search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for Constructing the American Past
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
Introduction Doing History
xv
Contact and Conquest: The Meeting of the Old and New Worlds
1
20
Historical Context
1
4
The Documents
5
14
Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus: 1492
6
1
Journal of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage
6
5
Bartolome de Las Casas, From The Destruction of the Indies: A Brief Account
11
4
The Aztec Account of the Spanish Conquest, Florentine Codex, as Collected
15
4
Bernadino de Sahagun
Postscript
19
1
Questions
19
1
Defining Terms
19
1
Probing the Sources
19
1
Interpreting the Sources
20
1
Additional Reading
20
1
Dying and Surviving in Virginia
21
22
Historical Context
21
4
The Documents
25
16
Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh: 1584
26
1
``Narrative of the 1584 Voyage''
26
2
Arthur Barlowe
From A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
28
1
Thomas Harriot
``Narrative of the 1590 Virginia Voyage''
29
1
John White
``Discourse''
30
2
George Percy
From Journal
32
1
John Smith
Powhatan's Speech to Captain John Smith: 1609
33
1
From Nova Britannia, 1609
34
2
From Laws Divine, Moral and Martial, 1611
36
1
``The State of the Colony in Virginia,'' 1622
37
2
An Indentured Servant Describes Life in Virginia in a Letter to His Parents
39
2
Richard Frethorne
Postscript
41
1
Questions
42
1
Defining Terms
42
1
Probing the Sources
42
1
Interpreting the Sources
42
1
Additional Reading
42
1
The Puritan Experience in New England
43
22
Historical Context
43
3
The Documents
46
17
``A Model of Christian Charity''
47
2
John Winthrop
Excerpts From the Trial of Anne Hutchinson
49
1
From The Apologia of Robert Keayne
50
1
Education and Literacy
51
3
Home and Family
54
2
From The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
56
4
Mary Rowlandson
Salem's Struggle with Satan
60
3
Questions
63
1
Defining Terms
63
1
Probing the Sources
63
1
Interpreting the Sources
63
1
Additional Reading
64
1
Eighteenth-Century American Voices
65
26
Historical Context
65
2
The Documents
67
21
The Diaries of William Byrd
68
7
Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
75
2
The Memoirs of Jonathan Edwards
77
2
Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn
79
3
The Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
82
6
Questions
88
1
Defining Terms
88
1
Probing the Sources
89
1
Interpreting the Sources
89
1
Additional Reading
89
2
What Kind of Revolution? Justifications for Rebellion
91
26
Historical Context
91
4
The Documents
95
20
``Plan of Union''
95
1
Joseph Galloway
``An Alarm to the Legislature''
96
2
Samuel Seabury
Benjamin Franklin on the Galloway Plan and the North Resolution
98
1
From Common Sense
99
4
Thomas Paine
From ``A Sermon Preached at St. Matthew's, Bethnal Green, on Sunday, Nov. 12, 1775''
103
2
John Wesley
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation and Responses
105
2
Correspondence of Abigail and John Adams
107
2
The Declaration of Independence
109
3
From Notes on the State of Virginia
112
1
Thomas Jefferson
Letter from Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson
113
1
Reply of Thomas Jefferson to benjamin Banneker
114
1
Questions
115
1
Defining Terms
115
1
Probing the Sources
115
1
Interpreting the Sources
115
1
Additional Reading
115
2
Forming a More Perfect Union: The Constitution of 1787 versus Friends, Foes, and the Disfranchised
117
18
Historical Context
117
2
The Documents
119
12
Selections from the Constitution of 1787
119
5
From the Speeches of Patrick Henry in the Virginia State Ratifying Convention
124
2
Observations on the New Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions by a Columbian Patriot
126
3
Mercy Otis Warren
Selections from the Letters of George Washington
129
1
Selections from The Federalist Papers
130
1
Postscript
131
1
Questions
132
1
Defining Terms
