Give Me Liberty!: An American History
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Concise, clear, compact, Eric Foner’s brilliant synthesis of American history is the perfect teaching tool for the U.S. survey course.
List of Maps, Tables, and FiguresxviiAbout the AuthorxixPrefacexxiPart 1American Colonies to 17631.A New World4The Expansion of Europe7Peoples of the Americas12The Spanish Empire15The First North Americans23England and the New World30The Freeborn Englishman35Voices of Freedom: From Henry Care, English Liberties, or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance (1680)402.American Beginnings, 1607-165044The Coming of the English47Settling the Chesapeake51Origins of American Slavery57The New England Way62Voices of Freedom: From John Winthrop, Speech to the Massachusetts General Court (July 3, 1645)64New Englanders Divided69The New England Economy733.Crisis and Expansion: North American Colonies, 1650-175078Empires in Conflict81The Expansion of England's Empire87Voices of Freedom: From William Penn, England's Present Interests Discovered (1675)93Colonies in Crisis94The Eighteenth Century: A Growing Society101Social Classes in the Colonies1104.Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763118Slavery and the Empire121Slave Culture and Slave Resistance130An Empire of Freedom133The Public Sphere138The Great Awakening145Imperial Rivalries148Battle for the Continent151Voices of Freedom: From Pontiac, Speeches (1762 and 1763)156Part 2A New Nation, 1763-18405.The American Revolution, 1763-1783166The Crisis Begins169The Road to Revolution176The Coming of Independence180Voices of Freedom: From Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)185Securing Independence1896.The Revolution Within200Democratizing Freedom203Toward Religious Liberty207Defining Economic Freedom212The Limits of Liberty215Slavery and the Revolution220Voices of Freedom: From Petitions of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature (1773 and 1777)224Daughters of Liberty2287.Founding a Nation, 1783-1789234America under the Articles of Confederation237A New Constitution246The Ratification Debate and the Origin of the Bill of Rights253Voices of Freedom: From James Madison, The Federalist no. 51, and Anti-Federalist Essay Signed "Brutus" (1787)254We the People2618.Securing the Republic, 1790-1815270Politics in an Age of Passion272Voices of Freedom: From Address of the Democratic-Republican Society of Pennsylvania (December 18, 1794)281The Adams Presidency283Jefferson in Power290The "Second War of Independence"2989.The Market Revolution306A New Economy309Market Society319Voices of Freedom: From Josephine L. Baker, "A Second Peep at Factory Life," Lowell Offering (1845)328The Free Individual330The Limits of Prosperity33510.Democracy in America, 1815-1840344The Triumph of Democracy346Voices of Freedom: From "The Memorial of the Non-Freeholders of the City of Richmond" (1829)348Nationalism and Its Discontents353Nation, Section, and Party358The Age of Jackson363The Bank War and After373Part 3Slavery, Freedom, and the Crisis of the Union, 1840-187711.The Peculiar Institution386The Old South389Voices of Freedom: From John C. Calhoun, Speech in Congress (1837)398Life under Slavery400Slave Culture409Resistance to Slavery41412.An Age of Reform, 1820-1840422The Reform Impulse424The Crusade against Slavery434Black and White Abolitionism441The Origins of Feminism445Voices of Freedom: From Angelina Grimke, Letter in The Liberator (August 2, 1837)44813.A House Divided, 1840-1861456Fruits of Manifest Destiny458A Dose of Arsenic470The Rise of the Republican Party477Voices of Freedom: From William H. Seward, "The Irrepressible Conflict" (1858)484The Emergence of Lincoln487The Impending Crisis49514.A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865502The First Modern War504The Coming of Emancipation514The Second American Revolution524Voices of Freedom: From Abraham Lincoln, Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore (April 18, 1864)525The Confederate Nation532Turning Points536Rehearsals for Reconstruction and the End of the War53915."What Is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865-1877548The Meaning of Freedom551Voices of Freedom: From Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865)558The Making of Radical Reconstruction562Radical Reconstruction in the South572The Overthrow of Reconstruction577AppendixDocumentsThe Declaration of Independence (1776)2The Constitution of the United States (1787)4From George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)14The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)18From Frederick Douglass's "What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?" Speech (1852)20The Gettysburg Address (1863)23Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)24The Populist Platform of 189225Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933)28Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)30TablesPresidential Elections32Admission of States40Population of the United States41Historical Statistics of the United StatesWorkforce42Immigration, by Origin42Glossary43Credits63Index67
