Sourcebook and Index: Documents that Shaped the American Nation

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Oxford University Press, 2005 - 342 lappuses
Designed to accompany Joy Hakim's ten volume A History of US or as a stand alone reference, this collection of great American documents is ideal for all students of American history. Filled with primary sources, the Sourcebook and Index traces the gradual unfolding of ideas of freedom in America through letters, declarations, proclamations, court decisions, speeches, laws, acts, the Constitution, and other writings.

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Magna Carta 1215
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Bartolomé de Las Casas Of the Island of Hispanola in Very Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies 1542
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From an anonymous Aztec chronicler in Fray Bernardino de Sahagun General History of Things in New Spain 1582
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The Mayflower Compact 1620
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Massachusetts School Laws 1642 and 1647
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From Roger Williams Letter to Providence 1655
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Resolution of the Germantown Quakers 1688
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From Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America 1835
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From Ralph Waldo Emerson SelfReliance 1841
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From John L OSullivan Editorial on Manifest Destiny 1845
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From Horace Mann 12th Annual Report to the Massachusetts Board of Education 1848
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Address to the Seneca Falls Conference 1848
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From Declaration of Sentiments 1848
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From Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience 1849
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Speech on the Compromise of 1850 1850
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From The English Bill of Rights 1689
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From Benjamin Franklin Poor Richards Almanack 1733
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Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress 1765
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Speech to the Virginia Convention 1775
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Memorial of the Presbytery of Hanover 1776
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From Thomas Paine Common Sense 1776
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From Abigail Adams Letter to John Adams 1776
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Articles of Confederation 1778
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From Thomas Jefferson Notes on the State of Virginia 1785
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Letters from an American Farmer Letter III 1782
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Religious Freedom 1786
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From The Northwest Ordinance 1787
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From Alexander Hamilton and James Madison The Federalist Nos 1 10 and 51 1788
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George Washington Inaugural Address 1789
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George Washington Letter to Moses Seixas 1790
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George Washington Letter to the New Church in Baltimore 1793
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From George Washington Farewell Address 1796
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From Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural Address 1801
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From Thomas Jefferson Letter to Danbury Baptist Association 1802
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Iroquois Confederacy and Missionary Cram 1805
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From Meriwether Lewis Report to Thomas Jefferson 1806
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From John Marshall opinion in McCulloch v Maryland 1819
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James Monroe The Monroe Doctrine 1823
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From Memorial of the Cherokee Nation 1830
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From William Lloyd Garrison The Liberator vol 1 no 1 1831
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From A North Carolina Law Forbidding the Teaching of Slaves to Read and Write 1831
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From Andrew Jackson Proclamation to the People of South Carolina 1832
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Address to the Womens Rights Convention Akron Ohio 1851
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From Frederick Douglass Fourth of July Oration 1852
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From Roger Taney Opinion in Dred Scott v Sandford 1857
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Address to the Illlinois Republican Convention 1858
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From Abraham Lincoln Debate with Stephen Douglas 1858
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John Brown Last Statement to the Court 1859
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From The Homestead Act 1862
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Abraham Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation 1863
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Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address 1865
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Ulysses S Grant and Robert E Lee Letters Setting Terms of Lees Surrender at Appomattox 1865
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Robert E Lee Farewell to His Army 1865
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Chief Joseph Inmutooyahlatlat I Will Fight
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From Preamble to the Platform of the Populist
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From John Marshall Harlan dissenting opinion
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From Theodore Roosevelt The Roosevelt Corollary
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From Woodrow Wilson War Message 1917
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Emma Lazarus The New Colossus 1935
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From the Civil Rights Act of 1964 1964
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From John Marshall opinion in Marbury v Madison 1803
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