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	Required Document Readings
		Find readings for Part 1 Find readings for Part 2 Find readings for Part 3 Find readings for Part 4 Find readings for Part 5 Find readings for Part 6 Find readings for Part 7 Find readings for Part 8 Find readings for Part 9 Find readings for Part 10


	Links to History Related Websites You Should Visit
		A Time Line of American Though The Modern History Sourcebook From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History Electronic Text Collections The Founders' Constitution The Avelon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy Electronic Text Center Nineteenth Century Documents Project American Rhetoric


Part 1 Readings

	Contents of the Part 3 Assigned Documents
	1.	Martin Luther, Letter to the Archbishop of Mainz , 1517
	2.	Paul, Epistle to the Romans, King James Version of the Bible
	3.	Richard Hakluyt, Discourse on Western Planting, 1584
	4.	William Bradford, from the History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620
	5.	John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630
	6.	Jon Winthrop, The Wicked Captialism of Robert Keaine, 1639
	7.	On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants, 1754

Related Websites You Should Visit
	Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings
	Use this link to watch the video Guns, Germs, and Steel on U-Tube. It is also availble on CD in the library. The book is in the library as well.

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Part 2 Readings

	Contents of the Part 2 Assigned Documents
	1.	Olaudah Equiano's Account of His Enslavement
	2.	Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Memorandum on Trade, 1664
	3.	Nathan Cole's Spiritual Travels, 1740
	4.	Jonathan Edwards, Directions for Judging a Person's Experiences
	5.	Charleston Non-Importation Agreement, 1769
	6.	John Dickinson, Letters from a Farmer #2, 1767-8
	7.	John Dickinson, Letters from a Farmer #4, 1767-8
	8.	Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 1776

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Part 3 Readings

	Contents of the Part 3 Assigned Documents
	1.	Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
	2.	The Constitution of the United States (1787) and the Bill of Rights, (1790)
	3.	The Federalist Papers #51, 1788
	4.	Alexander Hamilton, Report on the Public Credit, 1790
	5.	Thomas Jefferson, from Query 19 in Notes on the State of Virginia, 1784
	6.	Thomas Jefferson, The Kentucky Resolution, 1799


Related Websites You Should Visit
	The ConSource Website.
		This website links the phrases and clauses of the Constitution and the Constitutional Amendments to writing from the period that addressed or commented on the linked phrases or clauses. It also contains facsimiles (pdf) of the original letters, pamphlets, and other documents that are the source of these writings.
	View the Original Declaration of Independence
	View the Original Constitution
	View the Original Bill of Rights


Library Sources
	Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause
		A very good introduction to the American Revolution

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Part 4 Readings

	Contents of the Part 4 Assigned Documents
	1.	McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
	2.	Joseph Smith, Selections from the Doctrine and Covenants (1831-1832)
	3.	Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived and What I Lived For (1854)
	4.	James Madison, Seventh Annual Message to Congress ( 1815)
	5.	Andrew Jackson, Veto of the Maysville Road Bill (1830)
	6.	Daniel Webster, Reply to Hayne, (1830)

Library Sources
	Daniel Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
			A very good introduction of the America in the antibellam era.
	John Steel Gordon on the History of U.S. Banking (from the Wall Street Journal, 10-10-08)

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Part 5 Readings

	Contents of the Part 5 Assigned Documents
	1.	John L. O'Sullivan, The Great Nation of Futurity (1839)
	2.	Virginia Reed Murphy, Selection from "Across the Plains in the Donner Party" (1846)
	3.	John C. Calhoun, Slavery a Positive Good, 1837
	4.	Dred Scott vs. Sandford (1857)
	5.	Abraham Lincoln, Speech on Dred Scott (1857)
	6.	Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863)
	7.	Abraham Lincoln, The Second Inaugural (1865)
	8.	Fourteenth Amendment, 1868
	9.	Plessy v. Ferguson , 1896

Library Sources
	James MacPherson, The Battle Cry of Freedom: The Cvil War Era
		A very good introduction to the Civil War
	Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
		A very good introduction to the Reconstruction era.

