutland, Vermont (1791)
Massachusetts Constitution (March 2, 1780)
Marquis de Chastellux, Travels in North America (1786)
Military Reports on Shays's Rebellion (1787)
Molly Wallace, Valedictory Address (1792)
Northwest Ordinance (July 13, 1787)
Patrick Henry Against Ratification of the Constitution (1788)
Proclamation of Lord Dunmore (November 14, 1775)
Publius (James Madison), Federalist Paper #10 (1788)
The Articles of Confederation (1777)
The Bill of Rights (1789)
The New Jersey Plan (1787)
The United States Constitution (1789)
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1787)
Virginia Constitution, not including the Bill of Rights (1776)
The Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776)
Wilson Law Lecture to Women 1791

Images



Columbia as Indian Maiden


Copybook Decorated with Political Themes


County Convention - Woodcut


He That Ne'er Learns His A, B, C, 1779


Patriots and Slaves Toppling Statue of George III


Richard Allen - Portrait


Slave Revolt, Saint-Domingue, 1791


Thomas Jefferson - Informal Drawing



Video



Roundtable: Articles of Confederation


Lecture Launcher: Creating a Stronger Union



Maps



Atlas Map: Western Land Claims Ceded by the States, 1782 - 1803


Interactive Map - Western Land Claims Ceded by the States



Chapter 7

Documents



Report on Manufactures
The Jay Treaty
Alexander Hamilton, "Bank" (1791)
George Washington’s Will
George Washington, Farewell Address (1796)
Maclay 1790
Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)
The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
The Treaty of Grenville (1794)
The Treaty of San Lorenzo (or Pinckney's Treaty) (1796)
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798, 1799)  
Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801)
Washington, Proclamation Regarding the Whiskey Rebellion
Whiskey Rebellion Address, George Washington's 6th Annual Address to Congress (1794)

Images



A View of the Capitol in 1800 by William Russel Birch


Abigail Adams Supervising a Servant in the White House


Alexander Hamilton - Portrait


George Washington's Arrival in New York City, 1789


John Adams - Portrait


Lyon-Griswold Dispute, Congress, 1798


Martha Washington


Mount Vernon


President-Elect Washington's Reception in Trenton


Statue of George Washington


The Pastoral Setting of Washington, D.C.


Washington Taking the Oath of Office


Washington's First Cabinet


Whiskey Rebellion Tax Protest - 1794


Women Petition for War Compensation



Video



Roundtable: The Hamiltonian System 


Lecture Launcher: Creating a Stronger Union



Chapter 8

Documents



"The Star-Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key
Special Message on the Burr Conspiracy
Ames Republican (re: LA Purchase) 1804
Charles W. Janson, The Stranger in America (1807)
Dolley Payne Madison to Lucy Payne Todd (August 23, 1814)
Jefferson’s Confidential Message to Congress (1803)
LA Purchase 1803
Lewis and Clark Meet the Shoshone (17 August 1805)
Margaret Mayard Smith, Reflections Upon Meeting Jefferson
"Memoirs of a Monticello Slave" (1847)
Opinion of the Supreme Court for Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Pennsylvania Gazette, "Indian hostilities" (1812)
The Treaty of Ghent (1814)
Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis (1803)

Images



A Patent Drawing of Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin


A Scene on the Frontiers as Practiced by the Humane British and their Worthy Allies, 1812


British Impressment, 1812


Burning of the White House in 1814


Dolley Madison - Portrait


James Madison - Portrait


Meriwether Lewis - Portrait


Monticello


New Capitol - Congress' First Meeting - 1800


Statue of Jefferson


William Clark - Portrait



Video



Roundtable: Louisiana Purchase


Lecture Launcher: Revolution of 1800



Audio



Jefferson and Liberty


Star Spangled Banner





Maps

Interactive Map: The Louisiana Purchase


Interactive Map: The War of 1812


Atlas Map: Louisiana Purchase and Exploration of the Trans-Mississippi West


Atlas Map: The War of 1812





Chapter 9

Documents



Dartmouth College v. Woodward
"A Second Peep at Factory Life,” Lowell Offering
A Week in the Mill” (Lowell Offering, Vol. V (1845): 217-218
Black Hawk, from "The Life of Black Hawk" (1833)
Connecticut War of 1812 1814
Henry Clay, "Defense of the American System" (1832)
Hodgdon Family Letters Regarding Life in the Mills (1840) 
James Madison, First Inaugural Address (1809)
John Quincy Adams, Inaugural Address (1825)
Missouri Enabling Act (6 March 1820)
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Opinion of the Supreme Court for Martin v. Hunter's Lessee  
Opinion of the Supreme Court for McCulloch v. Maryland
The Harbinger, "Female Workers at Lowell" (1836)
"The Western Country," Letters in Nile's Weekly Register
Treaty with the Sioux and Other Tribes (1825)

Images



American Stage Wagon


Anti-Railroad Poster in Philadelphia, 1839


Clermont on the Hudson - Painting


Mill in West Virginia


Pembroke Iron Works


Seminoles Attacking Federal Fort


Ships and Port at Mystic, CT


Tenskawatawa, the Prophet


"The Life of A Fireman"


Upstate New York Sawmill


View of the Great Treaty Held at Prairie du Chien (1825) - Painting



Video



Lecture Launcher: Building a National Economy



Audio



The Erie Canal



Maps



Interactive Map: Missouri Compromise of 1820-1821


Interactive Map: Native American Land Cessions to 1829


Atlas Map: Missouri Compromise of 1820-1821


Atlas Map: National Expansion and the Movement West to 1830


Atlas Map: Native American Land Cessions to 1829


Interactive Map - Expanding America and Internal Improvements



Chapter 10

 

Documents



Proclamation Regarding Nullification
"Old Ironsides" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address (1837)
Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress (1829)
Andrew Jackson, Second Annual Message to Congress (1830)
Andrew Jackson, Veto of the Bank Bill (1832)  
Ballad of General Jackson and the Six Militia Men (1827)
Biddle Commencement 1835
Davy Crockett, Advice to Politicians (1833)
Female Industrial Assn 1825
Memorial of the Cherokee Nation (1830)
Michel Chevalier, Society, Manners, and Politics in the U.S.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Concord Hymn (1837)
Resolutions of the Boston Master Carpenters (1845)
South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification (1832)
The Force Bill (1833)
United States Treaty with the Potawatami (1832)
Western Country Ohio 1816

