A More Perfect Union: Documents in U.S. History to 1877

Contents VOLUME I: To 1877 1. Planters and Puritans 1. Contact: Journal of the First Voyage (1492), Christopher Columbus 2. Conflict: Address to John Smith (1608), Powhatan 3. First Privileges: The Virginia Ordinance of 1619 4. The Puritan Vision: A Model of Christian Charity (1630), John Winthrop 5. The Underside of Privilege: Virginia Slavery Legislation (1630-1691) 6. Faith and Dissent: The Examination of Anne Hutchinson (1637) 7. Piety and Knowledge: New England's First Fruits--Harvard College (1643) 8. The Hand of Empire: The Navigation Acts (1660-1764) 2. Strides Toward Freedom 9. Diversity and Abundance: Letter from Pennsylvania (1725), Robert Parke 10. Self-Improvement: The Junto Queries (1729), Benjamin Franklin 11. A Right to Criticize: John Peter Zenger's Libel Trial (1735) 12. The Great Awakening: The Revival of Religion in New England (1742), Jonathan Edwards 13. A Shattered Empire: The Declaration of Independence (1776), Thomas Jefferson 14. Ideology and Agitation: The Crisis, Number One (1776), Thomas Paine 15. Men with Guns: The Right to Bear Arms (1777-1789) 16. Securing Liberty: The Federalist, Number Ten (1787), James Madison 3. Nationalists and Partisans 17. The Industrial Vision: On Manufactures (1791), Alexander Hamilton 18. A Call for Unity: First Inaugural Address (1801), Thomas Jefferson 19. The Constitution Protected: Marbury v. Madison (1803), John Marshall 20. The Wide Missouri: Report on the Missouri and Columbia Rivers (1806), Meriwether Lewis 21. The Sectional Specter: South Carolina Exposition and Protest (1828), John C. Calhoun 22. The Trail of Tears: Appeal of the Cherokee Nation (1830) 23. Assaulting Monopoly: Bank Veto Message (1832), Andrew Jackson 24. Empire: Annexation (1845), John L. O'Sullivan 4. The Age of Reform 25. Longing for Freedom: Spirituals (ca. 1800-1830) 26. A Call to Arms: Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829), David Walker 27. Freedom Now: That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833), Lydia Maria Child 28. The Rights of Labor: Address to the General Trades Union (1833), Ely Moore 29. Public Versus Private: Report on the Common Schools (1838), Horace Mann 30. Individualism: Self-Reliance (1841), Ralph Waldo Emerson 31. Women's Freedom: Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), Margaret Fuller 32. Women's Rights: Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton 33. The Antislavery Impulse: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851), Harriet Beecher Stowe 34. Race, Slavery, and the Constitution: Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857), Roger B. Taney 35. Liberty and Union: The Republican Party Platform of 1860 5. Rebels, Yankees, and Freedmen 36. Flight from Union: Mississippi Resolutions on Secession (1860) 37. Union Inviolate: First Inaugural Address (1861), Abraham Lincoln 38. A Declaration of Freedom: The Emancipation Proclamation (1863), Abraham Lincoln 39. People's Government: The Gettysburg Address (1863), Abraham Lincoln 40. The Face of War: Message to the Atlanta City Council (1864), William Tecumseh Sherman; Diary of a Georgia Girl (1864), Eliza Andrews 41. Binding Wounds: Second Inaugural Address (1865), Abraham Lincoln 42. Klansmen of the Carolinas: Report on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction (1872) 43. A Kind of Unity: What the Centennial Ought to Accomplish (1875), Scribner's Monthly 44. Aftermath: Address to the Louisville Convention (1883), Frederick Douglass VOLUME II: Since 1865 1. Reconstructing the Union 1. Klansmen of the Carolinas: Report on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction (1872) 2. A Kind of Unity: What the Centennial Ought to Accomplish (1875), Scribner's Monthly 3. Aftermath: Address to the Louisville Convention (1883), Frederick Douglass 2. Minorities 4. A Sister on the