Worlds of History, Volume 1

Introduction: Historians and Their Sources
1. Monsters and Marvels: Images of Animals from the New World
2. Tales of Captivity and Redemption: North American Captivity Narratives​
3. Colonial America’s Most Wanted: Runaway Advertisements in Colonial Newspapers ​ ​
4. Experiencing the New Birth: Diaries, Journals, and Memoirs from the Great Awakening ​ ​
5. The Sound of Rebellion: Songs in Revolutionary America ​ 
6. Debating the Constitution: Speeches from the New York Ratification Convention ​ 
7. The Question of Female Citizenship: Court Records from the New Nation 
8. Family Values: Advice Literature for Parents and Children in the Early Republic ​ ​
9. The Meaning of Cherokee Civilization: Newspaper Editorials about Indian Removal ​ 
10. Challenging the “Peculiar Institution”: Slave Narratives from the Antebellum South ​ ​
11. Martyr or Madman? Biographies of John Brown ​ ​
12. The Illustrated Civil War: Photography on the Battlefield ​ ​
13. Political Terrorism during Reconstruction: Congressional Hearings and Reports on the Ku Klux Klan ​ ​
CAPSTONE: Coming Together and Pulling Apart: Nineteenth-Century Fourth of July Observations ​ ​
APPENDIX I: Avoiding Plagiarism: Acknowledging the Source ​
APPENDIX II: Documenting the Source ​ ​
INDEX ​ ​