The history of U.S. warfare at home and abroad is the subject of this 3-volume set. From the War of 1812 to the Civil War, World War I and II, the Cold War, Vietnam, and Iraq, the set includes 200 essential primary documents. Each document includes a Fact Box, Overview, and Questions for Further Study. Broad overview articles help organize the set and provide useful background information and detailed Further Reading lists for additional research.

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Reader’s Guide
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Colonial Wars
• Henry Dering: Letter to John Cotton
• Thomas Oliver: “A Memorial of the State of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, with Reference to the War, humbly Offered to your most Sacred Majesty”
• Benjamin Franklin: Join, or Die
• George Washington: Letters to Robert Dinwiddie, 11–14 October 1755
• Proclamation of 1763
• Chapter 2: American Revolution
• Patrick Henry: Virginia Resolves on the Stamp Act
• Anna Young Smith: “An Elegy to the Memory of the American Volunteers”
• George Washington: Address to the Continental Congress
• Declaration of Independence
• Thomas Paine: Common Sense
• Abigail Adams: “Remember the Ladies” Letter
• George Washington: Letter to John Hancock
• Nicholas Cresswell: Journal of a Loyalist in Virginia
• Molly Gutridge: “A New Touch on the Times”
• Eliza Wilkinson: Letters from a Planter’s Daughter
• George Washington: Farewell Address
• Boyrereau Brinch: Pension Application
• Chapter 3: The War of 1812
• James Madison: War Message to Congress
• Tecumseh: Speech to Major General Henry Procter at Fort Malden
• Henry Clay: Speech on the Bill to Raise an Additional Military Force
• Francis Scott Key: “The Star-Spangled Banner” (U.S. National Anthem)
• Treaty of Ghent
• Chapter 4: Slave Revolts
• Robert Hunter: Letter to the Lords of Trade on the New York Slave Revolt of 1712
• James Oglethorpe: “An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina”
• William C. C. Claiborne: Letter to Thomas Jefferson
• The Confessions of Nat Turner
• Chapter 5: Native American Conflicts
• Treaty with the Cherokee, 1798 (First Treaty of Tellico Blockhouse)
• Little Turtle: Address of Little Turtle
• Joseph Cramer: Letter to Major Ed Wynkoop about the Sand Creek Massacre
• Treaty of Fort Laramie
• Wounded Knee Massacre: Statements and Eyewitness Accounts
• Two Moons: A Cheyenne Description of the Battle of the Little Bighorn River
• Little Bear: Account of the Sand Creek Massacre
• Nicholas Black Elk: “The Butchering at Wounded Knee”
• Chapter 6: Mexican-American War
• Joint Resolution of Congress for the Annexation of Texas
• ‌‌‌‌‌‌Thomas J. Green: “Reflections upon the . . . Relations of Texas, Mexico, and the United States”
• James K. Polk: Message to Congress on War with Mexico
• Ephraim Kirby Smith: Letters from the Front in the Mexican War
• Henry Clay: Speech on the Mexican-American War
• Richard Doyle: “The Land of Liberty” Cartoon
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Frederick Douglass: “The War with Mexico”
• The Other Side; or, Notes for the History of the War between Mexico and the United States
• Ulysses S. Grant: Memoir on the Mexican War
• Chapter 7: The Civil War
• Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address
• Alexander Stephens: Corner-Stone Speech
• Elisha Hunt Rhodes: Civil War Diary of a Union Soldier
• Frederick Law Olmsted: Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom
• Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• Jefferson Davis: Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate
• Jefferson Davis: Inaugural Address to the Confederacy
• Julia Ward Howe: “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
• Osborne P. Anderson: A Voice from Harper’s Ferry
• Robert E. Lee: 1861 Letter to Custis Lee
• Sam Houston: Speech on His Refusal to Take the Oath of Loyalty to the Confederacy
• Wendell Phillips: “Under the Flag”
• William Henry Seward: Memorandum to President Abraham Lincoln
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Frederick Douglass: “The Reasons for Our Troubles”
• George Frederick Root: “Battle-Cry of Freedom”
• Robert E. Lee: 1862 Letter to Jefferson Davis
• Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade
• Abraham Lincoln: Letter to James C. Conkling
• Frances Anne Kemble: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839
• Frederick Douglass: “Men of Color, To Arms!”
