2. Document Collections on Specialized Subjects
Baker, D. W. C., comp. A Texas Scrapbook: Made Up of the History, Biography, and Miscellany of Texas and Its People. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1991. (Reprint of 1875 edition. There are many primary source documents and excerpts from documents. Some of the materials are secondary sources. If you have a question about the type of source a given document is, consult your instructor. Use index as well as table of contents to see is this volume is useful for your research.) PIN: F 385 .B17 1991
Bartholomew, Paul Charles, and Joseph F. Menez. Summaries of Leading Cases on the Constitution. 13th ed. Savage, Md.: Littlefield Adams Quality Paperbacks, 1990. RVS: KF 4547.8 .B3 1990. (There is a 1962 edition by the same publisher but different place of publication at RVS also.)
Barton, H. Arnold, ed. Letters from the Promised Land: Swedes in America, 1840-1914. Minneapolis: Published by the University of Minnesota Press for the Swedish Pioneer Historical Society, 1975. CYP: E 184 .S8 L47 1975
Binder, Frederick M., and David M. Reimers, comps.. The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social History. Vol. I. Lexington,Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1988. (Covers years 1607-1877. In each section, there is a secondary source essay by a historian, followed by several primary source documents.) CYP: HN 57 .W357
Brockway, Thomas P., comp. Basic Documents in United States Foreign Policy. Rev. ed. Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1968. PIN, RGC: JX 1405 .B7 1968
Brown, Bernard Edward, ed. Great American Political Thinkers. Vol. 2. New York: Avon Books, 1983. (First three chapters have to do with History 1613: Chapter 1, “Slavery and the Union;” Chapter 2, “The Forgotten Woman;” and Chapter 3, “Transcendental Individualism.”) EVC, RVS: JA 84 .U5 G68 1983 V.2
Congressional Quarterly, Inc. National Party Conventions, 1831-1992. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1995. NRG, RGC, RVS: JK 2255 .N37 1983. (See catalog for earlier editions.)
Cushman, Robert Fairchild, ed. Cases in Constitutional Law. 7th ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1989. PIN, RGC, RVS: KF 4549 .C8 1989. (All are in the Reference Area.) (NRG and RGC also have 1975 edition in the Reference Area.)
Cushman, Robert Fairchild, ed. Leading Constitutional Decisions. 17th ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1987. RVS: KF 4549 .C83 1987 (NRG and RGC have 15th ed., 1977.)
Davidson, Roger H., and Walter J. Oleszek, eds. Governing: Readings and Cases in American Politics. Washington, D.C. CQ Press, 1987. NRG, RGC, RVS: JK 21 .G68 1987
Dublin, Thomas, ed. Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, 1773-1986. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. (Relevant contents: John Harrower diary, 1773-1776; Hollingworth family letters, 1827-1830; William and Sophie Frank Seyffardt letters, 1851-1863.] PIN: JV 6450 .I553 1993.
Duran, Livie Isauro, and H. Russell Bernard, eds. Introduction to Chicano Studies: A Reader. New York: Macmillan, 1973. (Mainly a collection of secondary source essays but includes a primary source document dealing with Cortes’s conquest of Mexico [pp.115-124] and several documents having to do with the conclusion of the war between the United States and Mexico in 1948 [pp. 198-209]. Count as a primary source only if you use one of the documents.) RGC: E 184.M5 D85
Frost, Elizabeth, ed. The Bully Pulpit: Quotations from America’s Presidents. New York: Facts on File, 1988. EVC: E 176.1 .B925 1988
[Gale Research.] DISCovering Multicultural America. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, 1997. (Database on the World-Wide Web. 350 primary source documents covering all of the scope of United States history. Subjects include African Americans, Asian American, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans. At present, can only be accessed from a computer in an ACC facility. Students can do this from any Learning Resource Center or computer lab.) All ACC LRCs: . For assistance, see a reference librarian or other LRC personnel.
