- ISBN: 9780395980682 | 0395980682
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/23/2002
Each chapter inContending Voicesexamines the lives of two individuals--some of them familiar historical figures and some of them lesser known--who took opposing positions on important issues in American history. The biographies are followed by a set of 4-6 related primary sources, many in the individuals' own voices, a "Questions to Consider" section, and an annotated bibliography.
| Native Americans and European Conquest: Bartolome de las Casas and Hernando Cortes | |
| Cortes Describes the Aztecs (1519, 1520) | |
| An Aztec View of the Temple Massacre (ca. 1550) | |
| Cortes Defends Encomiendas (1522) | |
| Las Casas Attacks Conversion by Conquest (1537) | |
| Las Casas Attacks Encomiendas (1542) | |
| Revolt on the Virginia Frontier: Nathaniel Bacon and William Berkeley | |
| Frontier Planters Appeal to Governor Berkeley, (Spring 1676) | |
| Governor Berkeley's "Declaration and Remonstrance" (May 29, 1676) | |
| A Summary of the June Assembly's Laws (1676) | |
| Bacon's Manifesto (July 1676) | |
| Grievances Submitted to the King's Commissioners(1677) | |
| Enthusiasm, Authority, and the Great Awakening: James Davenport and Charles Chauncy | |
| "A Song of Praise" (1742) | |
| Charles Chauncy, Enthusiasm Described and Caution'd Against (1742) | |
| "A Report on Religious Excess at New London" (1743) | |
| James Davenport's Confession and Retractions in New England (1744) | |
| Charles Chauncy, Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion (1743) | |
| The Price of Patriotism: Jonathan Sewall and John Adams | |
| "Instructions of the Town of Braintree to the Representative" (1765) | |
| Jonathan Sewall Offers a Defense of British Authority (1771) | |
| Samuel Sewall on the Revolutionary Threat (1775) | |
| John Adams, "Novanglus" (1775) | |
| The Conflict Over the Constitution: Patrick Henry and James Madison | |
| An Antifederalist Attacks the Constitution (1787) | |
| James Madison, "The Federalist No. 10" (1788) | |
| Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Convention (June 4, 1788) | |
| Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Convention (June 5, 1788) | |
| James Madison, "The Federalist No. 39" (1788) | |
| Agrarians and Capitalists in the Early Republic: John Taylor and Alexander Hamilton | |
| Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1787) | |
| Alexander Hamilton, First Report on Public Credit (1790) | |
| Alexander Hamilton, Report on Manufactures (1791) | |
| John Taylor, Arator (1813) | |
| Values of the Manufactures of the United States, Exclusive of Doubtful Articles (1810) | |
| Resistance and Western Expansion: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison | |
| Thomas Jefferson Letter to William Henry Harrison (1803) | |
| William Henry Harrison, Letter to William Eustis, Secretary of War (1809) | |
| William Henry Harrison, A Discourse on the Aborigines of the Ohio Valley (1838) | |
| Tecumseh, Speech to Harrison at Vincennes (1810) | |
| Tecumseh, "Sleep Not Longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws" (1811) | |
| Gradualism, Colonization, and Militant Abolitionism: Benjamin Lundy and David Walker | |
| Elias B. Caldwell, "A Call for Colonization" (1816) | |
| Benjamin Lundy, "United States' Internal Slave Trade" (1823) | |
| Benjamin Lundy, "Proposal for the Abolition of Slavery" (1823) | |
| A Black Response to Colonization (1817) | |
| David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829) | |
| Liberation and Control in Antebellum Culture: Fanny Wright and Catharine Beecher | |
| Catharine Beecher on Women's Proper Place (1837) | |
| Fanny Wright on Her Lectures in Cincinnati (1829) | |
| Frances Wright, "Popular Lectures" (1829) | |
