Thinking Through Sources for Exploring American Histories Volume 1
Third Edition ©2019 Nancy A. Hewitt; Steven F. Lawson Formats: E-book, Print
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Authors
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Nancy A. Hewitt
Nancy A. Hewitt (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Professor Emerita of History and of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her publications include Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds, for which she won the SHEAR prize in biography; Women’s Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822–1872; Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s–1920s, and the second edition of A Companion to American Women’s History, edited with Anne M. Valk.
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Steven F. Lawson
Steven F. Lawson (Ph.D., Columbia University) is Professor Emeritus of History at Rutgers University. His research interests include U.S. politics since 1945 and the history of the civil rights movement, with a particular focus on black politics and the interplay between civil rights and political culture in the mid-twentieth century. He is the author of many works including Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America since 1941; Debating the Civil Rights Movement; Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944–1969; and In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965–1982.
Table of Contents
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 1 Mapping America
1.1 Christopher and Bartolomeo Columbus, Map of Europe and North Africa (c. 1490)
1.2 Piri Reis Map (1513)
1.3 Dauphin Map of Canada (c. 1543)
1.4 Map of Cuauhtinchan (1550)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 2 Comparing Virginia and Massachusetts Bay Colonies
2.1 John Smith, The Commodities in Virginia (c. 1612)
2.2 Powhatan’s Viewpoint, as Reported by John Smith (1608)
2.3 Richard Frethorne, Letter Home from Virginia (1623)
2.4 John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
2.5 Capt. John Underhill, Attack at Mystic Connecticut (1638)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 3 The Atlantic Slave Trade
3.1 Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa (1798)
3.2 Thomas Phillips, Voyage of the Hannibal (1694)
3.3 Willem Bosman, A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea (1703)
3.4 Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)
3.5 Peter Blake, An Account of the Mortality of the Slaves Aboard the Ship James (1675-1676)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 4 A New Commercial Culture in Boston
4.1 Ship Arrivals and Departures at Boston (1707)
4.2 Goods for Sale (1720)
4.3 Advertisement for Musical Instruments (1716)
4.4 Chest of Drawers (c. 1735–1739)
4.5 Advertisement for Runaway Slave (1744)
4.6 Letter from a Boston Protester (1737)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 5 Defining Liberty, Defining America
5.1 The Albany Plan of Union (1754)
5.2 Boycott Agreement of Women in Boston (1770)
5.3 Peter Bestes and Massachusetts Slaves, Letter to Local Representatives (1773)
5.4 Paul Revere, "The Able Doctor, or the American Swallowing the Bitter Draught," 1774
5.5 J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
Interpret the Evidence
PUT IT IN CONTEXT
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 6 Loyalists in the American Revolution
6.1 Joseph Galloway, Speech to Continental Congress (1774)
6.2 Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated (1776)
6.3 Hannah Griffits, Response to Thomas Paine (1777)
6.4 Joseph Brant (Mohawk) Expresses Loyalty to the Crown (1776)
6.5 Boston King, Memoirs of the Life of Boston King (1798)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 7 The Whiskey Rebellion
7.1 Resolution to the Pennsylvania Legislature (1791)
7.2 "An Exciseman" (c. 1791)
7.3 George Washington, Proclamation against the Rebels (1794)
7.4 Alexander Hamilton, Letter to George Washington (August 5, 1794)
7.5 James Madison, Letter to James Monroe (December 4, 1794)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 8 Race Relations in the Early Republic
8.1 Andrew Jackson, Runaway Slave Advertisement (1804)
8.2 Robert Sutcliff, Travels in Some Parts of North America (1812)
8.3 Richard Allen, Excerpt from The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen (1833)
8.4 Free Blacks in Philadelphia Oppose Colonization (1817)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 9 The Panic of 1819
9.1 Auction in Chatham Square (1820)
9.2 James Flint, Account of the Panic (1820)
9.3 Virginia Agricultural Society, Antitariff Petition (1820)
9.4 James Kent, Arguments against Expanding Male Voting Rights (1821)
9.5 Nathan Sanford, Arguments for Expanding Male Voting Rights (1821)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 10 Debating Abolition
10.1 William Lloyd Garrison, On the Constitution and the Union (1832)
10.2 Angelina Grimké, Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836)
10.3 Stephen Symonds Foster, The Brotherhood of Thieves (1843)
10.4 Liberty Party Platform (1844)
10.5 Frederick Douglass, Abolitionism and the Constitution (1851)
Interpret the Evidence
PUT IT IN CONTEXT
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 11 The Cherokee Removal
11.1 Andrew Jackson, Second Annual Message (1831)
11.2 Petition of the Women’s Councils to the Cherokee National Council (1831)
11.3 John Marshall, Majority Opinion, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)
