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Many document readers offer lots of sources, but only Going to the Source combines a rich diversity of primary and secondary sources with in-depth instructions for how to use each type of source. Mirroring the chronology of the U.S. history survey, each of the main chapters familiarizes students with a single type of source — from personal letters to political cartoons — while focusing on an intriguing historical episode such as the Cherokee Removal or the 1894 Pullman Strike. A capstone chapter in each volume prompts students to synthesize information on a single topic from a variety of source types. The wide range of topics and sources across 28 chapters provide students with all they need to become fully engaged with America’s history.

Author Biography

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Victoria Bissell Brown is the L.F. Parker Professor of History at Grinnell College, where she teaches Modern U.S. History, U.S. Women’s History, and U.S. Immigration History. She is the author of The Education of Jane Addams and the editor of the Bedford/St. Martin’s edition of Jane Addams’s Twenty Years at Hull-House. Her articles have appeared in Feminist Studies, The Journal of Women’s History, and The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. She has served as a Book Review Editor for The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and for the Women and Social Movements website. Timothy J. Shannon is professor of History at Gettysburg College, where he teaches Early American and Native American History. His other books include Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier, Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America, and Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754, which received the Dixon Ryan Fox Prize from the New York State Historical Association and the Distinguished Book Award from the Society of Colonial Wars. His articles have appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly, Ethnohistory, and the New England Quarterly, and he has been a research fellow at the Huntington Library and John Carter Brown Library.

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Chapter 1 : Monsters and Marvels: Images of Animals from the New World Using the Source: Images of Animals What Can Images of Animals Tell Us? CHECKLIST: Interrogating Images Source Analysis Table The Source: Images of Animals from the New World 1. Succarath 2. Hoga [Manatee] 3. Whale 4. Alligator 5. Llama 6. Birds and Fish of New England 7. Animals of the Carolinas 8. Beaver 9. The Vampire, or Spectre of Guiana [Vampire Bat] 10. The Aboma Snake [Anaconda] Analyzing Images of Animals The Rest of the Story To Find Out More

Chapter 2 : Tales of Captivity and Redemption: North American Captivity Narratives Using the Source: Captivity Narratives What Can Captivity Narratives Tell Us? CHECKLIST: Interrogating Captivity Narratives Source Analysis Table The Source: North American Captivity Narratives 1. Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, 1542 2. Father Isaac Jogues, S.J., 1647 3. Mary Rowlandson, 1682 Analyzing Captivity Narratives The Rest of the Story To Find Out More

Chapter 4: Material Culture of the Borderlands: An Article from the William and Mary QuarterlyUsing the Source: Journal Articles What Can Journal Articles Tell Us? CHECKLIST:Interrogating Journal Articles Source Analysis Table The Source: An Article from the William and Mary Quarterly, April 2012“Fashioning Moccasins: Detroit, the Manufacturing Frontier, and the Empire of Consumption, 1701-183” by Catherine CanganyAnalyzing Journal Articles The Rest of the Story To Find Out More

Chapter 6: Debating the Constitution: Speeches from the New York Ratification Convention Using the Source: The Ratification Debates What Can the Ratification Debates Tell Us? CHECKLIST:Interrogating Political Debates Source Analysis Table The Source: Speeches Debating the Constitution from the New York Ratification Convention, June 21– 28, 1788 REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS 1. Melancton Smith, June 21, 1788 2. Alexander Hamilton, June 21, 1788 3. Melancton Smith, June 21, 1788 SOURCES OF CORRUPTION 4. Robert R. Livingston, June 23, 1788 5. Melancton Smith, June 23, 1788 THE CONSTITUTION’S EFFECT ON THE STATES 6. Melancton Smith, June 27, 1788 7. Alexander Hamilton, June 28, 1788 Analyzing the Ratification Debates The Rest of the Story To Find Out More

Chapter 7: The Question of Female Citizenship: Court Records from the New Nation Using the Source: Court Records What Can Court Records Tell Us? CHECKLIST:Interrogating Court Records Source Analysis Table The Source: James Martin (Plaintiff in Error) v. The Commonwealth and William Bosson and Other Ter- tenants, 1805 THE LAWYERS’ ARGUMENTS 1. The Fourth Error Identified by James Martin’s Attorneys in Their Appeal 2. George Blake, Attorney for James Martin 3. Daniel Davis, Solicitor General for Massachusetts 4. James Sullivan, Attorney General for Massachusetts 5. Theophilus Parsons, Attorney for James Martin THE JUSTICES’ OPINIONS 6. Justice Theodore Sedgwick 7. Justice Simeon Strong 8. Chief Justice Francis Dana Analyzing Court Records The Rest of the Story To Find Out More