Images



1824 Election Cartoon


1840 Campaign Ad, Louisiana


Andrew Jackson Taking the Oath of Office in 1829


Andrew Jackson's Inauguration - Lithograph


Cherokee Trail of Tears - Painting


"General Harrison's Log Cabin March" - Sheet Music


Office Hunters for the Year 1834 - Cartoon



Video



Roundtable: Jackson and the Bank War


Lecture Launcher: Whigs



Audio



Van Buren



Maps



Interactive Map: Native American Land Cessions, 1840


Atlas Map: Native American Land Cessions, 1829-1850


Interactive Map: Native American Removal



Chapter 11

Documents



An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection Among a Portion of the Blacks of this City
A Catechism for Slaves (1854)
Benjamin Drew, from Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
De Bow's Review, "The Stability of the Union" (1850)
Frances E.W. Harper, “The Slave Auction” (1854)
Frances E.W. Harper, “The Slave Mother” (1854)
George Fitzhugh, The Blessings of Slavery (1857)
Levi Coffin, Reminiscences of the Underground Railroad
Nat Turner, The Confession of Nat Turner (1831)
Overseer’s report from Chicora Wood Plantation (1858)
Passages The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass (1883)
Runaway Slave Advertisements (1838-1839)
Slave Narrative, "The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave," Related by Herself, London, (1831)
State [North Carolina] v. Boon (1801)

Images



A Patent Drawing of Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin


Abraham Lincoln and Sojourner Truth


Benjamin Banneker - Portrait


Bill of Sale for Slaves, 1835


Cotton Gin on a Plantation in Louisiana


Death of the Amistad Captain, 1839


Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin


Free Black Church


Harriet Tubman


Nat Turner Rebellion, 1831


Plantation and Southern Commerce


Raffling Off a Slave


Richard Allen - Portrait


Row Houses in Charleston, SC


Slave Dealers


Slave Dockworkers, 1860 - Brady Photo


Slave Quarter, Hermitage Plantation, Savannah, Georgia


Slave Sale Notice


Tredegar Ironworks, Richmond - Slave Labor



Video



Roundtable: Slavery 


Lecture Launcher: Slavery in the South



Audio



Pharaoh's Host Got Lost


The Liberator



Maps



Interactive Map - Utopian Communities before the Civil War 


Interactive Map - Slavery in the South



Chapter 12

Documents



"Walden" by Henry David Thoreau
Catharine E. Beecher, from A Treatise on Domestic Economy
Catholic School protest 1840
Charles Finney, Lecture to Converts
Charles G. Finney, "What a Revival of Religion Is" (1835)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
Henry Clay Work, "Come Home Father!" (1864)
Horace Mann, Report of the Massachusetts Board of Ed
Ja Norcom, Letter to His Daughter Mary Matilda Norcom
John H. Noyes on Free Love at Oneida (1865)
Joshua and Sally Wilson Letters to George Wilson (1823)
Journal Entry of Francis Parkman (1846)
Lyman Beecher, "Six Sermons on Intemperance" (1828)
Marcus Whitman to Rev. David Greene (1844)
Mariah and Stephen King to their family (April 1, 1846)
Mathew Carey, Rules for Husbands and Wives (1830)
Mother's Magazine 1834
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Letter to His Wife from Brook Farm
National Convention of Colored People, "Report on Abolition"
Noyes Marriage 1845, 1849
O. A. Brownson, "Brook Farm," (1842)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (1841)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Superstitions of our Age
Richard McNemar, The Kentucky Revival (1808)
Sojourner Truth, Address to Woman's Rights Convention
Visit to the Shakers, Lowell Offering (1841)
William Lloyd Garrison, First issue of The Liberator (1831)

Images



Carl Nebel, "General Scott's Triumph," 1851


Elizabeth Cady Stanton


Illustrations From the American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1840


Marriage Certificate, 1848


Methodist Camp Meeting, 1819


Philadelphia Almshouse, House of Employment, and Prison


Prisons


Robert Owen's Harmony Community


Sacramental Scene in a Western Forest - Lithograph


Shaker Dance


Shaker Village at Alfred, Maine, 1845


The Drunkard's Progress - Cartoon,1846


Thomas Gallaudet - Portrait


Woman’s Sphere



Video



Roundtable: Religious Revivalism and Reform



Audio



When the Roll is Called Up Yonder



Maps



Interactive Map - Utopian Communities before the Civil War



Chapter 13

Documents



James K. Polk’ First Inaugural Address
"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville
Chief Seattle, Oration (1854)
Edward Gould Burrum, from Six Months in the Gold Mines
Elizabeth Dixon Smith Geer, Oregon Trail Journal (1847, 1848)
Erie Canal 1819 (Extract from the Albany Daily Advertiser)
Frederick Law Olmsted, from A Journey in the Seabord States
Horace Greeley, from An Overland Journey (1860)
JF Cooper Notions of America 1828
John O'Sullivan, "Annexation" (1845)
John O'Sullivan, "The Great Nation of Futurity" (1845)
Lydia Allen Rudd, Diary of Westward Journey (1852)
Preamble of the Mechanics Union of Trade Associations (1827)
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Assesses California in Two Years before the Mast (1840)
Samuel F. B. Morse, Foreign Immigration (1835)
Senate Report on the Railroads (1852)
Technology and the Shoe Industry in Fincher's Trade Review (1864)
Thomas Corwin, "Against the Mexican War" (1847)
To the Honourable Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress, the Representation of the [Canal] Commissioners of the State of New-York” (1817)
Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)
William Barret Travis, Letter from the Alamo (1836)

Images



A Forty-Niner's Covered Wagon


American Progress, 1872


Austin, Texas 1840


Boston Slums - Illustration


Calico Factory, 1854


General Winfield Scott in Mexico City


Houston, Texas 1845


Mormon Emigrants, 1879


Oregon Trail Marker


The Alamo


The Storming of Chapultepec



Video



Roundtable: Moving West and the Mexican-American War


Roundtable: The Advance of Industrialization


Lecture Launcher: Mexican American War



Maps



Interactive Map: Slave Population Patterns, 1790 and 1860 


Interactive Map: Mexican-American War, 1846-1848


Atlas Map: Growth of Transportation System, 1840-1860


Atlas Map: Mexican-American War, 1846-1848


Atlas Map: Settlement in the US, c. 1850


Atlas Map: Slave Population Patterns, 1790 and 1860


Atlas Map: Texas Revolution, 1836


Atlas Map: US Territorial Expansion, 1783-1898


Atlas Map: Western Migration, 1850-1880


Interactive Map: Slavery in the South


Interactive Map: United States Territorial Expansion in the 1850s

 



