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Chapter 1
Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh
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Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, "Indians of the Rio Grande"
Bartolomè de Las Casas, "Of the Island of Hispaniola" (1542)
Christopher Columbus, Letter to Luis de Sant' Angel (1493)
Dekanawida Myth & the Achievement of Iroquois Unity
From The Journal of Christopher Columbus (1492)
Henry VII, Letters of Patent Granted to John Cabot
Jacques Cartier: First Contact with the Indians (1534)
James I of England, “A Counterblaste to Tobacco.”
John White, Letter to Richard Hakluyt (1590)
Jose de Acosta, Speculations on the Origins of the Indians
Ottawa Origins Story (recorded ca. 1720)
Privileges and Prerogatives Granted to Christopher Columbus
Thomas Hariot, On Tabacco (1588)
Thomas Hariot, The Algonquian Peoples of the Atlantic Coast
Chapter 2
Agreement Between the Settlers at New Plymouth (Mayflower Compact)
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The Cambridge Agreement
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Anne Bradstreet, Before the Birth of One of Her Children
Captain John Smith to Queen Anne (1617)
Captain John Smith to the Virginia Company (1624)
Conversion Narrative of “Old Goodwife Cutter”
Don Juan de Oñate, Letter from New Mexico to the Viceroy
George Alsop, from "A Character of the Province of Maryland"
Jacques Cartier on Meeting the Micmac Indians (1534)
John Smith, "The Starving Time" (1624)
Micmac Chief’s Observations of the French (1691)
Remarks by Chief Powhatan to John Smith (ca. 1609)
Runaway Indentured Servants (1640)
The Cambridge Agreement (1629)
The Charter of Maryland (1632)
The Third Charter of Virginia (1612)
Thomas Mun, "England's Treasure by Foreign Trade" (1664)
William Bradford, from History of Plymouth Plantation
Chapter 3
Navigation Acts
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Ann Putnam's Confession (1706)
Ann Putnam's Deposition (1692)
Benjamin Wadsworth, from A Well-Ordered Family (1712)
Church record of a marriage conflict, Brooklyn (1663)
Declaration against the Proceedings of Nathaniel Bacon (1676)
Father Isaac Jogues, Description of New York (1646)
Laws of Virginia (1661, 1662, 1691, 1705)
Legal statement by Pedro Hidalgo, soldier, Santa Fe 1680
Madam Knight on a Journey from Boston to New-York (1704)
Nathaniel Bacon's Declaration (July 30, 1676)
Onandogas and Cayugas, Two Iroquois Chiefs (1684)
Testimony by Pedro Naranjo to Spanish authorities (1681)
The Conclusions of the Massachusetts Bay Elders (1695)
The Examination and Confession of Ann Foster at Salem
The Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges (October 28, 1701)
Trial of Elizabeth Clawson, Stamford, Connecticut (1692)
Trial Testimony, Accomack, Virginia (1679)
Virginia Law on Indentured Servitude (1705)
William Penn to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders
William Penn, "Model for Government" (1681)
William Penn, Description of Pennsylvania (1681)
Chapter 4
James Oglethorpe to The Trustees
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Alexander Falconbridge, The African Slave Trade (1788)
James Oglethorpe, "Establishing the Colony of Georgia" (1733)
James Oglethorpe, The Stono Rebellion (1739)
Of the Servants and Slaves in Virginia (1705)
Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage (1788)
Chapter 5
Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
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Albany Plan of Union
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Benjamin Franklin on George Whitefield (1771)
Declaration of the Injured Frontier Inhabitants [of Pennsylvania]
Elizabeth Sprigs, Letter to Her Father (1756)
Franklin, "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind"
Gottlieb Mittelberger, The Passage of Indentured Servants
Jonathan Edwards, "Some Thoughts" (1742)
Richard Frethorne, Letter to His Parents (1623)
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
Wessell Webling, His Indenture (1622)
Chapter 6
Magna Carta
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Address of the Inhabitants of Anson County to Governor Martin
Benjamin Franklin, Testimony Against the Stamp Act (1766)
Boston Gazette Description of the Boston Massacre (1770)
John Andrews to William Barrell, Boston Tea Party (1773)
John Dickinson, from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
Legal inventory of Benjamin Curtis’s Household (1773)
Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved
Patrick Henry, "Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death" (1775)
Proclamation of Gov. Thomas Gage (June 12, 1775)
The Virginia Nonimportation Resolutions (1769)
Chapter 7
"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine
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Adams Family Letter (March, April, May 1776)
John Adams to Abigail Adams (July 3, 1776)
John Adams, Thoughts on Government (1776)
Joseph Warren, "Account of the Battle of Lexington" (1775)
Letter from a Revolutionary War Soldier
Proclamation of Lord Dunmore (November 14, 1775)
Slave Petition to the General Assembly in Connecticut
Slave Petition to the Massachusetts House of Representatives
The Articles of Confederation (1777)
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
The New Jersey Constitution of 1776
Thomas Jefferson, "Original Rough Draft" of the Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Alliance with France
Virginia Constitution, not including the Bill of Rights (1776)
Chapter 8
Federalist Number 51 (February 6, 1788)
George Washington to Robert Morris, April 12, 1786
George Washington, The Newburgh Address (1783)
James Madison Defends the Constitution (1788)
James Madison Speech in Defense of the Bill of Rights
James Madison, The Virginia (or Randolph) Plan (1787)
Marquis de Chastellux, Travels in North America (1786)
Military Reports on Shays's Rebellion (1787)
Northwest Ordinance (July 13, 1787)
Patrick Henry Against Ratification of the Constitution (1788)
Publius (James Madison), Federalist Paper #10 (1788)
The United States Constitution (1789)
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1787)
Chapter 9
Report on Manufactures - excerpts - (1791)
