1450: The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations: The Great Binding Law, Gayanashagowa 225
1492–93: Journal of the First Voyage of Columbus 3
1540–42: The Journey of Coronado, 1540–1542: Account of the Expedition to Cibola Which Took Place in the Year 1540, in Which All Those Settlements, Their Ceremonies and Customs, Are Described 13
1550: In Defense of the Indians 23
1584: Captain Arthur Barlowe’s Narrative of the First Voyage to the Coast of America 31
1585–90: Engravings and Drawings by Theodor De Bry and John White 220
1588: A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia 99
1610: Articles, Laws, and Orders, Devine, Politic, and Martial for the Colony in Virginia 235
1621: To His Loving Friends, the Adventurers for New-England 447
1622: Mourt’s Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth 131
1623; 1656: Documents on Indentured Servitude: Richard Frethhorne’s Letter and John Hammond’s Leah and Rachel 717
1624: The General History of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles 109
1624: Powhatan and John Smith Exchange Views, 1608 (excerpt from John Smith’s General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles) 212
1630: A Model of Christian Charity 457
1630: Of Plymouth Plantation 120
1636: Pilgrim’s Code of Law 295
1637: New English Canaan 192
1637: Some Grounds of the War Against the Pequots 393
1637: Transcript of the Trial of Anne Hutchinson 466
1638, 1663: An Account of Two Voyages to New-England Made During the Years 1638, 1663 142
1641: Massachusetts Body of Liberties 274
1642–60: The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 52
1643: A Key into the Language of America 151
1643: The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England 245
1653: A Description of the New Netherlands 41
1655: Limitation of Government 265
1662–1705: The Virginia Slave Codes 1662-1705 637
1669: The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina 256
1670: A Brief Recognition of New England’s Errand into the Wilderness 479
1671–1760: Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America 658
1675: A Relation of the Indian War 172
1675: The Quaker Ideal of Religious Tolerance 488
1676: Edward Randolph’s Report of King Philip’s War in New England 162
1680–82: Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Otermín’s Attempted Reconquest 182
1682: Frame of Government of Pennsylvania 285
1682: The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson 497
1684: Positive Information from America, Concerning the Country of Pennsylvania by a German who has Migrated Thither, 1684 202
1689: At the Town-House in Boston and Boston Declaration of Grievances 305
1692; 1706: The Salem Witch Trials: The Case against John and Elizabeth Proctor 508
1693: A Journal of the Late Actions of the French at Canada 216
1693: An Exhortation and Caution to Friends Concerning Buying or Keeping of Negroes 721
1700: The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial 648
1701: Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges 325
1702: The Shields of the Churches: New England’s Governors 315
1704–05: The Journal of Madam Knight 561
1705: English Liberties and Deference 336
1705: The History and Present State of Virginia 345
1706: The Negro Christianized 519
1709: A New Voyage to Carolina 354
1710: Report and Relation of the New Conversions 92
1714: Etienne Véniard de Bourgmont’s Exact Description of Louisiana 62
1715: The North Carolina Biennial Act 432
1716: The History of King Philip’s War 364
1717: Vindication of the Government of New-England Churches 374
1720–23: Cato’s Letters 437
1722: Conference Between Governor Burnet and the Indians 441
1724: The Present State of Virginia 708
1728: History of the Dividing Line: Run in the Year 1728 571
1730: Government the Pillar of the Earth 547
1731: Map of Louisiana and the Course of the Mississippi 435
1733: Founding Vision for Georgia 384
1735: In Defense of John Peter Zenger and the Press 581
1739: A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America 630
1739: Letter from Governor Bull to the Royal Council Regarding the Stono Rebellion, October 1739 680
1740: Slave Code of South Carolina 689
1740–60: Letters on Plantation Life 591
1741; 1743: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God/The Great Awakening 528
1743: Journal of the Expedition of the Chevalier de la Vérendrye and One of His Brothers to Reach the Western Sea Addressed to the Marquis de Beauharnois 82
1744: Canassatego’s Speech at the Treaty of Lancaster, 1744 404
1744: The Essential Rights and Liberties of Protestants 538
1746: Britain’s Mercies, and Britain’s Duties 551
1748: A Narrative of the Missions of the United Brethren among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians 71
1749: Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania 601
1750: A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers 555
1750: Memoir on the French Colonies in North America 424
1756: Gottlieb Mittelberger’s Journey to Pennsylvania 611
1765–68: The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay 414
1774: A Stranger in a Strange Land: Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge 620
1788: Benjamin Franklin on Reverend George Whitefield 699
1798: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa 670