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Part 6 Readings

	Contents of the Part 6 Assigned Documents
	1.	U.S. v. E. C. Knight and Co. (1895)
	2.	Edward Bellamy, Excerpt from Looking Backward (1888)
	3.	William Graham Sumner, Excerpt from: "The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over," (1894)
	4.	Josiah Strong on Anglo-Saxon Predominance (1891)
	5.	William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold Speech (1896)
	6.	Alfred T. Mahan on Sea Power (1890)
	7.	Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden (1899)


Other Readings
	Hugh Rockoff, "The Wizard of Oz as a Monetary Allegory"
	William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man
	William Graham Sumner, Taking Care of Ones Self

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Part 7 Readings

	Contents of the Part 7 Assigned Documents
	1.	Robert La Follette, "Progressive Reforms Affected Cities in Many Ways," from La Follette's Autobiography A Personal Narrative Of Political Experiences (1913)
	2.	Theodore Roosevelt: “The New Nationalism” Speech at Osawatomie , Kansas , (1910)
	3.	Woodrow Wilson's War Message (1917)
	4.	Woodrow Wilson, Speech on the Fourteen Points, (1918).
	5.	H.L. Mencken, "The Monkey Trial: A Reporter's Account," (1925)

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Part 8 Readings

	Contents of the Part 8 Assigned Documents
	1.	Franklin D. Roosevelt First Inaugural (March 4, 1933)
	2.	Henry A. Wallace, Speech on Pigs and Pig Iron, November 12, 1935.
	3.	Huey Long : “Share the Wealth” Radio Address, April 1935
	4.	Franklin Delano Roosevelt , The Four Freedoms, January 6, 1941
	5.	Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston S. Churchill, The Atlantic Charter, August 14, 1941
	6.	Winston Churchill, “Iron Curtain” Speech at Westminster College at Fulton Missouri, March 5, 1946
	7.	Harry S. Truman, Address Before A Joint Session Of Congress, March 12, 1947
	8.	The Testimony of Walter E. Disney Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 24 October, 1947

Sources of my agrument on the Causes of the Great Depression
	Robert Higgs, "Regime Uncertainty"
	Robert Mundel, "A Reconsideration of the Twentieth Century"
	Milton Friedman and Anna Swartz, A Monetary History of the United States (see Chapter 7)
	Peter Temin, Lessons from the Great Depresson
	Scott Sumner - "It's Complicated: The Great Depression in the US" (66 minute video address)

Library Sources
	David Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
		A very good introduction to the Drepression and WW2
	James Patterson, Grand Expectiontions: The United States, 1945-1971
		A very good Introduction to the late 1940s, the 1950s, and the 1960s

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Part 9 Readings

	Contents of the Part 9 Assigned Documents
	1.	Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
	2.	President Dwight Eisenhower: Farewell to the Nation, January 17, 1961
	3.	John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
	4.	Martin Luther King, Jr., Address to the March on Washington, (1963)
	5.	Ronald Reagan, A Time for Choosing Speech at the Republican National Convention, 1964
	6.	Lyndon Johnson: The Great Society Speech at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1964
	7.	Tom Hayden, The Port Huron Statement (1962)

Other Readings
	Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from the Birmingham Jail"

Library Sources
	James Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore
		A very good introduction to the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s

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Part 10 Readings

	Contents of the Part 10 Assigned Documents
	1.	Jimmy Carter, The Crisis of Confidence Speech, July 15, 1979
	2.	Ronald Reagan's Acceptance of the Republican Nomination for President, July 17, 1980
	3.	Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando , Florida , March 8, 1983
	4.	Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin , Germany , June 12, 1987
	5.	Mario Cuomo: 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, July 16, 1984
	6.	Gordon Gekko (played by Michael Douglas), Address to Teldar Paper Stockholders in the Movie Wall Street, 1987
	7.	Patrick J. Buchanan 1992 Republican National Convention Speech Houston , Texas August 17, 1992
	8.	Bill Clinton, Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff, (1998)

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