American Voices, Volume 1: A Historical Reader

Twenty–one full and lengthy selections from John Smith, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Francis Parkman, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Parson Weems, Washington Irving, Alexis de Tocqueville, Red Jacket, George Catlin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreu, and Margaret Leech.

Of the Natural Inhabitants of Virginia (1624) (John Smith). Wonders of the Invisible World (1693) (Cotton Mather). Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741) (Jonathan Edwards). Montcalm and Wolfe (1884) (Francis Parkman). Autobiography (1868) (Benjamin Parkman). Common Sense (1776) (Thomas Paine). What Is An American? (1782) (Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur). Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) (Thomas Jefferson). The federalist (1878–88) (James Madison). The Life of George Washington (1800) (Parson Weems). The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) (Washington Irving). Democracy in America (1835, 1840) (Alexis de Tocqueville). Reply to Missionary Cram at Buffalo New York (1805) (Red Jacket). Letters and Notes on the North American Indians (1841) (George Catlin). The American Scholar (1837) (Ralph Waldo Emerson). Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) (Margaret Fuller). Life as a Slave (1855) (Frederick Douglass). Huckleberry Finn (1884) (Mark Twain). Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) (Harriet Beecher Stowe). A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859) (Henry David Thoreau). Arrival at a Westemer (1941) (Margaret Leech)

The late Robert D. Marcus was Professor of History at SUNY, Brockport, from 1983–2000. David Burner , a professor of history at SUNY at Stony Brook, received his doctorate at Columbia, where he studied under Richard Hofstadter. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a Ford Fellow at Harvard. His early books are The Politics of Provincialism and Herbert Hoover: A Public Life . He is also the author of Making Peace with the Sixties (1996) and John F. Kennedy and a New Generation (2nd edition, 2003). He is currently writing a history of West Point.