In a compilation of essays, Early Republic: People and Perspectives explores the varied experiences of many different groups of Americans across racial, gender, religious, and regional lines in the early years of the country.
Written by expert contributors drawing on extensive new research, Early Republic: People and Perspectives ranges across the broad spectrum of society to explore the everyday lives of Americans from the birth of the nation to the beginning of Jacksonian Age (roughly 1830).
In a series of chapters, Early Republic provides vivid portraits of the farmers, entrepreneurs, laborers, women, Native Americans, and slaves who made up the population of the United States in its infancy. Key events, such as the two-party political system, the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, and the expansion into the Ohio Valley, are seen through the eyes of the ordinary citizens who helped make them happen, in turn, making the United States what it is today.

- 282 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Series Introduction
- Introduction
- About the Editor and Contributors
- Chronology
- 1 A World of Independent Men: Artisans in the Early Republic
- 2 Freeborn Americans:The Rise of the Urban Wage Earner and the Rhetoric of the Early Republic
- 3 Seeking “Men of Iron Sinew”: Creating a Professional Military in the Early American Republic
- 4 Virtuous Expectations: Republican Motherhood and True Womanhood in the Early Republic
- 5 States of Liberty, States of Bondage: African Americans in the Early Republic
- 6 Colonizing the “Western World”: Western Settlers (1780–1830)
- 7 “My Joy Has Ebbed and Flowed, with the Complexion of the Times”: Immigrants and Migrants in the Early Republic
- 8 Moving and Removing, Adapting and Adopting to the New Nation: Native Americans Respond to American Expansion
- 9 The Fires of Evangelicalism in the Cauldron of the Early Republic: Race, Class, and Gender in the Second Great Awakening
- Primary Documents
- Reference
- Bibliography
- Index
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