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Give Me Liberty!

First Seagull Edition Contents

  • Part 1 - American Colonies, to 1763
  • 1. A New World
    • The Expansion of Europe
    • Peoples of the Americas
    • The Spanish Empire
    • The First North Americans
    • England and the New World
    • The Freeborn Englishman
    • Voices of Freedom: From Henry Care, English Liberties, or, The Free-Born Subject’s Inheritance (1680)
  • 2. American Beginnings, 1607–1650
    • The Coming of the English
    • Settling the Chesapeake
    • Origins of American Slavery
    • The New England Way
    • Voices of Freedom: From John Winthrop’s Speech to the Massachusetts General Court, July 3, 1645
    • New Englanders Divided
    • The New England Economy
  • 3. Crisis and Expansion : North American Colonies, 1650–1750
    • Empires in Conflict
    • The Expansion of England’s Empire
    • Voices of Freedom: From William Penn, England’s Present Interests Discovered (1675)
    • Colonies in Crisis
    • The Eighteenth Century: A Growing Society
    • Social Classes in the Colonies
  • 4. Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire, to 1763
    • Slavery and the Empire
    • Slave Culture and Slave Resistance
    • An Empire of Freedom
    • The Public Sphere
    • The Great Awakening
    • Imperial Rivalries
    • Battle for the Continent
    • Voices of Freedom: From Pontiac, Speeches (1762 and 1763)
  • Part 2 - A New Nation, 1763–1840
  • 5. The American Revolution, 1763–1783
    • The Crisis Begins
    • The Road to Revolution
    • The Coming of Independence
    • Voices of Freedom: From Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
    • Securing Independence
  • 6. The Revolution Within
    • Democratizing Freedom
    • Toward Religious Liberty
    • Defining Economic Freedom
    • The Limits of Liberty
    • Slavery and the Revolution
    • Voices of Freedom: From Petitions of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature (1773 and 1777)
    • Daughters of Liberty
  • 7. Founding a Nation, 1783–1789
    • America Under the Articles of Confederation
    • A New Constitution
    • The Ratification Debate and the Origin of the Bill of Rights
    • Voices of Freedom: From James Madison, The Federalist 51, and Anti-Federalist essay signed "Brutus" (1787)
    • We the People
  • 8. Securing the Republic, 1790–1815
    • Politics in an Age of Passion
    • Voices of Freedom: From Address of the Democratic-Republican Society of Pennsylvania (December 18, 1794)
    • The Adams Presidency
    • Jefferson in Power
    • The "Second War for Independence"
  • 9. The Market Revolution
    • A New Economy
    • Market Society
    • Voices of Freedom: From Josephine L. Baker, "A Second Peep at Factory Life," Lowell Offering (1845)
    • The Free Individual
    • The Limits of Prosperity
  • 10. Democracy in America, 1815–1840
    • The Triumph of Democracy
    • Voices of Freedom: From "The Memorial of the Non-Freeholders of the City of Richmond" (1829)
    • Nationalism and Its Discontents
    • Nation, Section, and Party
    • The Age of Jackson
    • The Bank War and After
  • Part 3 - Slavery, Freedom, and The Crisis of the Union, 1840–1877
  • 11. The Peculiar Institution
    • The Old South
    • Voices of Freedom: From John C. Calhoun, Speech in Congress (1837)
    • Life under Slavery
    • Slave Culture
    • Resistance to Slavery
  • 12. An Age of Reform, 1820–1840
    • The Reform Impulse
    • The Crusade against Slavery
    • Black and White Abolitionism
    • The Origins of Feminism
    • Voices of Freedom: From Angelina Grimké, Letter in The Liberator (August 2, 1837)
  • 13. A House Divided, 1840–1861
    • Fruits of Manifest Destiny
    • A Dose of Arsenic
    • The Rise of the Republican Party
    • Voices of Freedom: From William H. Seward, "The Irrepressible Conflict" (1858)
    • The Emergence of Lincoln
    • The Impending Crisis
  • 14. A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861–1865
    • The First Modern War
    • The Coming of Emancipation
    • Voices of Freedom: From Abraham Lincoln, Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore (April 18, 1864)
    • The Second American Revolution
    • The Confederate Nation
    • Turning Points
    • Rehearsals for Reconstruction and the End of the War
  • Beginning of Volume 2
  • 15. "What is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865–1877
    • The Meaning of Freedom
    • Voices of Freedom: From Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865)
    • The Making of Radical Reconstruction
    • Radical Reconstruction in the South
    • The Overthrow of Reconstruction
  • End of Volume 1
  • Part 4 - Toward a Global Presence: 1870–1920
  • 16. America’s Gilded Age, 1870–1890