| Catharine Beecher on Fanny Wright (1836) | |
| Catharine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) | |
| The Woman's Sphere (1844) | |
| The Fruits of the Factory System: Sarah Bagley and Nathan Appleton | |
| Nathan Appleton, "The Introduction of the Power Loom, and the Origin of Lowell" (1858) | |
| Regulations of the Appleton Company (1833) | |
| Sarah Bagley, "The Pleasures of Factory Life" (1840) | |
| Sarah Bagley, "Voluntary?" (1845) | |
| Nathan Appleton, "Labor, Its Relations, in Europe and the United States, Compared" (1844) | |
| Manifest Destiny and Rebellion: Thomas Larkin and Juan Batista Alvarado | |
| Richard Henry Dana Assesses Californios (1840) | |
| Thomas Larkin on the Situation in California (1845) | |
| Juan Batista Alvarado on the Conquest of California (1876) | |
| Vigilante Justice in Los Angeles (1857) | |
| The South and the Slavery Debate: Hinton Rowan Helper and George Fitzhugh | |
| George Fitzhugh, Slavery Justified (1850) | |
| George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All! (1857) | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper on Chinese Immigrants (1855) | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper, The Impending Crisis of the South (1857) | |
| Emily Burke, Reminiscences of Georgia (1850) | |
| Free Blacks and the Struggle for Equality: Mary Ann Shadd and Henry Bibb | |
| Henry Bibb, Letter to his Former Master (1844) | |
| Henry Bibb on the Refugee Home Society (1851) | |
| Mary Ann Shadd on the Refugee Home Society (1852) | |
| Mary Ann Shadd, "Obstacles to the Progress of Colored Canadians" (1857) | |
| Mr. Lincoln's War: Clement Vallandigham and Benjamin Wade | |
| Benjamin Wade Assaults a Southern Colleague (1854) | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Horace Greenly (1862) | |
| Benjamin Wade and Henry Davis, The Wade-Davis Manifesto (1864) | |
| Clement Vallandigham, "The Great Civil War in America" (1863) | |
| Clement Vallandigham Attacks Benjamin Wade (1862) | |
| Race and Redemption in the Reconstructed South: Robert Smalls and Carl Schurz | |
| Zion Presbyterian Church, "Memorial to the Senate and House of Representative" (1865) | |
| Carl Schurz, Report on the Condition of the South (1865) | |
| Representative Robert Smalls Protests the Withdrawal of Federal Troops (1876) | |
| James Pike, The Prostrate State (1874) | |
| Carl Schurz, Speech in the Senate (1872) | |
| Race and Redemption in the Reconstructed South: Robert Smalls and Carl Schurz Sources 1-5, see Volume I, Chapter 15 | |
| Craftsmen and Buccaneers in an Industrial Age: Terence Powderly and Jay Gould | |
| Terence Powderly, Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878) | |
| Terence Powderly Calls for Cooperatives (1880) | |
| Correspondence of Jay Gould and Terence Powderly (1886) | |
| Knights of Labor Attack on Jay Gould (1886) | |
| Jay Gould Testifies Before Congress (1886) | |
| Farmers and the "New South": Tom Watson and Henry Grady | |
| Henry Grady, "The New South" (1886) | |
| Henry Grady, "The Farmer and the Cities" (1889) | |
| Tom Watson, on "Silver-Tongued Orators" (1889) | |
| People's Party Platform (1892) | |
| Tom Watson, "The Negro Question in the South" (1892) | |
| Sex, Anarchism, and Domestic Science in Progressive America: Emma Goldman and Ellen Richards | |
| Ellen Richards, Euthenics (1910) | |
| Ellen Richards, "Who Is to Blame for High Prices?" (1910) | |
| Emma Goldman, "Marriage and Love" (1917) | |
| Emma Goldman, "The Woman Suffrage Chameleon" (1917) | |
| Emma Goldman, "The Social Aspects of Birth Control" (1916) | |
| Home Efficiency Table (1915) | |
| Progressives at War: Randolph Bourne and George Creel | |
| History Teacher's Magazine An | |
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