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, orDie
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: CommonSense
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, Notesforthe Historyofthe War between Mexico andthe UnitedStates
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 andExplorations inthe Cotton Kingdom
Harriet Jacobs: Incidentsinthe LifeofaSlaveGirl
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 Voicefrom 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: Journalofa Residenceona Georgian Plantationin 1838–1839
Frederick Douglass: “Men of Color, To Arms!”
Gettysburg Address
Louisa May Alcott: HospitalSketches
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 ofRichmond Photograph
Photograph ofthe 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
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.
Table of contents
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, orDie
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: CommonSense
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, Notesforthe Historyofthe War between Mexico andthe UnitedStates
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 andExplorations inthe Cotton Kingdom
Harriet Jacobs: Incidentsinthe LifeofaSlaveGirl
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 Voicefrom 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: Journalofa Residenceona Georgian Plantationin 1838–1839
Frederick Douglass: “Men of Color, To Arms!”
Gettysburg Address
Louisa May Alcott: HospitalSketches
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 ofRichmond Photograph
Photograph ofthe 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