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The Jay Treaty
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Alexander Hamilton, "Bank" (1791)
Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791)
George Washington, Farewell Address (1796)
Jefferson’s Confidential Message to Congress (1803)
Letter describing the celebration at Rutland, Vermont (1791)
Margaret Mayard Smith, Reflections Upon Meeting Jefferson
Memoirs of a Monticello Slave" (1847)
Molly Wallace, Valedictory Address (1792)
Opinion of the Supreme Court for Marbury v. Madison (1803)
President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech
Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)
The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
The Treaty of Grenville (1794)
The Treaty of San Lorenzo (or Pinckney's Treaty) (1796)
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798, 1799)
Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis (1803)
Washington, Proclamation Regarding the Whiskey Rebellion
Chapter 10
"The Star-Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key
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Special Message on the Burr Conspiracy
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Ames Republican (re: LA Purchase) 1804
Charles W. Janson, The Stranger in America (1807)
Dolley Payne Madison to Lucy Payne Todd (August 23, 1814)
Hodgdon Family Letters Regarding Life in the Mills (1840)
James Madison, First Inaugural Address (1809)
Lewis and Clark Meet the Shoshone (17 August 1805)
Pennsylvania Gazette, "Indian hostilities" (1812)
State [North Carolina] v. Boon (1801)
The Harbinger, "Female Workers at Lowell" (1836)
Chapter 11
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
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"Old Ironsides" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
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Proclamation Regarding Nullification
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An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection Among a Portion of the Blacks of this City
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Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress (1829)
Andrew Jackson, Second Annual Message to Congress (1830)
Andrew Jackson, Veto of the Bank Bill (1832)
Ballad of General Jackson and the Six Militia Men (1827)
Black Hawk, from "The Life of Black Hawk" (1833)
Charles Finney, Lecture to Converts
Charles G. Finney, "What a Revival of Religion Is" (1835)
Davy Crockett, Advice to Politicians (1833)
John Quincy Adams, Inaugural Address (1825)
Joshua and Sally Wilson Letters to George Wilson (1823)
Lyman Beecher, "Six Sermons on Intemperance" (1828)
Mathew Carey, Rules for Husbands and Wives (1830)
Memorial of the Cherokee Nation (1830)
Michel Chevalier, Society, Manners, and Politics in the U.S.
Missouri Enabling Act (6 March 1820)
Nat Turner, The Confession of Nat Turner (1831)
Opinion of the Supreme Court for Martin v. Hunter's Lessee
Opinion of the Supreme Court for McCulloch v. Maryland
Preamble of the Mechanics Union of Trade Associations (1827)
Richard McNemar, The Kentucky Revival (1808)
South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification (1832)
"The Western Country," Letters in Nile's Weekly Register
Treaty with the Sioux and Other Tribes (1825)
United States Treaty with the Potawatami (1832)
Chapter 12
Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting, at the Presidential Election in Nov., 1872
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"A Second Peep at Factory Life,” Lowell Offering
"A Week in the Mill” (Lowell Offering, Vol. V (1845): 217-218
Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address (1837)
Catharine E. Beecher, from A Treatise on Domestic Economy
Edward Gould Burrum, from Six Months in the Gold Mines
Elizabeth Dixon Smith Geer, Oregon Trail Journal (1847, 1848)
Henry Clay Work, "Come Home Father!" (1864)
Henry Clay, "Defense of the American System" (1832)
Horace Greeley, from An Overland Journey (1860)
Horace Mann, Report of the Massachusetts Board of Ed
Ja Norcom, Letter to His Daughter Mary Matilda Norcom
James K. Polk's First Inaugural Address
JF Cooper Notions of America 1828
John H. Noyes on Free Love at Oneida (1865)
John O'Sullivan, "Annexation" (1845)
John O'Sullivan, "The Great Nation of Futurity" (1845)
Journal Entry of Francis Parkman (August 6–8, 1846)
Lydia Allen Rudd, Diary of Westward Journey (1852)
Marcus Whitman to Rev. David Greene (1844)
Mariah and Stephen King to their family (April 1, 1846)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Letter to His Wife from Brook Farm
National Convention of Colored People, "Report on Abolition"
O. A. Brownson, "Brook Farm" (1842)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Superstitions of our Age
Resolutions of the Boston Master Carpenters (1845)
Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast (1840)
Runaway Slave Advertisements (1838-1839)
Samuel F. B. Morse, Foreign Immigration (1835)
The Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851)
Thomas Corwin, "Against the Mexican War" (1847)
Visit to the Shakers, Lowell Offering (1841)
William Barret Travis, Letter from the Alamo (1836)
William Lloyd Garrison, First issue of The Liberator (1831)
Chapter 13
"Walden" by Henry David Thoreau
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"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
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Abraham Lincoln, "A House Divided" (1858)
Abraham Lincoln, Charleston Debate (1858)
Abraham Lincoln, Debate at Galesburg, Illinois (1858)
Benjamin Drew, from Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
Daniel Webster, Speech to the U.S. Senate (March 7, 1850)
De Bow's Review, "The Stability of the Union" (1850)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
Frederick Douglass, Independence Day Speech (1852)
Frederick Law Olmsted, from A Journey in the Seabord States
George Fitzhugh, Slavery Justified (1854)
George Fitzhugh, The Blessings of Slavery (1857)
George Frederick Holmes, Critique of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Henry Clay, Speech to the U.S. Senate (January 29, 1850)
John Brown's Address before Sentencing (November 2, 1859)
