The Early American Republic: A Documentary Reader

Sean Patrick Adams

John Wiley & Sons, Oct 20, 2008 - History - 240 pages

THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC

UNCOVERING THE PAST: DOCUMENTARY READERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY

“Selected with imagination and wisdom, these incisive and wide-ranging texts will provide a ‘road map’ for students of the first sixty years of American independence.”
Daniel Walker Howe, Winner of 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History

“A nice blend of comprehensiveness and coherence, the selections are individually interesting, relate well to each other, and provide a wide-ranging, imaginative, and disciplined conversation about the Early Republic.”
Paul E. Johnson, University of South Carolina

“This handy collection of speeches, documents, private letters, and pieces of literature, complete with context-setting prefaces, will be invaluable in any course covering major themes in the history of early national America.”
Joanne Freeman, Yale University

“Expertly edited and chock-full of enlightening and telling primary documents, this reader conveys a beautifully textured sense of the past and attends to all of the key issues during the formative years of the United States.”
Mark M. Smith, University of South Carolina

“Finally, a primary sources reader that includes the full breadth of voices (both familiar and lesser known) that characterized the Early American Republic. Sean Adams’s informative introduction ties these voices together well, making this book a helpful teaching tool for conveying the rich variety of social and political issues that the young nation faced.”
Steven Deyle, University of Houston

“Students will marvel at the fifty-year struggle to forge a nation in the decades following the American Revolution.”
Seth Rockman, Brown University

Contents

• Traveling the Early American Republic: 1
• New Hampshire Papers Debate the Log Cabin: 3
• BUILDING THE UNITED STATES: 11
• The First American Party System 21: 21
• A Massachusetts Farmer Attacks the Federalists 1798: 27
• A New Name for the United States? 1803: 33
• Whose Land?: 41
• Conflict on Many Fronts: 47
• An Eyewitness Account of the Battle of New Orleans 1816: 54
• The Year 1819 in Image and Verse: 61
• The Future Course of the Republic?: 67
• A Nation on the Move: 77
• Charles Ball Describes Moving in the Slave Trade 1837: 86
• Two Views on the Morality of Capitalism in: 96
• A New Urban America: 102
• The Soul of the Republic: 115
• Improvement of Body and Soul: 122
• AntiSlavery to Abolition: 131
• Maria Stewart Speaks at the African Masonic Hall 1833: 137
• The Rise of the Common Man: 147
• Sarah Grimké Defends the Rights of Women 1837: 155
• John Ross Explains the Position of the Cherokee Nation 1834: 162
• Henry Clay on Whig Strategy 1838: 169
• The Mississippi and Beyond: 177
• Notchiningas Map of the Upper Mississippi 1837: 183
• Walter Colton on the Discovery of Gold in California 1850: 191
• An American Sergeants Perspective on the War with: 199
• The President and the ExSlave: 208
• Bibliography: 214

About the author

Sean Patrick Adams is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida, where he teaches courses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. History. He is the author of numerous publications, most notably Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America (2004).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Early American Republic: A Documentary Reader; Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History
• Editor: Sean Patrick Adams
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2008
• ISBN: 1405160977, 9781405160971
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: History / General; History / United States / General