Gallay, Alan, ed. Voices of the Old South: Eyewitness Accounts, 1528-1861. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1994. (Excerpts from “firsthand perspectives on the great events that shaped the region as well as its customs, attitudes, and commonplace occurences.”) CYP: F 212 .V65 1994
Gaustad, Edwin Scott, ed. A Documentary History of Religion in America. Vol. l: To the Civil War. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1982. NRG, RGC: BL 2525 .D63 1982 V.1
Gaustad, Edwin Scott, ed. A Documentary History of Religion in America . Vol. 2. .2nd ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1993. (Covers 1865 to the 1980s.) NRG, RGC: BL 2525 .D63 1993 V.2
Hallo, William W., David Ruderman, and Michael Stanislawki, eds. Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, a Source Reader. New York: Praeger, 1984. (Chapter 7, “The Golden Land,” has 14 documents about the history of Jews in America from 1654 to 1932.) RVS: DS 102 .H47 1984
Handlin, Oscar, ed. This Was America: True Accounts of People and Places, Manners and Customs, as Recorded by European Travelers to the Western World in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1949. (Includes Crevecour and De Tocqueville.) NRG, RGC: E 161 .H3
Harrison, Maureen, and Steve Gilbert, eds. Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court. 3 vols. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Excellent Books, 1991. EVC, CYP, PIN, RGC, RVS: REFERENCE KF 4549 .L37 1991 (Room use only)
Hollinger, David A., and Charles Capper, eds. The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook. 2nd ed. Volume I: 1630-1865. Volume II: 1865 to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. RGC: E 169.1 .A47218 1993
Humez, Jean M., ed. Mother’s First-born Daughters: Early Shaker Writings on Women and Religion. (Religion in North America.) Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1993. NRG: BX 9789 .W7 M68 1993
Hutner, Gordon, ed. Immigrant Voices: Twenty-four Narratives on Becoming an American. New York: Signet Classic, 1999. (Material relevant to this course: selections from Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer; Joseph Pickering, Inquiries of an Emigrantt; Rebecca Burlend, A True Picture of Emigration; Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie; Gro Svendsen, Frontier Mother; Zakrzewska, A Woman’s Quest; and Henry Villard, Memoirs of Henry Villard.) PIN, RVS: JV 6455 .I54 1999
Jefferson, Thomas. Thomas Jefferson on Democracy. Selected and arranged with an introduction by Saul K. Padover. New York: New American Library, 1958. (Selections are from Jefferson’s correspondence and public papers. Subjects include the natural rights of man, principles of democracy, the Constitution, political economy [including agriculture and commerce], social welfare [including classes, education, the press, African Americans, Native Americans, and immigration], religion, and foreign affairs.) RGC: JC 423 .J4 1958
Kamphoefner, Walter D., et al., eds. News from the Land of Freedom: German Immigrants Write Home. Translated by Susan Carter Vogel. (Documents in American Social History.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. (350 letters, some abridged. Although earliest is dated 1834 and latest, 1936, most were written in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Arranged in three groups, “Farmers,” “Workers,” and “Domestic Servants.” Subjects covered include the gold rush, slavery, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. Emphasis is on the day-to-day existence of people adapting to a very different culture from their own.) RGC: E 184 .G3 B7513 1991
Katz, Jonathan. Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.: A Documentary. Rev. ed. New York: Crowell, 1992. NRG, RGC, RVS: HQ 76.3 .U5 K37 1992
Kimmel, Michael S., and Thomas E. Mosmiller, eds. Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990; A Documentary History. (Men and Masculinity.) Boston: Beacon, 1992. RGC: HQ 1236 .U6 A34 1992
Leopold, Richard William, ed. Problems in American History. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1957. RGC: E 178 .L5 1957
Lockhard, Duane, ed. Basic Cases in Constitutional Law. 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1992. NRG, RGC, RVS: KF 4549 .L55 1992 (RVS copy is 2-hour reserve. Ask at Circulation Desk.) EVC, NRG, RGC, and RVS have 1987 edition also.
MacArthur, Brian, ed. The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches. London, Engl.: Penguin Books, 1996. (Relevant sections are “The Birth of the United States,” “Towards Civil War,” “The Age of Lincoln,” and “Women’s Liberation.” Many of the documents have been excerpted.) RVS: PN 6121 .P39 1996
Marcus, Jacob Rader. The American Jewish Woman: A Documentary History. New York: Ktav, American Jewish Archives, 1981. NRG: HQ 1172 .M372 1981. (Another copy, with the call number HQ 1172 .M37 Suppl, is at RVS.)
Marcus, Jacob Rader, comp. This I Believe: Documents of American Jewish Life. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 1990. PIN: BJ 1279 .T48 1990
Mendes-Flohr, Paul R., and Jehuda Reinharz, eds. The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. (The first ten documents in Section IX: “The American Experience.) RVS: DS 102 .J43 1980
Moquin, Wayne, ed. A Documentary History of the Mexican Americans. New York: Praeger, 1971. NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: E 184 .M5 M63 1971
Morgan, Speer, and Greg Michalson, eds. For Our Beloved Country: American War Diaries from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1994. (Two documents relevant to History 1613. One is a memoir by Revolutionary War soldier Joseph Plumb Martin, written when he was about 70 years old. Author was with Washington at Valley Forge and Yorktown. The second is the Civil War diary of George Sargent, a Union soldier from Charlestown, Massachusetts. Sargent was present at battles of Fredericksburg, Second Bull Run, and participated in the Petersburg campaign.) CYP: E 181 .F67 1994
Morris, Richard B., and Jeffrey B. Morris, comps. Great Presidential Decisions: State Papers that Changed the Course of History from Washington to Reagan. New York: Richardson, Steirman & Black, 1988. RVS: E 173 .M93 1988
Morse, Flo. The Shakers and the World’s People. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1987. (Extracts from writings by Shakers and about Shakers by others.) RVS: BX 9766 .M67 1987
Nelson, Michael, ed. Historic Documents of the Presidency. Washington: Congressional Quarterly, 1989. CYP, EVC, PIN, RGC, RVS REFERENCE: JK 511 .H57 1989 (Room use only)
Nevins, Allan. American Press Opinion, Washington to Coolidge: A Documentary Record of Editorial Leadership and Criticism, 1785-1927. 2 vols. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1969. (Contents: Vol. 1, 1785-1864; Vol. 2, 1865-1927.) NRG: E 173 .N52
O’Neill, William L. ed. Insights and Parallels: Problems and Issues of American Social History. Minneapolis, Minn.: Burgess Pub. Co., 1973. (Hybrid source. Contains secondary source essays and primary source documents. Topics include black resistance to slavery in Massachusetts, the early Ameican community, democratic rioting in Baltimore (1835), abolitionists, and the feminization of American religion, 1800-1860)) PIN: HN 54 .O53 1973
Ornelas, Michael R. ed. Between the Conquests: Readings in the Early Chicano Historical Experience. 2nd ed. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1996. (Most of the readings are secondary sources, but there are three documents: the Texan Declaration of Independence, excerpts from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and the Protocol of Querétaro.) RGC, RVS: E 184 .M5 B47 1996
Podell, Janet, and Steven Anzovin, eds. Speeches of the American Presidents. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1988. CYP, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: J 81 .C88 1988 (NRG’s copy is in Reference Area; RVS has one copy that circulates, another in Reference Area. All other locations have circulating copies.)
