The following 100 primary sources in United States Intellectual History are designed to offer students and scholars an introductory view of United States intellectual history. All documents have been selected from The American Yawp Reader, an open-source collection of primary sources in United States history. You are free to use and modify them freely. If you would like to suggest additional sources, please do so here. Suggestions of sources from under-represented voices are particularly appreciated. 

1. Native American creation stories
2. Bartolomé de las Casas describes the exploitation of indigenous people, 1542
3. John Winthrop dreams of a city on a hill, 1630
4. A Gaspesian Indian defends his way of life, 1641
5. Olaudah Equiano describes the Middle Passage, 1789
6. Haudenosaunee thanksgiving address
7. Eliza Lucas letters, 1740-1741
8. Jonathan Edwards revives Enfield, Connecticut, 1741
9. Samson Occom describes his conversion and ministry, 1768
10. Pontiac calls for war, 1763
11. Thomas Paine calls for American independence, 1776
12. Declaration of Independence, 1776
13. Abigail and John Adams converse on women’s rights, 1776
14. Hector St. Jean de Crèvecœur describes the American people, 1782
15. A Confederation of Native peoples seek peace with the United States, 1786
16. Mary Smith Cranch comments on politics, 1786-87
17. James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, 1785
18. Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture Smith, 1798
19. Anti-Thomas Jefferson Cartoon, 1797
20. Thomas Jefferson’s racism, 1788
21. Black scientist Benjamin Banneker demonstrates black intelligence to Thomas Jefferson, 1791
22. Tecumseh calls for pan-Indian resistance, 1810
23. Genius of the Ladies Magazine Illustration, 1792
24. Maria Stewart bemoans the consequences of racism, 1832
25. Alexis de Tocqueville, “How Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes,” 1840
26. Anti-Catholic Cartoon, 1855
27. Rhode Islanders protest property restrictions on voting, 1834
28. Black Philadelphians defend their voting rights, 1838
29. Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” 1852
30. Revivalist Charles G. Finney emphasizes human choice in salvation, 1836
31. David Walker’s “Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World,” 1829
32. Angelina Grimké, Appeal to Christian Women of the South, 1836
33. Sarah Grimké calls for women’s rights, 1838
34. Henry David Thoreau reflects on nature, 1854
35. The fruit of alcohol and temperance lithographs, 1849
36. Nat Turner explains the Southampton rebellion, 1831
37. Harriet Jacobs on rape and slavery, 1860
38. George Fitzhugh argues that slavery is better than liberty and equality, 1854
39. Sermon on the duties of a Christian woman, 1851
40. Cherokee petition protesting removal, 1836
41. John O’Sullivan declares America’s manifest destiny, 1845
42. Wyandotte woman describes tensions over slavery, 1849
43. Manifest destiny painting, 1872
44. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852
45. Margaraetta Mason and Lydia Maria Child discuss John Brown, 1860
46. Alexander Stephens on slavery and the Confederate constitution, 1861
47. Ambrose Bierce recalls his experience at the Battle of Shiloh, 1881
48. Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address, 1865
49. Charlotte Forten teaches freed children in South Carolina, 1864
50. Frederick Douglass on remembering the Civil War, 1877
51. Fifteenth Amendment print, 1870
52. William Graham Sumner on Social Darwinism (ca.1880s)
53. Henry George, Progress and Poverty, Selections (1879)
54. Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth (1889)
55. Lucy Parsons on Women and Revolutionary Socialism (1905)
56. Chief Joseph on Indian Affairs (1877, 1879)
57. Frederick Jackson Turner, “Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1893)
58. Laura C. Kellogg on Indian Education (1913)
59. Helen Hunt Jackson on a Century of Dishonor (1881)
60. Henry Grady on the New South (1886)
61. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law in America” (1900)
62. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1918)
63. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper” (1913)
64. Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” (1899)
65. William James on “The Philippine Question” (1903)
66. Chinese Immigrants Confront Anti-Chinese Prejudice (1885, 1903)
67. Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois on Black Progress (1895, 1903)
68. Jane Addams, “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements” (1892)
69. Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)
70. Alice Stone Blackwell, Answering Objections to Women’s Suffrage (1917)
71. Theodore Roosevelt on “The New Nationalism” (1910)
72. Alan Seeger on World War I (1914; 1916)
73. Emma Goldman on Patriotism (July 9, 1917)
74. W.E.B DuBois, “Returning Soldiers” (May, 1919)
75. Warren G. Harding and the “Return to Normalcy” (1920)
76. Crystal Eastman, “Now We Can Begin” (1920)
77. Hiram Evans on the “The Klan’s Fight for Americanism” (1926)
78. Ellen Welles Page, “A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents” (1922)
79. Alain Locke on the “New Negro” (1925)
80. Franklin Roosevelt’s Re-Nomination Acceptance Speech (1936)
81. Dorothy West, “Amateur Night in Harlem” (1938)
82. Charles A. Lindbergh, “America First” (1941)
83. Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga on Japanese Internment (1942/1994)
84. Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945)
85. The Truman Doctrine (1947)
86. Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Atoms for Peace” (1953)
87. Paul Robeson’s Appearance Before the House Un-American Activities Committee (1956)
88. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
89. John F. Kennedy on the Separation of Church and State (1960)
90. Congressman Arthur L. Miller Gives “the Putrid Facts” About Homosexuality (1950)
91. National Organization for Women, “Statement of Purpose” (1966)
92. The Port Huron Statement (1962)
93. Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968)
94. Gloria Steinem on Equal Rights for Women (1970)
95. Native Americans Occupy Alcatraz (1969)
96. Pat Buchanan on the Culture War (1992)
97. Phyllis Schlafly on Women’s Responsibility for Sexual Harassment (1981)
98. George W. Bush on the Post-9/11 World (2002)
99. Chelsea Manning Petitions for a Pardon (2013)
100. Emily Doe (Chanel Miller), Victim Impact Statement (2015)