Using primary and secondary source material and numerous photographs and illustrations, The American Record presents history through a broad perspective. Blending the traditional approach to American history (centered on politics, economics, diplomacy, and war) with the modern approach (including histories of women and children, people of color, and the poor and economically marginal), it offers a version of our national past that is inclusive, complex, and dynamic. Volume 1 covers the span from the European conquest of America through Reconstruction; Volume 2 covers Reconstruction to the present.
Using primary and secondary source material and numerous photographs and illustrations, The American Record presents history through a broad perspective. Blending the traditional approach to American history (centered on politics, economics, diplomacy, and war) with the modern approach (including histories of women and children, people of color, and the poor and economically marginal), it offers a version of our national past that is inclusive, complex, and dynamic. Volume 1 covers the span from the European conquest of America through Reconstruction; Volume 2 covers Reconstruction to the present.
Volume One: 1: The European Conquest of America
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Indians New World, James H. Merrell
SOURCES
The Indians as Seen by European Artists
Illustrations: John Whites Engraving of Indians Making a Canoe near Roanoke, 1588; A Settlement of Virginia Indians; Florida Battle Scene, 1564
Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
ON THE WEB: John Whites Engravings of Virginia Indians
More about The Aztecs
Race War: The New England Experience
King Philips War: A Contemporary Account
Defeat of King Philip: Increase Mathers Account
Cultural, Gender, And Historical Implications of King Philips War
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2: Jamestown INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Labor Problem at Jamestown, 1607–1618, Edmund S. Morgan
ON THE WEB: Jamestown and The Efforts To “Rediscover” It
SOURCES
Jamestown: The Physical Setting Illustrations of Jamestown
Voices: Life and Death in Virginia: Richard Frethornes Account, 1623
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ON THE WEB: A Virtual Tour of Jamestown
3: Puritan Order
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
Anne Marbury Hutchinson: The Great and Sore Affliction, Willard Sterne Randall and Nancy Nahra
ON THE WEB: A Transcript of Anne Hutchinsons Trial
SOURCES
The New England Primer, 1690
Illustrations: The New England Primer
Harvard, 1636–1642 From “New Englands First Fruits,” 1643
Three Early New England Portraits Illustrations: Henry Gibbs; Thomas Smiths Self-Portrait; Ann Pollard
The Spiritual Journey of Anne Bradstreet Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning by Anne Bradstreet
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ON THE WEB: Discussion of the Legacy of the Puritans
4: The Have-Nots in Colonial Society
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Origin and Consolidation of Unfree Labor, Peter Kolchin
ON THE WEB:17th Century Laws Enacted to Secure Shift from Indentured Servitude to Slavery
SOURCES
Portraits of Poverty
Illustrations: Hogarth Engraving; an Elizabethan Beggar
Voices: The Experience of Bondage: Gottlieb Mittelbergers Account, 1754
ON THE WEB: Virginia Colony Laws Enacted To Control Indentured Servants
Wanted: Runaway Servants
Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Advertisements for Runaway Servants
Portraits of Slavery
Illustrations: Slaves on the Bark Wildfire; Slaves on the West Coast of Africa; Engraving by Alexander Anderson; Shock of Enslavement; Diagram of the Slave Ship La Vigilante de Nantes; Standard Equipment for the Middle Passage; Advertisement in a Charleston, South Carolina, Newspaper, 1766
Wanted: Runaway Slaves
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Advertisements for Runaway Slaves
ON THE WEB: Experience Of The “Middle Passage”
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5: The American Revolution
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Shoemaker and the Revolution, Alfred F. Young
SOURCES
George III
Illustrations: Woodcut of George III; Pulling Down the Statue of George III
Common Sense, 1776 Thomas Paine
Silencing the Tories
Illustration: A London Cartoon
Voices: Letter from Ann Hulton to Mrs. Lightbody, 1774
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ON THE WEB: Virtual Marching Tour of the Philadelphia Campaign (1777)
6: Creating the Constitution
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Framers and the People , Alfred F. Young
ON THE WEB: The Constitution and the First Ten Amendments
SOURCES
Ratification Table:
Order of Ratification; Map: Voting for Ratification
Debates: The Virginia Debates
The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Edited by Jonathan Elliott
ON THE WEB: Debates Surrounding the Adoption of the Constitution
The Meaning of the Slave Trade Provision
Arguments of Charles Coatesworth Pinckney and James Wilson
ON THE WEB: The United States Constitution and the International Slave Trade
Designing the Nations Capitol
Illustrations: Capitol Building Designs Submitted by Samuel Dobie, Charles Wintersmith, Etienne Hallet, James Diamond, and William Thornton; Portrait of William Thornton
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7: Federalists and Republicans
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Hamiltonian Miracle, John Steele Gordon
Illustration: Alexander Hamilton Engraving
SOURCES The Fight Begins
Truth Versus Treason
Illustrations: Federalist Depiction of Washington Putting Down the Whiskey Rebellion; Republican Handbills, 1804 and 1807
Roughhouse Politics
Illustration: Cartoon Lampooning Lyon-Griswold Brawl