Chapter 14



Documents

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
Abraham Lincoln, "A House Divided" (1858)
Abraham Lincoln, Charleston Debate (1858)
Abraham Lincoln, Debate at Galesburg, Illinois (1858)
Daniel Webster: Speech to the U.S. Senate (March 7, 1850)
Frederick Douglass, Independence Day Speech (1852)
George Fitzhugh, Slavery Justified (1854)
George Frederick Holmes, Critique of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Henry Clay, Speech to the U.S. Senate (January 29, 1850)
John Brown's Address before Sentencing (November 2, 1859)
John C. Calhoun, Proposal to Preserve the Union (1850)
Opinion of the Supreme Court for Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
South Carolina Declaration of the Causes of Secession (December 24, 1860)
Stephen A. Douglas, Debate at Galesburg, Illinois (1858)
The Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
The Land Acts (1862, 1873, 1894)
The Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851)
William Lloyd Garrison on John Brown's Raid (1859)



Images



1860 Election - Cartoon


1860 Presidential Election Banner (Republican)


A Young Abraham Lincoln


Abraham Lincoln, February 27, 1860


Dred Scott


Franklin Pierce - Portrait


Frederick Douglass


Henry Clay - Daguerreotype


Hypocrisy of Fugitive Slave Act - Cartoon, 1851


John Brown, ca. 1850


Martin Van Buren and Abolitionism - Cartoon


Poster Warning Escaped Slaves


President Abraham Lincoln


Stephen Douglas


Stephen Douglas


Storming of the Engine House by the U.S. Marines, 1859


The United States Senate, 1850 - Painting


Uncle Tom's Cabin Theater Poster, ca. 1850


Verdict of the People - Painting, after 1855


Young Frederick Douglass



Video



Roundtable: The Fitful Fifties


Lecture Launcher: Turbulent 50's



Maps



Atlas Map: The Compromise of 1850 and Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854


Interactive Map - The Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act



Chapter 15



Documents

"Lee at Fredericksburg" (1886) by J. Horace Lacy
Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley (August 22, 1862)
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861)
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865)
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863)
Charles Harvey Brewster, Three Letters from the Front (1862)
Clara Barton, Memoirs about Medical Life at the Battlefield (1862)
Confederate Constitution ( 1861)
George McClellan to Abraham Lincoln (July 7, 1862)
James Henry Gooding, Letter to President Lincoln (1863)
Jefferson Davis, Address to the Provisional Congress (1861)
John Dooley, Passages from His Journal (1863)
Letter by Overseer W. Sweet to Adele Petigru Allston (1864)
Letter from a Free Black Volunteer to the Christian Recorder
Letter from Elizabeth Underwood to Thomas C. Cox ( November 3, 1863)
Letter from H. Ford Douglas to Frederick Douglass’s Monthly (1863)
Letter from J. R. Underwood to Wm. H. Seward (October 24, 1863)
Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Confederate Lady's Diary (1861)
Susie King Taylor, Reminiscences of an Army Laundress
The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
U.S. Sanitary Commission, Sketch of Its Purposes (1864)
William T. Sherman, The March Through Georgia (1875)



Images



Amputation Being Performed, 1863. Gardner Alexander.


An Elder Frederick Douglass


Antietam Bridge, 1862. Gardner Alexander.


Appomattox Court House, 1865


Battle of Antietam


Burial Party at Cold Harbor, 1865


Confederate Captives, Gettysburg - Matthew Brady


Confederate Dead Behind Stone Wall, 1862--Mathew Brady.


Confederate Flag Flies over Fort Sumter


Dead Confederate Soldier - Photo


Destruction of the Confederacy


Dying Horse, Antietam


Effect of a 32-Pound Shell, 1862--Mathew Brady


Emancipation, 1865


Field Hospital, Virginia, 1862


Former Slaves At Cumberland Landing


Fort Sumter - Lithograph


Fort Sumter under Seige


General Ulysses S. Grant at City Point, Virginia, in August 1864.


Gettysburg, July, 1863


Jefferson Davis - Closeup Photo


Largest Siege Guns at Petersburg


Lincoln and His Cabinet


Lincoln Assasination Reward Poster, 1865--U.S. War Dept.


Lincoln Visiting General McClellan, Group Picture


Lincoln Visiting with General McClellan Privately at Antietam


Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg


President Lincoln, Allan Pinkerton, and Major General John A. McClernand at Antietam, 1862


Prisoner from Belle Isle Prison, Richmond


Railroad Construction in Virginia, ca.1863


Railroad Destruction, Appomattox Station


Rebel Dead at Antietam


Richmond in Ruins - April 1865


Robert E. Lee - 1863


Robert E. Lee on Horseback


Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865--Mathew Brady.


Ruins of Atlanta, 1864


Ruins of Petersburg Railroad Bridge, 1865--Mathew Brady


Southerners Fleeing Their Home


Storming of Fort Wagner - Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts


The Home of the Rebel Sharpshooter, 1863. Matthew Brady.


Ulysses S. Grant


Union Artillery at Yorktown


Union Prisoners at Salisbury, North Carolina, 1863


William T. Sherman


Women Working at U.S. Arsenal


Workers in D.C. during the Civil War


Young Union Soldier



Video



Roundtable: The Union Severed 



Audio



Battle Hymn of the Republic


Military Brass Bands


When This Cruel War Is Over



Maps



Interactive Map - The Civil War, 1861-1862


Interactive Map - The Civil War, 1863-1865


Atlas Map: Secession


Atlas Map: The Civil War, 1861-1862


Atlas Map: The Civil War, 1863-1865



Chapter 16

Documents



Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting, at the Presidential Election in Nov., 1872
Samuel Tilden's Speech to the Manhattan Club Conceding the Election of 1876
A Sharecrop Contract (1882)
Accounts from Victims of the Ku Klux Klan (1935)
"Address of the Colored Citizens of Norfolk, Virginia" (1865)
Affidavit of Former Slave Enoch Braston (1866)
Albion W. Tourgee, Letter on Ku Klux Klan Activites (1870)
Brawley Gilmore tells about Doc McCollum during Reconstruction (Late 1860s)
Carl Schurz, Report on the Condition of the South (1865)
Clinton B. Fisk, "Plain Counsels for Freedmen" (1865)
Confederate Song, "I'm a Good Old Rebel," by R. B. Buckley , (1866)
Hannah Irwin Describes Ku Klux Klan Ride (Late 1860s)
James C. Beecher, Report on Land Reform (1865, 1866)
James T. Rapier, Testimony before U.S. Senate Regarding the Agricultural Labor Force in the South (1880)
Jourdon Anderson to His Former Master (1865)
Legal Form for the Restoration of Confiscated Property Held by the Freedmen's Bureau (1865)
Slave narrative of Annie L. Burton, “Memories of Childhood’s Slavery Days”
Slave Narrative, "The Story of Mattie J.Jackson: A True Story" Lawrene, Massachusetts (1866)
Southern Skepticism of the Freedmen's Bureau (1866)
The Mississippi Black Code (1865)
The Nation, "The Stateof the South" (1872)
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments

Images



1868 Democratic National Convention in New York City


Abraham Lincoln - Portrait, April, 10, 1865


Andrew Johnson


Andrew Johnson - Brady Photo


Attempted KKK Lynching


Black Senator and Congressmen, 1872


Five Generations of a Slave Family - Photo


Free Black Dockworkers


Freedmen at Rest on a Levee


Freedmen's School


"From the Plantation to the Senate"


Greeley and Sumner - Nast Cartoon


Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson


Ku Klux Klan Members


Ku Klux Klan Warning


Massacre at New Orleans


Robert Smalls


Rutherford B. Hayes


Stone Mountain Carving


Thaddeus Stevens - Brady Photo


"The Shackle Broken by the Genius of Freedom"


Thomas Nast, "Political Symbols," 1874


White Landowners Weighing Sharecroppers' Cotton


Worse than Slavery - Nast Cartoon



Video



Roundtable: Legacies of Reconstruction


Charleston Chain Gang


Lecture Launcher: The Legacies of Reconstruction



Audio



Free At Last



Maps



Interactive Map - Reconstruction


Atlas Map: Reconstruction


Atlas Map: The Rise of Tenancy in the South, 1880



Chapter 17

Documents



Homestead Act of 1862
Accounts of the Wounded Knee Massacre
Act of Congress, the General Allotment Act [Dawes Act]
Chief Red Cloud's Speech
Congressional Report on the Sand Creek Massacre (1867)
Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” (1893)
John Lester, "Hydraulic Mining" (1873)
Joseph G. McCoy, Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest (1874)
Perspectives on the American Cowboy (1884, 1886)
Secretary of Interior's Congressional Report on Indian Affairs (1887)

Images



Atlantic and Pacific Railroad - Map


Bison Grazing


Buffalo Soldiers


Chiricahua Apache Prisoners, Including Geronimo (first row, third from right) in Arizona, 1886


"Exodusters"


Geronimo and Natiche Surrender, 1886


Iroquois Indians, Early 20th Century - Panoramic Photo


Laundry Class at Carlisle Indian School, ca. 1901


Oglala Sioux Pictogram of the Battle of Little Bighorn


Red Cloud (Maqpeya-luta), Chief of the Oglala Sioux


Sioux Encampment, Early 1890s


Stuffed Buffalo


The Albuquerque Indian School in 1885


The Purposes of the Grange



Video



Roundtable: Westward Expansion and the Native Americans 


Cowboys and Cattle


Lecture Launcher: Rural America


Sioux Ghost Dance



Audio



Omaha Funeral Song


Ritual of the Maize



Maps



Atlas Map: Native Americans, 1850-1896


Atlas Map: The New Economy of the West, 1850-1893


Interactive Map - Resources and Conflict in the West



Chapter 18

Documents



Credit Mobilier/Union Pacific Railroad Scandal — Testimony of C.P. Huntington (1873)
Andrew Carnegie, "Wealth," North American Review (1889)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Chinese Six Companies 1876
George Engel, Address by a Condemned Haymarket Anarchist (1886)
George Waring, "Sanitary Conditions in New York" (1897)
Mark Twain, from The Gilded Age (1873)
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, from The Working Girls of Boston (1884)
Mother Jones, "The March of the Mill Children" (1903)
Thomas Edison, The Success of the Electric Light (October 1880)

Images



Brooklyn Bridge


Brooklyn Bridge


Chicago Steelworks


Child Glass Factory Worker, 1911


Edison in His Lab, 1888


Edison with Phonograph, 1878--Mathew Brady.


Genuine Connellsville Coke. National Bureau of Engraving.


Handbill, Haymarket Square Bombing


Home Washing Machine and Wringer, 1869


Homestead Strikers Surrendering - Engraving


J. P. Morgan


John D. Rockefeller - Cartoon, 1901


Lady Shoemakers' Strike, 1860


"Modern Colossus of (Rail) Roads," 1879


Molly Maguires


Telegraph Lines, 1864


Terence Powderly at Knights of Labor Convention


The Department Store: Another View, 1898


The Protectors of Our Industry, 1883


Women Delegates, National Meeting of Knights of Labor, 1886



Video



Roundtable: The Industrial Revolution


Lecture Launcher: Industrial Revolution



Maps



Interactive Map - Organizing American Labor in the Late Nineteenth Century



Chapter 19

Documents



Herbert Spencer, Social Darwinism (1857)
Advice on Keeping Children on the Farm (1881)
Autobiographical Narrative by Zitkala-Sa on Her First Days at Boarding School in Indiana (1900)
Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address (1895)
Charles Loring Brace, The Dangerous Classes of New York
Edward Bellamy, from Looking Backward (1888)
Helen Hunt Jackson, from A Century of Dishonor (1881)
Josiah Strong, from Our Country (1885)
Letters to the Jewish Daily Forward (1906-1907)
Lincoln Steffens, from The Shame of the Cities (1904)
N.A. Dunning, ed., Alliance's Vision of Community (1891)
Olmsted, Proposal to Buffalo, New York, Park Commission (1888)
Opinion of the Supreme Court for Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Richard K. Fox, from Coney Island Frolics (1883)
Secret Oath of the American Protective Association (1893)
Tammany Hall, Excerpt from Niles' Weekly Register (1835)
The Morrill Act (1862)
William B. Farwell, The Chinese at Home and Abroad (1885)
William Graham Sumner, from What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)