11.4 Andrew Jackson as the Great Father (c. 1835)
11.5 John Ross, On the Treaty of New Echota (1836)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 12 Sectional Politics and the Rise of the Republican Party
12.1 Abraham Lincoln, On Slavery (1854)
12.2 Republican Party Platform (1856)
12.3 Charles Sumner, The Crime against Kansas (1856)
12.4 Lydia Maria Child, Letters to Mrs. S. B. Shaw and Miss Lucy Osgood (1856)
12.5 The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 13 Home-Front Protest during the Civil War
13.1 "Sowing and Reaping" (1863)
13.2 Testimony of New York City Draft Riot Victim Mrs. Statts, Collected by the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People, Suffering from the Late Riots (1863)
13.3 Clement L. Vallandigham, The Civil War in America (1863)
13.4 Calls for Peace in North Carolina (1863)
13.5 Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, Diary (1864)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 14 Reconstruction in South Carolina
14.1 Colored People’s Convention of South Carolina, Memorial to Congress (1865)
14.2 Lottie Rollin, Address on Universal Suffrage (1870)
14.3 Robert Brown Elliott, In Defense of the Civil Rights Bill (1874)
14.4 James Shepherd Pike, The Prostrate State (1874)
14.5 Harper’s Weekly, "Worse than Slavery" Political Cartoon (1874)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
Product Updates
Central Questions give students a concept to focus on while reading each project. These questions are located at the beginning of each chapter and bring the sources together through asking a single question, such as ”What did the creators of these maps choose to include, what did they leave out, and how did these maps help shape European attitudes toward Africa and the Western Hemisphere?” or “Explain the political, cultural, and regional differences that shaped the different viewpoints about faith, science, and the Scopes trial.”
Authors
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Nancy A. Hewitt
Nancy A. Hewitt (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Professor Emerita of History and of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her publications include Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds, for which she won the SHEAR prize in biography; Women’s Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822–1872; Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s–1920s, and the second edition of A Companion to American Women’s History, edited with Anne M. Valk.
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Steven F. Lawson
Steven F. Lawson (Ph.D., Columbia University) is Professor Emeritus of History at Rutgers University. His research interests include U.S. politics since 1945 and the history of the civil rights movement, with a particular focus on black politics and the interplay between civil rights and political culture in the mid-twentieth century. He is the author of many works including Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America since 1941; Debating the Civil Rights Movement; Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944–1969; and In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965–1982.
Table of Contents
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 1 Mapping America
1.1 Christopher and Bartolomeo Columbus, Map of Europe and North Africa (c. 1490)
1.2 Piri Reis Map (1513)
1.3 Dauphin Map of Canada (c. 1543)
1.4 Map of Cuauhtinchan (1550)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 2 Comparing Virginia and Massachusetts Bay Colonies
2.1 John Smith, The Commodities in Virginia (c. 1612)
2.2 Powhatan’s Viewpoint, as Reported by John Smith (1608)
2.3 Richard Frethorne, Letter Home from Virginia (1623)
2.4 John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
2.5 Capt. John Underhill, Attack at Mystic Connecticut (1638)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 3 The Atlantic Slave Trade
3.1 Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa (1798)
3.2 Thomas Phillips, Voyage of the Hannibal (1694)
3.3 Willem Bosman, A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea (1703)
3.4 Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)
3.5 Peter Blake, An Account of the Mortality of the Slaves Aboard the Ship James (1675-1676)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 4 A New Commercial Culture in Boston
4.1 Ship Arrivals and Departures at Boston (1707)
4.2 Goods for Sale (1720)
4.3 Advertisement for Musical Instruments (1716)
4.4 Chest of Drawers (c. 1735–1739)
4.5 Advertisement for Runaway Slave (1744)
4.6 Letter from a Boston Protester (1737)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 5 Defining Liberty, Defining America
5.1 The Albany Plan of Union (1754)
5.2 Boycott Agreement of Women in Boston (1770)
5.3 Peter Bestes and Massachusetts Slaves, Letter to Local Representatives (1773)
5.4 Paul Revere, "The Able Doctor, or the American Swallowing the Bitter Draught," 1774
5.5 J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
Interpret the Evidence
PUT IT IN CONTEXT
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 6 Loyalists in the American Revolution
6.1 Joseph Galloway, Speech to Continental Congress (1774)
6.2 Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated (1776)
6.3 Hannah Griffits, Response to Thomas Paine (1777)
6.4 Joseph Brant (Mohawk) Expresses Loyalty to the Crown (1776)
6.5 Boston King, Memoirs of the Life of Boston King (1798)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 7 The Whiskey Rebellion
