Primary Sources - United States: Colonial/Revolutionary era

This introductory reader in American politics and government and political communication explores fundamental political principles through classic examples of political rhetoric, from the Declaration of Independence to today. Selections include the entire political spectrum and contributors range from the founders to elected public officials, Supreme Court opinions, and representatives of historic movements for social change.

Colonial period - start of Civil War

First chapters include writings of intercultural contact between the indigenous peoples of the Americans and Europeans.

First Published in 1624, Edward Winslow's Good News from New England chronicles the early experience of the Plimoth colonists, or Pilgrims, in the New World.

Presents a collection of primary source newspaper articles and correspondence reporting the events of the Revolution, containing both American and British eyewitness accounts and commentary and analysis from thirty-seven historians.