Major Problems in the Early Republic, 1787-1848: Documents and Essays (Major Problems in American History Series)

Each chapter's documents identify the key issues and capture the passionate spirit and conviction of the historical actors. The essay selections spotlight research in the social and cultural history of the early republic.

• The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears (The Penguin Library of American Indian History)
• Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)
• The Murder of Helen Jewett
• Major Problems In American Colonial History: Documents and Essays
• The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
• Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791: Documents and Essays (Major Problems in American History Series)
• 12 Years a Slave
• What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States)
• Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination
• Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Major Problems in American History Series)