Why Documents Matter: American Originals and Historical Imagination

by James G. Basker (Editor)

An important booklet highlighting milestone documents spanning in American history. Each document has important background information, a transcription for easy reading and is accompanied by full color images of the original.

51 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2005

About the author

James G. Basker is President of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery 1600–1810; Early American Abolitionists: A Collection of Anti-Slavery Writings 1760–1820; and Slavery in the Founding Era: Literary Contexts.