Images



American History Students at Tuskegee Institute


Baseball - Lithograph


Booker T. Washington


Boss Tweed - Nast Cartoon


Central Park


Chemistry Lab at the Tuskegee Institute


Chemistry Students at Tuskegee Institute


Cincinnati Red Stockings Baseball Club, ca. 1869


Dumbbell Floor Plan, 1879


Families Working in Sweatshops


Future Women Voters


Gibson Girl, 1899


Jane Addams - Portrait


Medical College for Women


New York, Lower East Side


Paris, Texas, Lynching, 1893


Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896


Slum Children


Suffragist Speaking


Suffragists in Cincinnati


Tenement Families - Riis Photo


Women in the Work Place, Late Nineteenth Century


Women Working in a Factory



Video



Roundtable: The Industrial Revolution  


A Vaudeville Act


Annie Oakley


College Football, 1903


Ellis Island Immigrants, 1903


Lecture Launcher: Gilded Age


Tourists in Yellowstone National Park



Audio



Immigrants and the Great War


Silver Threads Among the Gold



Maps



Atlas Map: Immigration, 1880-1920


Atlas Map: Milestones in Education


Atlas Map: Settlement in the United States, 1900


Interactive Map - Foreign-Born Population, 1890



Chapter 20

Documents



Song -- Everybody Works But Father (1905)
Address to 1894 Convention of American Railway Union by Jennie Curtis
Jacob S. Coxey, "Address of Protest" (1894)
Ocala Platform, 1890
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Mark Twain, “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” (1901)
Mary Elizabeth Lease, The Popular Crusader (1892)
Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883)
The People's Party Platform (1892)
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Session of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry (1879)
William Jennings Bryan, "Cross of Gold" Speech (1896)
Workingman's Amalgamated Sherman Anti-Trust 1893

Images



1892 Election - Painting


A Party of Patches, 1891


Farmer's Delight Tobacco Advertisement, 1889


Grover Cleveland


Harrison and Morton Campaign Ad


Jacob Coxey's Arrest


Keep the Ball Rolling, 1888


McKinley and Hobart Campaign Poster


The Sacrilegious Candidate, 1896


Turn-of-the-Century Political Cartoon


William Jennings Bryan


Woodhull Reading Suffrage Proposal, 1871



Video



Roundtable: Political and Cultural Conflicts- 1890s



Maps



Interactive Map - Activities of the United States in the Caribbean, 1898–1930s



Chapter 21

Documents



Dollar Diplomacy -William Howard Taft (1912)
Letter to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan (1915)
The Teller Amendment
Albert Beveridge, "The March of the Flag" (1898)
Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Interest of America in Sea Power
Carl Schurz, Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League
Ernest Howard Crosby, “The Real `White Man’s Burden’” (1899)
HC Lodge Annex of Hawaii 1895
Mark Twain, "Incident in the Philippines" (1924)
Platform for the American Anti-Imperialist League (October 18, 1899)
Platt Amendment (1901)
Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” (1899)
Senators Beveridge and Hoar On Imperialism (1900)
Theodore Roosevelt, “Our Poorer Brother” (1897)
Theodore Roosevelt, “The Strenuous Life” (1900)
William Graham Sumner, "On Empire and the Philippines" (1898)
William McKinley, "Decision on the Philippines" (1900)

Images



A Nauseating Job, But It Must Be Done


African American Troops in the Spanish- American War


Americans Guard Filipino Prisoners, 1899


Bill of Fare, 1901


Civilization Begins at Home, 1898


Emilio Aguinaldo


Explosion on the Maine


Filipino Guerillas


His Foresight, 1901


Iolani Palace, Hawaii


Maine Explosion. 1898


Our Top-Heavy Navy - Puck Cartoon


Our Victorious Fleet in Cuban Waters — Illustration


Queen Liliuokalani, 1887 - Portrait


Suspicions of Spain - New York Journal Headline


Teddy Roosevelt - Rough Rider


The Man Behind the Egg, 1903


U.S. Soldiers in the Philippines, 1899


Uncle Sam Teaching the World - Puck Cartoon





Video

Roundtable: An American Empire 


Lecture Launcher: Becoming a World Power


Burial of the Maine Victims


Roosevelt's Rough Riders




Maps

Atlas Map: The American Empire, c. 1900v


Atlas Map: American Involvement in Latin America, 1899-1939


Atlas Map: The Spanish-American War, 1898-1899


Interactive Map - Activities of the United States in the Caribbean, 1898—1930s


Interactive Map - World Colonial Empires, 1900





Chapter 22

Documents



T.S. Eliot, Excerpt from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917)
Yick Wo v. Hopkins
Adna Weber, The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century (1899)
Eugene V. Debs, "The Outlook for Socialism in America"
Events in Paris, Texas, from Ida B. Wells, A Red Record
Frederick Winslow Taylor, Scientific Management (1896)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, False Accusations, from A Red Record
Inside the Packinghouse from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
Jane Addams, from Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)
John Spargo, from The Bitter Cry of the Children (1906)
Lee Chew, "Life of a Chinese Immigrant (1903)
"Life in the Shop" by Clara Lemlich (1909)
Mary Antin, from The Promised Land (1912)
National Negro Committee Platform (1909)
Plunkitt on "Honest Graft" 1905
Samuel Gompers, The American Labor Movement (1914)
The New York Times, Review of Opening Night at Coney Island (1904)
Upton Sinclair, from The Jungle (1905)
W. E. B. DuBois, "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others" (1903)
Walker Percy, "Birmingham Under the Commission Plan" (1911)

Images



Asian Immigrants at Angel Island


Breaking a Strike at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1914


Child Glass Factory Worker, 1911


Children Working in Coal Mine - Lewis Hine Photo


Chinese-Americans in California


Chinese-Americans in San Francisco, 1897


Coal Mine Breaker Boys, 1900


Election Day!, 1909


Ellis Island


Eye Examination at Ellis Island, ca. 1913


Future Women Voters


Health Check at Ellis Island


Hester Street, New York City


Immigrants at Ellis Island


Immigrants to America


Little Spinner in Globe Cotton Mill, 1909--Lewis W. Hine.


Logo for the Industrial Workers of the World


"Looking Backward" at Immigrant Origins - Cartoon


Margaret Sanger's Newspaper, 1914


New York City Tenements


Socialist Cartoon, 1919.


