Our Nation's Archive: The History of the United States in Documents - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1579120679 ISBN 13: 9781579120672

Verlag: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, 1999

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Encompassing more than one thousand primary sources and documents, a history of the United States presents an array of articles, speeches, letters, court cases, and more, all organized chronologically and divided by subject, ranging from the Declaration of Independence and America's first cookbook to the Starr Report.

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A SWEEPING COLLECTION OF AMERICA'S DOCUMENTS DETAILING EVERY ASPECT OF OUR NATION'S STORIED HISTORY

Iroquois Federal Constitution / Contract with America / The Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh / Transcripts from the Salem Witch Trials / Roe v. Wade / William Penn's Plan of Union / Benjamin Franklin's Advice to a Young Tradesman / Sermons of Jonathan Edwards / George Washington's Farewell Address / The Declaration of Independence / "Yankee Doodle" / Robert E. Lee's Farewell to his Army / Thomas Jefferson on Religion / The Northwest Ordinance / The United States Constituion / The Federalist Papers / The Bill of Rights / Early American Recipies / Letter to Mrs. Bixby / The Sherman Antitrust Act / Madison v. Madbury / The Louisiana Purchase / "City of the Big Shoulders" / Journals of Lewis & Clark / "The Star-Spangled Banner" / McCulloch v. Marlyand / The Monroe Doctrine / Theodore Roosevelt on "The Strenuous Life" / Memoirs of Davy Crockett / Confessions of Nat Turner / Journals from the Trail of Tears / Dorothea Dix Demands Social Action / Baseball's Original Rules / "I have a dream" / Sam Houston on the Annexation of Texas / Henry David Thoreau on Civil Disobediance / Writings of Frederick Douglass / The Jungle / Sojourner Truth on Women's Suffrage / Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850 / Dred Scott Decision / The Gettysburg Address / Constitution of the Confederate States of America / Horace Greely's Appeal to Licoln / History from a Confederate Textbook / Emancipation Proclamation / Memories of Gettysburg / Ulysses S. Grant on the Assault at Cold Harbor / The Stories of Horatio Alger / Seward's Folly / Declaration of World War I / Exploits of Bufflao Bill Cody / The Ballad of John Henry / "I Am Woman" / Black Elk Speaks / The G. I. Bill / Thomas Paine's Common Sense

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• Verlag: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1579120679
• ISBN 13: 9781579120672
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 886
• Herausgeber: Bruun Erik A., Crosby Jay