Synopsis
An * indicates a new selection. Each chapter concludes with “Glossary” and “Implications.” Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Sources and Interpretations. PART I. Chapter 1. Past Traces: Fr. Paul le Juene, “Brief Relation of the Journey to New France” (1633) / “Jesuit Observations on the 'Enslavement' of Women” (1710). Reading: *James Axtell, “Imagining the Other: First Encounters.” Chapter 2. Past Traces: *“Richard Frethorn's Letter Home ” (1623). Reading: T. H. Breen, “Looking Out for Number One: Conflicting Cultural Values in Seventeenth-Century Virginia.” Chapter 3. Past Traces: *John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630). Reading: Virginia DeJohn Anderson, “Migrants and Motives: Religion and the Settlement of New England,” 1630-1640. Chapter 4. Past Traces: *“The Stranger: Slave Recreation” (1772). Reading: Peter H. Wood, “Patterns of Slave Resistance.” Chapter 5. Past Traces: *Anne Bradstreet, “Thoughts on Her Husband and Children” (1650). Reading: Mary Beth Norton, “A Small Circle of Domestic Concerns.” Chapter 6. Past Traces: *Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (1741). Reading: *Frank Lambert, “Whitefield's Use of Commercial Strategies in the Great Awakening.” PART II. Chapter 1. Past Traces: *John Andrews to William Barrell on the Boston Tea Party (1773). Reading: Alfred F. Young, George Robert, “Twelves Hewes: A Boston Shoemaker and the American Revolution.” Chapter 2. Past Traces: *Judith Sargent Murray, “On the Equality of the Sexes” (1790). Reading: *Carol Berkin, “Women in the American Revolution.” Chapter 3. Past Traces: Anon., “A Brief Narrative of the Ravages of the British and Hessians at Princeton” (1777). Reading: James Kirby Martin, “A Most Undisciplined, Profligate Crew: Protest and Defiance in the Continental Ranks.” Chapter 4. Past Traces: *Brutus, “Second Essay Opposing the Constitution” (1787). Reading: Robert E. Shalhope, “The Constitution and the Competing Political Cultures of Late-Eighteenth-Century America.” Chapter 5. Past Traces: *Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson on the African American Intellect (1791). Reading: Gary B. Nash, “Absalom Jones: Free Black Leader.” Chapter 6. Past Traces: *Little Turtle on the Treaty of Greenville (1795)/Tecumseh on Land Cessions (1810). Reading: *James H. Merrell, “Declarations of Independence: Indian-White Relations in the New Nation.” PART III. Chapter 1. Past Traces: *Hector St. John de Crévecoeur, “The American Belisarius” (c. 1790s). Reading: Robert A. Gross, “Culture and Cultivation: Agriculture and Society in Thoreau's Concord.” Chapter 2. Past Traces: *Resolutions of the Journeymen Carpenters/Resolutions of the Master Carpenters (1845). Reading: Ronald Schultz, “God and Workingmen: Popular Religion and the Formation of Philadelphia's Working Class, 1790-1830.” Chapter 3. Past Traces: Lucy Larcom, “An Idyll of Work.” Reading: Christine Stansell, “Women, Children, and the Uses of the Street: Class and Gender Conflict in New York City.” Chapter 4. Past Traces: *The Stuart-Bennett Duel (1819). Reading: Elliott J. Gorn, “Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch: The Social Significance of Fighting in the Southern Backcountry.” Chapter 5. Past Traces: *Abraham Lincoln, “A House Divided” (1858). Reading: Stephen B. Oates, “Advocate of the Dream.” Chapter 6. Past Traces: *Susie King Taylor, “Reminiscences of an Army Laundress” (1902). Reading: Bell I. Wiley, “Heroes and Cowards.”