Includes bibliographical references and index. New Book -- June -- 2015
Contents:
Volume 1. Antebellum law and politics -- Manifest destiny -- The spirit of reform -- volume 2. African American protest literature -- The new American identity -- Religious expansion -- Native American land and autonomy. Volume 1. Antebellum law and politics. Speech in Congress on the War of 1812 ; McCulloch v. Maryland ; The Monroe Doctrine ; Gibbons v. Ogden ; President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress "On Indian Removal" ; Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable ; Cherokee Nation v. Georgia ; Fugitive Slave Act ; Compromise of 1850 ; Dred Scott v. Sandford ; Lincoln's "House Divided" Speech ; On the Irrepressible Conflict ; Supplemental Historical Documents: Message to the Senate and House Regarding South Carolina's Nullification Ordinance -- Manifest destiny. Louisiana Purchase Treaty ; The Journals of Lewis and Clark ; California and Its Inhabitants ; On Texan Independence ; A Foreigner in My Own Land ; Across the Plains in 1844 ; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ; People v. Hall ; On Seizing Land from Native Californians ; The Discovery of Gold in California ; Supplemental Historical Documents: Present at the Beginning of the Gold Rush ; Regarding Oregon Statehood ; Compelled to Sell, Little by Little -- The spirit of reform. "Observations on the Real Rights of Women" ; A Plan for Improving Female Education ; Condition of Women ; The Nature and Occasions of Intemperance ; Address Delivered before the General Trades' Union of the City of New York ; Lowell Mill Girls ; The Sphere of Woman and Man as Moral Beings the Same ; Self-Reliance ; The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men, Woman versus Women ; Manifesto of Robert Owen ; Address to the First Women's Rights Convention, July 19, 1848 ; Resistance to Civil Government ; The Trial of John Brown ; Supplemental Historical Documents: The Rights of Man to Property ; The Education of Free Men ; The New "Democratic" Doctrine -- volume 2. African American protest literature. African American Protest Literature. An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade ; A Thanksgiving Sermon on Abolition of the Slave Trade ; The Confessions of Nat Turner ; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave ; Narrative of Sojourner Truth ; Uncle Tom's Cabin ; Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup ; Supplemental Historical Documents: David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World ; I Will Sink or Swim with My Race -- The new American identity. Oration before the Shamrock Friendly Association ; Democracy in America ; The Colored American ; Declaration of Principles of the Native American Convention ; A Woman's Trip across the Plains ; An Emigrant's Narrative; or, A Voice from the Steerage ; A Chinese American Protest ; Germans in America Are on the Rise ; Supplemental Historical Documents: The Voice of Warning to the Native-Born Patriots of Our Country ; Progress and Extent of Immigration Prior to 1819 ; On the Description of Persons to Whom Emigration Would Be Most Beneficial ; Editorial on Ethnic Colonies in Alabama and Illinois -- Religious expansion. The Kentucky Revival; or, A Short History of the Late Extraordinary Out-Pouring of the Spirit of God ; Declaration and Address of the Christian Association of Washington ; Spiritual Freedom ; Lectures on Revivals of Religion ; Petition to the US Congress Regarding the Great Influx of Roman Catholics ; I Believe in the Divinity of Labor ; Colored Churches in This City ; Plan of the West Roxbury Community ; General Remarks on the State of Theological Opinion in America -- Native American land and autonomy. Tecumseh's Speeches to Governor William Harrison and General Henry Procter ; An Indian's Looking Glass for the White Man ; Supplemental Historical Documents: Red Jacket's Speech to Reverend Jacob Cram ; We Love the Land That Covers the Bones of Our Fathers ; Resolutions of the Treaty Party ; Memorial of the Cherokee Nation ; Address on the Present Condition and Prospects of Aboriginal Inhabitants of North America.
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