Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness : documents in American history
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness : documents in American history
（McGraw-Hill higher education）
McGraw Hill, c2004
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Vol. 1. To 1877
Vol. 2. 1861 to present
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
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v. 1 ISBN 9780072839999
Description
This is an affordable two-volume anthology for introductory American history courses in which instructors use primary source materials to supplement the main textbook. A balanced collection, it features readings from a variety of fields of history, including economic, political, cultural, and social. Each volume contains approximately 75 pieces, including traditional political treatises, songs, diaries, orations and speeches, and journals. Chapter introductions accompany the selections.
Table of Contents
- CHAPTER 1 ~ Toward Distant Horizons1 ~ Thorvald Goes to Wineland2 ~ Articles of Agreement, April 17, 14923 ~ Sunday, October 21, 14924 ~ Literature of Discovery5 ~ Sir Francis Drake on the California Coast, 15796 ~ Spanish AdventurersCHAPTER 2 ~ Plantation Colonies 1 ~ The Second Charter of Virginia
- May 23, 1609 2 ~ Capture of Olaudah Equiano 3 ~ Information Relative to Taking up Land in New Netherland 4 ~ "They Live Well in the Time of their Service" 5 ~ The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, March 1, 1669 6 ~ George Washington and Tobacco CHAPTER 3 ~ Religious Worlds and Encounters1 ~ Natives of New England2 ~ A Model of Christian Charity, 16303 ~ The First Thanksgiving Proclamation, June 20, 16764 ~ The Dangers Threatening Canada5 ~ The Selling of Joseph6 ~ De Anza into CaliforniaCHAPTER 4 ~ British North Americans1 ~ An Account of West Jersey and Pennsylvania, 16982 ~ The Duties of Husbands and Wives3 ~ The North Carolina Biennal Act, 17154 ~ Surviving a Spanish Invasion5 ~ Regulations at Yale College, 17456 ~ Indentured Servants7 ~ A Lottery SchemeCHAPTER 5 ~ Storm Clouds1 ~ Treasure by Foreign Trade2 ~ Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People, 16763 ~ Freedom of the Press4 ~ Letter to London Merchants5 ~ Pitt's Speech on the Stamp Act6 ~ John Adams Defends Captain PrestonCHAPTER 6 ~ Patriots1 ~ Statue of John Parker2 ~ George Washington on Raising an Army3 ~ Deserters4 ~ To The People of America5 ~ Recruiting Loyalist Troops6 ~ Retribution in War7 ~ Mary Jemison RemembersCHAPTER 7 ~ Confederacy1 ~ Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States, 17822 ~ The North West Ordinance, 17873 ~ A Little Rebellion Now and Then4 ~ James Bowdoin on Shay's Rebellion5 ~ Promises to Native Americans6 ~ Defeating the Indians 7 ~ Political CartoonsCHAPTER 8 ~ A More Perfect Union1 ~ Federal Judiciary Act, 17892 ~ The Treaty of Holston, July 17913 ~ Pestilence in Philadelphia4 ~ The Education of Women5 ~ Patent for the Cotton Gin, 17946 ~ The Sedition Act7 ~ Amendment XIICHAPTER 9 ~ The Empire of Liberty and the Liberty for Empires1 ~ The Naturalization Act of 17952 ~ Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding Exploration of the West3 ~ Jefferson's Recommendation to Native Americans4 ~ The Battle of New Orleans5 ~ The Missouri Compromise6 ~ The Monroe DoctrineCHAPTER 10 ~ Pathways to Progress1 ~ Laws of Commerce: Gibbons v. Ogden2 ~ Rochester Population 1812-18653 ~ Canal Reminiscences4 ~ Charles Dickens visits Lowell, Massachusetts5 ~ Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad6 ~ The Camel CorpsCHAPTER 11 ~ Popularizing Democracy1 ~ Land Law of 18202 ~ Massachusetts High School Law, 18273 ~ John Quincy Adams Wins the