- Period 1 (1491-1607)
- The Columbian Exchange
- Indian Slavery in the Americas
- Bartolome de Las Casa debates the subjigation of the Indians 1550 (primary source)
- Native Americans Discover Europeans
- Speech to Captain John Smith (primary source)
- Mounting Conflict with Native Americans
- The Black Legend (primary source)
- A Critique of the Slave Trade (primary source)
- Period 2 (1607-1754)
- The Discovery of the Americas and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- England on the Eve of Exploration
- Justifications for English Involvement in the New World (primary source)
- Jamestown and the Founding of English America
- A Jamestown Settler Describes Life in Virginia, 1622 (primary source)
- Indentured Servant Experience Letter 1623 (primary source)
- Voyage from Africa 1756 (primary source)
- Immigrant’s Journey (primary source)
- The Pilgrims Arrive in Plymouth (primary source)
- Mayflower Compact (primary source)
- Reasons for Puritan Migration (primary source)
- Colonial Comparisons
- City Upon a Hill (primary source)
- Indentured Servitude (primary source)
- Coexistence and Conflict in the Spanish Southwest: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 (primary source)
- The Quaker Ideal of Religious Tolerance (primary source)
- Coexistence and Conflict in the Spanish Southwest: The California Missions (primary source)
- The Puritans and Dissent: The Case of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
- Husbands, Wives etc in Puritan Society
- Atlantic Slave Trade Dueling Secondary Sources
- Slavery in Colonial British North America
- Slavery and the Making of America
- Slavery is Immoral-Moral? (primary source)
- Fear of Slave Revolts (primary source)
- Period 3 (1754-1800)
- Benjamin Franklin and the Stamp Act Crisis (primary source)
- A Report on Reaction to the Stamp Act, 1765 (primary source)
- A British View of Rebellious Boston, 1774 (primary source)
- Bostonian’s Protest the Townshend Acts (primary source)
- James Otis Describes the Situation in the American Colonies in 1769 (primary source)
- Accusations that the British Are Plotting to Deprive Americans of their Liberties (primary source)
- Boston Tea Party (primary source)
- The Continental Congress Expresses Fear that British Policies Will Reduce the Colonists to Slavery (primary source)
- Common Sense (primary source)
- Virginia Declaration of Rights (primary source)
- A Patriots Letter to His Loyalist Father (primary source)
- Native Americans and the American Revolution (primary source)
- James Madison and the Constitution
- Virginia Statute for Religion Freedom (primary source)
- George Washington discusses Shays’ Rebellion and the upcoming Constitutional Convention, 1787 (primary source)
- Letter to Henry Knox about Shays’ Rebellion (primary source)
- Pro Ratification- Edmund Pendleton (primary source)
- Objections to the Constitution- Edmund Randolph (primary source)
- Letter to the MA. State Legislature Explaining His Reasons for Not Signing the Constitution- Elbridge Gerry (primary source)
- Ratification Debate Over the Constitution- Should Republic Be Small or Large? (primary source)
- Pro-Slavery Document (primary source)
- On the Equality of the Sexes- Judith Sargent Murray (primary source)
- Proclamation of Neutrality (primary source)
- Washington on Political Partisanship (primary source)
- Washington Farewell Address (primary source)
- Period 4 (1800-1848)
- Jefferson’s letter to Meriwether Lewis (primary source)
- The Complexities of U.S.-Indian Relations (primary source)
- The Missouri Crisis (primary source)
- Thomas Jefferson on Partisan Politics During the Early 1820s (primary source)
- A Founding Father on the Missouri Compromise, 1819 (primary source)
- Andrew Jackson and the Constitution
- Andrew Jackson’s Shifting Legacy
- Andrew Jackson to the Cherokee Tribe, 1835
- Responses to Indian Removal (primary source)
- A Member of Congress Speaks Out Against the Removal Policy (primary source)
- Jackson Defends the Removal Policy (primary source)
- Indians Should/Should Not be Removed to the West (primary source)
- Nullification and the Bank War: John C. Calhoun in the Connecticut Herald (primary source)
- Andrew Jackson Denounces Nullification in a Presidential Proclamation (primary source)
- South Carolina Governor Robert Y. Hayne on the Nullification Crisis (primary source)
- Does Immigration Harm or Hurt America? (primary source)
- Education Reform in Antebellum America
- Temperance (primary source)
- The Rights and the Condition of Women (primary source)
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton Addresses a Women’s Rights Convention in 1848 (primary source)
- Seneca Falls Declaration (primary source)
- Abolition and Antebellum Reform
- Abolition and Religion
- Angelina and Sarah Grimke: Abolitionists Sisters
- William Lloyd Garrison :To the Public Speech (primary source)
- Henry Clay on Slavery (primary source)
- Franklin Pierce on Slavery (primary source)
- William Henry Harrison Discusses the Politics of Slavery (primary source)
