Reading the American Past: Volume I: To 1877 Selected Historical Documents
, by Johnson, Michael P.- ISBN: 9780312564131 | 0312564139
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/5/2012
Born and raised in Ponca City, Oklahoma, Michael P. Johnson studied at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he received a B.A., and at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he earned his Ph.D. He is currently professor of history at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He is the author, co-author, or editor of six books, including Reading the American Past, the documents reader designed to accompany The American Promise. His research has been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanties, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavoral Sciences, and the Huntington Library, and with prizes from the Organization of American Historians and the Omohundro Insttute of Early American History and Culture. He is also the recipient of university prizes for outstanding undergraduate teaching.
Introduction for Students 1. ANCIENT AMERICA: BEFORE 1492
1-1 A Taino Origin Story
Ramón Pané, On Taino Religious Practices
1-2 A Penobscot Origin Narrative
Joseph Nicolar, The Life and Traditions of the Red Men, 1893
1-3 Genesis: The Christian Origin Narrative
“In the Beginning”
1-4 Aristotle on Masters and Slaves
The Politics, ca. 300 B.C.
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
2. EUROPEANS ENCOUNTER THE NEW WORLD, 1492-1600
2-1 The King of the Congo Writes to the King of Portugal
King Afonso and King João III, Correspondence, 1526
2-2 Columbus Describes His First Encounter with “Indians”
The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493
2-3 A Conquistador Arrives in Mexico, 1519-1520
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain, 1632
2-4 A Mexican Description of the Conquest of Mexico
Mexican Accounts of Conquest from the Florentine Codex
2-5 Cabeza de Vaca Describes His Captivity Among Native Americans in Texas and the Southwest, 1528-1536 Narrative, 1542
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
3. THE SOUTHERN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, 1601-1700
3-1 Richard Frethorne Describes Indentured Servitude in Virginia
Letter to Father and Mother, March 20, April 2, 3, 1623
3-2 Opechancanough's 1622 Uprising in Virginia
Edward Waterhouse, Declaration, 1622
3-3 Sex and Race Relations
Testimony from Virginia Court Records, 1681
3-4 Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon, Declaration, 1676
3-5 Pedro Naranjo Describes Pueblo Revolt
Declaration of Pedro Naranjo of the Queres Nation, December 19, 1681
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
4. THE NORTHERN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, 1601-1700
4-1 The Arbella Sermon
John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630
4-2 Observations of New England Indians
Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America, 1643
4-3 Wampanoag Grievances at the Outset of King Philip's War
John Easton, A Relation of the Indian War, 1675
4-4 A Provincial Government Enacts Legislation
The Laws of Pennsylvania, 1682
4-5 Words of the Bewitched
Testimony against Accused Witch Bridget Bishop, 1692
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
5. COLONIAL AMERICA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1701-1770
5-1 Elizabeth Ashbridge Becomes an Indentured Servant in New York
Elizabeth Ashbridge, Some Account of the Early Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, Who Died in…1755 (1807)
5-2 Poor Richard's Advice
Benjamin Franklin, Father Abraham's Speech from Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757
5-3 An Anglican Criticizes New Light Baptists and Presbyterians in the South Carolina Backcountry
Charles Woodmason, Sermon on the Baptists and the Presbyterians, ca. 1768
5-4 Advertisements for Runaway Slaves
South Carolina Gazette and Virginia Gazette, 1737-1745
5-5 A Moravian Missionary Interviews Slaves in the West Indies, 1767-1768
Christian George Andreas Oldendorp, History of the Evangelical Brethren's Mission on the Caribbean Islands, 1777
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS 6. THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE COLONIAL CRISIS, 1754-1775
6-1 Mary Jemison Is Captured by Seneca Indians during the Seven Years' War
James E. Seaver, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, 1824
6-2 An Oration on the Second Anniversary of the Boston Massacre
Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, March 5, 1772
6-3 A Boston Shoemaker Recalls British Arrogance and the Boston Tea Party
George R. T. Hewes, Memoir, 1834
6-4 Daniel Leonard Argues for Loyalty to the British Empire
To the Inhabitants of the Province of Massachusetts- Bay, 1774-1775
6-5 Edmund Burke Urges Reconciliation with the Colonies
Speech to Parliament, March 22, 1775
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS 7. THE WAR FOR AMERICA, 1775- 1783
7-1 Thomas Paine Makes the Case for Independence
Common Sense, January 1776
7-2 Letters of John and Abigail Adams
Correspondence, 1776
7-3 J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Describes the Distresses of a Frontier Farmer during the Revolution
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, “Distresses of a Frontier Man,” 1782
7-4 Boston King Seeks Freedom by Running Away to the British Army
Memoir, 1798
7-5 Joseph Brant Appeals to British Allies to Keep Promises
Address to British Secretary of State Lord Germain, 1776
Message to Governor of Quebec, Frederick Haldimand, 1783
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
8. BUILDING A REPUBLIC, 1775-1789
8-1 Richard Allen Founds the First African Methodist Church
Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours, 1833