• Gettysburg Address
• Louisa May Alcott: Hospital Sketches
• Robert E. Lee: 1863 Letter to Jefferson Davis
• U.S. War Department General Order 143
• “An Ordinance to Organize and Establish Patrols for the Police of Slaves in the Parish of St. Landry”
• James H. Payne: Letter about “Sister Penny”
• Robert E. Lee: 1864 Letter to Jefferson Davis
• Thomas Morris Chester: Civil War Dispatches
• Ulysses S. Grant: Letter to William Tecumseh Sherman
• Arnold Bertonneau: “Every Man Should Stand Equal before the Law”
• John Jones: “The Black Laws of Illinois: And a Few Reasons Why They Should Be Repealed”
• Photograph of Powder Monkey on USS New Hampshire
• Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address
• Andrew Johnson: First Annual Message to Congress
• Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia
• Black Code of Mississippi
• Convention of Colored Men: Address to the Loyal Citizens of the United States and to Congress
• Robert E. Lee: General Order No. 9
• Robert E. Lee: Letter to Andrew Hunter
• Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
• Ulysses S. Grant: Final Report of Military Operations
• Walt Whitman: Selections from Drum-Taps
• William Lloyd Garrison: Valedictory Editorial of the Liberator
• William T. Sherman: Special Field Order No. 15
• Andrew J. Russell: Ruins of Richmond Photograph
• Photograph of the 107th U.S. Colored Infantry
• Chapter 8: The Spanish-American War
• William McKinley: Message to Congress about Cuban Intervention
• Victor Gillam: “Remember the Maine! And Don’t Forget the Starving Cubans!”
• William McKinley: “Benevolent Assimilation” Proclamation
• John W. Galloway: A Black Soldier’s Letter from the Philippines
• ‌‌‌‌James W. Poe: “The Slaughter in the Philippines and Its Relation to Massacres of Our People in the South”
• Platform of the Anti-Imperialist League
• Louis Dalrymple: “School Begins”
• Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on the Retention of the Philippine Islands
• Emil Flohri: “And, After All, the Philippines Are Only the Stepping-Stone to China”
• Chapter 9: World War I
• Mary L. Graffam: Letter from Turkey
• Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on Mexico
• Woodrow Wilson: Second Inaugural Address
• Zimmermann Telegram
• Woodrow Wilson: Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War against Germany
• Emma Goldman: Speech against Conscription and War
• Robert La Follette: Speech Opposing War with Germany
• Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on President Woodrow Wilson’s Plan for a World Peace
• Espionage Act
• “Gee! I Wish I Were a Man”: Navy Recruiting Poster
• Eugene V. Debs: Antiwar Speech
• Theodore Roosevelt: Speech to the New York Republican State Convention
• Robert Russa Moton: “The American Negro and the World War”
• Sedition Act
• Woodrow Wilson: Fourteen Points
• Covenant of the League of Nations
• Treaty of Versailles
• W. E. B. Du Bois: “Returning Soldiers”
• Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech Opposing the League of Nations
• “The Colored Americans in France”
• Photograph of Harlem Hellfighters Regiment
• Chapter 10: World War II
• U.S. Congress: Neutrality Act of 1939
• George Marshall: Speech to the American Historical Association on the National Organization for War
• Walter Reuther: “500 Planes a Day”
• Kichisaburō Nomura: Draft Proposals for Peace between the Governments of Japan and the United States
• Harold Ickes: Speech for “I Am an American Day”
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: Four Freedoms Message to Congress
• Lend-Lease Act
• Executive Order 8802: Banning Discrimination in Government and Defense Industries
• Japan’s Fourteen-part Message
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Pearl Harbor” Speech
• Executive Order 9066: Internment of Japanese Americans
• John L. DeWitt: Order for Internment of Japanese Americans in San Francisco
• John DeWitt: Final Report: The Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, 1942
• George Marshall: Speech to the Graduating Class of the U.S. Military Academy
• Bayard Rustin: “The Negro and Nonviolence”
• “We Can Do It!” Rosie the Riveter Poster
• “Kultur-terror” Pro-German, Anti-American Propaganda Poster
• U.S. War Department: Pamphlet on Censorship
• National War Labor Board: Case No. 771—Southport Petroleum Company (Texas City, Texas) and Oil Workers’ International Union
• Photograph of B-17 Formation over Schweinfurt, Germany
• Ansel Adams: “Manzanar Relocation Center” Photograph
• Photograph of Navajo Code Talkers
• Alfred T. Palmer: “Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant (Chrysler)” Photograph
• Korematsu v. United States
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: Order of the Day
• Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
• John Pehle and John McCloy: Debate about the Bombing of Auschwitz
• U.S. Department of Defense: Combat Interview of D-Day Survivors of the 116th Infantry Regiment
• Joe Rosenthal: Raising the Flag over Iwo Jima
• Emperor Hirohito: Imperial Rescript on Surrender of Japan
• Douglas MacArthur: Radio Broadcast after the Surrender of Japan
• Harry S. Truman: Statement Announcing the Use of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
• J. Robert Oppenheimer: Memorandum on the Radiological Dangers of a Nuclear Detonation
• Declaration Regarding the Defeat of Germany
• Yalta Conference Joint Statement
