Using primary source documents from the Mayflower Compact to President Bush’s address to Congress after 9/11, Great Documents in U.S. History is a fascinating supplement to American history courses. Your students will explore how words on paper have altered the course of events. Each selection includes its setting in the historical context, a glossary, and a range of questions to prompt critical thinking.

Among the dozens of documents are:

Common Sense

A 1789 slave narrative

Dialogue among 19th -century factory girls

The Gettysburg Address

The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act

The Jungle

Wilson’s Fourteen Points

FDR’s “The Four Freedoms”

The Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Set includes one each of the following:
Great Documents in U.S. History Volume 1 (1620-1870)
Great Documents in U.S. History Volume 2 (1880-2001)