《Readings in American History Volume I:To 1877》

Ⅰ．THE COLONIAL PERIOD(1600-1783)1

The Puritan Mode of Thought from Daniel Boorstin，The Americans4

Political and Social Structure in Colonial Virginia＆by Bernard Bailyn20

The Spirit of＇76＆by Carl Lotus Becker44

Benjamin Franklin70

1．Meet Dr．Franklin＆by Carl Van Doren70

2．Benjamin Franklin：Philosophical Revolutionist＆by Bernhard Knollenberg79

Ⅱ．THE NEW NATION(1783-1830)85

The Federal Compromise from Carl Van Doren，The Great Rehearsal88

Thomas Jefferson106

1．＇Jefferson Still Survives—＇＆by Saul K．Padover106

2．Which Jefferson Do You Quote？＆by Clinton Rossiter114

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 Years124

An Era of Good Feelings from George Dangerfield，The Era of Good Feelings139

The Transcontinental Treaty with Spain from Samuel Flagg Bemis，John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy157

Ⅲ．FERMENT AND CHANGE(1830-1850)177

Veto from Arthur M．Schlesinger，Jr．，The Age of Jackson180

Reform Movements in the Jacksonian Period194

1．The Reforms of the 1830＇s from Robert E．Riegel，Young America，1830-1840194

2．The Utopians from Alice Felt Tyler，Freedom＇s Ferment217

Extension of the Area of Freedom from Albert K．Weinberg，Manifest Destiny245

Ⅳ．PRELUDE TO WAR(1850-1861)273

John Caldwell Calhoun—The Marx of the Master Class from Richard Hofstadter，The American Political Tradition276

To Make Them Stand in Fear from Kenneth M．Stampp，The Peculiar Institution299

Critical Years from Herbert Agar，The Price of Union324

Peace or War from Allan Nevins，The War for the Union346

Ⅴ．WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH(1861-1876)365

Thunder over the Cabinet from Carl Sandburg，Abraham Lincoln：The War Years368

Roads Leading South from Bruce Catton，A Stillness at Appomattox388

There Is No Peace from Paul H．Buck，The Road to Reunion409

Reconstruction—Black and White from John Hope Franklin，Reconstruction433