√  Indicates required reading

1 - Ancient America

 

2 - New World Encounters

Christopher Columbus - Extracts from Journal - 1492

A Slave Trader Describes the Atlantic Passage

√ Alexander Falconbridge's account of the slave trade

3 -The English Colonial Experience

Dutch Minister Describes the Iroquois (1644)

The Old Deluder Act (1647)

√ Virtual Jamestown - Laws and Documents relating to religion in early Virginia

4 - The Coming of the American Revolution

Abigail Adams To John Adams - 31 Mar 1776

Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of taking up Arms

John Dickinson - Letters from a farmer II

John Dickinson - Letters from a farmer IV

Pitt's speech on the Stamp Act

√ The Greatest Question Ever Decided Among Men

5 - The War of Independence and the Constitution

√ A Biography of Benjamin Franklin

Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775

SLAVERY UNDER THE CONSTITUTION

6 - The New Republic

√ Neutrality Proclamation (1793)

7 - The Age of Jefferson

Presidents Thomas Jefferson First inaugural address

√ President Thomas Jefferson On Slavery

Tecumseh's Speech at Vincennes

8 - The Era of Jackson and Reform

√ USA Jackson Bank Veto Message, July 10, 1832

9 - Slavery and the Antebellum South

√ Biographies Frederick Douglass - A General Survey of the Slave Plantation

Biographies Frederick Douglass - A Slaveholders Character

Fitzhugh (1806-1881), Sociology for the South (1854)

10 - The Reform Impulse

√ The Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)

11 - The Impending Crisis

The Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

√ Excerpt of Speech of Alexander Stephens to the Virginia Secession Commission

12 - The American Civil War

√ The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

√ The Gettysburg Address

13 - Reconstruction

√ Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction (1866)

√ The Fourteenth Amendment

14 - New South and Last Frontier

√ Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

√ HELEN HUNT JACKSON

15 - The Gilded Age

√ Populist Party Platform (1892)

16 - American Imperialism

√ Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden (1899)

17 - Progressivism

√ Theodore Roosevelt - Inaugural Address (1905)

 18 - America and the Great War

√ Wilfred Owen - Dulce Et Decorum Est

19 - The Great Depression and the new Deal

√ Down and Out in the Great Depression

20 - America in a World at War

√ Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Pear Harbor Speech (1941)

21 - The Cold War

√ The My Lai Incident

22 - The Civil Rights Movement

√ Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

23 - Contemporary America

√ Ronald Reagan: Evil Empire Speech (1982)

√ September 11th and the Aftermath