• Potsdam Conference Protocols
• U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report
• J. Robert Oppenheimer: Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy
• Robert H. Jackson: Closing Statement before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany
• Chapter 11: The Cold War
• Winston Churchill: “Iron Curtain” Speech
• George F. Kennan: “Long Telegram”
• George Marshall: The Mediator’s View of the Situation in China
• J. Edgar Hoover: Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee
• Marshall Plan
• Truman Doctrine
• George F. Kennan: “PPS/23: Review of Current Trends in U.S. Foreign Policy”
• Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces
• North Atlantic Treaty
• Harry S. Truman: Inaugural Address
• Joseph McCarthy: “Enemies from Within” Speech
• J. Edgar Hoover: Letter to Harry Truman’s Special Consultant, Sidney Souers
• Joseph McCarthy: Telegram to President Harry S. Truman
• Joseph McCarthy: Letter to President Dwight Eisenhower
• George Marshall: Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: First Inaugural Address
• John Foster Dulles: Radio and Television Address on Communism in Guatemala
• Warsaw Security Pact
• Allen Dulles: Television Interview on the Soviets’ Intentions
• Paul Robeson: Testimony before HUAC
• John Foster Dulles: Address on U.S. Policy toward Communist China
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: Second Inaugural Address
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: Eisenhower Doctrine
• John Foster Dulles: News Conference on U.S. Relations with Latin American Nations
• Richard M. Nixon: “Kitchen” Debate with Nikita Khrushchev
• Allen Dulles: Address on the Soviet Military Threat
• Walter Reuther: Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: Farewell Address
• John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address
• Tom Hayden: “The Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society”
• John F. Kennedy: Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba
• Lyndon Baines Johnson: Speech to Congress on Assuming the Presidency
• Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai: Shanghai Communiqué
• Biological Weapons Convention
• Helsinki Final Act
• Ronald Reagan: “Evil Empire” Speech
• Ronald Reagan: Address to the Nation on United States Policy in Central America
• Ronald Reagan: Remarks on East-West Relations at the Brandenburg Gate
• Photograph of Berlin Wall Teardown
• George H. W. Bush: Address to the Nation on the Commonwealth of Independent States
• Chapter 12: The Korean War
• UN Security Council: Resolutions on Hostilities in Korea
• David Douglas Duncan: Captain Francis “Ike” Fenton Photograph
• Harry S. Truman: Report to the American People on Korea
• Thurgood Marshall: Draft of Report on Korea
• Harry S. Truman: Statement and Order on Relieving General MacArthur of His Commands
• Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: Radio and Television Address to the American People Announcing the Signing of the Korean Armistice
• Chapter 13: Vietnam War
• John McNaughton: Plan of Action for South Vietnam
• Joint Chiefs of Staff: U.S. Department of Defense Rules of Engagement
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• Lyndon Baines Johnson: Remarks on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
• J. Edgar Hoover: Memo on the Leak of Vietnam War Information
• Bond v. Floyd
• Martin Luther King Jr.: “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”
• My Lai Massacre Witness Statements and Testimony
• Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
• Richard M. Nixon: “Silent Majority” Speech
• Richard M. Nixon: Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia
• Mexican American Marines in Vietnam
• John Kerry: Testimony of Vietnam Veterans Against the War
• Clay v. United States
• Photograph of Vietnam War Destruction
• Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho: Paris Peace Accords
• Herbert Block: “National Security Blanket” Cartoon
• Chapter 14: Post–Cold War Conflicts
• George H. W. Bush: Address to the Nation on Panama
• George H. W. Bush: Memorandum on the Arrest of General Manuel Noriega in Panama
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 687
• George H. W. Bush: Address to the Nation Announcing Operation Desert Storm
• Bernie Sanders: Speech on the Persian Gulf War
• Jonas Jordan: Photograph of Burning Oil Field in Kuwait
• William J. Clinton: Address to the Nation on Somalia
• John D. Gresham: “Black Hawk Down” Interview with Michael J. Durant
• Chapter 15: Iraq-Afghanistan
• George W. Bush: Address to the Nation on September 11, 2001
• 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force
• George W. Bush: Second State of the Union Address
• Bybee Torture Memo
• Colin Powell: Remarks to the United Nations Security Council
• George W. Bush: Address to the Nation on Military Operations in Iraq
• J. Scott Applewhite: “Mission Accomplished” Photograph
• Robert C. Byrd: “The Emperor Has No Clothes” Speech
• Antonio Taguba: Taguba Report
• Condoleezza Rice: “International Support for Iraqi Democracy”
• Iraq Study Group Report
• Report on the Death of Pat Tillman
• Barack Obama: “A New Beginning” Speech on U.S.-Muslim Relations
• Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan
• Brennen Lege: Photograph of U.S. Withdrawal from Kabul
• List of Documents by Category
• Index