John C. Calhoun, Proposal to Preserve the Union (1850)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Levi Coffin, Reminiscences of the Underground Railroad
Opinion of the Supreme Court for Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Overseer’s report from Chicora Wood Plantation (1858)
Passages The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass (1883)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (1841)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Concord Hymn (1837)
Senate Report on the Railroads (1852)
Sojourner Truth, Address to Woman's Rights Convention
Stephen A. Douglas, Debate at Galesburg, Illinois (1858)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)
William Lloyd Garrison on John Brown's Raid (1859)
Chapter 14 "Lee at Fredericksburg" (1886) by J. Horace Lacy Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley (August 22, 1862)
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861)
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865)
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863)
Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia
Charles Harvey Brewster, Three Letters from the Front (1862)
Clara Barton, Memoirs about Medical Life at the Battlefield (1862)
Confederate Constitution ( 1861)
George McClellan to Abraham Lincoln (July 7, 1862)
James Henry Gooding, Letter to President Lincoln (1863)
Jefferson Davis, Address to the Provisional Congress (1861)
John Dooley, Passages from His Journal (1863)
Letter by Overseer W. Sweet to Adele Petigru Allston (1864)
Letter from a Free Black Volunteer to the Christian Recorder
Letter from Elizabeth Underwood to Thomas C. Cox ( November 3, 1863)
Letter from H. Ford Douglas to Frederick Douglass’s Monthly (1863)
Letter from J. R. Underwood to Wm. H. Seward (October 24, 1863)
Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Confederate Lady's Diary (1861)
Pacific Railway Act
Slave narrative of Annie L. Burton, “Memories of Childhood’s Slavery Days”
South Carolina Declaration of the Causes of Secession (December 24, 1860)
Susie King Taylor, Reminiscences of an Army Laundress
Technology and the Shoe Industry in Fincher's Trade Review (1864)
The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
U.S. Sanitary Commission, Sketch of Its Purposes (1864)
War Department General Order 143: Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops
William T. Sherman, The March Through Georgia (1875)
Chapter 15 Samuel Tilden's Speech to the Manhattan Club Conceding the Election of 1876 Excerpt from Geronimo, His Own Story - Coming of the White Men (1858)
Credit Mobilier/Union Pacific Railroad Scandal – Testimony of C.P. Huntington (1873)
Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park
"Address of the Colored Citizens of Norfolk, Virginia" (1865)
Affidavit of Former Slave Enoch Braston (1866)
Albion W. Tourgee, Letter on Ku Klux Klan Activites (1870)
Brawley Gilmore tells about Doc McCollum during Reconstruction (Late 1860s)
Carl Schurz, Report on the Condition of the South (1865)
Clinton B. Fisk, "Plain Counsels for Freedmen" (1865)
Confederate Song, "I'm a Good Old Rebel," by R. B. Buckley , (1866)
Congressional Report on the Sand Creek Massacre (1867)
Credit Mobilier/Union Pacific Railroad Scandal – Testimony of C.P. Huntington (1873)
Excerpt from Geronimo, His Own Story - Coming of the White Men (1858)
Hannah Irwin Describes Ku Klux Klan Ride (Late 1860s)
James C. Beecher, Report on Land Reform (1865, 1866)
Joseph G. McCoy, Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest (1874)
Jourdon Anderson to His Former Master (1865)
Legal Form for the Restoration of Confiscated Property Held by the Freedmen's Bureau (1865)
Slave Narrative, "The Story of Mattie J.Jackson: A True Story," Lawrene, Massachusetts (1866)
Southern Skepticism of the Freedmen's Bureau (1866)
The Land Acts (1862, 1873, 1894)
The Mississippi Black Code (1865)
The Nation, "The Stateof the South" (1872)
Wade-Davis Bill
Chapter 16 Herbert Spencer, Social Darwinsim (1857) Act of Congress, the General Allotment Act [Dawes Act]
Andrew Carnegie, "Wealth," North American Review (1889)
Andrew Carnegie, Wealth and Its Uses (1907)
Charles Loring Brace, The Dangerous Classes of New York
Edward Bellamy, from Looking Backward (1888)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
John Lester, "Hydraulic Mining" (1873)
Josiah Strong, from Our Country (1885)
Mark Twain, from The Gilded Age (1873)
Richard K. Fox, from Coney Island Frolics (1883)
Thomas Edison, The Success of the Electric Light (October 1880)
William Graham Sumner, from What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)
Chapter 17 Accounts from Victims of the Ku Klux Klan (1935)
Accounts of the Wounded Knee Massacre
Events in Paris, Texas, from Ida B. Wells, A Red Record
George Engel, Address by a Condemned Haymarket Anarchist (1886)
Helen Hunt Jackson, from A Century of Dishonor (1881)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, False Accusations, from A Red Record
Jane Addams, from Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, from The Working Girls of Boston (1884)
Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883)
Perspectives on the American Cowboy (1884, 1886)
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Session of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry (1879)
Secretary of Interior's Congressional Report on Indian Affairs (1887)
William B. Farwell, The Chinese at Home and Abroad (1885)
Chapter 18 Jacob S. Coxey, "Address of Protest" (1894) "Everybody Works But Father" (1905) Excerpt From Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen (1898) by Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii (1838-1917)
Address to 1894 Convention of American Railway Union by Jennie Curtis Adna Weber, The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century (1899)
Albert Beveridge, "The March of the Flag" (1898)
Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Interest of America in Sea Power
Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address (1895)
Carl Schurz, Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League
De Lôme Letter
Ernest Howard Crosby, “The Real ‘White Man’s Burden’” (1899)
