PREFACE

Chapter 1 The European Conquest of America

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY The Indians' New World

James H. Merrill

SOURCES

The Indians as Seen by European Artists 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 The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

Miguel Leon-Portilla

Race War: The New England Experience The Old Indian Chronicle

Samuel G. Drake

Chapter 2 Jamestown

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY The Labor Problem at Jamestown, 1607-1618

Edmund S. Morgan

SOURCES

Jamestown: The Physical Setting Illustrations of Jamestown

Life and Death in Virginia: Richard Frethorne's Account, 1623

Chapter 3 Puritan Order

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY Deputy Husbands

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

SOURCES

New England Primer, 1690

Harvard, 1636-1642 From "New England's First Fruits," 1643

Three Early New England Portraits Illustrations: Henry Gibbs; Thomas Smith's Self-Portrait; Ann Pollard

The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637 From The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay

Thomas Hutchinson

Chapter 4 The Have-Nots in Colonial Society

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY The Origin and Consolidation of Unfree Labor

Peter Kolchin

SOURCES

Portraits of Poverty Illustrations: Hogarth engraving; an Elizabethan beggar

The Experience of Bondage: Gottlieb Mittelberger's Account, 1754

Wanted: Runaway Servants Newspaper advertisements for runaway servants, eighteenth century

Portraits of Slavery Illustrations: Slaves on the bark Wildfire; bartering for slaves on the Gold Coast; 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, S.C., newspaper, 1766

Wanted: Runaway Slaves Newspaper advertisements, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Chapter 5 Toward Revolution

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY The Growth of Urban Radicalism

Gary B. Nash

SOURCES

George III Illustrations: George III, woodcut frontispiece to Watts Speller, 1770; pulling down the statue of George III

Common Sense, 1776

Thomas Paine

Chapter 6 The American Revolution

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY Mobilizing Armed Force in the American Revolution

John Shy

SOURCES

A Spy's View of Washington's Army, 1775 Observations by Benjamin Thompson

Three Views of the American Soldier British, American, and French illustrations

Silencing the Tories A London Cartoon; Letter from Ann Hulton to Mrs. Lightbody, 1774; Records of the Committee of Safety, New York, 1775

Chapter 7 Creating the Constitution

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY The Framers and the People

Alfred F. Young

SOURCES

Ratification Table and Map

The Virginia Debates The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution

Jonathan Elliott

The Meaning of the Slave Trade Provision

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

James Wilson

Designing the Nation's Capitol Illustrations: Designs of the Capitol by Samuel Dobie, Charles Wintersmith, Etienne Hallet, James Diamond, and William Thornton; Portrait of William Thornton

Chapter 8 Federalists and Republicans

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY Washington and Jefferson

Forrest McDonald

SOURCES

Roughhouse Politics Cartoon Lampooning Lyon-Griswold Brawl

Truth versus Treason Federalist Cartoon; Republican Handbills, 1804 and 1807

The Nature of American Aristocracy, 1813

Thomas Jefferson

John Adams

Chapter 9 The Transformation of Northern Society

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY Civilizing the Machine

John F. Kasson

SOURCES

Lowell: As It Was and As It Is, 1845

Henry A. Miles

Portraits of Industrialism Illustrations: View of Lowell, Massachusetts; the Title Page of the Lowell Offering; Textile Workers of Lawrence, Massachusetts; the Women Strikers of Lynn

Chapter 10 Jacksonian Democracy

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY Slavery and the Jacksonians

Richard H. Brown

SOURCES

The Election of 1828 Anti-Jackson Cartoons

"King Andrew" Anti-Jackson Cartoons

The Art of Democratic Politics

Davy Crockett

The Election of 1840 Painting Depicting Harrison Campaign; Rally for William Henry Harrison in St. Louis, Missouri, as Reported by the St. Louis New Era

The Artist's View of Politics George Caleb Bingham "Canvassing for a Vote"; "County Election"; "Verdict of the People"; "Stump Speaking"

Chapter 11 Antislavery

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY The Commitment to Immediate Emancipation

James Brewer Stewart

SOURCES

Commission to Theodore Dwight Weld, 1834 From Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimke Weld, and Sarah Grimke, 1822-1844

Gilbert H. Barnes

Dwight L. Dumond

The Anti-Slavery Record, 1835-1836 Six Illustrations from the Front Page of The Anti-Slavery Record

"Fathers and Rulers" Petition From Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimke Weld, and Sarah Grimke, 1822-1844

Gilbert H. Barnes

Dwight L. Dumond

Slavery as It Is, 1839

Theodore Dwight Weld

Chapter 12 Western Expansion

Map Showing Expansion of the United States across the Continent

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY The Quest for Room

William L. Barney

SOURCES

The Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 Map showing the United States in 1854

Two Portraits of the West Illustrations: John Gast's "Manifest Destiny"; "Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of A Free-soiler"

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 From Political Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois; photographs of Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln

Chapter 13 The Civil War

Map: The Union Disintegrates; Table: Deaths in the Civil War and Other Wars

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY Hayfoot, Strawfoot

Bruce Catton

SOURCES

The Photographers' War 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, S.C.; Union dead; Union wounded; the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Depot; Richmond at War's End; freedmen in Richmond; John Wilkes Booth's accomplices

Sherman's March through Georgia, 1865

David P. Conyngham

Chapter 14 Reconstruction

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY Promised Land

Elizabeth Rauh Bethel

SOURCES

The Meaning of Freedom Letter from Jourdon Anderson to his former master from The Freedmen's Book 1865

Lydia Maria Child

The Cartoonist's View of Reconstruction Ten Political cartoons 1865-1876

Thomas Nast

The South Redeemed Maps of the Barrow plantation, 1860 and 1880