The complete list of articles in Defining Documents in American History: Manifest Destiny & The New Nation (1803-1859).
Antebellum Law and Politics
Speech in Congress on the War of 1812
McCulloch v. Maryland
The Monroe Doctrine
Gibbons v. Ogden
President Andrew Jackson’s Message to Congress “On Indian Removal”
Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Lincoln’s “House Divided” Speech
On the Irrepressible Conflict
Supplemental Historical Documents
Message to the Senate and House Regarding South Carolina’s Nullification Ordinance
Manifest Destiny
Louisiana Purchase Treaty
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
California and Its Inhabitants
On Texan Independence
A Foreigner in My Own Land
Across the Plains in 1844
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
People v. Hall
On Seizing Land from Native Californians
The Discovery of Gold in California
Supplemental Historical Documents
Present at the Beginning of the Gold Rush
Regarding Oregon Statehood
Compelled to Sell, Little by Little
The Spirit of Reform
“Observations on the Real Rights of Women”
A Plan for Improving Female Education
Condition of Women
The Nature and Occasions of Intemperance
Address Delivered before the General Trades’ Union of the City of New York
Lowell Mill Girls
The Sphere of Woman and Man as Moral Beings the Same
Self-Reliance
The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men, Woman versus Women
Manifesto of Robert Owen
Address to the First Women’s Rights Convention, July 19, 1848
Resistance to Civil Government
The Trial of John Brown
Supplemental Historical Documents
The Rights of Man to Property
The Education of Free Men
The New “Democratic” Doctrine
African American Protest Literature
An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade
A Thanksgiving Sermon on Abolition of the Slave Trade
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup
Supplemental Historical Documents
David Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
I Will Sink or Swim with My Race
The New American Identity
Oration before the Shamrock Friendly Association
Democracy in America
The Colored American
Declaration of Principles of the Native American Convention
A Woman’s Trip across the Plains
An Emigrant’s Narrative; or, A Voice from the Steerage
A Chinese American Protest
Germans in America Are on the Rise
Supplemental Historical Documents
The Voice of Warning to the Native-Born Patriots of Our Country
Progress and Extent of Immigration Prior to 1819
On the Description of Persons to Whom Emigration Would Be Most Beneficial
Editorial on Ethnic Colonies in Alabama and Illinois
Religious Expansion
The Kentucky Revival; or, A Short History of the Late Extraordinary Out-Pouring of the Spirit of God
Declaration and Address of the Christian Association of Washington
Spiritual Freedom
Lectures on Revivals of Religion
Petition to the US Congress Regarding the Great Influx of Roman Catholics
I Believe in the Divinity of Labor
Colored Churches in This City
Plan of the West Roxbury Community
General Remarks on the State of Theological Opinion in America
Native American Land and Autonomy
Tecumseh’s Speeches to Governor William Harrison and General Henry Procter
An Indian’s Looking Glass for the White Man
Supplemental Historical Documents
Red Jacket’s Speech to Reverend Jacob Cram
We Love the Land That Covers the Bones of Our Fathers
Resolutions of the Treaty Party
Memorial of the Cherokee Nation
Address on the Present Condition and Prospects of Aboriginal Inhabitants of North America
Chronological List
Historical Timeline
Web Resources
Bibliography
Index