Excerpt From Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen (1898) by Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii (1838-1917)
Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” (1893)
Mark Twain, "Incident in the Philippines" (1924)
Mary Elizabeth Lease, The Popular Crusader (1892)
N.A. Dunning, ed., Alliance's Vision of Community (1891)
Platform for the American Anti-Imperialist League (October 18, 1899)
Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” (1899)
Secret Oath of the American Protective Association (1893)
W. E. B. DuBois, "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others" (1903)
William Graham Sumner, "On Empire and the Philippines" (1898)
William Jennings Bryan, "Cross of Gold" Speech (1896)
William McKinley, "Decision on the Philippines" (1900)
Chapter 19 Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 "Life in the Shop" by Clara Lemlich (1909)
Isadora Duncan, "The Dance of the Future" (1903)
19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote
Autobiographical Narrative by Zitkala-Sa on Her First Days at Boarding School in Indiana (1900)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "If I Were a Man" (1914)
Dollar Diplomacy -William Howard Taft (1912)
Eugene V. Debs, "The Outlook for Socialism in America"
Frederick W. Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management
George Waring, "Sanitary Conditions in New York" (1897)
Helen M. Todd, "Getting Out the Vote" (1911)
Inside the Packinghouse from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
Jane Addams, "Ballots Necessary for Women" (1906)
John Spargo, from The Bitter Cry of the Children (1906)
Lee Chew, "Life of a Chinese Immigrant (1903)
Letters to the Jewish Daily Forward (1906-1907)
"Life in the Shop" by Clara Lemlich (1909)
Lincoln Steffens, from The Shame of the Cities (1904)
Mark Twain, “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” (1901)
Mother Jones, "The March of the Mill Children" (1903)
National Negro Committee Platform (1909)
Plunkitt on "Honest Graft" 1905
Report of the Vice Commission, Louisville, Kentucky (1915)
The New York Times, Review of Opening Night at Coney Island (1904)
Theodore Roosevelt, "The New Nationalism" (1910)
Theodore Roosevelt, Panama Canal Message to Congress (1903)
Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Upton Sinclair, from The Jungle (1905)
Walker Percy, "Birmingham Under the Commission Plan" (1911)
Woodrow Wilson, from The New Freedom (1913)
Chapter 20 Letter to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan (1915) 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Federal Income Tax
17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators
A. Mitchell Palmer on the Menace of Communism (1920)
Abrams v. United States (1919)
Adolf K.G.E. von Spiegel, U-boat 202 (1919)
Boy Scouts of America, "Support the War Effort" (1917)
Eugene V. Debs, Crtitique of World War I (1916)
Executive Orders and Senate Resolutions on Teapot Dome
F. J. Grimke, Address to African American Soldiers
Henry Cabot Lodge's Objections to Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Herbert Croly, from Progressive Democracy (1914)
Joseph Buffington, "Friendly Words to the Foreign Born" (1917)
Letters from the Great Migration (1917)
Louis Brandeis, from Other People's Money (1913)
Mary Antin, from The Promised Land (1912)
Newton D. Baker, Treatment of German-Americans (1918)
President Wilson’s War Message to Congress (1917)
President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (1918)
Statement to French Concerning Black American Troops
United States Declaration of War (1917)
Chapter 21 Eighteenth Amendment - Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquor January 16, 1919) Inaugural Address, Calvin Coolidge (March 1925)
Advertisements from 1925 and 1927
Court Statements Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1927)
Creed of Klanswomen” (1924)
Edward Earle Purinton, "Big Ideas from Big Business" (1921)
Eleanor Rowland Wembridge, "Petting and the Campus" (1925)
Inaugural Address, Calvin Coolidge (March 1925)
John F. Carter, "'These Wild Young People' by One of Them"
Margaret Sanger, "Happiness in Marriage" (1926)
Chapter 22 Tennessee Valley Authority Act An attack on New Deal farm policies (1936)
Boulder Canyon Project Act
Father Charles E. Coughlin, "A Third Party" (1936)
Frances Perkins and the Social Security Act (1935, 1960)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Radio Address (1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Second Inaugural Address
Herbert Hoover, New York Campaign Speech (1932)
Huey Long, "Share Our Wealth" (1935)
National Industrial Recovery Act
National Labor Relations Act
Radio broadcast by Henry A. Wallace (May 13, 1933)
Socialist Party Platform (1932)
Chapter 23 A. Philip Randolph, "Why Should We March" (1942)
Albert Einstein, Letter to President Roosevelt (1939)
Charles Lindbergh, Radio Address (1941)
Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry
Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese
Franklin D. Roosevelt, "The Four Freedoms" (1941)
General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day
Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan
Lend-Lease Act
Sterling A. Brown, "Out of Their Mouths" (1942)
Surrender of Germany
Surrender of Japan
Chapter 24 Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State
Declaration of Independence for Vietnam (September 2, 1945)
George F. Kennan, "The Long Telegram" (1946)
George Marshall, The Marshall Plan (1947)
Joseph R. McCarthy, Wheeling, West Virginia Speech (1950)
Kenneth MacFarland, "The Unfinished Work" (1946)
McCarthy Telegram and Truman Draft Response (1950)
National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 (1950)
Policy Statement about U.S. Objectives in Southeast Asia (June 25, 1952)
Ronald Reagan, Testimony before HUAC (1947)
Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy
Servicemen's Readjustment Act
The Twenty-Second Amendment (1947)
United Nations Charter
Chapter 25 Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech (March 5, 1946)
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dien Bien Phu (1954)
Executive Discussions on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
Test Ban Treaty Executive Order 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps.