Frontier: Letter from Colorado (1876), Blandina Segale 5. Indian Autumn: Chief Joseph's Story (1879), Young Joseph 6. Newcomers: How the Other Half Lives (1890), Jacob Riis 7. From Another Shore: Congressional Report on Chinese Immigration (1892), 8. New South, Old South: Atlanta Exposition Address (1895), Booker T. Washington; A Red Record (1895), Ida B. Wells 9. The Segregated South: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), Henry Billings Brown 10. Bearing Gifts: Russian Jews (1916), Mary Antin 11. A Multicultural Vision: Trans-National America (1916), Randolph Bourne 12. Closing the Doors: Immigration Act of 1924 3. Industry, Expansion, and Reform 13. Labor's Vision: Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878); Statement of the Eight-Hour Association (1886) 14. Production and Wealth: Triumphant Democracy (1886), Andrew Carnegie 15. Prairie Revolt: The Cross of Gold (1896), William Jennings Bryan 16. The Lure of the East: America's Destiny (1900), Albert Beveridge 17. The Right to Vote: Declaration of Principles (1904), Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Stone Blackwell, Ida Husted Harper, Anna Howard Shaw 18. Side Effects: The Jungle (1906), Upton Sinclair 19. Taxing the Rich: Message to Congress (1906), Theodore Roosevelt 20. City Lights: The Spirit of Youth (1917), Jane Addams 21. The War for Democracy: Address to Congress (1917), Woodrow Wilson 22. Skeptics: Unregenerate Europe (1921), Chicago Tribune; In Our Time (1925), Ernest Hemingway 23. Salesmanship: The Man Nobody Knows (1925), Bruce Barton 4. Crisis and Hope 24. American Earthquake: Women on the Breadlines (1932), Meridel LeSueur 25. The Politics of Upheaval: First Inaugural Address (1933), Franklin D. Roosevelt 26. Organizing the Masses: The Steelworkers Organization Campaign (1936), John L. Lewis 27. War Aims: The Four Freedoms (1941), Franklin D. Roosevelt 28. Day of Infamy: Address to Congress (1941), Franklin D. Roosevelt 29. Destroyer of Worlds: Hiroshima (1946), John Hersey 5. Protracted Conflict 30. Containment: The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947), George F. Kennan 31. Rebuilding Europe: Report on the Plan for European Recovery (1948), George C. Marshall 32. Seeing Reds: Lincoln Day Address (1950), Joseph R. McCarthy; Declaration of Conscience, Margaret Chase Smith 33. A Question of Command: Address on Korea and MacArthur (1951), Harry S Truman 34. The Military-Industrial Complex: Farewell Address (1961), Dwight D. Eisenhower 35. The Defense of Freedom: Inaugural Address (1961), John F. Kennedy 36. Blank Check: Message to Congress on the Gulf of Tonkin (1964), Lyndon B. Johnson 37. Agony in Asia: A Time to Break Silence (1967), Martin Luther King, Jr. 6. Movements for Change 38. Desegregation Begins: Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka (1954), Earl Warren 39. Saving Nature: Silent Spring (1962), Rachel Carson 40. Nonviolence and Protest: I Have a Dream (1963), Martin Luther King, Jr. 41. Women's Liberation: The Feminine Mystique (1963), Betty Friedan 42. Backlash and Riot: Report of the Commission on Civil Disorders (1968) 43. Life and Choice: Roe v. Wade (1973), Harry Blackmun 44. Watergate: Statement on Impeachment (1974), Barbara Jordan 7. Contemporary Times 45. Enterprise Unleashed: First Inaugural Address (1981), Ronald Reagan 46. The Urban Ordeal: Defending Children (1987), Marian Wright Edelman 47. Technology and Work: The Work of Nations (1991), Robert B. Reich 48. Blood and Sand: Address on the War with Iraq (1991), George Bush 49. Contract: Contract with America (1994), Newt Gingrich; Reactionary Chic (1995), Lewis H. Lapham 50. A President Besieged: Report to Congress (1998), Kenneth Starr; White House Response to the Starr Report (1998)Ronald Story is the author of 'A More Perfect Union: Documents in U.S. History to 1877' with ISBN 9780395959589 and ISBN 0395959586.