Suffragist Speaking


Suffragists in Cincinnati


The IWW Is Coming


Waiting area at Ellis Island, ca. 1915



Video



Roundtable: Progressivism 


A 1901 Fire Department


Luna Park at Coney Island


Lecture Launcher: The Progressives


Punching the Clock


Rural Free Delivery Mail


Women in the Workplace, 1904



Audio



Rip Van Winkle Meets Meenie



Chapter 23

Documents



Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916
Eighteenth Amendment - Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquor January 16, 1919)
Andrew Carnegie, Wealth and Its Uses (1907)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "If I Were a Man" (1914)
Frederick W. Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management
Helen M. Todd, "Getting Out the Vote" (1911)
Herbert Croly, from Progressive Democracy (1914)
Jane Addams, "Ballots Necessary for Women" (1906)
Louis Brandeis, from Other People's Money (1913)
National Woman Suffrage Association, Mother's Day Letter
Report of the Vice Commission, Louisville, Kentucky (1915)
Theodore Roosevelt, "The New Nationalism" (1910)
Theodore Roosevelt, Panama Canal Message to Congress (1903)
Woodrow Wilson, from The New Freedom (1913)

Images



Collage Celebrating the Career of Teddy Roosevelt


Taft's Inefficiency - Puck Cartoon


"The Verdict" - Anti-Monopoly Cartoon, 1899


Theodore Roosevelt


Theodore Roosevelt, ca. 1901


TR and his "Big Stick" - Cartoon


TR as "Jack the Giant Killer" - Puck Cartoon


William Howard Taft



Video



Roundtable: Progressivism 


Bull Moose Campaign Speech


Charles E. Hughes 1916 Presidential Campaign Speech


College Women Playing Basketball



Audio



"The Speech That Sent Debs to Jail"



Maps



Interactive Map - Woman Suffrage before the Nineteenth Century



Chapter 24

Documents



Abrams v. United States (1919)
Adolf K.G.E. von Spiegel, U-boat 202 (1919)
Boy Scouts of America, "Support the War Effort" (1917)
Espionage Act (1917)
Eugene Kennedy, Diary Passages Describing Life at the Front
Eugene V. Debs, Crtitique of World War I (1916)
F. J. Grimke, Address to African American Soldiers
Henry Cabot Lodge's Objections to Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Joseph Buffington, "Friendly Words to the Foreign Born" (1917)
Letters from the Great Migration (1917)
Newton D. Baker, Treatment of German-Americans (1918)
President Wilson’s War Message to Congress (1917)
President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (1918)
Statement to French Concerning Black American Troops
The Zimmerman Telegram (1917)
United States Declaration of War (1917)

Images



African American Recruiting Poster


African American Soldiers Return Home


African American Soldiers under French Command, WWI


African American Women Workers, WWI


Anti-VD Poster, WWI


Blowing Bubbles, 1919


Building the Panama Canal


"Buy War Bonds" Poster


"Feminine Patriotism"


France Demands War Reparations - Cartoon


French Couple Welcomes Two U.S. Soldiers


"Gee!! I Wish I Were a Man" Poster


Join a Sheep Club Poster, ca. 1917—1919


Leaders of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom


Life in the Trenches


Mrs. Hearst Reviews a Liberty Loan Parade


Recruiting Poster for the Marines


Salvation Army Workers, WWI


Saying Goodbye


Segregated Recreation - Black Soldiers in WWI


Sheet Music from WWI


Sinking of the Lusitania - New York Tribune


Soldiers Taking an IQ Test during WWI


Teddy Roosevelt at Panama Canal, 1906


Temporary Shelter for U.S. Wounded


"The Navy Needs You" Poster


The World's Constable - Cartoon


Trench Warfare


U.S. Troops on the Road in Esnes, France


Visual Image of the Enemy, ca. 1917-1918


Warning of Influenza Epidemic, 1918 - Poster


Women Workers during WWI


Woodrow Wilson


Woodrow Wilson Inauguration


World War I Recruiting Poster



Video



Roundtable: America and the Great War 


Lecture Launcher: World War I



Audio



Over There

Maps



Atlas Map: World War I


Interactive Map: African American Population, 1910 and 1950



Chapter 25

Documents



Inaugural Address, Calvin Coolidge (March 1925)
1924 Immigration Law
Mitchell Palmer on the Menace of Communism (1920)
Advertisements from 1925 and 1927
Court Statements Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1927)
"Creed of Klanswomen” (1924)
Edward Earle Purinton, "Big Ideas from Big Business" (1921)
Eleanor Rowland Wembridge, "Petting and the Campus" (1925)
Executive Orders and Senate Resolutions on Teapot Dome
Immigrant women 1930
John F. Carter, "'These Wild Young People' by One of Them"
Margaret Sanger, "Happiness in Marriage" (1926)
The Chicago Riot (1919)

Images



A Heavy Load for Al, 1928


Automobile Assembly Line, 1925


Baseball


Baseball, 1920


Charles Lindbergh and Spirit of St. Louis


Clara Bow, the "It"girl. Film Still, 1927.


Clarence Darrow at the Scopes Evolution Trial, 1925


Clive Weed, "The National Gesture," 1926


Downtown Scene with Cars, 1911


Ernest Hemingway on Safari


Family around the Oil Heater, 1921


Feminine Tippler's Ankle Flask, 1922


Football, 1920


Ford Weekly Purchase Plan, 1925


George Bellows. "The Drunk," 1923-1924


Greater Macy*s, 1926-1928


Henry Ford and His First Car, 1918


John T. Daniels, First Flight, 1903


Ku Klux Klan on Parade, 1928


Like a Moth, It Works in the Dark, 1923. Charles Dana Gibson


New York Street Scene, 1899


Presidents Harding and Coolidge


Prohibition Raid, ca. 1928


Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1911 - Streetlights at Night


The Family Car, 1911


The Living Room, 1916


Warren G. Harding



Video



Roundtable: Roaring 20's 


Prosperity of the 1920s and the Great Depression


Lecture Launcher: The Roaring 20's


Warren G. Harding


Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Westinghouse Works


Women Suffragists Visit Roosevelt at Sagamore in 1917



Audio



Hungarian Rag


Prohibition is a Failure


Warsaw Polka



Maps



Atlas Map: Changing Lives of American Women, 1880-1930



Chapter 26

Documents



Tennessee Valley Authority Act
An attack on New Deal farm policies (1936)
Father Charles E. Coughlin, "A Third Party" (1936)
Frances Perkins and the Social Security Act (1935, 1960)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Radio Address (1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, San Francisco Campaign Speech (1932)
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Second Inaugural Address
Franklin Roosevelt, fireside chat (September 6, 1936)
Herbert Hoover, New York Campaign Speech (1932)
Huey Long, "Share Our Wealth" (1935)
Mrs. Henry Weddington, Letter to President Roosevelt (1938)
Radio broadcast by Henry A. Wallace (May 13, 1933)
Socialist Party Platform (1932)

Images



Abandoned Oklahoma Farmstead, 1937


African American Family on the Road


Agricultural Worker's Shack


Arkies on the Road


Bonus Expeditionary Force March on Washington


Burning Bonus Army Shacks, 1932


CCC Worker, 1938


Children with "Hoover's Poor Farm" Sign


Depression Breadlines in New York City, 1932


Depression Era Breadlines


Despair in the Texas Panhandle


Dorothea Lange Photo - "Migrant Mother"


