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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. |
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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 White?s 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 White?s Engravings of Virginia Indians More about The Aztecs Race War: The New England Experience King Philip?s War: A Contemporary Account Defeat of King Philip: Increase Mather?s Account Cultural, Gender, And Historical Implications of King Philip?s War THE BIG PICTURE 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 Frethorne?s Account, 1623 THE BIG PICTURE 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 Hutchinson?s Trial SOURCES The New England Primer, 1690 Illustrations: The New England Primer Harvard, 1636?1642 From ?New England?s First Fruits,? 1643 Three Early New England Portraits Illustrations: Henry Gibbs; Thomas Smith?s Self-Portrait; Ann Pollard The Spiritual Journey of Anne Bradstreet Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning by Anne Bradstreet THE BIG PICTURE 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 Mittelberger?s 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? THE BIG PICTURE 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 THE BIG PICTURE 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 Nation?s Capitol Illustrations: Capitol Building Designs Submitted by Samuel Dobie, Charles Wintersmith, Etienne Hallet, James Diamond, and William Thornton; Portrait of William Thornton THE BIG PICTURE 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 THE BIG PICTURE 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 Jackson?s 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 Artist?s View of Politics, George Caleb Bingham Illustrations: Canvassing for a Vote; County Election; Verdict of the People; Stump Speaking THE BIG PICTURE 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 Grimke Weld, and Sarah Grimke, 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 Gimke Weld, and Sarah Grimke, 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 THE BIG PICTURE 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 THE BIG PICTURE 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 THE BIG PICTURE 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 War?s End; Freedmen in Richmond, Virginia; John Wilkes Booth?s Accomplices ON THE WEB: Additional Photographs from the Civil War Sherman?s March Through Georgia, David P. Conyngham ON THE WEB: The Civil War?s Impact on the Southern Homefront THE BIG PICTURE 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 Freedmen?s Book, Edited by Lydia Maria Child, 1865 The Cartoonist?s 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 Douglass?s Perception of Reconstruction THE BIG PICTURE |
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ISBN: 0072949597 Author(s): GRAEBNER |