Presidency4 ~ Electors for Jackson5 ~ The Great Whig Meeting6 ~ President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress "On Indian Removal," 18307 ~ South Carolina NullificationCHAPTER 12 ~ Of Power and PillarsSouthern Population, 1860A Plantation LayoutJohn Crawford RemembersFrederick Douglass AwakensJohn Floyd and Slavery in VirginiaThe Amistad and JusticeTeaching Slave Children to Read CHAPTER 13 ~ Lone and Assembled Stars1 ~ Report on Fort Atkinson2 ~ Being Young in Frontier Iowa3 ~ Whaling the World4 ~ Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 18485 ~ Sarah Sprenger Remembers Oregon, 18526 ~ The Wild West: Vigilantes in San FranciscoCHAPTER 14 ~ Purity1 ~ The Second Great Awakening2 ~ The Best Protector Any Woman Can Have3 ~ Resolutions at Seneca Falls4 ~ Anti-Colonization5 ~ The Brook-Farm Constitution6 ~ The Know-Nothing Platform, 1856CHAPTER 15 ~ Bleeding Kansas1 ~ Resolutions of the Nashville Convention2 ~ Organizing the Territories3 ~ Bleeding Kansas4 ~ In Defense of Honor5 ~ Dred Scott's Case6 ~ John Brown's Final Address to the CourtCHAPTER 16 ~ His Terrible Swift Sword - the Civil War1 ~ Declaration of Causes2 ~ A Dairy from Dixie3 ~ Lincoln's Orders4 ~ New Jersey Recruitment Poster5 ~ General Uuysses S. Grant to President Abraham Lincoln6 ~ The Battle Hymn of the Republic7 ~ Robert E. Lee, General Order, No. 9
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v. 2 ISBN 9780072840193
Description
This is an affordable two-volume anthology for introductory American history courses in which instructors use primary source materials to supplement the main textbook. A balanced collection, it features readings from a variety of fields of history, including economic, political, cultural, and social. Each volume contains approximately 75 pieces, including traditional political treatises, songs, diaries, orations and speeches, and journals. Chapter introductions accompany the selections.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 16 ~ His Terrible Swift Sword - The Civil War1 ~ Declaration of Causes2 ~ A Diary from Dixie3 ~ Lincoln's Orders4 ~ New Jersey Recruitment Poster5 ~ General Ulysses S. Grant to President Abraham Lincoln6 ~ The Battle Hymn of the Republic7 ~ Robert E. Lee, General Order, No. 9Chapter 17 ~ Binding the Wounds1 ~ Letter from General William T. Sherman2 ~ The Statutes at Large of the United States of America3 ~ Amendment XIV4 ~ Rufus Saxton, Testimony Before Congress, 18665 ~ Henry W. Grady, His Life, Writings, and Speeches6 ~ Testimony of Benjamin SingletonChapter 18 ~ Rising Phoenix
- Dying Thunderbird1 ~ Letter from Uriah W. Oblnger to Matie V. Oblinger and Ella Oblinger2 ~ Frank Collinson, Life in the Saddle3 ~ The Trial of Standing Bear4 ~ The Dawes Severalty Act: An Indian Homestead Act5 ~ Ida B. Wells on Lynching6 ~ The Conquest of the Philippines by the United StatesChapter 19 ~ The Goose That Lays Golden Eggs1 ~ Songs of Work2 ~ Occupational Distribution, 1880 and 19203 ~ Acres of Diamonds4 ~ A Railroad Timetable5 ~ The Appeal to Reason6 ~ Frederick Winslow Taylor on the Principles of Scientific Management7 ~ Edward Bellamy, Looking BackwardChapter 20 ~ Urban Canyons1 ~ Photograph of the Flatiron Building2 ~ Growth of New Orleans to 19003 ~ "I Seen My Opportunities and I Took 'Em," George W. Plunkitt4 ~ Lincoln Steffins, The Shame of the Cities5 ~ Cartoons of Thomas Nast6 ~ Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives7 ~ Charles Monroe Sheldon, In His StepsChapter 21 ~ More Hell and Less Corn1 ~ Frank Norris, The Pit2 ~ Mary E. Lease, "The Bloodhounds of Money"3 ~ "Good-bye, My Part, Good-bye"4 ~ "You Can't Come In"5 ~ Interstate Commerce Act6 ~ William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" SpeechChapter 22 ~ Social Engineers1 ~ Mary C. Todd: "Education of Indian Girls in the West"2 ~ Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House3 ~ Laws Affecting Women and Children in the Suffrage and Non-Suffrage States4 ~ The Bureau of Corporations, 19035 ~ Establishment of Standard Time6 ~ Sixteenth Amendment7 ~ Seventeenth Amendment8 ~ John Muir, The Endangered Valley--The Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National ParkChapter 23 ~ Unilateralism among Friends1 ~ The Council of National Defense2 ~ Woodrow Wilson's War Message3 ~ George Creel, How We Advertised America4 ~ Mirian E. Tefft, Recollections as 15 Year-old Girl in Bisbee Arizona5 ~ Mathew Chopin, "Through the Valley of Death"6 ~ Letter on Negro Soldiers7 ~ Ida Clyde Clarke, American Women and the World WarChapter 24 ~ The Tribal Twenties1 ~ Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., My Years With General Motors2 ~ Robert S. Lynd & Helen Merrell Lynd, Middletown3 ~ J.A. Evans, "Extension Work Among Negroes Conducted by Negro Agents, 1923"4 ~ The Indian Citizenship Act (1924)5 ~ Immigration by the Numbers6 ~ Malcolm Crowley, Exile's Return: A NarrativeChapter 25 ~ Restoring the Temple1 ~ Herbert Hoover's Inaugural Address2 ~ Radio Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 7, 19333 ~ Letters from the "Forgotten Man"4 ~ Photograph from Let us Now Praise Famous Men5 ~ Woodie Guthrie's "Tom Joad"6 ~ A Battle in San Francisco7 ~ Eleanor Roosevelt,A Letter on LynchingChapter 26 ~ American Money, American Guns, and Russian Blood1 ~ The Atlantic Charter2 ~ Executive Order No. 90663 ~ E.B. White, The Meaning of Democracy4 ~ A Tuskegee Airman Remembers5 ~ William Menchester, Goodbye, Darkness6 ~ Poems about HiroshimaChapter 27: Organizational Men and Governments1 ~ The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 19442 ~ Arthur Miller, "All My Sons"3 ~ New York State Anti-Discrimination Act, March 12, 19454 ~ Marilyn R. Allen, Alien Minorities and Mongrelization5 ~ Ferdinand Lundberg and Marynia F. Farnham, Modern Women: The Lost Sex6 ~ Harry S. Truman Remembers the Beginning of the Korean War7 ~ Joseph McCarthy's Speech at Wheeling, W. Virginia, 1950Chapter 28 ~ Redeeming Promissory Notes1 ~ Myrlie Evers Remembers2 ~ Declaration of Indian Purpose3 ~ The Voting Rights Act of 19654 ~ South Boston High School5 ~ Missing Emmett6 ~ A Christmas Letter of HopeChapter 29 ~ Hubris1 ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Ponders Involvement in Vietnam2 ~ John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address3 ~ John F. Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis Speech4 ~ Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" Program5 ~ Port Huron Statement6 ~ "Ballad of Joe Hill"7 ~ Manifesto Addressed to the President of the United States from the Youth of AmericaChapter 30 ~ Crisis Confidence1 ~ Two Photographs: Vietnam and Kent State2 ~ Richard M. Nixon, "Peace with Honor"3 ~ Richard Nixon's Resignation4 ~ Gerald R. Ford, "Withdrawal from Vietnam"5 ~ Gerald R. Ford, Proclamation 4417: An American Promise6 ~ Death of Elvis Presley7 ~ Three Mile Island8 ~ Jimmy Carter's "Malaise" SpeechChapter 31 ~ Standing Tall1 ~ Hostile Takeovers2 ~ Reaganite Culture3 ~ George Bush, Breaking Down the Berlin Wall4 ~ Contract with America5 ~ Elinor Burkett, America in the Age of AIDS6 ~ Native American Ironic HumorChapter 32 ~ Rainbows and Webs1 ~ The Early Days of ARPANET2 ~ Native American Casinos3 ~ C.P. Ellis, Race: The American Obsession4 ~ Fighting Hate5 ~ Women's Reproductive Rights6 ~ Truth in Accounting7 ~ Fatal College Daze
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