John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis Address (1962)
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961)
John F. Kennedy, Space Program Speech (1961)
Ladies Home Journal, "Young Mother" (1956)
National Defense Education Act (1958)
Chapter 26 Cesar Chavez, From “He Showed Us the Way”, April 1978 Letter from President Nixon to President Nguyen Van Thieu (January 5, 1973) Richard Nixon, "Peace With Honor" (January 27, 1973) Charles Sherrod, SNCC Memorandum (1961)
Donald Wheeldin, "The Situation in Watts Today" (1967)
George Ball, "A Compromise Solution in South Vietnam"
John Lewis, Address at the March on Washington (1963)
Johnson's Defense of the U.S. Presence in Vietnam (1965)
Lyndon Johnson, "The War on Poverty" (1964)
Lyndon Johnson, Address to the Nation (March 31, 1968)
Lyndon Johnson, The Tonkin Gulf Resolution Message (1964)
Lyndon Johnson's Remarks Upon Signing the Civil Rights Act
National Organization of Women, Statement of Purpose (1966)
Reports from the Commission on the Watts Riots
Shirley Chisholm, Equal Rights for Women (May 21, 1969)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Statement of Purpose (1960)
Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement
Testimony by Members of the First Marine Division
Testimony by members of the Twenty-fifth Infantry Division
Testimony by W. Crandell at the Winter Soldier Investigation
The Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest
Transcript of John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center
Chapter 27 House Judiciary Committee's Assessment of Nixon's Activities
House Judiciary Committee's Conclusion on Impeachment
Jimmy Carter, The "Crisis of Confidence" Speech (1979)
Manhattan Project Notebook
Roe v. Wade (January 22, 1973)
Watergate Special Prosecution Force Memorandum
Chapter 28 George Bush, Allied Military Action in the Persian Gulf (1991) George H.W. Bush, Inaugural Address (January 1989)
George H. W. Bush, Gulf War Address (1990)
Patricia Morrisroe, "Yuppies - The New Class" (1985).
Paul Craig Roberts, The Supply-Side Revolution (1984)
Ronald Reagan, "Evil Empire" Speech (1983)
Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address (1981)
Ronald Reagan, Iran Contra Address (March 4, 1987)
Ronald Reagan, Speech at the Brandenburg Gate (1987)
Ronald Reagan, Speech to the House of Commons (1982)
Ronald Reagan, Support for the Contras (1984)
Ronald Reagan, The Air Traffic Controllers Strike
T. Boone Pickens, "My Case for Reagan" (1984)
Chapter 29 United States of America v. Timothy James McVeigh – Sentencing (August 14, 1997) Articles of Impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton
Bill Clinton, "A Time of Healing" Prayer Service (1995)
Bill Clinton, Answers to the Articles of Impeachment
Clinton Health Care Reform Proposals (1993)
George W. Bush, Address to Congress (September 20, 2001)
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act
President Clinton's First Inaugural Address (1993)
The Balkan Proximity Peace Talks Agreement (1995)
Chapter 30 George W. Bush, From “National Security Strategy of the United States of America” (September 2002)
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Chapter 1
Cattle Arrive in the New World
Columbus Landing at Hispaniola - Woodcut
Early Botanical Illustration - New World Plants
English Trade with Indians, as Seen by Theodor de Bry, 1634
How the Savages Roast Their Enemies, 1575
White House Ruins - Canyon De Chelly, AZ
Chapter 2
1659 Tobacco Company Advertisement
Colonial Families - Adult and Child Reading
Cruel Conquistadores Torturing Native Amerindians
First House of Burgesses Meeting in Jamestown
John Smith Threatening Opechancanough
Mayflower replica at Plymouth, MA
Pocahontas Pleading for John Smith's Life
Scene from John Smith's Memoirs
Ships at the Jamestown Settlement
Chapter 3
A Further Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches
Page from The New England Primer
Chapter 4
Diagram of Slave Ship Filled for Middle Passage
Chapter 5
1740s Missionary Johanna Jacob Schmick
1740s Missionary John Jacob Schmick
Colonel George Washington 1772 by C. W. Peale
First Political Cartoon in an American Newspaper, by Ben Franklin
Chapter 6
1774 Illustration - List of Crimes by Massachusetts Governor
Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man - Cartoon
Bronze of Paul Revere in Boston
Daughter of Liberty - 1774 Woodcut
Handbill "On the Death of Five Young Men"
He That Ne'er Learns His A, B, C, 1779
Paul Revere Etching of Boston Massacre
Women Signing an Anti-Tea Agreement
Chapter 7
Copybook Decorated with Political Themes
George Washington at Valley Forge
Patriots and Slaves Toppling Statue of George III
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, ca. 1794-1802
The Signing of the Declaration of Indpendence, Copy of John Trumball Painting, 1817-1818
The Tory's Day of Judgment - Engraving
Chapter 8
The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 reported by James Madison: June 15
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George Washington's Arrival in New York City, 1789
President-Elect Washington's Reception in Trenton
The Pastoral Setting of Washington, D.C.