Chapter 8: Family Values: Advice Literature for Parents and Children in the Early Republic Using the Source: Advice Literature for Parents and Children What Can Advice Literature Tell Us? CHECKLIST:Interrogating Advice Literature Source Analysis Table The Source: Advice Literature on Child Rearing and Children’s Literature, 1807–1833 ADVICE LITERATURE ON CHILD REARING 1. The Mother at Home by John S. C. Abbott, 1833 2. The Mother’s Book by Lydia Maria Child, 1831 CHILDREN’S LITERATURE 3. The New- England Primer, 1807 4. The Busy Bee, 1831 5. The Life of George Washington, 1832 Analyzing Advice LiteratureThe Rest of the Story To Find Out More

Chapter 9: The Meaning of Cherokee Civilization: Newspaper Editorials about IndianRemoval Using the Source: Newspaper Editorials What Can Newspaper Editorials Tell Us? CHECKLIST: Interrogating Newspaper Editorials Source Analysis Table The Source: Newspaper Editorials about Indian Removal ELIAS BOUDINOT, EDITORIALS FROM THE CHEROKEE PHOENIX (1828–1831) 1. February 21, 1828 2. January 21, 1829 3. January 28, 1829 4. February 18, 18295. April 21, 18306. November 12, 1831 JEREMIAH EVARTS, “WILLIAM PENN LETTERS” (1829) 7. From Letter I 8. From Letter II 9. From Letter V 10. From Letter XV 11. From Letter XXIVAnalyzing Newspaper Editorials about Indian Removal The Rest of the Story To Find Out More

10 Challenging the “Peculiar Institution”: Slave Narratives from the Antebellum South Using the Source: Slave Narratives What Can Slave Narratives Tell Us? CHECKLIST: Interrogating Slave Narratives Source Analysis Table The Source: Antebellum Slave Narratives 1. Henry Bibb, Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself, 1849 2. Solomon Northup, Twelve Years A Slave, 1853 3. Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a SlaveGirl. Written by Herself, 1861 Analyzing Slave Narratives The Rest of the StoryTo Find Out More

Chapter 11: Martyr or Madman? Biographies of John Brown Using the Source: Biographies of John Brown What Can Biographies Tell Us? CHECKLIST: Interrogating Biographies Source Analysis Table The Source: Biographies of John Brown 1. John Brown by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1909 2. John Brown by Robert Penn Warren, 1929 3. John Brown, Abolitionist by David S. Reynolds, 2005 Analyzing Biographies The Rest of the Story To Find Out More

Chapter 13: Political Terrorism during Reconstruction: Congressional Hearings and Reports on the Ku Klux KlanUsing the Source: Congressional Hearings and Reports What Can Congressional Hearings and Reports Tell Us? CHECKLIST: Interrogating Congressional Hearings and Reports Source Analysis Table The Source: Testimony and Reports from the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary StatesWITNESS TESTIMONY 1. Testimony of Samuel T. Poinier, Washington, D.C., June 7, 1871 2. Testimony of D. H. Chamberlain, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1871 3. Testimony of Elias Thomson, Spartanburg, South Carolina, July 7, 1871 4. Testimony of Lucy McMillan, Spartanburg, South Carolina, July 10, 1871 5. Testimony of Mervin Givens, Spartanburg, South Carolina, July 12, 1871 COMMITTEE REPORTS 6. Majority Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, February 19, 1872, Submitted by Luke P. Poland7. Minority Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, February 19, 1872, Submitted by James B. BeckAnalyzing Congressional Hearings and Reports The Rest of the Story To Find Out More

CAPSTONE: Coming Together and Pulling Apart: Nineteenth-Century Fourth of JulyObservations Using Multiple Source Types on Fourth of July ObservationsWhat Can Multiple Source Types Tell Us?Source Analysis TableThe Sources: Documents and Images Portraying Fourth of July Observations, 1819–1903 1. Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, Painting. John Trumbull, 1819 2. Independence Day in Center Square, Painting. John Lewis Krimmel, 1819 3. “Adams and Jefferson,” Speech. Daniel Webster, August 2, 1826 4. “Declaration of Rights of the Trades’ Union of Boston and Vicinity,” 1834 5. Excerpt from Diary in America, with Remarks on Its Institutions, Memoir. Frederick Marryat, 18376. “Declaration of Sentiments,” from the Woman’s Rights Convention, 18487. “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Speech. Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852 8. Speech, John Wannuaucon Quinney, July 4, 1854 9. Excerpts from A Philadelphia Perspective: The Diary of Sidney George Fisher Covering the Years 1834– 1871, Diary. Sidney George Fisher, 1864, 1866 10. Excerpt from The Fire of Liberty in Their Hearts: The Diary of Jacob E.Yoder of the Freedman’s Bureau School, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1866– 1870, Diary. Jacob E. Yoder, 1866 11. Fire- Works on the Night of the Fourth of July, Cartoon. Winslow Homer, 1868 12. The Fourth of July in the Country, Cartoon. Thomas Worth, 1868 13. The Freed Slave in Memorial Hall, Engraving. Fernando Miranda, 1876 14. Excerpt from Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir [of the 1890s], Memoir. Mamie Garvin Fields, 198315. 4. July. 1903, Drawing. Amos Bad Heart Bull, 1903 Analyzing Sources on Fourth of July Observations The Rest of the Story To Find Out More