Brooklyn College Students

Secondary Source: Adam Rothman, “Slavery and National Expansion in the United States,” OAH Magazine of History 23, 2 (April 2009): 23–29.


Secondary Source: Dylan Penningroth, “Writing Slavery’s History,” OAH Magazine of History 23, 2 (April 2009): 13–20.

Secondary Source: Calvin Schermerhorn, “The Everyday Life of Enslaved People in the Antebellum South,” OAH Magazine of History 23, 2 (April 2009): 31–36.

Secondary Source: Thavolia Glymph, “Fighting Slavery on Slaveholders’ Terrain,” OAH Magazine of History 23, 2 (April 2009): 37–41.

Secondary Source: Peter Nabokov with Dean Snow, “Algonquians and Iroquoians: Farmers of the Woodlands,” in Frederick M. Binder and David M. Reimers, eds., The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social History, 6th ed., vol. 1 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008), 5–13.


The readings below are included in this PDF.

Secondary Source: Juliana Barr, “The Colonial Sunbelt: St. Augustine to Santa Fe,” in Kupperman, Major Problems in American Colonial History, 75–80.

Secondary Source: James Horn, “Tobacco and the Peopling of Virginia,” in Kupperman, Major Problems in American Colonial History, 80–87.


Secondary Source: Seth Rockman, “Liberty Is Land and Slaves: The Great Contradiction,” OAH Magazine of History 19, 3 (May 2005): 8–11

Secondary Source: Donna J. Rilling, “Liberty Is Innovation: Sources of Energy and Enterprise,” OAH Magazine of History 19, 3 (May 2005): 12–15

Secondary Source: Craig Thompson Friend, “Liberty Is Pioneering: An American Birthright,” OAH Magazine of History 19, 3 (May 2005): 16–20

Secondary Source: Barbara M. Tucker, “Liberty Is Exploitation: The Force of Tradition in Early Manufacturing,” OAH Magazine of History 19, 3 (May 2005): 21–24