Washington Taking the Oath of Office
Women Petition for War Compensation
Chapter 9
A Patent Drawing of Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
A View of the Capitol in 1800 by William Russel Birch
Lyon-Griswold Dispute, Congress, 1798
New Capitol - Congress' First Meeting - 1800
Slave Revolt, Saint-Domingue, 1791
Thomas Jefferson - Informal Drawing
Whiskey Rebellion Tax Protest - 1794
Chapter 10
A Patent Drawing of Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
A Scene on the Frontiers as Practiced by the Humane British and their Worthy Allies, 1812
Burning of the White House in 1814
Clermont on the Hudson - Painting
Cotton Gin on a Plantation in Louisiana
Plantation and Southern Commerce
Slave Quarter, Hermitage Plantation, Savannah, Georgia
Tredegar Ironworks, Richmond - Slave Labor
Chapter 11
Andrew Jackson Taking the Oath of Office in 1829
Andrew Jackson's Inauguration - Lithograph
Clermont on the Hudson - Painting
Office Hunters for the Year 1834 - Cartoon
Sacramental Scene in a Western Forest - Lithograph
Chapter 12
Anti-Railroad Poster in Philadelphia, 1839
Carl Nebel, "General Scott's Triumph," 1851
Cherokee Trail of Tears - Painting
Death of the Amistad Captain, 1839
General Harrison's Log Cabin March - Sheet Music
General Winfield Scott in Mexico City
Illustrations From the American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1840
Martin Van Buren and Abolitionism - Cartoon
Philadelphia Almshouse, House of Employment, and Prison
Robert Owen's Harmony Community
Seminoles Attacking Federal Fort
Shaker Village at Alfred, Maine, 1845
Slave Dockworkers, 1860 - Brady Photo
The Drunkard's Progress - Cartoon,1846
View of the Great Treaty Held at Prairie du Chien (1825) - Painting
Chapter 13
1860 Presidential Election Banner (Republican)
Abraham Lincoln and Sojourner Truth
Abraham Lincoln, February 27, 1860
Hypocrisy of Fugitive Slave Act - Cartoon, 1851
Storming of the Engine House by the U.S. Marines, 1859
The United States Senate, 1850 - Painting
Uncle Tom's Cabin Theater Poster, ca. 1850
Verdict of the People - Painting, after 1855
Chapter 14
Abraham Lincoln - Portrait, April, 10, 1865
Amputation Being Performed, 1863. Gardner Alexander.
Antietam Bridge, 1862. Gardner Alexander.
Burial Party at Cold Harbor, 1865
Confederate Captives, Gettysburg - Matthew Brady
Confederate Dead Behind Stone Wall, 1862--Mathew Brady.
Confederate Flag Flies over Fort Sumter
Dead Confederate Soldier - Photo
Destruction of the Confederacy
Field Hospital, Virginia, 1862
Former Slaves At Cumberland Landing
General Ulysses S. Grant at City Point, Virginia, in August 1864.
Jefferson Davis - Closeup Photo
Largest Siege Guns at Petersburg
Lincoln Assasination Reward Poster, 1865--U.S. War Dept.
Lincoln Visiting General McClellan, Group Picture
Lincoln Visiting with General McClellan Privately at Antietam
Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg
President Lincoln, Allan Pinkerton, and Major General John A. McClernand at Antietam, 1862
Prisoner from Belle Isle Prison, Richmond
Railroad Construction in Virginia, ca.1863
Railroad Destruction, Appomattox Station
Richmond in Ruins - April 1865
Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865--Mathew Brady.
Ruins of Petersburg Railroad Bridge, 1865--Mathew Brady
Southerners Fleeing Their Home
Storming of Fort Wagner - Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts
The Home of the Rebel Sharpshooter, 1863. Matthew Brady.
