Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History, 2e : W. W. Norton College Books

VOLUME 1
Chapter 1: A New World
1. Adam Smith, The Results of Colonization (1776)
2. Giovanni da Verrazano, Encountering Native Americans (1524)
3. Bartolomé de las Casas on Spanish Treatment of the Indians, from History of the Indies (1528)
4. The Pueblo Revolt (1680)
5. Father Jean de Brébeuf on the Customs and Beliefs of the Hurons (1635)
6. A Micmac Indian Replies to the French (1677)
Chapter 2: American Beginnings
7. Richard Hakluyt, an Argument for Colonization from A
Discourse Concerning Western Planting (1584)
8. Sending Women to Virginia (1622)
9. Maryland Act Concerning Religion (1644)
10. John Winthrop, Speech to the Massachusetts General Court (1645)
11. The Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637)
12. The Levellers, The Agreement of the People Presented to the
Council of the Army (1647)
13. Henry Care, English Liberties, or the Free-Born Subject's
Inheritance (1680)
Chapter 3: Creating Anglo-America, 1650–1750
14. New York Charter of Liberties and Privileges
15. William Penn on Religious Liberty, from England's Present Interests Discovered (1675)
16. Nathaniel Bacon on Bacon's Rebellion (1676)
17. Letter by an Immigrant to Pennsylvania (1769)
18. Gottlieb Mittelberger on the Trade in Indentured Servants (1750)
19. Complaint of an Indentured Servant (1756)
20. Woman in the Household Economy (1709)
Chapter 4 Slavery and Freedom to 1763
21. Olaudah Equiano on Slavery (1789)
22. Slave Conspiracy in Virginia (1709)
23. The Independent Reflector on Limited Monarchy and Liberty (1752)
24. The Trial of John Peter Zenger (1735)
25. A Defense of George Whitefield (1739)
26. Pontiac, Two Speeches (1762–1763)
Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1763–1783
27. Virginia Resolutions on the Stamp Act (1765)
28. Petition of North Carolina Regulators (1769)
29. Association of the New York Sons of Liberty (1773)
30. Farmington, Connecticut Resolutions on the Intolerable Acts (1774)
31. Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
32. James Chalmers, Plain Truth (1776)
Chapter 6: The Revolution Within
33. Abigail and John Adams on Women and the American Revolution (1776)
34. The Right of "Free Suffrage" (1776)
35. Thomas Jefferson, An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (1785)
36. Noah Webster on Equality (1787)
37. Liberating Indentured Servants (1784)
38. Petition of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature (1777)
39. Pennsylvania Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery (1780)
Chapter 7: Founding a Nation, 1783–1789
40. Petition of Inhabitants West of the Ohio River (1785)
41. James Madison, The Federalist, No. 51 (1787)
42. James Winthrop on the Anti-Federalist Argument (1787)
43. A July 4th Oration (1800)
44. Thomas Jefferson on Race and Slavery (1781)
Chapter 8: Securing the Republic, 1790–1815
45. William Manning on the Nature of Free Government (1799)
46. Address of the Democratic-Republican Society of Pennsylvania (1794)
47. Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes" (1790)
48. George Washington, Farewell Address (1796)
49. George Tucker on Gabriel's Rebellion (1801)
50. Tecumseh on Indians and Land (1810)
51. Felix Grundy, Battle Cry of the War Hawks (1811)
Chapter 9: The Market Revolution
52. Josephine L. Baker, "A Second Peep at Factory Life" (1840)
53. Immigrants Arriving in New York City (1853)
54. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" (1837)
55. Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
56. Charles G. Finney, "Sinners Bound to Change Their Own< Hearts" (1836)
57. Orestes Brownson, "The Laboring Classes" (1840)
Chapter 10: Democracy in America
58. "The Memorial of the Non-Freeholders of the City of Richmond" (1829)
59. John Quincy Adams on the Role of the National Government (1825)
60. John C. Calhoun, the Concurrent Majority (ca. 1845)
61. Chief Sharitarish on Changes in Indian Life (1822)
62. Appeal of the Cherokee Nation (1830)
63. Andrew Jackson, Veto of the Bank Bill (1832)
Chapter 11: The Peculiar Institution
64. Frederick Douglass on the Desire for Freedom (1845)
65. Rise of the Cotton Kingdom (1836)
66. J.D.B. De Bow, "The Non-Slaveholders of the South" (1860)
