A More Perfect Union Documents in U.S. History, Volume I: To 1877

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ISBN: 9780618436835 | 0618436839
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/19/2004

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This reader provides a wealth of political and diplomatic primary source documents, including many selections illustrated with photographs. Each document is preceded by a headnote that places the document within a historical context. Headnotes conclude with Questions to Consider, which stimulate comprehension of the document and provide comparative analysis of related selections. Volume I has been expanded to include several new selections such as poetry by Anne Bradstreet, a "Great Awakening" sermon by Jonathan Edwards, and a resolution by Boston journeymen carpenters. Additional coverage in Volume II highlights the Monroe Doctrine, labor rights and songs of labor organizations, Richard Nixon's impeachment, and responses to the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Volume I
Planters and Puritans
Contact: Address to
First Privileges: The Virginia Ordinance of 1619
Pilgrims and Settlers: The Mayflower Compact, A Massachusetts Town Covenant
The Underside of Privilege: Virginia Slavery Legislation
Church Versus State: The Bloody Tenent of Persecution
The Hand of Empire: The Navigation Acts
A New England Woman: Two Poems
Breaking Away
Diversity and Abundance: Letter from Pennsylvania
Self-Improvement: The Junto Queries
A Right to Criticize: John Peter Zenger's Libel Trial
The Great Awakening: Heaven Is a World of Love
A Right to Privacy: No Writs of Assistance
Ideology and Agitation: The Crisis, Number One
A Republican Army: The Newburgh Address
Securing Liberty: The Federalist, Number Ten
Nationalists and Partisans
Church and State: An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom
Moving West: The Northwest Ordinances
An Industrial Vision: On Manufactures
Sedition or Dissent: The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798
The Constitution Construed: Marbury v. Madison
The Sectional Specter: South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Politics and Democracy: Rotation in Office, Bank Veto Message
The Trail of Tears: Appeal of the Cherokee Nation
Empire: Annexation
The Age of Reform
Schooling for Women: Address to the New York Legislature
The Evangelical Impulse: The Remedy for Intemperance
Of Human Bondage: That Class of Americans Called Africans
The Struggles of Labor: Address to the General Trades' Union
Public or Private: Report on the Common Schools
Individualism: Self-Reliance
Balm for the Afflicted: Memorial on Asylums
Women's Rights: The Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848
The Antislavery Impulse: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Patriotism and Slavery: The Slave and the Fourth of July
Coming Apart
Race, Slavery, and the Constitution
Liberty and Union: The Republican Party Platform of 1860
Flight from Union: Mississippi Resolutions on Secession
Union Inviolate: First Inaugural Address
Anthems of War: Maryland My Maryland
Sinews of War: Message on Conscription
A Declaration of Freedom: The Emancipation Proclamation
People's Government: The Gettysburg Address
Faces of War: Message to the Atlanta City Council
Binding Wounds: Second Inaugural Address
The Agony of Reconstruction
Klansmen of the Carolinas: Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction
A Kind of Unity: What the Centennial Ought to Accomplish
Aftermath: Address to the Louisville Convention

Reconstructing the Union
Unity: What the Centennial Ought to Accomplish
Monthly
Subjugation: Address to the Louisville Convention
Cheyenne Autumn: A Century of Dishonor
Catholicism in America: The Catholic Bishops on Parochial Education
Newcomers: How the Other Half Lives
From Another Shore: Congressional Report on Chinese Immigration
New South, Old South: A Red Record
Patriotism: The Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy; Lift Every Voice and Sing
Bearing Gifts: Russian Jews
Closing the Doors: Immigration Act of 1924
Industry, Expansion, and Reform
Production and Wealth: Triumphant Democracy
Labor's Vision: What Does the Working Man Want?
The Lure of the East: America's Destiny
The Woman Movement: Address to the Woman Suffrage Association, Carrie Chapman Catt
The Big Stick: Monroe Doctrine Corollary, Theodore Roosevelt
Industrial Blight: The Jungle
City Dangers, City Lights: The Spirit of Youth
The War for Democracy: Address to Congress
The Diplomacy of Isolation: Speech to the Senate
The Business of America: The Man Nobody Knows, Bruce Barton; A Sales Promotion Address
Crisis and Hope
American Earthquake: Women on the Breadlines
The Politics of Upheaval: First Inaugural Address
Need and Affliction: The Social Security Act
Organizing the Masses: Four Union Songs
The Rights of Labor: National Labor Relations
War Aims: The Four Freedoms
Shattering the Axis: A Fireside Chat
Destroyer of Worlds: Hiroshima, John Hersey
Protracted Conflict
Rebuilding Europe: Harvard Commencement Address
Seeing Reds: Lincoln Day Address
A Question of Command: Address on Korea and MacArthur
The Military-Industrial Complex: Farewell Address
The Defense of Freedom: Inaugural Address
Blank Check: Message on the Gulf of Tonkin
Agony in Asia: A Time to Break Silence
Movements for Change
Desegregation
Saving the Habitat: Silent Spring
Nonviolence and Protest: Letter from Birmingham Jail
Women's Liberation: The Feminine Mystique
The Right to Vote: The American Promise
A Turn to Militancy: Black Power
Life and Choice: Roe v. Wade
Crisis of the Presidency: Statement on the Impeachment of Richard Nixon
Modern Times
Business Unleashed: First Inaugural Address
The Evil Empire: Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals
Response to Terror: The Bush Strategic Doctrine
Gay Rights: Lawrence v. Texas
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