Union Prisoners at Salisbury, North Carolina, 1863
Workers in D.C. during the Civil War
Chapter 15
1868 Democratic National Convention in New York City
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad - Map
Black Senator and Congressmen, 1872
Chiricahua Apache Prisoners, Including Geronimo (first row, third from right) in Arizona, 1886
Five Generations of a Slave Family - Photo
From the Plantation to the Senate
Geronimo and Natiche Surrender, 1886
Greeley and Sumner - Nast Cartoon
Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson
Iroquois Indians, Early 20th Century - Panoramic Photo
Oglala Sioux Pictogram of the Battle of Little Bighorn
Red Cloud (Maqpeya-luta), Chief of the Oglala Sioux
Thaddeus Stevens - Brady Photo
The Shackle Broken by the Genius of Freedom
Thomas Nast, "Political Symbols," 1874
White Landowners Weighing Sharecroppers' Cotton
Worse than Slavery - Nast Cartoon
Chapter 16
Cincinnati Red Stockings Baseball Club, ca. 1869
Home Washing Machine and Wringer, 1869
Laundry Class at Carlisle Indian School, ca. 1901
Modern Colossus of (Rail) Roads, 1879
The Albuquerque Indian School in 1885
The Department Store: Another View, 1898
The Protectors of Our Industry, 1883
Chapter 17
Farmer's Delight Tobacco Advertisement, 1889
Handbill, Haymarket Square Bombing
Homestead Strikers Surrendering - Engraving
Terence Powderly at Knights of Labor Convention
Women Delegates, National Meeting of Knights of Labor, 1886
Woodhull Reading Suffrage Proposal, 1871
Chapter 18
African American Troops in the Spanish- American War
American History Students at Tuskegee Institute
Americans Guard Filipino Prisoners, 1899
Chemistry Lab at the Tuskegee Institute
Chemistry Students at Tuskegee Institute
Civilization Begins at Home, 1898
Harrison and Morton Campaign Ad
McKinley and Hobart Campaign Poster
Queen Liliuokalani, 1887 - Portrait
Suspicions of Spain - New York Journal Headline
The Sacrilegious Candidate, 1896
Turn-of-the-Century Political Cartoon
U.S. Soldiers in the Philippines, 1899
Uncle Sam Teaching the World - Puck Cartoon
Chapter 19
A Nauseating Job, But It Must Be Done
Asian Immigrants at Angel Island
Breaking a Strike at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1914
Child Glass Factory Worker, 1911
Children Working in Coal Mine - Lewis Hine Photo
Chinese-Americans in California
Chinese-Americans in San Francisco, 1897
Collage Celebrating the Career of Teddy Roosevelt
Edison with Phonograph, 1878--Mathew Brady.
Eye Examination at Ellis Island, ca. 1913
Families Working in Sweatshops
Genuine Connellsville Coke. National Bureau of Engraving.
John D. Rockefeller - Cartoon, 1901
Little Spinner in Globe Cotton Mill, 1909--Lewis W. Hine.
Logo for the Industrial Workers of the World
Looking Backward at Immigrant Origins - Cartoon
Taft's Inefficiency - Puck Cartoon
Teddy Roosevelt at Panama Canal, 1906
Tenement Families - Riis Photo
The Verdict - Anti-Monopoly Cartoon, 1899
The World's Constable - Cartoon
TR and his "Big Stick" - Cartoon
TR as "Jack the Giant Killer" - Puck Cartoon
Waiting area at Ellis Island, ca. 1915
Women in the Work Place, Late Nineteenth Century
Chapter 20
African American Recruiting Poster
African American Soldiers Return Home
African American Soldiers under French Command, WWI
African American Women Workers, WWI
France Demands War Reparations - Cartoon
French Couple Welcomes Two U.S. Soldiers
Gee!! I Wish I Were a Man Poster
Join a Sheep Club Poster, ca. 1917–1919
Leaders of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Margaret Sanger's Newspaper, 1914
Mrs. Hearst Reviews a Liberty Loan Parade
Recruiting Poster for the Marines
Segregated Recreation - Black Soldiers in WWI
Sinking of the Lusitania - New York Tribune
Soldiers Taking an IQ Test during WWI
Temporary Shelter for U.S. Wounded
U.S. Troops on the Road in Esnes, France
Visual Image of the Enemy, ca. 1917-1918
Warning of Influenza Epidemic, 1918 - Poster
Chapter 21
Automobile Assembly Line, 1925
Charles Lindbergh and Spirit of St. Louis
Clara Bow, the "It"girl. Film Still, 1927.
