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The Brief American Pageant
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Sixth Edition
David M. Kennedy, Stanford University
Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University
Thomas A. Bailey
Mel Piehl, Valparaiso University
Primary Sources
Title
Details
Cahokia
Chapter:
1
Date:
c. 1200
Author:
Lloyd K. Townsend
Description:
Monk's Mound
Type:
Painting
Indians of New Netherlands Account for the Creation
Chapter:
1
Date:
c. 1650s
Author:
Indians of New Netherlands
Description:
An Indian Creation Story
Type:
Text
English Trade with Indians
Chapter:
2
Date:
1634
Author:
Theodor de Bry
Description:
A trade encounter between the Indians and the English
Type:
Drawing
Indentured Servitude in the Chesapeake
Chapter:
4
Date:
1640
Author:
Virginia General Court
Description:
Court Judgement
Type:
Text
Land Division in New Orleans
Chapter:
5
Date:
c. 1720
Author:
unknown
Description:
The "long lot" system
Type:
Map
Virginia Gentleman Weighs "a Frail Woman's" Class
Chapter:
5
Date:
c. 1730
Author:
William Byrd, II
Description:
A response to the elopement of an upper-class woman with an overseer
Type:
Text
Charleston, SC Sons of Liberty
Chapter:
7
Date:
1766
Author:
Anonymous
Description:
Patriot List
Type:
Text
The Copley Family
Chapter:
7
Date:
1776-1777
Author:
John Singleton Copley
Description:
Family Portrait
Type:
Painting
A Profile of Loyalist Claims
Chapter:
8
Date:
1780
Author:
Wallace Brown
Description:
Claimant List
Type:
Text
Washington's Farewell Address
Chapter:
10
Date:
1796
Author:
George Washington
Description:
Our first President cautions the young nation
Type:
Text
Lewis & Clark: A Scientific Interest...
Chapter:
11
Date:
1805
Author:
Meriweather Lewis
Description:
Journal Entry
Type:
Illustration/Text
Lewis & Clark: A Modern View
Chapter:
11, 44
Date:
1998
Author:
John Klossner
Description:
Cartoon
Type:
Illustration
Veto of the Bank of the United States
Chapter:
14
Date:
1832
Author:
Andrew Jackson
Description:
Speech
Type:
Text
Removal of the Eastern Indians
Chapter:
14
Date:
1840
Author:
Description:
Forced Migration Routes
Type:
Map
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
Chapter:
15
Date:
1794
Author:
Houghton Mifflin Company
Description:
Animation of the operation of a cotton gin
Type:
Animation
Domestic Economy
Chapter:
15, 16
Date:
1841
Author:
Catherine E. Beecher
Description:
Essay
Type:
Text
Rules for Husbands and Wives
Chapter:
16
Date:
1830
Author:
Mathew Carey
Description:
Views on the Role of Women
Type:
Text
Early Evidence of Sexual Tensions Within Slavery
Chapter:
17
Date:
1681
Author:
unknown
Description:
A white woman testifies of sexual assualt by a mulatto man
Type:
Text
Manifest Destiny
Chapter:
18
Date:
1845
Author:
John L. Sullivan
Description:
The origins
Type:
Text
Black Potential and the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
Chapter:
20
Date:
1853
Author:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Description:
Author's defense of the factual basis of her novel
Type:
Text
South Carolina Defines the Causes of Secession
Chapter:
20
Date:
1860
Author:
unknown
Description:
South Carolina's reasons for Secession
Type:
Text
Confederate Dead at Gettysburg
Chapter:
22
Date:
1863
Author:
Alexander Gardner et al.
