United States History Student Edition

Primary Sources

HISTORIAN’S TOOLKIT Golda Meir, from My Life, 1975 . . . . . . . . HT2 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, from “In the Footsteps of Chinua Achebe,” Sentinel Poetry (Online) , November 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . HT2 Confucius, from Think Like Chinese, 2008 . . . HT2 Jorge Basadre, from “Jorge Basadre’s ‘Peruvian History of Peru,’ or the Poetic Aporia of Historicism,” Hispanic American Historical Review, May 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . HT2 Michelle Obama, from a speech to the Young African Women Leaders Forum, Soweto, South Africa, June 22, 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HT3 Primo Levi, from “Auschwitz and Survival,” The Voice of Memory: Interviews, 1961–1987, 2001 . . . HT3 Daisaku Ikeda, from “‘People’s Diplomacy’: A Power to Resist the Currents of History,” The Japan Times, May 11, 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . HT3 Joyce Appleby, from “The Power of History,” The American Historical Review, 1998 . . . . . HT3 Edward Said, from Orientalism , 1979 . . . . . HT3 TOPIC 1 A Natchez legend, from The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina, 1774 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 “The Liberation of Buffalo,” from Shoshone and Comanche Tales in The Journal of American Folk-lore, 1909 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 “Falls of the Willamette,” from Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest, 1910 . . . . 25 Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, July 27, 2016 . . . . . . . . . . 30 TOPIC 2 Amerigo Vespucci, from Mundus Novus: Letter to Lorenzo Pietro di Medici, 1504 . . . . . . . . 33 Marco Polo, from The Travels of Marco Polo, 1854 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Amerigo Vespucci, from Mundus Novus: Letter to Lorenzo Pietro di Medici, 1504 . . . . . . . .56 Toribio de Benavente, from History of the Indians of New Spain, 1541 . . . . . . . . . . 57 Hernán Cortés, from The Dispatches of Hernando Cortés, 1843 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Miguel León-Portilla, from An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, 1959 . . . . . . . 61

TOPIC 3 Olaudah Equiano, from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789 . . . . . 65 Metacomet, from a speech about the encroachments of English settlers, 1675 . . . .65 The Mayflower Compact, 1620 . . . . . . . . 72 George Percy, from A True Relation of the Proceedings and Occurrences of Moment which have happened in Virginia from the Time Sir Thomas Gates shipwrecked upon the Bermudes anno 1609 until my departure out of the Country which was in anno Domini 1612, 1624 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation, 1656 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Powhatan, from a speech to Captain John Smith, 1609 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Edward Winslow, from a letter to a friend, December 11, 1621 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Anne Bradstreet, from “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild,” 1669 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80 Francis Daniel Pastorius, from Pastorius’s Description of Pennsylvania, 1898 . . . . . . 83 William Penn, from Letter to the Free Society of Traders, 1683 . . . . . . . . . . .83 Andrew Burnaby, from Burnaby’s Travels in Virginia, 1759 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 James Oglethorpe, from A Brief Account of the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia by Gen. James Oglethorpe, 1733 . . . . . . .88 John Locke, from Two Treatises on Civil Government, 1887 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Thomas Makin, from “A Discription of Pennsylvania,” 1728 . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 A Baptist preacher, from A Fish Caught in His Own Net: An Examination of Nine Sermons, 1768 . .94 Nathaniel Huntting, from a diary entry, February 24, 1719 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Francis Daniel Pastorius, from A Particular Geographical Description of the Lately Discovered Province of Pennsylvania, 1700 . . 98 William Moraley, from The Infortunate, 1743 . . .98 Robert Horne, from A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina, 1666 . . . . . . . . . .99 John Easton, from “A Relation of the Indian War, by Mr. Easton, of Rhode Island, 1675” . . . . 103 Robert Beverley, from The History and Present State of Virginia, 1705 . . . . . . . . . . . 104

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