Readings in American History Volume I:To 1877PDF电子书下载

Ⅰ．THE COLONIAL PERIOD(1600-1783) 1

The Puritan Mode of Thought from Daniel Boorstin，The Americans 4

Political and Social Structure in Colonial Virginia＆by Bernard Bailyn 20

The Spirit of＇76＆by Carl Lotus Becker 44

Benjamin Franklin 70

1．Meet Dr．Franklin＆by Carl Van Doren 70

2．Benjamin Franklin：Philosophical Revolutionist＆by Bernhard Knollenberg 79

Ⅱ．THE NEW NATION(1783-1830) 85

The Federal Compromise from Carl Van Doren，The Great Rehearsal 88

Thomas Jefferson 106

1．＇Jefferson Still Survives—＇＆by Saul K．Padover 106

2．Which Jefferson Do You Quote？＆by Clinton Rossiter 114

Popular Characteristics of the American People from Henry Adams，History of the United States of America，as edited and condensed by Herbert Agar in The Formative Years 124

An Era of Good Feelings from George Dangerfield，The Era of Good Feelings 139

The Transcontinental Treaty with Spain from Samuel Flagg Bemis，John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy 157

Ⅲ．FERMENT AND CHANGE(1830-1850) 177

Veto from Arthur M．Schlesinger，Jr．，The Age of Jackson 180

Reform Movements in the Jacksonian Period 194

1．The Reforms of the 1830＇s from Robert E．Riegel，Young America，1830-1840 194

2．The Utopians from Alice Felt Tyler，Freedom＇s Ferment 217

Extension of the Area of Freedom from Albert K．Weinberg，Manifest Destiny 245

Ⅳ．PRELUDE TO WAR(1850-1861) 273

John Caldwell Calhoun—The Marx of the Master Class from Richard Hofstadter，The American Political Tradition 276

To Make Them Stand in Fear from Kenneth M．Stampp，The Peculiar Institution 299

Critical Years from Herbert Agar，The Price of Union 324

Peace or War from Allan Nevins，The War for the Union 346

Ⅴ．WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH(1861-1876) 365

Thunder over the Cabinet from Carl Sandburg，Abraham Lincoln：The War Years 368

Roads Leading South from Bruce Catton，A Stillness at Appomattox 388

There Is No Peace from Paul H．Buck，The Road to Reunion 409

Reconstruction—Black and White from John Hope Franklin，Reconstruction 433