8-2 Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Race
Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782
8-3 Benjamin Rush Proposes a Proper Education for a Republic
Benjamin Rush, “Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic,” 1786
8-4 Making the Case for the Constitution
James Madison, Federalist Number 10, 1787
8-5 Mercy Otis Warren Opposes the Constitution
Observations on the New Constitution, 1788
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
9. THE NEW NATION TAKES FORM, 1789-1800
9-1 Alexander Hamilton on the Economy
Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791
9-2 Mary Dewees Moves West to Kentucky
Journal, 1788-1789
9-3 Judith Sargent Murray Insists on the Equality of the Sexes
Judith Sargent Murray, “On the Equality of the Sexes,” 1790
9-4 A French Sugar Planter Describes the French and Saint Domingue Revolutions
A Sugar Planter of Saint Domingue Experiences Revolution in France and Saint Domingue, 1791
9-5 President George Washington's Parting Advice to the Nation
Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 1796
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS 10. REPUBLICANS IN POWER, 1800-1824
10-1 President Thomas Jefferson's Private and Public Indian Policy
Letter to Governor William H. Harrison, February 27, 1803
Address to the Wolf and People of the Mandan Nation, December 30, 1806
10-2 Meriwether Lewis Describes the Shoshone
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1805
10-3 A Slave Demands That Thomas Jefferson Abolish Slavery
A Slave to Thomas Jefferson, November 30, 1808
10-4 James Forten Protests Pennsylvania Law Threatening Enslavement of Free African Americans
Letters from a Man of Colour, on a Late Bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania, 1813
10-5 James Hamilton's Path to Enlistment during the War of 1812
Confession, 1818
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
11. THE EXPANDING REPUBLIC, 1815-1840
11-1 President Andrew Jackson's Parting Words to the Nation
Farewell Address, March 4, 1837
11-2 Cherokees Debate Removal
John Ross, Answer to Inquiries from a Friend, 1836
Elias Boudinot, A Reply to John Ross, 1837 11-3 Alexis de Toqueville Describes the Three Races in the United States
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835
11-4 David Walker Demands Emancipation
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, 1829
11-5 Sarah Grimké on the Status of Women
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, 1838
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
12. THE NEW WEST AND FREE NORTH, 1840-1860
12-1 Abraham Lincoln Explains the Free Labor System
Abraham Lincoln, “Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society,” Milwaukee, Wisconsin , September 30, 1859
12-2 The Anxiety of Gain: Henry W. Bellows on Commerce and Morality
The Influence of the Trading Spirit upon the Social and Moral Life of America, 1845
12-3 Gold Fever
Walter Colton, California Gold Rush Diary, 1849-1850
12-4 That Woman Is Man's Equal: The Seneca Falls Declaration
Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
12-5 A Farmer's View of His Wife
Eliza Farnham, Conversation with a Newly Wed Westerner, 1846
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS 13. THE SLAVE SOUTH, 1820-1860
13-1 Madison Hemings Recalls Life as Thomas Jefferson's Enslaved Son
Interview, 1873
13-2 Plantation Rules
Bennet Barrow, Highland Plantation Journal, May 1, 1838
13-3 Fanny Kemble Learns about Abuses of Slave Women
Frances Anne Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
13-4 Nat Turner Explains Why He Became an Insurrectionist
The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831
13-5 The Proslavery Argument
James Henry Hammond, Letter to an English Abolitionist, 1845
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
14. THE HOUSE DIVIDED, 1846-1861
14-1 The Kansas- Nebraska Act
Abraham Lincoln, Speech in Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854
14-2 The Antislavery Constitution
Frederick Douglass, The Constitution of the United States: Is It Proslavery or Antislavery? 1860
14-3 The Proslavery Constitution
Jefferson Davis, Speech before the U.S. Senate, May 1860
14-4 Levi Coffin Describes Margaret Garner's Attempt to Escape Slavery
Levi Coffin, Reminiscences, 1880
14-5 Abolitionist Lydia Maria Child Defends John Brown and Attacks the Slave Power
Correspondence between Lydia Maria Child and Virginia Governor Henry A. Wise, 1859
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS 15. THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR, 1861-1865
15-1 President Lincoln's War Aims
Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862
The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
15-2 A Former Slave's War Aims
Statement from an Anonymous Former Slave, New Orleans, 1863
15-3 The New York Draft Riots
Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York, 1863
15-4 Susie King Taylor Describes Her Wartime Experiences
Susie King Taylor, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp, 1902
15-5 General William T. Sherman Explains the Hard Hand of War
Correspondence, 1864
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
16. RECONSTRUCTION, 1863-1877
16-1 Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South
Report on the Condition of the South, 1865
16-2 Black Codes Enacted in the South
Mississippi Black Code, November 1865
16-3 Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families
Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865- 1870
16-4 Planter Louis Manigault Visits His Plantations and Former Slaves, 1867
Louis Manigault, “A Narrative of a Post-Civil War Visit to Gowrie and East Hermitage Plantations,” March 22, 1867
16-5 Klan Violence against Blacks
Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
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