Posadas, Barbara M., ed. Refracting America: Gender, Race, Ethnicity and the Environment in American History to 1877. St. James, N.Y.: Brandywine Press, 1993. RGC: E 184 .A1 P6 1993
Ravitch, Diane, and Abigail Themstrom, eds. The Democracy Reader: Classic and Modern Speeches, Essays , Poems, Declarations, and Documents on Freedom and Human Rights Worldwide. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. NRG: JC 421 .D4635 1992
Reingold, Nathan, ed. Science in Nineteenth-Century America: A Documentary History. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1985. (Consists of excerpts of correspondence of scientists of the period. NRG: Q 127 .U6 S318 1985
[Research Publications.] The Asian-American Experience. (Research Publications’ American Journey.) Woodbridge, Conn.: Research Publications: Primary Source Media, 1997. (A computer database on CD-ROM. A fully indexed and searchable collection of primary sources related to Asian Americans in United States history.) RVS: Computer Center. (Ask Computer Center personnel for assistance.)
[Research Publications.] The Hispanic-American Experience. (Research Publications’ American Journey.) Woodbridge, Conn.: Research Publications: Primary Source Media, 1995. (A computer database on CD-ROM. A fully indexed and searchable collection of primary sources related to Hispanic Americans in United States history.) RVS: On index tables. (See a reference librarian or other LRC personnel for assistance.)
[Research Publications.] The Immigrant Experience. (Research Publications’ American Journey.) Woodbridge, Conn.: Research Publications: Primary Source Media, 1997. (A computer database on CD-ROM. A fully indexed and searchable collection of primary sources.) RVS: Computer Center. (As Computer Center personnel for assistance.)
Safire, William, comp. Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History. New York: Norton, 1992. (Speeches relevant to History 1613 by Gouverneur Morris, Daniel Webster, Frances Wright, Abraham Lincoln, Patrick Henry, an unnamed Native American [pledging assistance to the Patriot cause in the American Revolution], George Washington, Jefferson Davis, Henry Lee, George Graham, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, John C. Calhoun, Charles Sumner, Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckenridge, John Brown, Jonathan Edwards, John Witherspoon, Chief Red Jacket, Bishop James Madison, Henry Ward Beecher, Edgar Allan Poe, Maria Stewart, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, Chief Seattle, Susan B. Anthony. John Winthrop, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay, J. Proctor Knott.) CYP, EVC, NRG, RGC, RVS: PN 6112 .L4 1992
Schoener, Allon, ed. The American Jewish Album: 1654 to the Present. New York: Rizzoli, 1983. RGC, RVS: E 184 .J5 A367 1983
Smith, James Morton, and Paul L. Murphy, eds. Liberty and Justice: Forging the Federal Union; American Constitutional Development to 1869. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. PIN: KF 4549 .S57 1965 V.1
United States. Congress. Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington (1789) to George Bush (1989). Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1989. NRG, RGC, RVS REFERENCE: J 81 .C89 1989 (Room use only)
United States. Supreme Court. Classic and Current Decisions of the United States Supreme Court. San Francisco, Calif.: W. H. Freeman, [n.d.]. RGC: KF 101.8 .S65
Van Tassel, David D., and Robert W. McAhren, eds. European Origins of American Thought. (Rand McNally Series on the History of American Thought and Culture.) Chicago, Ill.: Rand McNally, 1969. (Instructor has table of contents. Includes both European and American sources.) NRG: AZ 504 .V35 1969
Wallace, Ernest, and David M. Vigness, comps. Documents of Texas History (1528-1993). Rev. ed. Austin, Texas: State House Press, 1994. NRG, RGC, RVS REFERENCE: F 386 .W32 1994
Woll, Peter. Constitutional Law: Cases and Comments. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1981. NRG, RGC: KF 4549 .W6 1969