Primary Documents


Primary Documents in American Studies

 

Here you will find pages devoted to the contextualization and analysis of primary source materials of interet to scholars in American Studies.  The University of Virginia Project: Hypertexts in American Studies  has some great examples of the kind of thing that could be done on pages in this section.

 

Civil Rights Act of 1964

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July (Frederic Douglass)

The Port Huron Statement (SDS)