7.1 Resolution to the Pennsylvania Legislature (1791)
7.2 "An Exciseman" (c. 1791)
7.3 George Washington, Proclamation against the Rebels (1794)
7.4 Alexander Hamilton, Letter to George Washington (August 5, 1794)
7.5 James Madison, Letter to James Monroe (December 4, 1794)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 8 Race Relations in the Early Republic
8.1 Andrew Jackson, Runaway Slave Advertisement (1804)
8.2 Robert Sutcliff, Travels in Some Parts of North America (1812)
8.3 Richard Allen, Excerpt from The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen (1833)
8.4 Free Blacks in Philadelphia Oppose Colonization (1817)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 9 The Panic of 1819
9.1 Auction in Chatham Square (1820)
9.2 James Flint, Account of the Panic (1820)
9.3 Virginia Agricultural Society, Antitariff Petition (1820)
9.4 James Kent, Arguments against Expanding Male Voting Rights (1821)
9.5 Nathan Sanford, Arguments for Expanding Male Voting Rights (1821)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 10 Debating Abolition
10.1 William Lloyd Garrison, On the Constitution and the Union (1832)
10.2 Angelina Grimké, Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836)
10.3 Stephen Symonds Foster, The Brotherhood of Thieves (1843)
10.4 Liberty Party Platform (1844)
10.5 Frederick Douglass, Abolitionism and the Constitution (1851)
Interpret the Evidence
PUT IT IN CONTEXT
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 11 The Cherokee Removal
11.1 Andrew Jackson, Second Annual Message (1831)
11.2 Petition of the Women’s Councils to the Cherokee National Council (1831)
11.3 John Marshall, Majority Opinion, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)
11.4 Andrew Jackson as the Great Father (c. 1835)
11.5 John Ross, On the Treaty of New Echota (1836)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 12 Sectional Politics and the Rise of the Republican Party
12.1 Abraham Lincoln, On Slavery (1854)
12.2 Republican Party Platform (1856)
12.3 Charles Sumner, The Crime against Kansas (1856)
12.4 Lydia Maria Child, Letters to Mrs. S. B. Shaw and Miss Lucy Osgood (1856)
12.5 The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 13 Home-Front Protest during the Civil War
13.1 "Sowing and Reaping" (1863)
13.2 Testimony of New York City Draft Riot Victim Mrs. Statts, Collected by the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People, Suffering from the Late Riots (1863)
13.3 Clement L. Vallandigham, The Civil War in America (1863)
13.4 Calls for Peace in North Carolina (1863)
13.5 Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, Diary (1864)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 14 Reconstruction in South Carolina
14.1 Colored People’s Convention of South Carolina, Memorial to Congress (1865)
14.2 Lottie Rollin, Address on Universal Suffrage (1870)
14.3 Robert Brown Elliott, In Defense of the Civil Rights Bill (1874)
14.4 James Shepherd Pike, The Prostrate State (1874)
14.5 Harper’s Weekly, "Worse than Slavery" Political Cartoon (1874)
Interpret the Evidence
Put It in Context
Product Updates
Central Questions give students a concept to focus on while reading each project. These questions are located at the beginning of each chapter and bring the sources together through asking a single question, such as ”What did the creators of these maps choose to include, what did they leave out, and how did these maps help shape European attitudes toward Africa and the Western Hemisphere?” or “Explain the political, cultural, and regional differences that shaped the different viewpoints about faith, science, and the Scopes trial.”
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Thinking through Sources for Exploring American Histories is a two-volume primary sources reader that supplements the document projects in the textbook. Each chapter of the reader presents five carefully selected documents that connect to topics in each chapter of Exploring American Histories. New Central Questions at the beginning of each chapter provide a framework and a focus for the documents that follow. Headnotes placed strategically before each document give students just enough context, and Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context questions at the end of each chapter provide a starting point for classroom discussion or a written assignment. This collection of sources is available both in print and in LaunchPad with innovative auto-graded assessment.Instructor Resources
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Thinking Through Sources for Exploring American Histories Volume 1
Thinking through Sources for Exploring American Histories is a two-volume primary sources reader that supplements the document projects in the textbook. Each chapter of the reader presents five carefully selected documents that connect to topics in each chapter of Exploring American Histories. New Central Questions at the beginning of each chapter provide a framework and a focus for the documents that follow. Headnotes placed strategically before each document give students just enough context, and Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context questions at the end of each chapter provide a starting point for classroom discussion or a written assignment. This collection of sources is available both in print and in LaunchPad with innovative auto-graded assessment.
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