Steven Hahn

Sources for Forging America Volume One

A Continental History of the United States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 226mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780197657072
• ISBN-10: 0197657079
• Artikelnr.: 68271649

Autorenporträt

Alexandra E. Stern is Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century American History at The City College of New York. Stefan Lund is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

* How to Read a Primary Source
* Chapter 1. Beginnings to 1519
* 1.1 The Splendors of Hangzhou, China (c. 1235)
* 1.2 Hopi Origin Story: The Emergence (n.d.)
* 1.3 Christopher Columbus, Letter to Luis de St. Angel on His First
Voyage (1493)
* 1.4 King Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I), Excerpts from Letters to the King
of Portugal (1526)
* 1.5 Visual Source: The Sigüenza Map (c. 1500)
* 1.6 Visual Source: Benin Plaque of the Oba with Europeans (c. 1500s)
* Chapter 2. Contact Zones, 1450-1600
* 2.1 An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (1520)
* 2.2 Giovanni da Verrazzano, Excerpts from Letter to King Francis I of
France (1524)
* 2.3 Michel de Montaigne, Excerpt from "On Cannibals" (c. 1580)
* 2.4 Tomás de Mercado, A Critique of the Slave Trade (1587)
* 2.5 Visual Source: Lázaro Luís, Portuguese Map of West Africa (1563)
* 2.6 Visual Source: Aztec Drawing of Smallpox Progression (1500s)
* Chapter 3. Settler Colonies and Imperial Rivalries, 1585-1681
* 3.1 Richard Frethorne, Experiences of an Indentured Servant in
Virginia (1623)
* 3.2 John Winthrop, "The Wicked Capitalism of Robert Keayne" (1639)
* 3.3 The Flushing Remonstrance (1657)
* 3.4 Chrestien Le Clercq, A Mi'kmaq Response to European Criticism
(1676)
* 3.5 Visual Source: John White, Indian in Body Paint (c. 1585-1586)
and Pictish Warrior (c. 1585-1593)
* 3.6 Visual Source: Enslaved Black People Working in a Sugar Mill in
Hispaniola (1590)
* Chapter 4. Colonial Convulsions and Rebellions, 1640-1700
* 4.1 John Easton, Metacom Relates Native Complaints about the English
Settlers (1675)
* 4.2 Nathaniel Bacon, "Declaration in the Name of the People" (1676)
* 4.3 Pedro Naranjo, Reasons for the Pueblo Revolt (1680)
* 4.4 Ann Putnam, Confession (1706)
* 4.5 Visual Source: Murderous Attack on the Pequot Fort by English
Settlers (1638)
* 4.6 Visual Source: Herman Moll, A View of ye Industry of ye Beavers
of Canada (1715)
* Chapter 5. Colonial Societies and Contentious Empires, 1625-1786
* 5.1 Documents from Court Cases Involving the Johnson Family
(1645-1663)
* 5.2 Excerpts from Louisiana's Code Noir (1724)
* 5.3 Gottlieb Mittelberger, Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750
(published in English in 1898)
* 5.4 George Cato, Oral History of the Stono Rebellion, WPA Narrative
(1937)
* 5.5 Visual Source: Three Villages Robe (c. 1740)
* 5.6 Visual Source: John Greenwood, Portrait of Ann Arnold (aka
"Jersey Nanny") (1748)
* Chapter 6. Global War and American Independence, 1750-1776
* 6.1 Delawares Discuss the French and Indian War (1758)
* 6.2 King George III, Royal Proclamation (1763)
* 6.3 Response to Lord Dunmore's Proclamation in The Virginia Gazette
(1775)
* 6.4 Mary Jemison, "Remembering the American Revolution in Indian
Country" (1775-1777)
* 6.5 Visual Source: Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe (1770)
* 6.6 Visual Source: Paul Revere, The Able Doctor, or America
Swallowing the Bitter Draught (1774)
* Chapter 7. A Political Revolution, 1776-1791
* 7.1 Rev. Myles Cooper, Excerpts from The Patriots of North-America: A
Sketch (1775)
* 7.2 The Sentiments of an American Woman (1780)
* 7.3 The Chickasaw Send a Message of Conciliation to Congress (1783)
* 7.4 James Madison, Excerpts from "Vices of the Political System of
the United States" (1787)
* 7.5 Visual Source: Jean-Baptiste-Antoine DeVerger, American Soldiers
at the Siege of Yorktown (1781)
* 7.6 Visual Source: Edward Savage, The Washington Family (1789-1796)
* Chapter 8. Securing a Republic, Imagining an Empire, 1789-1815
* 8.1 James Madison, Federalist No. 10 (1787)
* 8.2 Benjamin Rush, "Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic"
(1798)
* 8.3 Rebel's Statement from Gabriel's Conspiracy (1800)
* 8.4 Tecumseh, Speech to Governor Harrison at Vincennes (1810)
* 8.5 Visual Source: Monticello's Entrance Hall (completed in 1809)
