The Presence of the Past: Documents in American History, 1492-1865

1. Journal of the First Voyage of Columbus, (1942)

2. Reassessing, Alfred W. Crosby, (1492)

3. The Requerimiento, by jurist Juan López de Palacios Rubios of the Council of Castile, (1510)

4. Missions and Moral Judgement, Amy Turner Bushnell

5. Inducements to the Liking of the Voyage Intended towards Virginia, Richard Hakluyt, (1585)

6. The True Pictures and Fashions of the People in That Part of America Now Called Virginia, John White and Theodore de Bry, Translated by Richard Hakluyt, (1585)

7. Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox, Edmund S. Morgan

8. The Case of Thomas(ine) Hall, Virginia, (1629)

9. Forging Slavery and Race in the Laws of Early Virginia

10. “A Modell of Christian Charitie,” John Winthrop, (1630)

11. The Puritans’ Greatest Achievement: A Study of Social Cohesion in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts, Timothy H. Breen and Stephen Foster

12. The Narrative of the Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Mary Rowlandson, (1682) 87

13. An Empire of Goods: The Anglicization of Colonial America, T. H. Breen, (1690–1776)

14. Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. Jean Crevecoeur, (1782)

15. Benjamin Franklin’s Testimony to the British Parliament on the Repeal of the Stamp Act, (February 1766)

16. Common Sense, Thomas Paine, (1776)

17. Writing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson and the Continental Congress, (1776)

18. Sentiments of An American Woman, Esther Reed, (1780)

19. The Ladies' Association of Philadelphia, (1780)

20. The Federalist No. 10: The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, James Madison, (1787)

21. The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic, Jan Lewis

22. The Founding Fathers and Slavery, William W. Freehling

23. An American Cabinet of Curiosities: Thomas Jefferson’s Indian Hall at Monticello, Joyce Henri Robinson

24. Every Generation Is an “Independent Nation”: Colonization, Miscegenation, and the Fate of Jefferson’s Children, Peter S. Onuf

25. Democracy in America, Alexis DeTocqueville, (1835–1840)

26. Jackson’s Bank Veto Message, Washington, (July 10, 1832)

27. Could Andrew Jackson Spell?, Allen Walker Read

28. Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Henry DavidThoreau, (1854)

29. Memory- Place, Meaning, and the Alamo, Richard R. Flores

30. What, to the American Slave, Is the Fourth of July?, Frederick Douglass, (July 5, 1852)

31. The Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Conference, (1848)

32. Lincoln- Douglas Debates, First Debate, Ottawa, Illinois, (August 21, 1858)

33. Things Fall Apart, 1860–61, Election of 1860 Party Platforms

34. Secession Declarations

35. Inaugural Addresses, Jefferson Davis

36. Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln, (March 4, 1865)