132
1
Probing the Sources
132
1
Interpreting the Sources
132
1
Additional Reading
133
2
Shouting for Glory: Camp Meeting Christianity Described, Decried, and Defended
135
12
Historical Context
135
2
The Documents
137
8
``Glory! Glory! This Is the Happiest Day I Ever Saw''
137
1
Fanny Lewis
``The Melting Power of God''
138
1
William Thacher
``The Smile of Heaven Shone''
139
1
Barton Stone
``A Fanaticism as Absurd as It Was Blasphemous''
140
1
Martin J. Spalding
``Camp-Meetings, and Agricultural Fairs''
141
2
From An Apology for Camp Meetings
143
2
Questions
145
1
Defining Terms
145
1
Probing the Sources
145
1
Interpreting the Sources
145
1
Additional Reading
145
2
Living and Dying in Bondage: The Slave Conspiracy of 1822
147
20
Historical Context
147
3
The Documents
150
14
The Trials
151
5
``Gracious Heaven When I Think What I Have Escaped'': Ann Hayes Johnson Letters to Her Cousin
156
2
``The Conspiracy Had Spread Wider and Wider'': John Potter to Langdon Cheves
158
1
``White Men, Too, Would Engender Plots'': Newspapers Report the Vesey Conspiracy
159
3
David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
162
2
Postscript
164
1
Questions
164
1
Defining Terms
164
1
Probing the Sources
165
1
Interpreting the Sources
165
1
Additional Reading
165
2
Remembering the Alamo
167
26
Historical Context
167
3
The Documents
170
21
The Prelude
170
4
The Battle
174
10
The Aftermath
184
7
Postscript
191
1
Questions
191
1
Defining Terms
191
1
Probing the Sources
191
1
Interpreting the Sources
192
1
Additional Reading
192
1
Women in Antebellum America
193
20
Historical Context
193
2
The Documents
195
16
``Religious Women''
195
1
A. J. Graves
``The Peculiar Responsibilities of American Women''
196
2
Catharine Beecher
``On the Condition of Women in the United States''
198
3
Sarah M. Grimke
From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
201
3
Harriet Jacobs
Declaration of Sentiments
204
2
From A New England Girlhood
206
3
Lucy Larcom
Malenda Edwards and Mary Paul Letters
209
2
Questions
211
1
Defining Terms
211
1
Probing the Sources
211
1
Interpreting the Sources
211
1
Additional Reading
211
2
A House Divided: Free Labor, Slave Labor
213
20
Historical Context
213
2
The Documents
215
15
From Cannibals All!
216
3
George Fitzhugh
From The Impending Crisis of the South
219
3
Hinton Rowan Helper
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
222
3
From Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly
225
2
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Open Letter to Thomas Auld
227
3
Frederick Douglass
Questions
230
1
Defining Terms
230
1
Probing the Sources
230
1
Interpreting the Sources
230
1
Additional Reading
231
2
A War within a War: The New York City Draft Riots
233
20
Historical Context
233
3
The Documents
236
15
Enrollment Act of 1863
236
1
``Three Days of Terror''
237
7
Ellen Leonard
From the Diary of George Templeton Strong
244
2
To the Laboring Men of New York
246
1
Dearly Beloved!
247
1
``The Raging Riot-Its Character, and the True Attitude Toward It''
248
2
A Letter from One of the Rioters
250
1
The $300 Exemption
250
1
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
250
1
Questions
251
1
Defining Terms
251
1
Probing the Sources
252
1
Interpreting the Sources
252
1
Additional Reading
252
1
Reconstruction and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
253
20
Historical Context
253
2
The Documents
255
15
Initiation Oath of the Knights of the White Camelia
256
2
Testimony of Victims of the Ku Klux Klan
258
1
Congressional Inquiry into Klan Activities
259
5
Hon. Job E. Stevenson of Ohio, Speech to the House of Representatives
264
3
From Experience of a Northern Man Among the Ku-Klux
267
2
Benjamin Bryant
``How to Extirpate Ku-Kluxism from the South''
269
1
W. H. Gannon
Questions
270
1
Defining Terms
270
1
Probing the Sources
270
1
Interpreting the Sources
270
1
Additional Reading
270
3
Credits
273
6
Index
279