The New Nation
Unit Resources
- Unit Reference Materials
- Continental Congress, "The Northwest Ordinance." July 13, 1787. http://www.law.ou.edu/
- Murray, Judith Sargent, The Gleaner. Edited by Nina Baym. Schenectady, NY: Union College
Press, 1992.
- Nash, Gary B., Julie Roy Jeffrey, John R. Howe, Peter J. Frederick, Allen F. Davis, and Allan
M. Winkler. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, 6th ed. New York: Pearson
Education Inc., 2004. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc.
- Nash, Gary B., "African Americans in the Early Republic." Magazine of History: The Early
Republic, vol. 14 no. 2 (Winter 2000). http://www.oah.org/
- Wood, Peter, Jacqueline Jones, Thomas Borstelmann, Elaine Tyler May, and Vicki Ruiz. Created
Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States. New York: Pearson Education, 2003.
Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc.
- Further Reading
- Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution.
- Edmunds, R. David. Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership.
- Egerton, Douglas R. Gabriel's Rebellion.
- James, C.L.R. Black Jacobins.
- Murray, Judith Sargent. The Gleaner, selected essays:
- Gleaner XXVI: Sketch of the present situation in America, 1794;
Horror excited by the ingratitude of faction; Wisdom of our national government
- Gleaner XXVII: Subject continued; Necessity of subordination illustrated by an
example; Panegyric on the American Constitution
- Gleaner XXXI: Necessity of Religion, especially in adversity
- Gleaner XXXV: Sentiments on education
- Gleaner LV: Advantages of calling into action our own abilities, illustrated by a fact
- Gleaner LVI: Subject continued
- Nash, Gary B. Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840.
- National Center for History in the Schools Teaching Units
- Human Rights in the Making: The French and Haitian Revolutions (PDF)
- The Evolution of the Bill of Rights (PDF)
- The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic (PDF)
- Magazine of History Articles
- African Americans in the Early Republic by Gary B. Nash
- Organization of American Historians: Talking History Radio Program
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The Louisiana Purchase
Talking History's host, Bryan Le Beau, discusses how the reality of the Louisiana Purchase compares to Thomas Jefferson's vision of the United States as a land of cultivators of the earth and of slavery with Roger Kennedy, author of Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery and the Louisiana Purchase.
Airdate: December 1, 2003.
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