American primer
By: edited by Daniel Joseph Boorstin.
Publisher: Chicago University Press
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
First sentence: We call this an American Primer because it is a book of beginnings.
Description: A collection of essays on American history.  Each essay presents and discusses a document or speech (or song or poem) significant in American history.
Notes: Vol.1: 492p.-Vol.2: 493-994p.
Table of contents: pagenum: xiii
class: section
title: Introduction (Daniel J. Boorstin); pagenum: 1
class: part
title: The Mayflower Compact, 1620 (Samuel Eliot Morrison); pagenum: 8
class: part
title: John Winthrop: A Modell of Christian Charity, 1630 (Lawrence W. Tower); pagenum: 26
class: part
title: Mary Easty: Petition of an Accused Witch, 1692 (Edmund S. Morgan); pagenum: 31
class: part
title: Gabriel Thomas: An Account of Pennsylvania, 1698 (David M Potter); pagenum: 48
class: part
title: Benjamin Franklin: Father Abraham's Speech, or, The Way to Wealth, 1757 (Leonard W. Labaree); pagenum: 60
class: part
title: Logan's Speech, 1774 (Wilcomb E. Washburn); pagenum: 65
class: part
title: Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence, 1776 (Henery Steele Commanger); pagenum: 76
class: part
title: Benjamin Franklin: Address to the Federal Convention, 1787 (Ralph L. Ketcham); class: part
title: The Constitution of the United States of America, 1787; pagenum: 83
class: part
title: The Preamble (Clarence L. Ver Steeg); pagenum: 88
class: part
title: Article I (C. Herman Pritchett); pagenum: 103
class: part
title: Article II (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.); pagenum: 113
class: part
title: Article III (David Fellman); pagenum: 122
class: part
title: Article IV (J. A. C. Grant); pagenum: 130
class: part
title: Article V and the Amending Process (Philip B. Kurland); pagenum: 139
class: part
title: Articles VI and VII (Alfred H. Kelly); pagenum: 152
class: part
title: The Bill of Rights: Amendments I-X (Milton R. Konvitz); pagenum: 161
class: part
title: The Civil War Amendments: XIII-XV (Francis A. Allen); pagenum: 170
class: part
title: George Washington: First Inaugural Address, 1789 (Clinton Rossiter); pagenum: 177
class: part
title: Alexander Hamilton: Report on Manufactures, 1791 (Thomas C. Cochran); pagenum: 192
class: part
title: George Washington: Farewell Address, 1796 (Richard B. Morris); pagenum: 211
class: part
title: Thomas Jefferson: First Inaugural Address, 1801 (Dumas Malone); pagenum: 219
class: part
title: Jacob Henry: On Religion and Elective Office, 1809 (Joseph L. Blau); pagenum: 227
class: part
title: John Adams: What Do We Mean by the American Revolution, 1818 (L. H. Butterfield); pagenum: 239
class: part
title: John Marshall: M'Culloch v. Maryland, 1819 (Robert G. Mc Closkey); pagenum: 255
class: part
title: James Monroe: The Monroe Doctrine, 1823 (Dexter Perkins); pagenum: 263
class: part
title: Andrew Jackson: The Majority Is To Govern, 1829 (John William Ward); pagenum: 276
class: part
title: William Lloyd Garrison: Prospectus for the "Liberator," 1831 (Kenneth M. Stampp); pagenum: 282
class: part
title: Ralph Waldo Emmerson: The American Scholar, 1837 (Robert E. Spiller); pagenum: 302
class: part
title: Lemuel Shaw: Commonwealth v. Hunt, 1842 (Leonard W. Levy); pagenum: 317
class: part
title: Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobediance, 1846 (Frederick B. Tolles); pagenum: 341
class: part
title: Horace Mann: Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1848 (Ralph H Gabriel); pagenum: 357
class: part
title: The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, 1848 (Barbara M. Solomon); pagenum: 366
class: part
title: Elizabeth Caddy Stanton: Address on the Divorce Bill, 1861 (Nelson M. Blake); pagenum: 380
class: part
title: Julia Ward Howe: The Battle Hymn of the Republic, 1861 (William G. Mc Loughlin); pagenum: 386
class: part
title: The Homestead Act, 1862 (Paul W. Gates); pagenum: 393
class: part
title: Abraham Lincoln: Second Annual Message to Congress, 1862 (Roy F. Nichols); pagenum: 409
class: part
title: Abraham Lincoln: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 (John Hope Franklin); pagenum: 416
class: part
title: Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address, 1863 (Allan Nevins); pagenum: 422
class: part
title: Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address, 1865 (Paul M. Angle); pagenum: 427
class: part
title: Uylsses S. Grant: Terms of Surrender for the Army of Northern Virginia, 1865 (T. Harry Williams); pagenum: 432
class: part
title: The Oath of Office, 1868 (Harold M. Hyman); pagenum: 437
class: part
title: The Ballad of John Henry, c. 1872 (Richard M. Dorson); pagenum: 446
class: part
title: Mary Baker Eddy: Science and Health, 1875 (Martin E. Marty); pagenum: 458
class: part
title: Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus, 1883 (John Higham); pagenum: 463
class: part
title: Henry W. Grady: The New South, 1886 (Thomas D. Clark); pagenum: 477
class: part
title: James Cardinal Gibbons: The Question of "Knights of Labor," 1887 (John Tracy Ellis)