For the Record: A Documentary History of America: From First Contact through Reconstruction (Fifth Edition) (Vol. 1)

The most accessible collection of primary sources available.

The reader features 250 primary source documents, both textual and visual, drawn from a vast range of government documents, newspapers, speeches, letters, novels, and images. Twenty-five updated selections offer strengthened coverage of African American history and reflect the latest structure of America: A Narrative History, Ninth Edition.