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- Christopher Columbus, "Letter to the Sovereigns" (1493)
- Bartolome de Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1542)
- Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain (1632)
- "Mexican Accounts of Conquest from the Florentine Codex" (c. 1547)
- "Letters Patent Granted to John Cabot and His Sons" (1496)
- John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia (1631)
- Richard Frethorne, Letter from an Indentured Servant (1623)
- Nathaniel Bacon, "Manifesto Concerning the Present Troubles in Virginia" (1676)
- John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630)
- William Penn, Promoting Pennsylvania (1681)
- Benjamin Franklin, "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, Ec." (1751)
- Job Johnson, "As Good a Country as Any Man Needs to Dwell In" (1767)
- Benjamin Franklin, "A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge Among the British Plantation in America" (1743)
- Account of the Stono Rebellion (1739)
- Nathan Cole, "Spiritual Travels" (1740)
- Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741)
- James Otis, Rights of the Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764)
- John Dickinson, Letter from a Farmer (1768)
- Thomas Preston, "Account of the Boston Massacre" (1770)
- George R. T. Hewes, "An Account of the Boston Tea Party" (1834)
- Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses (1775)
- Edmund Burke, Reconciliation with the Colonies (1775)
- Thomas Jefferson, "A Summary View of the Rights of British America" (1774)
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
- Correspondence of John and Abigail Adams (1776)
- George Washington, Letter to John Hancock (1776)
- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (1776)
- The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
- Constitution of Pennsylvania (1776)
- Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom (1786)
- Henry Knox, Letter to George Washington (1786)
- James Madison, "Vices of the Political System of the United States" (1787)
- James Wilson, Speech to the Convention of Pennsylvania (1787)
- James Madison, The Federalist, No. 10 (1787)
- Mercy Warren Otis, Observations On the New Constitution (1788)
- J. Hector St. John de Crévecoeur, "What is an American?" (1782)
- Alexander Hamilton, "An Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish a Bank" (1791)
- Alexander Hamilton, Report on the Subject of Manufactures (1791)
- George Washington, Sixth Annual Message to Congress (1794)
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison (1794)
- Benjamin Rush, The Education of Republican Women (1798)
- Thomas Jefferson, The Kentucky Resolutions (1798)
- Thomas Jefferson, The First Inaugural Address (1801)
- Thomas Jefferson, Correspondence on the Constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase (1803)
- Fisher Ames, "The Republican, No 11" (1804)
- Tecumsah, Speech to William Harrison (c. 1810)
- Henry Clay, Speech on the Tariff (1824)
- John Quincy Adams, Annual Message to Congress (1825))
- Alexis de Tocquevulle, Democracy in America: Tyranny of the Majority (1831)
- John C. Calhoun, South Carolina Exposition and Protest (1828)
- Henry W. Bellows, The Influence of the Trading Spirit upon the Social and Moral Life of America (1845)
- Harriet Hanson Robinson, Loom and Spindle, or Life Among the Early Mill Girls (1831)
- The Lowell Offering, A Mill worker Describes Her Work and Life (1844)
- Lyman Beecher, Sermons on Intemperance (1828)
- De Bow’s Review, "The Stability of the Union" (1805)
- Annie Young, Memoir of Slavery (1937)
- Frances Anne Kemble, Women in Slavery (1839)
- Harriet Jacobs, The Trials of Girlhood (1861)
- Mary Chestnut, A Diary in Dixie (1861)
- Frederic Law Olmsted, "The Cotton Kingdom" (1861)
- David Walker, Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829)
- The Confessions of Nat Turner(1831)
- William Lloyd Garrison, "Commencement of the Liberator" (1831)
- Frederick Douglass, Fourth of July Oration (1852)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
- George Fitzhugh, Sociology of the South (1854)
- John L. O’Sullivan, "Editorial on Manifest Destiny" (1845)
- Henry David Thoreau, "On Civil Disobedience" (1846)
- Walter Colton, Three Years in California (1850)
- Salmon P. Chase, "Union and Freedom, Without Compromise" (1850)
- Abraham Lincoln, Speech in Peoria (1854)
- Lincoln Douglas Debates (1858)
- Charles Sumner, "Crime Against Kansas" (1856)
- Roger Taney, Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
- John Brown, Speech to the Court (1859)
- Jefferson Davis, Speech before the Senate (1860)
- Jefferson Davis, Address to the Provincial Congress of the Confederate States of America (1861)
- Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861)
- Frederick Douglas, "The Future of the Negro People of the Slave States" (1862)
- Charles Harvey Brewster, Civil War Letters (1862)
- John Dooley, Passages from a Journal (1863)
- Clement Vallandigham, "Copperhead Dissent" (1863)
- Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863)
- Correspondence between General William T. Sherman and James M. Calhoun, Mayor of Atlanta (1864)
- Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865)
- Carl Schurz, Report on the Condition of the South (1865)
- Clinton B. Fisk, Plain Counsels for Freedmen (1865)
- Frederick Douglass, "What the Black Man Wants" (1865)
- Thaddeus Stevens, Speech on Reconstruction (1867)
- Elias Hill, Testimony before Congress on the Activities of the Ku Klux Klan (1871)
- Carl Schurz, Speech in the Senate on Reconstruction (1872)
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