Comprehensive and accessible, this title offers a clear and original framework for studying the important issues in colonial American history.

• Provides students with more than 60 essential documents on Colonial America
  
• Short headnotes introduce each selection
  
• Begins with a brief introduction by the editor and concludes with a bibliography designed to stimulate student research
  
• Can be used in conjunction with other books in a course or as a stand-alone text

This new volume deals with two momentous and interrelated events in American history --the American Civil War and Reconstruction--and offers students a collection of essential documentary sources for these periods.

• Provides students with over 60 documents on the American Civil War and Reconstruction
• Includes presidential addresses, official reports, songs, poems, and a variety of eyewitness testimony concerning significant events ranging from 1833-1879
• Contains an informative introduction focused on the kinds of materials available and how historians use...