1. General Document Collections (covering entire course)
Annals of America. Vols. 1-10. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc, 1976-1987. Coverage: Vol. 1, 1493-1754; Vol. 2, 1755-1783; Vol. 3, 1784-1796; Vol. 4, 1797-1820; Vol. 5, 1821-1832; Vol. 6, 1833-1840; Vol. 7, 1841-1849; Vol. 8, 1850-1857; Vol. 9, 1858-1865; Vol. 10, 1866-1883. (A two-volume conspectus is organized around 25 major themes. For each theme there is a section that lists all series documents [with exact locations] that pertain to that theme. The NRG set has a paperback Introduction which contains a table of contents to all documents in the entire series.) NRG Reference E 173 .A793 1976-87. These volumes must be used at the NRG: LRC. RGC has an older set, the volumes of which can be checked out. Its call number ends in 1968-74. (The John Henry Faulk [Central] Branch of the Austin Public Library has a circulating set. The call number is 973. The set includes the Introduction.)
Borden, Morton, comp. Voices of the American Past: Readings in American History. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1972. NRG, RGC: E 173 .B72
Boorstin, Daniel J., ed. An American Primer. New York: American Library, 1985. RGC Reference: E 173 .B7 1985
Commager, Henry Steele, and Milton Cantor, eds. Documents of American History. 10th ed. Vol. 1. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1988. CYP, EVC, NRG, PIN RVS: E 173 .C66 1988. (Some copies are for room use only; others can be checked out. See catalog for particulars. There is a copy of the 9th edition at RGC. Same call number except that the ending date is 1973.)
Current, Richard N., comp. Words that Made American History: Selected Readings. 3d ed. abridged and updated. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978. EVC, PIN, RVS: E 178.6.C82 1978
Ezell, John Samuel, Gilbert C. Fite, and Joe B. Frantz, eds. comps. Readings in American History. 3th ed. Vol. 1. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. RGC, RVS: E 173.1 .E95 V. 1
[Facts on File.] Landmark Documents in American History. New York: Facts on File, 1995. (Database on CD-ROM. Almost 1,300 full-text documents covering period, 1492-1995. Includes court decisions, laws, treaties, speeches, and letters.) RGC, RVS. Ask reference librarian or other LRC personnel for assistance.
[Gale Research.] DISCovering U.S. History. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, 1998. (Database on the World-Wide Web. 163 primary source documents covering all of the scope of United States history. 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.
Hofstadter, Richard, and Clarence Ver Steeg, eds. Great Issues in American History. 2 vols. New York: Vintage Books, 1969. (Vol. 1, 1584-1776; Vol. 2, 1765-1865.) NRG, PIN, RVS: E 173 .H752 V. 1
Hutchins, Robert M., and Mortimer J. Adler, eds. in chief.Man and Society. (Gateway to the Great Books.) Vols. 6 & 7. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1963. (Vol. 6 has documents by and/or about Henry David Thoreau, Abraham Lincoln, St. John Crevecour, Thomas Paine, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Alexis de Tocqueville, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Documents include Declaration of Independence, Virginia Declaration of Rights, a proposal on education in colonial Pennsylvania, etc. Vol. 7 includes John C. Calhoun’s discussion on “The Concurrent Majority,” from his Disquisition on Government.) Both volumes are at RGC. Vol. 6: PN 6014 .M36 1963. Vol. 7: PN 6014 .M362 1963.
Marcus, Robert D., and David Burner, eds. America Firsthand. Vol. I, From Settlement to Reconstruction. 2nd ed. New York: St. Martin, 1992. CYP: E 173 .A72 1992. Vol. 1.
Marcus, Robert D., ed. American Voices: A Reader in History and Literature. Volume I (to 1877). St. James, N.Y.: Brandywine Press, 1992. (Lengthy selections from John Smith, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Francis Parkman, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Parson Weems, Washington Irving, Alexis de Tocqueville, Red Jacket, George Catlin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Leech.) CYP: E 173 .A759 1992
Marty, Myron A., and Finkeston, H. Theodore, comps. Retracing Our Steps: Studies in Documents from the American Past. San Francisco: Canfield Press, 1972. NRG, RGC: E 173 .M315 V.1
Morton, Marian J. and Russell Duncan, eds. First Person Past: American Autobiographies. Vol. I (to 1877). St. James, N.Y.: Brandywine Press, 1993. (Excerpts from writings by Anne Bradstreet, [1650]; Elizabeth Ashbridge, [1774]; Olaudah Equiano [African-American, 1789]; Benjamin Franklin, [1818]; David Crockett, [1834]; Black Hawk, [1833]; Harriet H. Robinson, [New England factory worker,1898]; Frederick Douglass, [1845]; Harriet A. Jacobs, [slave, 1861]; Elizabeth Cady Stanton [women’s rights advocate, 1898]; Ulysses S. Grant, [1885-1886]; Tunis Gulic Campbell [African-American preacher during Reconstruction, 1877].) CYP, PIN: E 176 .F57 1994
Paludan, Phillip S., comp. Issues Past and Present: An American History Sourcebook. Vol. 1. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1978. RGC: E 173 .I84 V. 1
Quint, Howard H., and others, eds. Main Problems in American History. 4th ed. Vol. 1. Homewood, Ill.: Dorsey Press, 1978. (Each section of documents is introduced by a secondary source essay.) RGC: E 173 .Q5 1978 V. 1
Rae, Noel, ed. Witnessing America: The Library of Congress Book of Firsthand Accounts of Life in America, 1600-1900. New York: Penguin Reference, 1996. [Note: The documents in this collection are organized topically. The topics are “Arriving,” “Upbringing (family, education),” “Pairing,” “Working,” “Housing,” “Eating,” “Playing,” “Praying [religion],”Erring [crime and punishment],” “Ailing,” and “Departing.” PIN, RVS: E 161 .W58
United States. National Archives and Records Service. Office of Educational Programs. The Written Word Endures: Milestone Documents of American History. Washington: Office of Educational Programs, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1978. EVC, RVS: E 173.U62 1978