Dr. William H. Hastie - "Black Cabinet" Member


Eleanor Roosevelt Visiting WPA Nursery


Evicted Black Sharecroppers - Arthur Rothstein Photo


Evicting the Bonus Army


Family in a Dust Storm


FDR with Leg Braces


Franklin Roosevelt, 1937


From Texas Farmer to Migratory Worker


Giving Her a Lift to Town, 1933


Index of American Design


John Baer, "We Demand a New Deal!," 1931


John Steinbeck


Mexican Workers and Their Cars


Modern Electric Range, 1934


Old Reliable!, 1938


"PWA In Action" Poster


Seattle, WA, Shantytown


Social Security Act Poster


The Caravan Theater


The Family of Peter V. Andrews, 1940


The Girl I Love is a Democrat, 1932


"World's Highest Standard of Living" Billboard


WPA Project at Tonawanda Reservation


WPA's Federal Art Project



Video



Roundtable: New Deal 


FDR’s Inauguration


Lecture Launcher: The Great Depression


President Roosevelt Focuses on America’s Youth



Audio



FDR's First Innagual Address


Interview About Life in a Government Camp



Maps



Interactive Map: The Great Depression


Atlas Map: Electrification, 1930s


Atlas Map: The Great Depression


Interactive Map - The Tennessee Valley Authority



Chapter 27



Documents





Manhattan Project Notebook 


Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese


A. Philip Randolph, "Why Should We March" (1942)


Albert Einstein, Letter to President Roosevelt (1939)


Charles Lindbergh, Radio Address (1941)


Franklin D. Roosevelt, "The Four Freedoms" (1941)


Sterling A. Brown, "Out of Their Mouths" (1942)



Images



A Young Nisei and Her Family's Belongings


African American Fighter Pilots


Attack on Pearl Harbor


"Buy Victory Bonds" Poster


Dedication of Iwo Jima Memorial, 1954


Destruction at Pearl Harbor


Eisenhower and Paratroopers in World War II


Emaciated Woman at Bergen-Belsen


German Painting Idealizing Hitler


Get in the Scrap Poster, 1941—1945


Heel Hitler Poster, 1941—1945


Hitler and Mussolini in Munich, 1940


Hitler at Nuremberg Rally ca. 1928


"It's A Woman's War, Too" Poster


Japanese Americans At Santa Anita Racetrack in 1942


Japanese-American Family Awaiting Relocation - Lange Photo


Japanese-American Family in Internment Camp


"Loose Talk Can Cost Lives" Poster


Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Attack, August 1945


Navaho Indians Aiding The U.S. War Effort


Nazi Book Bonfire, 1933


Norman Rockwell's "Freedom from Want," Saturday Evening Post


Operation Overlord, Normandy, 1944


Ration Stamps - WWII


"Rosie the Riveter"


School Boy Using War Ration Book, 1943


The Big Three at Yalta


When You Ride Alone You Ride with Hitler Poster, 1941—1945


Window Sign after Relocation, 1942


Women in an Airplane Factory


"Women In War" Poster


Women Riveters in a Navy Shipyard  



Video



Roundtable: Pearl Harbor


Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima


Jesse Owens and the 1936 Olympics


Lecture Launcher: World War II


Nazi Murder Mills WARNING: This clip is very graphic.


Rosie the Riveter


The Big Three Confer - Yalta Conference


Truman on the End of World War II  



Audio



Blues in Wartime


Obey the Ration Laws


Soldier Boy Blues, 1943


War Song  



Maps



Interactive Map: World War II, European Theater


Interactive Map: World War II, Pacific Theater


Atlas Map: World War II on the Home Front: War Industry and Relocation


Atlas Map: World War II, European Theater


Atlas Map: World War II, Pacific Theater


Interactive Map - World War II in Europe


Interactive Map - World War II in the Pacific

 



Chapter 28

Documents



Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel
Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech (March 5, 1946)
Declaration of Independence for Vietnam (September 2, 1945)
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dien Bien Phu (1954)
George F. Kennan, "The Long Telegram" (1946)
George Marshall, The Marshall Plan (1947)
Joseph R. McCarthy, Wheeling, West Virginia Speech (1950)
Kenneth MacFarland, "The Unfinished Work" (1946)
McCarthy Telegram and Truman Draft Response (1950)
National Defense Education Act (1958)
National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 (1950)
Policy Statement about U.S. Objectives in Southeast Asia (June 25, 1952)
Ronald Reagan, Testimony before HUAC (1947)
The Twenty-Second Amendment (1947)
Truman Doctrine (1947)

Images



A Case History of Communist Penetration in Guatemala, 1957


Chairman Mao Casts His Vote, 1953


Dwight D. Eisenhower


How Communism Works, 1938


President Harry S Truman, 1948


Truman, Atlee, and Stalin at the Potsdam (Berlin) Conference


U.S. Hydrogen Bomb Test over Uninhabited Pacific Island, 1952


U.S. Marines - 1950



Video



Roundtable: The Onset of the Cold War 


Atomic Age Begins


Duck and Cover


Eisenhower's Special Message to Congress on the Middle East, 1957


Ike for President: Eisenhower Campaign Ad, 1952


Lecture Launcher: Postwar (Cold War Begins)


Lecture Launcher: The Struggle for Social Reform


President Truman and the Threat of Communism


The Korean War Armistice



Audio



Joseph P. McCarthy Speech



Maps



Atlas Map: Cold War in Europe, 1950


Atlas Map: Korean War


Interactive Map - The Korean War, 1950–1953



Chapter 29



Documents





Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School 


Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)


Cooper v. Aaron (1958)


Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell to the Nation (1961)


Executive Order 9981 (1948)


Ladies Home Journal, "Young Mother" (1956)


The Southern Manifesto (1956)