67. George Fitzhugh and the Proslavery Argument (1854)
68. Solomon Northrup, The New Orleans Slave Market (1853)
69. Letter By A Fugitive Slave (1840)
70. Confessions of Nat Turner (1831)
Chapter 12: An Age of Reform, 1820-1840
71. Robert Own, "The First Discourse on A New Slave System" (1825)
72. Philip Schaff on Freedom as Self-Restraint (1855)
73. Opening Editorial of The Liberator (1831)
74. Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July (1852)
75. Catherine Beecher on the "Duty of American Females" (1837)
76. Angelina Grimké on Women's Rights (1837)
77. Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Convention
(1848)
Chapter 13: A House Divided, 1840-1861
78. John L. O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny (1845)
79. Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" (1849)
80. George Henry Evans, Freedom of the Soil" (1844)
81. William Henry Seward, "The Irrepressible Conflict" (1858)
82. Hinton R. Helper, "The Impending Crisis" (1857)
83. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
84. South Carolina Ordinance of Secession (1860)
Chapter 14: A new Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865
85. Alexander H. Stephens, The Cornerstone of the Confederacy (1861)
86. Marcus M. Spiegel, Letter of a Civil War Solider (1864)
87. Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1963)
88. Frederick Douglass on Black Soldiers (1863)
89. Letter by the Mother of a Black Solider (1863)
90. Abraham Lincoln, Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore (1864)
91. Mary Livermore on Women and the War (1883)
Chapter 15: "What is Freedom?"Reconstruction, 1865-1877
92. "Colloquy With Colored Ministers" (1865)
93. Petition of Committee on Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865)
94. The Mississippi Black Code (1865)
95. Sidney Andrews on the White South and Black Freedom (1866)
96. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Home Life" (ca. 1875)
97. Frederick Douglass, "The Composite Nation" (1869)
98. Robert B. Elliott on Civil Rights (1874)
VOLUME II
Chapter 15: "What is Freedom?" Reconstruction, 1865-1877
92. "Colloquy With Colored Ministers" (1865)
93. Petition of Committee on Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865)
94. The Mississippi Black Code (1865)
95. Sidney Andrews on the White South and Black Freedom
(1866)
96. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Home Life" (ca. 1875)
97. Frederick Douglass, "The Composite Nation" (1869)
98. Robert B. Elliott on Civil Rights (1874)
Chapter 16: America's Gilded Age, 1870-1890
99. Chief Joseph, "An Indian's View of Indian Affairs" (1879)
100. William Graham Sumner on Social Darwinism (ca. 1800)
101. George E. McNeill on the Labor Movement in the Gilded Age (1887)
102. Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879)
103. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1888)
104. Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel (1912)
Chapter 17: Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1980-1900
105. The Populist Platform (1892)
106. John Marshall Harlan, Dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson (1986)
107. Ida B. Wells, Crusade for Justice (ca. 1892)
108. Saum Song Bo, Chinese-American protest, from American Missionary (1885)
109. Frances E. Willard, Women and Temperance (1883)
110. Rev. Charles G. Ames on the Anti-Imperialist Movement (1898)
111. Albert Beveridge, a Defense of Imperialism (1900)
Chapter 18: The Progressive Era: 1900-1916
112. Manuel Gamio on a Mexican-American Family and American
Freedom (ca.1926)
113. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898)
114. John Mitchell, "the Workingman's Conception of Industrial
Labor" (1910)
115. The Industrial Workers of the World and the Free Speech
Fights (1909)
116. Margaret Sanger on "Free Motherhood" from Women and
the New Race (1920)
117. Carlos Montezuma, "What Indians Must Do" (1914)
118. Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom (1912)
119. The Progressive Party Platform (1912)
Chapter 19: Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916-1920
120. Woodrow Wilson on America and the World (1916)
121. Carrie Chapman Catt, Address to Congress on Woman's Suffrage (1917)
122. Eugene V. Debs, Speech to the Jury (1918)
123. Randolph Bourne, "Trans-National America" (1916)