Description:
Battle Aftermath
Type:
Photograph
Thomas Wentworth Higginson Assesses the Black Soldier
Chapter:
22
Date:
1870
Author:
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Description:
Account of a black Civil War regiment by their commander
Type:
Text
Louisiana Black Code
Chapter:
23
Date:
1865
Author:
Louisiana
Description:
Reconstruction-era "black codes" restrict blacks' rights in the South
Type:
Text
Southern Skepticism of the Freedmen's Bureau
Chapter:
23
Date:
1866
Author:
James D. B. De Bow
Description:
A leading Southern writer's comments
Type:
Text
Political Symbols
Chapter:
24
Date:
1874
Author:
Thomas Nast
Description:
Political Cartoon
Type:
Illustration
Chinese in San Francisco
Chapter:
24
Date:
1885
Author:
San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Description:
Living conditions in Chinatown
Type:
Text
Strike of 1877
Chapter:
25
Date:
1877
Author:
Allan Pinkerton
Description:
"Pinkerton-men" as strikebreakers
Type:
Text
American Woman's Home
Chapter:
26
Date:
1869
Author:
Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
Description:
Patternbook Perspective Drawing & Floor-plan
Type:
Illustration
Montana v. Rehberg
Chapter:
26, 27
Date:
1885
Author:
Anonymous
Description:
Court Transcript
Type:
Text
Consumerism
Chapter:
26, 34
Date:
1890-1926
Author:
Description:
Personal & Business Income
Type:
Table
How the Other Half Lives
Chapter:
26
Date:
1890
Author:
Jacob Riis
Description:
Life of the poor in the city
Type:
Text
Booker T. Washington and Others
Chapter:
26
Date:
1903
Author:
W. E. B. Du Bois
Description:
Criticism of Washington's views
Type:
Text
Whitman Salutes the Indo-Hispanic Conrtibution to America
Chapter:
27
Date:
1883
Author:
Walt Whitman
Description:
Indian & Hispanic role in the growth of the U.S.
Type:
Text
The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Chapter:
27
Date:
1893
Author:
Frederick Jackson Turner
Description:
Importance of the frontier in shaping American character
Type:
Text
Populist Party Platform
Chapter:
28
Date:
1892
Author:
Populist Party
Description:
New political party calls for radical changes
Type:
Text
Mahan Defines Security in Terms of Sea Power
Chapter:
29, 30
Date:
1897
Author:
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Description:
Military/Geo-Political Theory
Type:
Text
Attack on the Meatpackers
Chapter:
31
Date:
1906
Author:
Upton Sinclair
Description:
"Muckraker's" indictment
Type:
Text
American Neutrality Policy
Chapter:
32
Date:
1914
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
Description:
Statement of WWI neutrality in Europe
Type:
Text
The Visual Image of the Enemy
Chapter:
33
Date:
1913
Author:
Description:
Political Cartoon
Type:
Illustration
Susan LaFollette on Marriage and Divorce
Chapter:
33
Date:
1929
Author:
Susan LaFollette
Description:
A view of divorce in the 1920s
Type:
Text
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Chapter:
35
Date:
1928
Author:
U.S. Government
Description:
Multilateral treaty for world peace
Type:
Text
Oct. 29, Dies Irae
Chapter:
35
Date:
1929
Author:
James N. Rosenberg
Description:
Events of October 29, 1929
Type:
Political Cartoon
Depression and the New Deal
Chapter:
36
Date:
1929-1942
Author:
Description:
Unemployment Figures
Type:
Chart
Broke—Baby Sick—Car Trouble
Chapter:
36
Date:
1937
Author:
Dorothea Lange
Description:
A family moving west
Type:
Photograph
World War II Homefront
Chapter:
38
Date:
1942
Author:
Description:
Internal Migration
Type:
Map
Effects of the Atomic Bomb
Chapter:
38
Date:
1945
Author:
The United States Bombing Survey
Description:
Government Report
Type:
Text
Truman Doctrine
Chapter:
39
Date:
1947
Author:
Harry S. Truman
Description:
A call to action
Type:
Text
Father Knows Best
Chapter:
40
Date:
1954
Author:
Anonymous
Description:
Sitcom Still
Type:
Photograph
Watts Riots
Chapter:
41
Date:
1965
Author:
California Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots
Description:
Compilation of L.A. police records
Type:
Text
Voting Literacy Test
Chapter:
41
Date:
1965
Author:
Anonymous
Description:
State Voting Test
Type:
Text
John Kerry Questions a War Gone Wrong
Chapter:
42
Date:
1971
Author:
U.S. Government
Description:
Congressional hearing on Vietnam
Type:
Text
Support for the Contras
Chapter:
43
Date:
1984
Author:
Ronald Reagan
Description:
U.S. involvement in Nicaragua
Type:
Text
Challenger: An Accident Rooted in History...
Chapter:
43
Date:
1986
Author:
Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
Description:
Pictograph of O-ring Damage
Type:
Chart
Events in Waco: House Judiciary Committee Investigation
Chapter:
43
Date:
1993
Author:
Janet Reno
Description:
Attorney General's Testimony
Type:
Text
Country of Origin and Year of Entry into the U.S.
Chapter:
44
Date:
1997
Author:
U.S. Census Bureau
Description:
Foreign-born citizenship status
Type:
Table