Clarence Darrow at the Scopes Evolution Trial, 1925
Clive Weed, "The National Gesture," 1926
Downtown Scene with Cars, 1911
Family around the Oil Heater, 1921
Feminine Tippler's Ankle Flask, 1922
Ford Weekly Purchase Plan, 1925
George Bellows. "The Drunk," 1923-1924
Henry Ford and His First Car, 1918
John T. Daniels, First Flight, 1903
Like a Moth, It Works in the Dark, 1923. Charles Dana Gibson
Presidents Harding and Coolidge
Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1911 - Streetlights at Night
Chapter 22
Abandoned Oklahoma Farmstead, 1937
African American Family on the Road
Bonus Expeditionary Force March on Washington
Burning Bonus Army Shacks, 1932
Children with "Hoover's Poor Farm" Sign
Depression Breadlines in New York City, 1932
Despair in the Texas Panhandle
Dorothea Lange Photo - "Migrant Mother"
Dr. William H. Hastie - "Black Cabinet" Member
Eleanor Roosevelt Visiting WPA Nursery
Evicted Black Sharecroppers - Arthur Rothstein Photo
From Texas Farmer to Migratory Worker
Giving Her a Lift to Town, 1933
John Baer, "We Demand a New Deal!," 1931
Mexican Workers and Their Cars
The Family of Peter V. Andrews, 1940
The Girl I Love is a Democrat, 1932
World's Highest Standard of Living Billboard
WPA Project at Tonawanda Reservation
Chapter 23
A Young Nisei and Her Family's Belongings
African American Fighter Pilots
Dedication of Iwo Jima Memorial, 1954
Eisenhower and Paratroopers in World War II
Emaciated Woman at Bergen-Belsen
German Painting Idealizing Hitler
Get in the Scrap Poster, 1941–1945
Hitler and Mussolini in Munich, 1940
Hitler at Nuremberg Rally ca. 1928
It's A Woman's War, Too Poster
Japanese Americans At Santa Anita Racetrack in 1942
Japanese-American Family Awaiting Relocation - Lange Photo
Japanese-American Family in Internment Camp
Loose Talk Can Cost Lives Poster
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Attack, August 1945
Navaho Indians Aiding The U.S. War Effort
Norman Rockwell's "Freedom from Want," Saturday Evening Post
Operation Overlord, Normandy, 1944
President Harry S Truman, 1948
School Boy Using War Ration Book, 1943
Truman, Atlee, and Stalin at the Potsdam (Berlin) Conference
When You Ride Alone You Ride with Hitler Poster, 1941–1945
Window Sign after Relocation, 1942
Chapter 24
A Case History of Communist Penetration in Guatemala, 1957
Chairman Mao Casts His Vote, 1953
Cover Illustration for "The Desi-Lucy Love Story," 1956
Dick Clark's American Bandstand, 1958
Chapter 25
A 1960s March for Civil Rights
Civil Rights March on Washington, 1963
Kenneth Clark Testing Children's Choices of Dolls, 1924
U.S. Hydrogen Bomb Test over Uninhabited Pacific Island, 1952
Chapter 26
First Manned Space Exploration - Project Mercury
President Lyndon B. Johnson in Vietnam, 1966
Protestors and Military Police, 1967
Chapter 27
Jimmy Carter signs the House of Representative Resolution for the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972
Nixon Releases Transcripts of Oval Office Tapes
Windmill Generators in California
Chapter 28
George H. W. Bush and Gulf War Figures, 1992.
Reagan in Front of Berlin Wall, 1987
Ronald Reagan in a Cowboy Hat, 1976
Chapter 29
Bill Clinton and Al Gore on the South Lawn of the White House, 1993
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The Puritans
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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The Great Awakening
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The Struggle for Dominance
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Declaration of Independence
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The American Revolution
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Louisiana Purchase
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The Hamiltonian System
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Jackson and the Bank War
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Slavery
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The Union Severed
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The Legacies of Reconstruction
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The Industrial Revolution
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Westward Expansion and the Native Americans
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Progressivism
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Political and Cultural Conflicts- 1890s
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An American Empire
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College Women Playing Basketball
Tourists in Yellowstone National Park
Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Westinghouse Works
Chapter 20
America and the Great War
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The Roaring 20's
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Prosperity of the 1920s and the Great Depression
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New Deal
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President Roosevelt Focuses on America’s Youth
Chapter 23
Pearl Harbor
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The Big Three Confer - Yalta Conference
Truman on the End of World War II
Chapter 24
The Onset of the Cold War
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Postwar Growth and Social Change
President Truman and the Threat of Communism
Chapter 25
Eisenhower's Special Message to Congress on the Middle East, 1957
John F. Kennedy Presidential Campaign Ad: It’s Up To You!
President John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
President Johnson Responds to the Death of JFK
Chapter 26
The 1960s
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Protests Against the Vietnam War
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Richard Nixon Presidential Campaign Ad: A Wavering Hubert Humphrey
The Struggle for Social Reform
Chapter 27
The 1970s (Watergate)
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Jimmy Carter and the “Crisis of Confidence”
Jimmy Carter Presidential Campaign Ad: Burning the Midnight Oil
Richard Nixon, “I am not a crook”
Chapter 28
George Bush Presidential Campaign Ad: The Revolving Door
President Bush on the Gulf War
President George Bush’s Early Response in the Persian Gulf War
Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall
Ronald Reagan on the Wisdom of Tax Cuts
Ronald Reagan Presidential Campaign Ad: A Bear in the Woods
The Swing Right (The Conservative Resurgence)
Chapter 29
Bill Clinton First Inauguration
Bill Clinton Sells Himself to America: Presidential Campaign Ad, 1992
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Chapter 2
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Atlas Map: Settlement in North America, c. 1763
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Chapter 8
Western Land Claims Ceded by the States
Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Atlas Map: Texas Revolution, 1836
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Atlas Map: The Spanish-American War, 1898-1899
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Chapter 19
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Atlas Map: Changing Lives of American Women, 1880-1930
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Atlas Map: Conflict in the Middle East, 1945-1997
Atlas Map: Immigration to the United States, 1945-1990
Atlas Map: Conflict in Central America, 1970-1998
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Atlas Map: Present-day Africa and the Middle East
Atlas Map: Present-day Asia and Oceania
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