Online readings:
-- Margaret Fuller, excerpts from Woman in the Nineteenth Century [1845]. (This link takes you to part 1; follow links on that page for parts 2 & 3 as well.) Based on her previous 1843 essay "The Great Lawsuit" for the Transcendentalist journal The Dial (which you can read here if you want), Fuller describes the life of many 19th-Century woman in America . . . at least white, middle-class or higher ones.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Declaration of Sentiments" [1848]. The convention at Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two Quakers whose concern for women's rights was aroused when Mott, as a woman, was denied a seat at an international antislavery meeting in London. The Seneca Falls meeting attracted 240 sympathizers, including forty men, among them the famed former slave and abolitionist leader, Frederick Douglass. The delegates adopted a statement, deliberately modeled on the Declaration of Inde-pendence, as well as a series of resolu-tions calling for women's suffrage and the reform of marital and property laws that kept women in an inferior status.
-- Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?" [1851]. Delivered at the later Women's Convention of 1851 in Akron, Ohio, this speech by Sojourner Truth, former slave, emphasizes the extent to which black women had been left out of the Women's Movement, despite that movement's alliances with the Abolition struggle. Truth indicates the blind spots inherent to most "emancipation" drives of the day.

-- Pohl Ch.3 171-74, 258-260, 263-266
Continue with Tuesday's Online readings:
-- Margaret Fuller, excerpts from Woman in the Nineteenth Century [1845]. (This link takes you to part 1; follow links on that page for parts 2 & 3 as well.)
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Declaration of Sentiments" [1848].
-- Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?" [1851].

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-- Pohl Ch.4 197-211, 211-224
-- Frederick Douglass, The Hypocrisy of Slavery (excerpt) [1852]: more than a decade before the Civil War (or War Between the States, whatever) Frederick Douglass, the most famous and outspoken black individual of the day shows up slavery for what it was.

-- Journal #3 due (see Cultural Event and Journal page for reminders/details).
-- Pohl Ch. 4 224-238, Ch.5 239-242, 245-258, 286-288
Online readings:
-- James Monroe, The Monroe Doctrine: from James Monroe's message to Congress on December 2, 1823, this is the concept that drove America Westward; that some used to excuse slavery; and that still haunts concepts of "American" identity today.
-- John O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny (also available in another format here) [1839]: previously enabled by the Monroe Doctrine, the concept of "manifest destinty" fired the American will and imagination along the "course of empire." The original "go west," this concept sealed the doom of native tribes, and consigned black slaves to firther toil, eventually including Asian immigrants to the Pacific coast.
-- Sarah Winnemuca, Life Among the Piutes [1883]: As a Piute, Sarah Winnemucca was already in the Nevada Territory when Sam Clemens arrived there in 1861. By the 1870s she had become an active and articulate witness against the wrongs and misunderstandings inflicted on Native Americans. Her autobiography, one of the first written by an Indian, attempts to give white readers in the east a Piute perspective on Indian culture and the history of their interactions with the steadily growing white population out west.
-- Frederick Jackson Turner, Significance of the Frontier [1893]: Historian Frederick Jackson Turner presented this paper to a special meeting of the American Historical Association at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. His assessment of the frontier's significance was the first of its kind and revolutionized American intellectual and historical thinking.
-- Lawrence Michael Fong, Chinese in Arizona: Much of the literature on early Chinese immigrants to the western United States focuses on their experiences in California and as laborers on the great railroad construction projects of the late nineteenth century. Their role in Arizona Territory, however, has been largely neglected and bears deeper examination.