With voices ranging from those of presidents to slaves, from both men and women, and from Native Americans and white settlers, this book tells the story of the first half-century of the United States.

• Provides students with over 50 essential documents from the Early Republic: the first five decades of the USA
• Includes lesser-known documents, for example Thomas Jefferson's rules for 'republican etiquette'
• Incorporates eyewitness testimony from major historical figures, alongside that of ordinary people from the period
• Includes an introduction, document...

With voices ranging from those of presidents to slaves, from both men and women, and from Native Americans and white settlers, this book tells the story of the first half-century of the United States.

• Provides students with over 50 essential documents from the Early Republic: the first five decades of the USA
• Includes lesser-known documents, for example Thomas Jefferson's rules for 'republican etiquette'
• Incorporates eyewitness testimony from major historical figures, alongside that of ordinary people from the period
• Includes an introduction, document...

Encompassing political, social, and cultural issues, this primary source reader allows students to hear the voices of the past, giving a richer understanding of American society since 1945.

• Comprises over 50 documents, which incorporate political, social, and cultural history and encompass the viewpoints of ordinary people as well a variety of leaders
  
• An extended introduction explains to students how to think and work like historians by using primary sources
  
• Includes both written texts and photographs
  
• Headnotes contextualize the...

This Reader from the Uncovering the Past series provides a comprehensive introduction to American Indian history.

• Over 60 primary documents allow the voices of natives to illuminate the American past
• Includes samples of native languages just above the full translations of particular texts
• Provides comprehensive introductions and headnotes, as well as images, an extensive bibliography, and suggestions for further research
• Includes such texts as a decoded Maya inscription, letters written during the French and Indian War on the distribution of...

This short, comprehensive collection of primary documents provides an indispensable introduction to Mexican American history and culture.

• Includes over 90 carefully chosen selections, with a succinct introduction and comprehensive headnotes that identify the major issues raised by the documents
• Emphasizes key themes in US history, from immigration and geographical expansion to urbanization, industrialization, and civil rights struggles
• Includes a 'visual history' chapter of images that supplement the documents, as well as an extensive bibliography

A succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery that places American slavery in comparative perspective.

• Provides students with more than 70 primary documents on the history of slavery in America
  
• Includes extensive excerpts from slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, and letters by African Americans that document the experience of bondage
  
• Comprehensive headnotes introduce each selection
  
• A Visual History chapter provides images to supplement the written documents
  
• Includes an extensive...

Drawn from a wide range of perspectives and showcasing a variety of primary source materials, Brian Ward's The 1960s: A Documentary Reader highlights the most important themes of the era.

• Supplies students with over 50 primary documents on the turbulent period of the 1960s in the United States
• Includes speeches, court decisions, acts of Congress, secret memos, song lyrics, cartoons, photographs, news reports, advertisements, and first-hand testimony
• A comprehensive introduction, document headnotes, and questions at the end of each chapter are designed to...

Women in American History To 1880 presents a collection of over 70 primary source documents that illuminate the diverse experiences of women from America's colonial period through Reconstruction.

• Features images, poems, newspaper articles, and letters not found in other collections
• Offers a balanced approach to women's experiences by representing a diversity of voices and focusing on themes of work, citizenship, representations, and domestic lives
• Includes an introductory chapter, document headnotes, questions for further discussion after each chapter, and a...

The Vietnam War is an outstanding collection of primary documents related to America's conflict in Vietnam which includes a balance of original American and Vietnamese perspectives, providing a uniquely varied range of insights into both American and Vietnamese experiences.

• Includes substantial non-American content, including many original English translations of Vietnamese-authored texts which showcase the diversity and complexity of Vietnamese experiences during the war
• Contains original American documents germane to the continuing debates about the causes,...

The Modern American Metropolis: A Documentary Reader introduces the history of American cities and suburbs through a collection of original source materials that historians have long used to make sense of the urban experience.

• Carefully integrates and juxtaposes the primary sources that are at the heart of the collection
• Revisits and compares issues and themes over time
• Reveals how the history of cities and suburbs is not limited to buildings, innovation, and politics, and not confined to municipal boundaries
• Explores a wide variety of topics,...