Negotiating difference : cultural case studies for composition
(Book)

Unit one: First contacts between Puritans and Native Americans

Dominant English accounts

William Bradford, from History of Plymouth Plantation (1630-1645)

John Underhill, from Newes from America (1638)

Increase Mather, from A brief history of the war with the Indians in New-England (1676)

Mary Rowlandson, from A narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)

Alternative English accounts

Lion Gardener, from Relation of the Pequot Wars (c. 1660)

John Easton, "A relation of the Indian war" (1675)

Native American accounts

Paper left on a bridge post at Medfield, Massachusetts (1675)

Waban, speech at the end of King Philip's war, recorded and with a reply by Daniel Gookin (1677)

William Apess, from Eulogy on King Phiip (1836)

Treaties, laws, and deeds

Treaty of peace and alliance between Massasoit and the Plymouth colonists (1621)

Treaty of Hartford (1638)

Unrestricted deed (1642)

Treaty of submission (1644)

Rules for the praying Indian town of Concord, Massachusetts (1647)

Laws pertaining to Indians, Massachusetts Bay Colony (1648), Restricted deed (1648)

Andrew Pittimee and other Native American fighters for the English in King Philip's war, petition (1676)

Unit two: The debate over slavery and the Declaration of independence

Jefferson's views on slavery

Thomas Jefferson, draft of the Declaration of independence (1776)

Thomas Jefferson, from Notes on Virginia (1788)

The antislavery battle

Benjamin Banneker, letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791)

David Walker, from Walker's Appeal (1829)

Maria Stewart, an address delivered at the African masonic hall (1833)

Frederick Douglass, "What to the slave is the fourth of July?" (1852)

Charles Langston, address to the court (1859)

The proslavery defense

George Fitzhugh, from Sociology for the south, or the failure of free society (1854)

David Christy, from Cotton is king (1855)

Albert Taylor Bledsoe, from Liberty and slavery (1857)

Proclamations and public statements

Jonathan Jackson, manumission paper (1776)

Prince Hall, et.al., Petition on behalf of Massachusetts slaves (1777)

Rhode Island resolution for the formation of a colored regiment (1778)

Dr. Bloomfield, Fourth of July manumission speech (1783)

Petition supporting slavery (1785)

William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of sentiments of the American anti-slavery convention (1833)

Unit three: Defining "woman's sphere" in nineteenth-century American society

Circumscribing woman's sphere

Catharine Beecher, from A treatise on domestic economy (1836)

Jonathan F. Stearns, from "Female influence, and the true Christian mode of its exercise" (1837)

Albert A. Folsom, from "Abolition women" (1837)

Massachusetts Congregationalist clergy, from "Pastoral letter" (1837)

Louisa Cheves McCord, from "Enfranchisement of Women" (1852)

New York Herald, "The woman's rights convention: the last act of the drama" (1852)

Contesting woman's sphere

Sarah Grimké, from Letters on the equality of the sexes and the condition of women (1838)

Margaret Fuller, "The wrongs of American women, the duty of American women" (1845)

Frederick Douglass, editorials on women's rights (1848, 1851)

Sojourner Truth, recorded by Frances D. Gage, "A'n't I a woman?" (1851)

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Woman" (1851)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "A slave's appeal" (1860)

Anna Julia Cooper, "The higher education of women" (1892)

Laws, contracts, and proclamations on women's rights

Seneca Falls women's rights convention, "Declaration of sentiments and resolutions" (1848)

New York state married women's property laws (1848, 1860)

Marriage agreements: Robert Dale Owen and Mary Jane Robinson (1832); Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone (1855)

From the fourteenth amendment to the United States constitution (1868)

Fifteenth amendment to the United States constitution (1870)

From Minor v. Happersett (1875)

Resolutions of the American woman suffrage association convention (1893)

Nineteenth amendment to the United States constitution (1920)

Unit four: Wealth, work, and class conflict in the industrial age

The gospel of wealth

Horatio Alger, from Ragged Dick (1867)

Andrew Carnegie, "Wealth" (1889)

William H. Councill, from The Negro laborer: a word to him (1887)

Russel H. Conwell, from "Acres of Diamonds" (c.1888-1915)

Critics of the gospel of wealth

Edward Bellamy, from Looking backward: 2000-1887 (1888)

Henry Demarest Lloyd, from Wealth against commonwealth (1894)

Henry George, from Progress and poverty (1879)

Working conditions

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, from The silent partner (1871)

Testimony before the senate committee on the relations between capital and labor (1883)

Samuel Gompers

John Hill

Timothy D. Stow

Charles F. Wingate

N.R. Fielding

John Roach

Joseph Medill

Robert S. Howard

William Z. Foster, from Pages from a worker's life (1939)

Working men's party of Illinois, "Declaration of independence" (1876)

Unit five: Japanese American internment and the problem of cultural identity

Official documents establishing the internment

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, executive order 9066 (1942)

John L. DeWitt, "Instructions to all person of Japanese ancestry" (1942)

Opinions on the Japanese "threat"

Montaville Flowers, from The Japanese conquest of American opinion (1917)

U.S. Department of War, from Final Report: Japanese evacuation from the west coast, 1942 (1943)

Japanese American Citizens League, from The case for the Nisei (1945?)

U.S. Commission on wartime relocation and internment of civilians, from Personal justice denied (1982)

Testimony of the interned

Mike Masaoka, will Bill Hosokawa, from They call me Moses Masaoka: an American saga (1987)

Michi Nishiura Weglyn, from Years of infamy: the untold story of America's concentration camps (1976)

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, from Farewell to Manzanar (1973)

Minoru Yasui, Oral history (1984)

Monica Sone, from Nisei daughter (1953)

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, from Farewell to Manzanar (1973)

John Okada, from No-no boy (1957)

Hisaye Yamamoto, "A fire in Fontana" (1985)

Unit Six: Policy and protest over the Vietnam war

A precursor to war

Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of independence of the democratic republic of Vietnam (1945)

1965: year of escalation and protest

Thomas J. Dodd, from a speech to the U.S. senate (1965)

U.S. Department of State, from The white paper aggression from the north: the record of North Vietnam's campaign to conquer South Vietnam (1965)

I.F. Stone, "A reply to the 'white paper'" (1965)

David Dellinger, A.J. Muste, et. al., "Declaration of conscience against the war in Vietnam" (1965)

Barbara Beidler, "Afterthoughts on a napalm-drop on jungle villages near Haiphong" (1965)

Huy Can, "Truth blazes even in little children's hearts" (1965)

Paul Potter, from "The incredible war" (1965)

The war at home

Martin Luther King, Jr., "Declaration of independence from the war in Vietnam" (1967)

Lyndon B. Johnson, from "Peace in Vietnam and southeast Asia" (1968)

National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, "A message to GIs and to the movement" (1968)

Richard M. Nixon, from "Vietnamization" (1969)

Spiro T. Agnew, Parasites, protesters, and the press (1969)

John F. Kerry, Testimony before the U.S. senate foreign relations committee (1971)

Veterans remember

Tim O'Brien, "On the rainy river" (1990)

Harold "Light Bulb" Bryant, Oral history (1984)

Leslie McClusky, Oral history (1987)

Ron Kovic, from Born on the fourth of July (1976).