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Welcome to US History and Primary Source Anthology, volume 1! This is a textbook for US History I, Pre-colonial through Reconstruction. Unlike most textbooks, which are mostly made up of narratives written by historians, based upon what we think is important in the American past, this book relies much more on the words, ideas, and stories of the people of the time. This is not to say that I think historians like me have nothing valuable to say about the ways things happened, how some events caused or influenced others, or what themes and lessons we can take from the past and apply to America’s present and choices about its future. I’m still narrating an overview at the beginning of each chapter, and I’m choosing these particular primary sources from the nearly infinite number available, because I think they fit together in an interesting way and shed light on what people were thinking in our nation’s past.

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