    • The Second Industrial Revolution
    • The Transformation of the West
    • Voices of Freedom: From Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé Indians, Speech in Washington, D. C. (1879)
    • Politics in a Gilded Age
    • Freedom in the Gilded Age
    • Labor and the Republic
  • 17. Freedom’s Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890–1900
    • The Populist Challenge
    • The Segregated South
    • Redrawing the Boundaries
    • Voices of Freedom: From Saum Song Bo, Letter in American Missionary (October 1885)
    • Becoming a World Power
  • 18. The Progressive Era, 1900–1916
    • An Urban Age and a Consumer Society
    • Voices of Freedom: From Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898)
    • Changing Ideas of Freedom
    • The Politics of Progressivism
    • The Progressive Presidents
  • 19. To Make the World Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916–1920
    • An Era of Intervention
    • America and the Great War
    • The War at Home
    • Voices of Freedom: From Eugene V. Debs’s Speech to the Jury before Sentencing under the Espionage Act (1918)
    • Who Is an American?
    • 1919
  • Part 5 - Depression and Wars: 1920–1953
  • 20. From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920–1932
    • The Business of America
    • Voices of Freedom: From André Siegfried, "The Gulf Between," Atlantic Monthly (March 1928)
    • Business and Government
    • The Birth of Civil Liberties
    • The Culture Wars
    • The Great Depression
  • 21. The New Deal, 1932–1940
    • The First New Deal
    • The Grassroots Revolt
    • Voices of Freedom: From John L. Lewis, Radio Address, "Industrial Democracy in Steel" (July 1936)
    • The Second New Deal
    • A Reckoning with Liberty
    • The Limits of Change
    • A New Conception of America
  • 22. Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941–1945
    • Fighting World War II
    • The Home Front
    • Visions of Postwar Freedom
    • The American Dilemma
    • Voices of Freedom: From Justice Robert H. Jackson, Dissent in Korematsu v. United States (July 1944)
    • The End of the War
  • 23. America and the Cold War, 1945–1953
    • Origins of the Cold War
    • The Cold War and the Idea of Freedom
    • The Truman Presidency
    • The Anticommunist Crusade
    • Voices of Freedom: From Henry Steele Commager, "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper’s (September 1947)
  • Part 6 - What Kind of Nation? 1953–2004
  • 24. An Affluent Society, 1953–1960
    • The Golden Age
    • The Eisenhower Era
    • The Freedom Movement
    • Voices of Freedom: From Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech at Montgomery, Alabama (December 5, 1955)
    • The Election of 1960
  • 25. The Sixties: 1960–1968
    • The Freedom Movement
    • The Kennedy Years
    • Lyndon Johnson’s Presidency
    • The Changing Black Movement
    • Vietnam and the New Left
    • Voices of Freedom: From Tom Hayden and others, The Port Huron Statement (June 1962)
    • The New Movements and the Rights Revolution
    • 1968
  • 26. The Triumph of Conservatism: 1969–1988
    • The Rebirth of Conservatism
    • Voices of Freedom: From Young Americans for Freedom, The Sharon Statement (September 1960)
    • President Nixon
    • Vietnam and Watergate
    • The End of the Golden Age
    • The Rising Tide of Conservatism
    • The Reagan Revolution
  • 27. Globalization and Its Discontents: 1989–2000
    • Voices of Freedom: From Global Exchange, Seattle, Declaration for Global Democracy (December 1999)
    • The Post-Cold War World
    • A New Economy?
    • Culture Wars
    • Impeachment and the Election of 2000
    • Freedom and the New Century
  • 28. Epilogue: September 11 and the Next American Century
    • The War on Terrorism
    • Voices of Freedom: From The National Security Strategy of the United States (September, 2002)
    • The Aftermath of September 11 at Home
    • Learning from History
  • Appendix
  • Documents
    • The Declaration of Independence
    • The Constitution of the United States
    • from George Washington’s Farewell Address
    • from Frederick Douglass’s "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro"
    • The Seneca Falls Declaration and Resolutions
    • The Gettysburg Address
    • Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
    • The Omaha Platform
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address
    • Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, "I Have a Dream" Speech
  • Tables
    • Presidential Elections
    • Admission of States
    • United States Population
    • Historical Statistics:
      • Workforce
      • Immigration
  • Glossary
  • Credits
  • Index

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