Textbook:
- Paul Boyer, “Beginnings: Pre-history to 1763,” in Boyer, American History: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford Univ Press, 2012)
Articles, chapters and other excerpted texts. (Some secondary source chapters will be in the compendium. All materials will be in digital form on Canvas):
- Alfred W. Crosby, ”Conquistador y Petilencia," in The Columbian Exchange: Biological Consequences of 1492 (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003), 35-58.
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The first map that named America (1507).
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William Bradford, “Scourge of Small-pox among the Indians” (1634).
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “Introduction” and “Blessed above Women,” in Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), 3-10, 167-183.
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John Barbot, “How Slaves Were Acquired” (1732).
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“The Great Awakening” (1743).
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Gordon S. Wood, “Introduction” and “Revolution,” in The Radicalism of the American Revolution (New York: Vintage Books, 1993), 3-8, 169-189.
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Thomas Jefferson, “Declaring Independence” (1776).
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Mercy Otis Warren, “The New Republic” (1789).
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Stephen Aron, “The History of the American West Gets a Much-Needed Rewrite,” Smithsonian Magazine, August 16, 2016.
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Sean Wilentz, “‘The Republic Has Degenerated into a Democracy,’” in The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (New York: W.W. Norton, 2005), 425-436.
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John Marshall, “Judicial Review” (1823).
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John Ross, “The Trail of Tears” (1840).
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George Caleb Bingham etching, “Stump Speaking” (1856).
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Edward Baptist, “Breath: 1824-1835,” in The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (New York: Basic Books, 2014), 171-213.
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Frederick Douglass, “The Circumstances that Prompt Masters to Whip Slaves” (1845).
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Franklin B. Sanborn, “The Black Moses” (1863).
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Edward Ayers, “Prologue,” in The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2017), 1-20.
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“Declaration of Causes of the Seceding States - Mississippi” (1861).
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Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address” (March 4, 1865).
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Thomas Nast cartoon, “The Union as it was. The lost cause, worse than slavery” (1874).
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Heather Cox Richardson, “Republicans and Big Business,” in To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party (New York: Basic Books, 2014), 109-138.
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Andrew Carnegie, “Wealth” (1889).
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“The Texas Farmers' Revolt” (1886).
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Alan Dawley, “World War and Revolution,” in Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003), 143-179.
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Mary Antin, “The Promised Land” (1912).
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William Allen White, “Letter to Collier's Weekly Editor” (January 28, 1918).
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David Kennedy, “The American People on the Eve of the Great Depression,” in Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 10-42.
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Frederick Lewis Allen, “The Market and Success in the 1920s” (1940).
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, “First Inaugural” (March 4, 1933).
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Elaine Tyler May, “Explosive Issues: Sex, Women, and the Bomb,” in Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (New York: Basic Books, 1988), 92-113.
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Sydney Diamond, “A Soldier’s Reasons for Enlisting” (April 1942).
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Warren R. Young, “Group Shelters Are a Start—the Facts Require Much More,” Life magazine (January 12, 1962), 38.
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Michael Klarman, “Brown v. Board of Education,” and “The Civil Rights Era,” in Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 147-182.
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“Code of the City of Montgomery, Alabama” (1952).
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Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (1963).
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Michael J. Kramer, “Introduction,” in The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 3-27.
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“US Opinion about American War in Vietnam, Gallup Poll” (1965-1971).
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Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Fortunate Son” lyrics (1969).
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Daniel Rodgers, “Prologue,” in Age of Fracture (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011), 1-14.
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Herb Block cartoon, Washington Post (January 24, 1985).
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Patrick Joseph Buchanan, “Culture War Speech: Address to the Republican National Convention” (August 17, 1992).
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Andrew J. Bacevich, “Introduction” and “War for the Imperium” in American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003), 1-6, 225-224.
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Hisham Mataraug, “A Journalist Abroad Grapples with American Power,” New York Times (August 28, 2017).
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Carlos Latuff cartoon, “Tales of Iraq War” (2006).