*New to this edition
VOLUME ONE
Introduction: Using Sources to Study the Past
PART ONE
Indians and Europeans: New World Encounters
Points of View: Contact and Conquest (1502–1521)
[ 1. Hernando Cortés, Dispatches of the Conquest from the New World
[ 2. A Nahua Account of the Conquest of Mexico
3. Bartolomé de Las Casas, Destruction of the Indies
4. John Smith, Description of Virginia
5. Father Paul Le Jeune, Encounter with the Indians
*6. Adriaen van der Donck, Debating the Value of the American Colonies
VISUAL PORTFILIO: New World Images
PART TWO
The Colonial Experience: A Rapidly Changing Society
*Points of View: Captured by Indians in Colonial America
[ 7. Mary Rowlandson, Prisoner of War
[ *8. Mary Jemison, Captivity in a Different Light
9. Pedro Naranjo and Josephe, Testimony of Pueblo Indians
10. Olaudah Equiano, The African Slave Trade
11. Gottlieb Mittelberger, On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants
*12. Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Daughter, Wife, Mother, and Planter
13. Benjamin Franklin, Defending Colonial Activities before Parliament
*VISUAL PORTFOLIO: Mapmaking and Colonialism in the New World
PART THREE
Resistance and Revolution: Struggling for Liberty
Points of View: The Boston Massacre (1770)
[ 14. Thomas Preston, A British Officer’s Description
[ 15. George Robert Twelves Hewes, John Tudor, and the Boston Gazette and Country Journal, Colonial Accounts
VISUAL PORTFOLIO: Patriot and Loyalist Propaganda
16. Joseph Plumb Martin, A Soldier’s View of the Revolutionary War
17. Boston King, Choosing Sides
18. Catherine Van Cortlandt, Secret Correspondence of a Loyalist Wife
19. Abigail Adams, Republican Motherhood
20. George Richards Minot, Shays’s Rebellion: Prelude to the Constitution
PART FOUR
Defining America: The Expanding Nation
Points of View: Religion in the New Nation (1770–1830)
[ 21. James McGready, The Great Revival of 1800
[ *22. Richard Allen, Early Steps toward Freedom
23. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Crossing the Continent
*24. Thomas Swann Woodcock, The Erie Canal: Providing Passage for a Growing Nation
25. John Ross, The Trail of Tears
26. Priscilla Merriman Evans, Pulling a Handcart to the Mormon Zion
27. An Officer of the “Army of the West”, How the West Was Won
28. Guadalupe Vallejo et al., Life in California before the Gold Discovery
29. Daguerreotype by Joseph B. Starkweather, Miners during the California Gold Rush
*PART FIVE
Reimagining Family, Community, and Society: An Age of Reform
*Points of View: The Prison Reform Movement in the Early Republic
[ *30. Charles Dickens, Philadelphia and Its Solitary Prison
[ *31. Frederick Marryat, A Different View of Solitary Confinement
*32. Harriet Hanson Robinson, The Lowell Textile Workers
33. Harriet Jacobs, The Life of a Female Slave
34. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Pioneering Women’s Rights
*35. Charles Grandison Finney, Calling Out the Masses to God
*36. Sylvester Graham, Crusading for Dietary Reform
*PART SIX
The Growing Sectional Controversy: Slavery and Its Discontents
Points of View: Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831)
[ 37. Nat Turner, A Slave Insurrection
[ 38. William Lloyd Garrison, Who Is to Blame?
[ *39. James Henry Hammond, Defending Slavery
40. Henry “Box” Brown, A Family Torn Apart by Slavery
*41. Osborne P. Anderson, An African American at Harpers Ferry
*42. Carl Schurz, Free Labor, Free Men
*43. William H. Seward, Westward Expansion and American Slavery
VISUAL PORTFOLIO: Slavery and Freedom
PART SEVEN
Civil War and Reconstruction: The Price of War
*Points of View: The Gathering Storm (1860)
[ *44. Robert Toombs, Immediate Secession
[ *45. Alexander H. Stephens, A Course of Moderation
46. Ellen Leonard, Three Days of Terror: The New York City Draft Riots
47. Samuel and Rachel Cormany, The Battle of Gettysburg: On the Field and at Home
48. Black Union Soldiers, Fighting for the Union
49. Cornelia Hancock, Healing Wounds
50. Henry William Ravenel, A Slave Owner’s Journal at the End of the War
51. Photograph by George N. Barnard, Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865 or 1866
*VISUAL PORTFOLIO: The Civil War Presidency through the Eyes of Political Cartoonists