Cover: Sources for America's History, Volume 1: To 1877, 10th Edition by Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert Self; James Henretta; Kevin B. Sheets

Sources for America's History, Volume 1: To 1877

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Tenth  Edition©2021  Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert Self; James Henretta; Kevin B. Sheets

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Designed to accompany America’s History, Tenth Edition, this primary source reader includes written and visual primary sources from both famous historical figures and ordinary people who will bring the history of the United States to life.

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Table of Contents

PART 1: TRANSFORMATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA (1491–1700)
CHAPTER 1: Colliding Worlds, 1491–1600
CHAPTER 2: American Experiments, 1521–1700
PART 1 DOCUMENT SET: Developing Patterns of Atlantic World Exchange, 1491–1700

PART 2: BRITISH NORTH AMERICA AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD (1607–1763)
CHAPTER 3: The British Atlantic World, 1607–1750
CHAPTER 4:  Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720–1763
PART 2 DOCUMENT SET: The Causes and Consequences of the Peopling of North America, 1607–1763

PART 3: REVOLUTION AND REPUBLICAN CULTURE (1754–1820)
CHAPTER 5: The Problem of Empire, 1754–1776  
CHAPTER 6: Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789
CHAPTER 7: Hammering Out a Federal Republic,  1787–1820
PART 3 DOCUMENT SET: The Emergence of Democratic Ideals and a New National Identity, 1754–1820

PART 4: OVERLAPPING REVOLUTIONS (1800–1848)
CHAPTER 8: Economic Transformations, 1800–1848
CHAPTER 9: A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1848
CHAPTER 10:  Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820–1848
CHAPTER 11: Imperial Ambitions, 1820–1848
PART 4 DOCUMENT SET: Environment and Identity in an Age of Revolutions, 1800–1848

PART 5: CONSOLIDATING A CONTINENTAL UNION (1844–1877)
CHAPTER 12: Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844–1860
CHAPTER 13: Bloody Ground: The Civil War, 1861–1865
CHAPTER 14: Reconstruction, 1865–1877

Rebecca Edwards

Rebecca Edwards is Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century politics, the Civil War, the frontier West, and women, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of, among other publications, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era; New Spirits: Americans in the “Gilded Age,” 1865–1905; and the essay “Women's and Gender History” in The New American History. She is currently working on a book about the role of childbearing in the expansion of America's nineteenth-century empire.

Eric Hinderaker

Eric Hinderaker is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Utah. His research explores early modern imperialism, relations between Europeans and Native Americans, military-civilian relations in the Atlantic world, and comparative colonization. His most recent book, Boston's Massacre, was awarded the Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize. His other publications include Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800; The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery, which won the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History from the New York Academy of History; and, with Peter C. Mancall, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America.

Robert O. Self

Robert O. Self is Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of American History at Brown University. His research focuses on urban history, American politics, and the post-1945 United States. He is the author of American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, which won four professional prizes, including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s. He is currently at work on a book about the centrality of houses, cars, and children to family consumption in the twentieth-century United States.

James Henretta

James A. Henretta  is Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught Early American History and Legal History. His publications include “Salutary Neglect”: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600–1820; and The Origins of American Capitalism. His most recent publication is a long article, “Magistrates, Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of Early America,” in The Cambridge History of American Law.

Kevin B. Sheets

Kevin B. Sheets is Professor and Chair of the History Department at the State University of New York, at Cortland, where he teaches courses on American intellectual and cultural history. He has received six National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awards and three U.S. Department of Education "Teaching American History" grants to lead K-12 teacher professional development programs.