Images



"Buzz" Aldrin on the Moon


Cover Illustration for "The Desi-Lucy Love Story," 1956


Dick Clark's American Bandstand, 1958


Dwight D. Eisenhower


ENIAC Computer


First Manned Space Exploration - Project Mercury


Kenneth Clark Testing Children's Choices of Dolls, 1924


Levittown


Opposition to Integration


Project Mercury Astronauts  



Video



Roundtable: Post-World War II Society


Lecture Launcher: The Struggle for Social Reform


Postwar Growth and Social Change  



Audio



Little Boxes

Maps



Atlas Map: Civil Rights Movement


Atlas Map: Postwar Migration to the Sunbelt and West Coast


Atlas Map: Settlement in the US, c. 1950


Interactive Map - Population Shifts, 1940–1950



Chapter 30

Documents



Cesar Chavez, From “He Showed Us the Way”, April 1978 
Test Ban Treaty
Charles Sherrod, SNCC Memorandum (1961)
Donald Wheeldin, "The Situation in Watts Today" (1967)
Executive Discussions on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
Gay Liberation Front, Come Out 1970
George Ball, "A Compromise Solution in South Vietnam"
John F. Kennedy, Address to the People of Berlin (1963)
John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis Address (1962)
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961)
John F. Kennedy, Space Program Speech (1961)
John Lewis, Address at the March on Washington (1963)
Johnson's Defense of the U.S. Presence in Vietnam (1965)
LBJ Howard Affirmative Action 1965
LBJ Immigration Act 1965
Lyndon Johnson, "The War on Poverty" (1964)
Lyndon Johnson, Address to the Nation (March 31, 1968)
Lyndon Johnson, The Tonkin Gulf Resolution Message (1964)
Lyndon Johnson's Remarks Upon Signing the Civil Rights Act
National Organization of Women, Statement of Purpose (1966)
Reports from the Commission on the Watts Riots
Shirley Chisholm, Equal Rights for Women (May 21, 1969)
Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton, from Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America (1967)"
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Statement of Purpose (1960)
Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement
Testimony by Members of the First Marine Division
Testimony by members of the Twenty-fifth Infantry Division
Testimony by W. Crandell at the Winter Soldier Investigation
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest
Voting Literacy Test (1965)

Images



A 1960s March for Civil Rights


Civil Rights March on Washington, 1963


John F. Kennedy


Lyndon Johnson


President Lyndon B. Johnson in Vietnam, 1966


Protestors and Military Police, 1967


Two Observers of a 1960s Riot



Video



Roundtable: The 1960s


Civil Rights March on Washington


John F. Kennedy Presidential Campaign Ad: It’s Up To You!


Kennedy-Nixon Debate


LBJ Signing the Civil Rights Bill


Lecture Launcher: Liberalism


Lyndon Johnson Presidential Campaign Ad: Little Girl vs. Mushroom Cloud


Malcolm X


President John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis


President Johnson Responds to the Death of JFK


Protests Against the Vietnam War


Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Speech at the March on Washington, August, 1963


Richard Nixon Presidential Campaign Ad: A Wavering Hubert Humphrey


The Cuban Missile Crisis


The Vietnam War



Audio 



"Going Out"





Maps

Interactive Map - Vietnam War


Atlas Map: African American Migration, 1915-1970


Atlas Map: Immigration to the United States, 1945-1990


Atlas Map: Vietnam War


Interactive Map - Impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965





Chapter 31

Documents



Letter from President Nixon to President Nguyen Van Thieu (January 5, 1973)
Richard Nixon, "Peace With Honor" (January 27, 1973)
Ronald Reagan, "Speech on the Challenger Disaster" (January 28, 1986)
Boston Busing 1975
Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
House Judiciary Committee's Assessment of Nixon's Activities
House Judiciary Committee's Conclusion on Impeachment
Jimmy Carter, The "Crisis of Confidence" Speech (1979)
Patricia Morrisroe, "Yuppies - The New Class" (1985).
Paul Craig Roberts, The Supply-Side Revolution (1984)
Roe v. Wade (January 22, 1973)
Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address (1981)
Ronald Reagan, Iran Contra Address (March 4, 1987)
Ronald Reagan, Speech at the Brandenburg Gate (1987)
Ronald Reagan, Speech to the House of Commons (1982)
Ronald Reagan, Support for the Contras (1984)
Ronald Reagan, The Air Traffic Controllers Strike
Ronald Reagan, "Evil Empire" Speech (1983)
T. Boone Pickens, "My Case for Reagan" (1984)
Watergate Special Prosecution Force Memorandum

Images



Gerald Ford


Jimmy Carter


Jimmy Carter signs the House of Representative Resolution for the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972


Kent State Demonstrations


Nixon Releases Transcripts of Oval Office Tapes


Nuclear Cooling Towers


Richard Nixon


Sign at a Gay Pride March


Three Mile Island, 1979


Reagan in Front of Berlin Wall, 1987


Ronald Reagan


Ronald Reagan in a Cowboy Hat, 1976



Video



Roundtable: The 1970s


Gerald Ford Presidential Campaign Ad: Feeling Good About America


Jimmy Carter and the “Crisis of Confidence”


Jimmy Carter Presidential Campaign Ad: Burning the Midnight Oil


Lecture Launcher: Watergate


Oliver North Hearing


Richard Nixon, “I am not a crook”


Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall


Ronald Reagan on the Wisdom of Tax Cuts


Ronald Reagan Presidential Campaign Ad: A Bear in the Woods


The Swing Right (The Conservative Resurgence)



Maps



Atlas Map: Conflict in Central America, 1970-1998


Atlas Map: Conflict in the Middle East, 1945-1997


Interactive Map: The Middle East in the 1980s and 1990s


Interactive Map: America’s Move to the Sunbelt, 1970—1981



Chapter 32

Documents



George W. Bush, From “National Security Strategy of the United States of America” (September 2002) 
George H.W. Bush, Inaugural Address (January 1989)
United States of America v. Timothy James McVeigh — Sentencing (August 14, 1997)
Articles of Impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton
Bill Clinton, "A Time of Healing" Prayer Service (1995)
Bill Clinton, Answers to the Articles of Impeachment
Clinton Health Care Reform Proposals (1993)
George Bush, Allied Military Action in the Persian Gulf (1991)
George H. W. Bush, Gulf War Address (1990)
George W. Bush, Address to Congress (September 20, 2001)
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act
President Clinton's First Inaugural Address (1993)
The Balkan Proximity Peace Talks Agreement (1995)

Images



Windmill Generators in California


Bill Clinton


Bill Clinton and Al Gore on the South Lawn of the White House, 1993


First Ladies in 1994


George H. W. Bush


George H. W. Bush and Gulf War Figures, 1992.



Video



The Berlin Wall


Bill Clinton First Inauguration


Bill Clinton Sells Himself to America: Presidential Campaign Ad, 1992


George Bush Presidential Campaign Ad: The Revolving Door


President Bush on the Gulf War


President George Bush’s Early Response in the Persian Gulf War



Maps



Atlas Map: Population Density of the United States, 1998


Atlas Map: Present-day Africa and the Middle East


Atlas Map: Present-day Asia and Oceania


Atlas Map: Present-day Europe


Atlas Map: Present-day Latin America


Atlas Map: Present-day United States


Atlas Map: Present-day World


Atlas Map: Settlement of the United States, c. 1998