Affairs of Honor
ON THE WEB: More about the Federalist Era
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8: The Transformation of Northern Society
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
Civilizing the Machine, John F. Kasson
SOURCES
Lowell, as It Was and as It Is, 1845, Henry A. Miles
ON THE WEB: More about the “Birthplace” of Industry
Portraits of Industrialism
Illustrations: View of Lowell, Massachusetts; Title Page of the Lowell Offering; Engraving by Winslow Homer Depicting Textile
Workers of Lawrence, Massachusetts; Striking Women and Local Militia
ON THE WEB : Additional Portraits of Industrialism at the Lowell Mills
THE BIG PICTURE 9: Jacksonian Democracy
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Hunger for Indian Land in Andrew Jacksons America, Anthony F. C. Wallace
ON THE WEB: Removal of the Cherokee and the Trail of Tears
SOURCES
The Election of Jackson
Map: Results of the 1828 Presidential Election
ON THE WEB: The Life and Presidency of Andrew Jackson
Removal of Eastern Tribes
Illustration: Expulsion of Eastern Tribes
The Anti-Jacksonians
Illustrations: Anti-Jackson Cartoon and Broadside
“King Andrew”
Illustrations: Anti-Jackson Cartoons
The Art of Democratic Politics, Davy Crockett
The Election of 1840
Illustration: Painting Depicting Harrison Campaign
ON THE WEB: Map of the Results of the Election of 1840
Rally for William Henry Harrison in St. Louis, Missouri, as Reported by the St. Louis New Era
The Artists View of Politics, George Caleb Bingham
Illustrations: Canvassing for a Vote; County Election; Verdict of the People; Stump Speaking
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10: Antislavery
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Commitment to Immediate Emancipation, James Brewer Stewart
ON THE WEB: Abolition and the Movement for Colonization In Liberia
SOURCES
Commission to Theodore Dwight Weld, 1834
From Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimké Weld, and Sarah Grimké, 1822–1844, Edited by Gilbert H. Barnes and Dwight L. Dumond
The Anti-Slavery Record, 1835–1836
Illustrations: Images from the Front Page of the Anti-Slavery Record
ON THE WEB: The American Anti-Slavery Society and its Efforts to End Slavery
“Fathers and Rulers” Petition
From Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Gimké Weld, and Sarah Grimké, 1822–1844, Edited by Gilbert H. Barnes and Dwight L. Dumond
Slavery as It Is, 1839, Theodore Dwight Weld
ON THE WEB: Slavery as It Is in its entirety
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11: Westward Expansion
Map: Overland Routes to California
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The World Rushed In, J. S. Holliday SOURCES
Two Views of the West
Illustrations: Manifest Destiny, John Gast; 1849 Cartoon Spoofing the Wild Rush to Get to California; 1849; Cartoon of a Greenhorn Setting Off for the Gold Fields; Another Greenhorn Going West; The True Value of California Gold; California Justice Poker Flat and Points West
Map: The California Gold Fields Showing Some of the More Important Mining Camps, c. 1850
Voices: The Other Side of the Story
Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
Illustration: Sarah Winnemucca, Nevada Historical Society.
ON THE WEB: “Experience” the Gold Rush for Yourself
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12: Sectional Conflict
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
The Quest for Room, William L. Barney
Map: Westward Expansion
ON THE WEB: What Notable Historians Have Had To Say about Westward Expansion And Slavery
SOURCES
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
Map: The United States, 1854
ON THE WEB: Congressional Debates on The Compromise of 1850 and Other Issues
Two Portraits of the West
Illustrations: Cartoon from Punch Magazine; Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Free-Soiler
ON THE WEB: Newspaper Editorials Addressing the Kansas-Nebraska Act And Other Issues
Debates: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
From Political Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois
Illustrations: Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas; Abraham Lincoln in 1858
ON THE WEB: Full Text of The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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13: The Civil War
Map: The Union Disintegrates; Table: Deaths in the Civil War and Other Wars
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
A Band of Brothers James M. McPherson
ON THE WEB: Collections of American Civil War Soldiers Diaries and Letters
SOURCES
The Photographers War
Illustrations: Abraham Lincoln, 1860 and 1865; Civil War Dead; Private Edwin Francis Jennison; The 107th U.S. Colored Infantry; Powder Monkey, USS New Hampshire; Ruins of Charleston, South Carolina, 1865; Union Dead; Union Wounded; The Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Depot, 1865; Richmond, Virginia, at Wars End; Freedmen in Richmond, Virginia; John Wilkes Booths Accomplices
ON THE WEB: Additional Photographs from the Civil War
Shermans March Through Georgia, David P. Conyngham
ON THE WEB: The Civil Wars Impact on the Southern Homefront
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14: Reconstruction
INTERPRETIVE ESSAY
Promised Land, Elizabeth Rauh Bethel
ON THE WEB: The Experience of Reconstruction after the Civil War
SOURCES
Voices: The Meaning of Freedom
Letter from Jourdon Anderson to his former master, from The Freedmens Book, Edited by Lydia Maria Child, 1865
The Cartoonists View of Reconstruction
Illustrations: Ten Political Cartoons by Thomas Nast, 1865–1876
ON THE WEB: Thomas Nast and His Political Cartoons Relative to Reconstruction
The South Redeemed
Map: The Barrow Plantation, 1860 and 1880
ON THE WEB: Frederick Douglasss Perception of Reconstruction
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