- Testimony of Sarah M. Grimké on Slavery (primary source)
- Testimony of Angelina Grimké on Slavery (primary source)
- An Abolitionist Calls Slavery the True Cause of the Texas Revolution (primary source)
- Ain’t I a Woman? Sojourner Truth (primary source)
- John C. Calhoun-Slavery as a Positive Good (primary source)
- Period 5 (1844-1877)
- The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (primary source)
- Bleeding Kansas (primary source)
- Hinton Rowan Helper on the Impending Crisis of the South (primary source)
- The Dred Scott Decision (primary source)
- Lincoln and Abolitionism
- Lincoln’s Stand on Slavery in the 1858 Illinois Senate Campaign (primary source)
- Stephen Douglas and the Freeport Doctrine (primary source)
- Fragment of Abraham Lincoln’s House Divided Speech (primary source)
- Lincoln Traces the Development of his Attitudes toward Slavery and Equality (primary source)
- Cotton Is King: Pro-Slavery Arguments (primary source)
- Pro-Slavery Arguments: The Biblical Argument (primary source)
- Alexander Stephens “Cornerstone Speech” (primary source)
- South Carolina Secedes from the Union (primary source)
- The Secession Crisis-Jefferson Davis (primary source)
- Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address (primary source)
- Emancipation Proclamation (primary source)
- Gettysburg Address (primary source)
- Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus (primary source)
- Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (primary source)
- The Civil War and Reconstruction in the American West
- Black Code of St. Landry’s Parish (primary source)
- Period 6 (1865-1898)
- The Sand Creek Massacre (primary source)
- American Indians and the Transcontinental Railroad
- New Directions in Government Indian Policy (primary source)
- Reforming Indian Policy-Helen Hunt Jackson (primary source)
- Rules for Indian Schools-Gov’t Official Describes Indian Culture (primary source)
- Homestead Act (primary source)
- Pacific Railway Act (primary source)
- Homesteading in South Dakota-Montana Cow Town (primary source)
- Chief Joseph (primary source)
- Dawes Act (primary source)
- A White Labor Leader Attacks Chinese Immigration (primary source)
- A Defense of Chinese Immigration (primary source)
- Documents Relating to the Wounded Knee Massacre (primary source)
- The Industrial Revolution
- Entrepreneurs and Bankers: The Evolution of Corporate Empires
- Coming to America: Ellis Island and New York City
- Wealth-Andrew Carnegie (primary source)
- Mary Elizabeth Lease: Populist Reformer
- The Matter With Kansas
- Period 7 (1890-1945)
- The United States and the Caribbean-1877-1920
- The War Against Spain in the Philippines in 1898
- Decision on the Philippines (primary source)
- Progressive Reform and the Trusts (primary sources)
- Lynch Law in America (primary source)
- World War I (primary sources)
- Recruiting Posters for African-Americans (primary source)
- Prohibition and its Effects
- 1920’s Happines Marriage-Sanger-Movies Concern (primary source)
- 1920’s Immigration Restriction-National Origins (primary source)
- 2006 Immigration Restriction Muslims (primary source)
- 1920’s Klans Fight for Americanism (primary source)
- “Ditched, Stalled and Stranded”: Dorthea Lang and The Great Depression
- The Great Depression, the New Deal and World War in the American West
- Women and the Great Depression
- Repatriation During the Great Depression (primary source)
- A New Deal for Native Americans (primary source)
- The New Deal Would Help/Hurt America (primary sources)
- 1930’s Depression-Philly-Okies (primary source)
- Pearl Harbor Speech: Day of Infamy (primary source)
- Every Citizen a Soldier:World War II on the American Home Front
- FDR and Hitler: A Study in Contrasts
- A Soldier’s Reasons for Enlisting (primary source)
- Four Freedoms speech (primary source)
- Executive Order 9066: Ordering Internment (primary source)
- The Zoot Suit Riots (primary source)
- Was Internment Constitutional? (primary source)
- 1940’s WWII People Are Willing
- 1940’s WWII Women Welder-Conditions in Camps (primary source)
- Truman’s Diary on the Atomic Bomb (primary source)
- Account of the bombing of Hiroshima (primary source)
- Period 8 (1945-1980)
- Truman and His Doctrine:Revolutionary, Unprecedented and Bipartisan
- Anti-Communism in the 1950’s
- Guided Readings: Origins of the Cold War and Soviet-American Confrontation (primary sources)
- Guided Readings: Anti-Communism at Home (primary sources)
- Cold War, Warm Hearth
- Growth of Suburbia in the 1950’s
- Kennedy Inaugural Address (primary source)
- Letter From a Birmingham Jail (primary source)
- I Have a Dream (primary source)
- The Sixties and Protest Music
- Movement and the Sixties Generation
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (primary source)
- Viet Nam Vets Against War (primary source)
- Feminism Second Wave
- Problem with No Name- Betty Friedan
- Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy
- Period 9 (1980-Present)