124. W.E.B. DuBois, "Returning Soldiers" (1919)
125. Marcus Garvey on Africa for the Africans (1921)
126. John A. Fitch on the Great Steel Strike (1919)
Chapter 20: From Business to Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920-1932
127. André Siegfried on the "New Society", from the Atlantic Monthly (1928)
128. The Fight for Civil Liberties (1921)
129. Clarence Darrow at the Scopes Trial (1924)
130. Congress Debates Immigration (1921)
131. Meyer v. Nebraska and the Meaning of Liberty (1923)
132. Alain Locke, The New Negro (1925)
133. Freedom and the Modern World (1928)
Chapter 21: The New Deal, 1932-1940
134. Letter to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (1937)
135. John Steinbeck, The Harvest Gypsies (1936)
136. Labor's Great Upheaval (1936)
137. Franklin D. Roosevelt on Economic Freedom (1936)
138. Herbert Hoover on the New Deal and Liberty (1936)
139. Norman Cousins, "Will Women Lose Their Jobs?" (1939)
140. Frank H. Hill on the Indian New Deal (1935)
141. W.E.B. DuBois "A Negro Nation Within A Nation" (1935)
Chapter 22: Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941–1945
142. Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Four Freedoms (1941)
143. Henry R. Luce, The American Century (1941)
144. Henry A. Wallace on "The Century of the Common Man" (1942)
145. F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944)
146. World War II and Mexican-Americans (1945)
147. A. Philip Randolph, "Why We Should March" (1942)
148. Justice Robert A. Jackson, Dissent in Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Chapter 23: America and the Cold War, 1945-1953
149. The Truman Doctrine (1947)
150. NSC 68 and the Ideological Cold War (1950)
151. Walter Lippmann, a Critique of Containment (1947)
152. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
153. President's Commission on Civil Rights, To Secure These Rights (1947)
154. Joseph R. McCarthy on the Attack (1950)
155. Henry Steele Commager, "Who Is Loyal to America?" (1947)
Chapter 24: An Affluent Society, 1953-1960
156. Richard M. Nixon, "What Freedom Means to Us" (1959)
157. Clark Kerr, Industrialism and the Industrial Man (1960)
158. David E. Lilienthal on Big Business and American Freedom (1952)
159. Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (1962)
160. C. Wright Mills on "Cheerful Robots" (1959)
161. Allen Ginsberg, Howl (1956)
162. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Chapter 25 The Sixties: 1960-1968
163. James Baldwin on Student Radicals (1960)
164. The Sharon Statement (1960)
165. Barry Goldwater on "Extremism in the Defense of Liberty" (1964)
166. Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at Howard University (1965)
167. The Port Huron Statement (1962)
168. Paul Potter on the Antiwar Movement (1965)
169. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)
170. César Chávez, Letter from Delano (1969)
Chapter 26: The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969-1988
171. Redstockings Manifesto (1969)
172. Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle (1971)
173. Jimmy Carter on Human Rights (1977)
174. Jerry Falwell on the Moral Majority (1987)
175. Phyllis Schlafly, "The Fraud of the Equal Rights Amendment" (1972)
176. James Watt, "Environmentalists: A Threat to the Ecology of War" (1978)
177. Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address (1981)
Chapter 27: Globalization and Its Discontents: 1989-1992
178. Declaration for Global Democracy (1999)
179. The "Freedom Revolution" (1995)
180. The Beijing Declaration on Women (1995)
181. Puwat Chaukamnoekanok, "Triple Identity: My Experience as
an Immigrant in America" (1996)
182. Bill Clinton, Remarks at the "America's Millennium" Celebration (1999)
Chapter 28: Epilogue: 9/11 and the Next American Century
183. The National Security Strategy of the United States (2002)
184. Robert Byrd on the War in Iraq (2003)
185. Second Inaugural Address of George W. Bush (2005)
186. Archbishop Roger Mahoney, "Called by God to Help" (2006)
187. Anthony Kennedy, Opinion of the Court in Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
188. Sandra Day O'Connor, Opinion of the Court in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004)

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