* 8.6 Visual Source: A Scene on the Frontiers as Practiced by the
'Humane' British and Their 'Worthy' Allies (1812)
* Chapter 9. Expansion and Its Discontents, 1815-1836
* 9.1 Henry Clay, Excerpts from "On American Industry" (1824)
* 9.2 The Liberator, Excerpts from "A Voice from New-York!" and "A
Voice from Providence!" (1831)
* 9.3 George W. Harkins, "Farwell to the American People" (1832)
* 9.4 Harriet Hanson Robinson, Excerpt from a Description of the 1836
Strike in Loom and Spindle, or, Life Among the Early Mill Girls
(1898)
* 9.5 Visual Source: John Sartain after George Caleb Bingham, The
County Election (1854)
* 9.6 Visual Source: Poster Opposing a New Railroad between
Philadelphia and New York (1839)
* Chapter 10. Social Reform and the New Politics of Slavery, 1820-1840
* 10.1 John C. Calhoun, Excerpts from South Carolina Exposition and
Protest (1828)
* 10.2 Harriet Jacobs, White Residents of Edenton, NC, Respond to News
of Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831, published 1861)
* 10.3 New-York Female Moral Reform Society, Excerpts from "Appeal to
Women to Take Part in Moral Reform" (1836)
* 10.4 Frederick Douglass, "Colonization" (1849)
* 10.5 Visual Source: Childs and Inman, Intemperance and Temperance
(1831)
* 10.6 Visual Source: Endicott and Swett, Nullification... Despotism
(1833)
* Chapter 11. Warring for the Pacific, 1836-1848
* 11.1 John L. O'Sullivan, Excerpt from "The Great Nation of Futurity"
(1839)
* 11.2 Telegraph and Texas Register, "Untitled" (1836)
* 11.3 José María Flores, Address to the Mexican Army, Angeles Section
of Operations (1846)
* 11.4 William Elsey Connelley, Excerpt from Doniphan's Expedition and
the Conquest of New Mexico and California (1847)
* 11.5 Visual Source: H. Bucholzer, Matty Meeting the Texas Question
(1844)
* 11.6 Visual Source: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, Westward the Course of
Empire Takes Its Way (1862)
* Chapter 12. Coming Apart, 1848-1857
* 12.1 Mary E. Blanchard, Letter to Benjamin Seaver Describing the
Tumultuous Scene in Boston During the Trial and Return to Slavery of
Anthony Burns (1854)
* 12.2 Examiner's Questions for Admittance to the American (or
Know-Nothing) Party (1854)
* 12.3 W. F. Brannin, "Nicaragua National Song" (1856)
* 12.4 Mahala Doyle, Letter to John Brown (1859)
* 12.5 Visual Source: William C. Reynolds, Political Map of the United
States, Designed to Exhibit the Comparative Area of the Free and
Slave States (1856)
* 12.6 Visual Source: John Magee, Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a
Free Soiler (1856)
* Chapter 13. A Slaveholders' Rebellion, 1856-1861
* 13.1 National Republican Platform (1860)
* 13.2 Frances Ellen Watkins, "A Free Black Woman Writes to Imprisoned
John Brown" (1859)
* 13.3 Alexander Stephens, Excerpts from "Cornerstone Speech" (1861)
* 13.4 Arizona Territory Ordinance of Secession (1861)
* 13.5 Visual Source: Distribution of the Enslaved Population of the
Southern States of the United States (1860)
* 13.6 Visual Source: Pot Holder: "Any Holder But a Slave Holder" (c.
1860s)
* Chapter 14. The Wars of the Rebellion, 1861-1863
* 14.1 Edwin V. Sumner, Letter to Hon. Simon Cameron (1861)
* 14.2 Frederick Douglass, "How to End the War" (1861)
* 14.3 New York World, Draft Riot (1863)
* 14.4 Spottswood Rice, Letter to Slaveholder Kitty Diggs (1864)
* 14.5 Visual Source: The News from Minnesota (1862)
* 14.6 Visual Source: Sowing and Reaping (1863)
* Chapter 15. Ending the War and (Re)Constructing the Nation, 1863-1865
* 15.1 Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
(1863)
* 15.2 Nancy Johnson, Testimony by a Georgia Freedwoman about How Union
Troops Stole Her Property (1873)
* 15.3 Excerpt from the Virginia Black Codes (1866)
* 15.4 Visual Source: Battleground Ruins in Charleston, SC (c.
1860-1865)
* 15.5 Visual Source: Thomas Nast, Pardon and Franchise (1865)
* Chapter 16. The Promise and Limites of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
* 16.1 Thaddeus Stevens, Speech to Congress (1867)
* 16.2 Testimony of Mervin Givens to Congress about Ku Klux Klan
Activity in South Carolina (1871)
* 16.3 Visual Source: Distinguished Members, Reconstructed Constitution
of Louisiana (1868)
* 16.4 Visual Source: Philadelphia Mayoral Election Poster on Racial
Segregation on Public Transit (1868)
* 16.5 Visual Source: Thomas Nast, Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner
(1869)