Description: *New to this edition VOLUME ONE Introduction: Using Sources to Study the Past PART ONE Indians and Europeans: New World Encounters Points of View: Contact and Conquest (1502-1521) [ 1. Hernando Corts , Dispatches of the Conquest from the New World [ 2. A Nahua Account of the Conquest of Mexico 3. Bartolom de Las Casas , Destruction of the Indies 4. John Smith , Description of Virginia 5. Father Paul Le Jeune , Encounter with the Indians *6. Adriaen van der Donck , Debating the Value of the American Colonies VISUAL PORTFILIO: New World Images PART TWO The Colonial Experience: A Rapidly Changing Society *Points of View: Captured by Indians in Colonial America [ 7. Mary Rowlandson , Prisoner of War [ *8. Mary Jemison , Captivity in a Different Light 9. Pedro Naranjo and Josephe , Testimony of Pueblo Indians 10. Olaudah Equiano , The African Slave Trade 11. Gottlieb Mittelberger , On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants *12. Eliza Lucas Pinckney , Daughter, Wife, Mother, and Planter 13. Benjamin Franklin , Defending Colonial Activities before Parliament *VISUAL PORTFOLIO: Mapmaking and Colonialism in the New World PART THREE Resistance and Revolution: Struggling for Liberty Points of View: The Boston Massacre (1770) [ 14. Thomas Preston , A British Officer''s Description [ 15. George Robert Twelves Hewes, John Tudor, and the Boston Gazette and Country Journal, Colonial Accounts VISUAL PORTFOLIO: Patriot and Loyalist Propaganda 16. Joseph Plumb Martin , A Soldier''s View of the Revolutionary War 17. Boston King , Choosing Sides 18. Catherine Van Cortlandt , Secret Correspondence of a Loyalist Wife 19. Abigail Adams , Republican Motherhood 20. George Richards Minot , Shays''s Rebellion: Prelude to the Constitution PART FOUR Defining America: The Expanding Nation Points of View: Religion in the New Nation (1770-1830) [ 21. James McGready , The Great Revival of 1800 [ *22. Richard Allen , Early Steps toward Freedom 23. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark , Crossing the Continent *24. Thomas Swann Woodcock , The Erie Canal: Providing Passage for a Growing Nation 25. John Ross , The Trail of Tears 26. Priscilla Merriman Evans , Pulling a Handcart to the Mormon Zion 27. An Officer of the "Army of the West" , How the West Was Won 28. Guadalupe Vallejo et al. , Life in California before the Gold Discovery 29. Daguerreotype by Joseph B. Starkweather , Miners during the California Gold Rush * PART FIVE Reimagining Family, Community, and Society: An Age of Reform * Points of View: The Prison Reform Movement in the Early Republic [ *30. Charles Dickens , Philadelphia and Its Solitary Prison [ *31. Frederick Marryat , A Different View of Solitary Confinement *32. Harriet Hanson Robinson , The Lowell Textile Workers 33. Harriet Jacobs , The Life of a Female Slave 34. Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Pioneering Women''s Rights *35. Charles Grandison Finney , Calling Out the Masses to God *36. Sylvester Graham , Crusading for Dietary Reform *PART SIX The Growing Sectional Controversy: Slavery and Its Discontents Points of View: Nat Turner''s Rebellion (1831) [ 37. Nat Turner , A Slave Insurrection [ 38. William Lloyd Garrison , Who Is to Blame? [ *39. James Henry Hammond , Defending Slavery 40. Henry "Box" Brown , A Family Torn Apart by Slavery *41. Osborne P. Anderson , An African American at Harpers Ferry *42. Carl Schurz , Free Labor, Free Men *43. William H. Seward , Westward Expansion and American Slavery VISUAL PORTFOLIO: Slavery and Freedom PART SEVEN Civil War and Reconstruction: The Price of War *Points of View: The Gathering Storm (1860) [ *44. Robert Toombs , Immediate Secession [ *45. Alexander H. Stephens , A Course of Moderation 46. Ellen Leonard , Three Days of Terror: The New York City Draft Riots 47. Samuel and Rachel Cormany , The Battle of Gettysburg: On the Field and at Home 48. Black Union Soldiers , Fighting for the Union 49. Cornelia Hancock , Healing Wounds 50. Henry William Ravenel , A Slave Owner''s Journal at the End of the War 51. Photograph by George N. Barnard , Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865 or 1866 * VISUAL PORTFOLIO: The Civil War Presidency through the Eyes of Political Cartoonists

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