Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- About the Set
- About the Entry
- Using Primary Sources
- Chronology of World Events
- Era Overview
- The Arts
- Overview
- Chronology
- The Contrast (Excerpt)
- Charlotte Temple (Excerpt)
- The Athenaeum Portrait of George Washington
- The Coquette (Excerpt)
- André (Excerpt)
- The Life of George Washington (Excerpt)
- “Novel Reading, A Cause of Female Depravity”
- The Bank of Pennsylvania
- “The Address of the Editors” (Excerpt)
- “Defence of Fort M'Henry”
- Business and the Economy
- Overview
- Chronology
- An Inquiry into the Principle on Which a Commercial System for the United States of America Should Be Founded (Excerpt)
- “Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of a Public Credit” (Excerpt)
- The Commerce of America with Europe (Excerpt)
- An Act to Encourage the Establishment of a Cotton Mill in the Town of Rehoboth
- Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs (Excerpt)
- Preliminary Essay on the Oppression of the Exiled Sons of Africa (Excerpt)
- Letter Describing the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
- Non-Intercourse Act
- “Several Occasions on the First American Ship (Empress of China, Capt. Greene) That Explored the Rout to China, and the East-Indies, After the Revolution, 1784”
- Fletcher v. Peck (Excerpt)
- Communications
- Overview
- Chronology
- “Proposals for Printing by Subscription the Boston Magazine”
- Resolution on Post Offices
- Centinel Letter on the Need for a Bill of Rights (Excerpt)
- Letter from George Washington to Mathew Carey
- Title Page of The Columbian Magazine
- The Sedition Act
- Publisher Statement on the Launch of The National Magazine (Excerpt)
- Preface of The Panoplist (Excerpt)
- History of the Captivity and Sufferings of Mrs. Maria Martin (Excerpt)
- The History of Dick Whittington, Lord Mayor of London: With the Adventures of His Cat
- Education
- Overview
- Chronology
- “A Plan for Establishing Public Schools in Pennsylvania” (Excerpt)
- Notes on the State of Virginia (Excerpt)
- The American Spelling Book (Excerpt)
- Tutoring Advertisement (Excerpt)
- An Act for the Encouragement of Schools (Excerpt)
- “Improved Method of Teaching Spelling by Writing” (Excerpt)
- Sketch of a Plan and Method of Education (Excerpt)
- The Columbian Orator (Excerpt)
- The Art of Writing (Excerpt)
- Illustration of the African Free School
- Fashion and Leisure
- Overview
- Chronology
- Travels through the Interior Parts of America: In a Series of Letters (Excerpt)
- “Report on the Subject of Manufactures” (Excerpt)
- Parasol and Reticule
- Travels through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, during the Years of 1795, 1796, and 1797 (Excerpt)
- The American Gardner's Calendar (Excerpt)
- “London Fashions”
- Side Chairs by Duncan Phyfe
- Portrait of Margaret Siddons Kintzing
- Travels through Canada and the United States of America in the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808 (Excerpt)
- Mary Boardman Crowninshield's Letter Describing Dolley Madison (Excerpt)
- Government and Politics
- Overview
- Chronology
- U.S. Constitution (Excerpt)
- The Bill of Rights
- Political Cartoon on the XYZ Affair
- Funeral Oration for George Washington (Excerpt)
- Thomas Jefferson's Inaugural Address
- Louisiana Purchase Treaty
- Burning of the Frigate Philadelphia
- Essay against Embargo
- Tecumseh's Speech to Governor Harrison
- James Madison's Speech at the End of the War of 1812
- Law and Justice
- Overview
- Chronology
- An Inquiry into the Effects of Public Punishments Upon Criminals and Upon Society (Excerpt)
- Federal Judiciary Act (Excerpt)
- Excise Tax of 1791 (Excerpt)
- “Of the Study of Law in the United States” (Excerpt)
- Chisholm v. Georgia
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
- Proclamation of Pardons to Those Engaged in Fries Rebellion
- Marbury v. Madison (Excerpt)
- Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Congress Regarding the Aaron Burr Conspiracy
- Gilchrist v. Collector of Charleston
- Lifestyles and Social Trends
- Overview
- Chronology
- Letter from Henry Knox on Shays's Rebellion (Excerpt)
- An Appeal to the Public, Especially to the Learned, with Respect to the Unlawfulness of Divorces (Excerpt)
- History of the American Revolution (Excerpt)
- Principles, Articles, and Regulations of the Democratic Society of Pennsylvania (Excerpt)
- American Cookery (Excerpt)
- “An Essay on the Most Eligible Construction of Ice-Houses; Also a Description of the Newly Invented Machine Called the Refrigerator” (Excerpt)
- The Folly, Guilt, and Mischiefs of Duelling (Excerpt)
- “An Address to the New York African Society for Mutual Relief” (Excerpt)
- The Travels of Capts. Lewis and Clarke (Excerpt)
- Dolley Madison's Letter on the Burning of Washington
- Religion
- Overview
- Chronology
- “Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments”
- The Book of Common Prayer with Mohawk Translation
- Illustration of Junípero Serra Preaching to Native Americans
- Letter from Moses Seixas to George Washington
- Letter Regarding the Establishment of a Black Church in Philadelphia (Excerpt)
- A Sermon, on the Freedom and Happiness of America (Excerpt)
- Instruction Letter for Missionaries
- Methodist Address Calling for Abolition
- An Account of the People Called Shakers (Excerpt)
- Founding Documents of the Charitable Society for the Education of Indigent Pious Young Men for the Ministry of the Gospel
- Science, Medicine, and Technology
- Overview
- Chronology
- Patent for “An Improvement in the Making of Pot Ash and Pearl Ash by a New Apparatus and Process”
- Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin Patent Drawing
- Arthur Mervyn; or Memoirs of the Year 1793 (Excerpt)
- A Prospect of Exterminating the Smallpox (Excerpt)
- Jedidiah Morse's Description of the Charles River Bridge (Excerpt)
- An Introduction to the Practice of Midwifery (Excerpt)
- Letter from Robert Fulton on Canals and Roads (Excerpt)
- An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species (Excerpt)
- Documents Tending to Prove the Superior Advantages of Railways and Steam Carriages over Canal Navigation (Excerpt)
- “Specification of a Patent Granted for ‘Fever Medicine’”
- General Resources
- Primary Source Type Index
- General Index