Educators, this is your opportunity to refresh your shelves and plan for fall. Whether you’re building a new course or strengthening a favorite unit, our summer sale makes it easy to bring rich primary sources into your classroom.

Three simple ways to save:

• 50% off select individual volumes
• $25 library sets for ready-made collections
• Discounted bulk pricing for classroom sets

And as always, free shipping on every order.

Individual Volumes — Just $6 per copy

Carefully edited and thoughtfully excerpted, each volume makes complex texts accessible without sacrificing rigor. Ideal for high school and college classrooms, every book includes:

• A concise background essay
• Thematic table of contents
• Topical appendices
• Student-friendly document introductions
• Discussion questions to drive analysis

Ordering more than 25 copies?
Bulk pricing drops to $4 per copy (with free shipping). Contact us at [email protected] for details.

Featured Volumes

Abraham Lincoln

Examine Lincoln’s unmatched understanding of America’s political principles through his most important speeches and writings.
Documents include:

• Temperance Address (1842)
• Reply to the Dred Scott Decision (1857)
• Fragment on the Constitution and Union (1861)
• Address on Colonization (1862)
• Last Public Address (1865)

Congress

Explore the evolving role of Congress—its powers, leadership, and defining conflicts across American history.
Documents include:

• Debate on the President’s Removal Power (1789)
• Articles of Impeachment Against Andrew Johnson (1868)
• The Revolt of 1910
• Speech on the Constitutionality of the Korean War (1951)
• “This is the People’s House” (2011)

Constitutional Convention

Step into the debates that shaped the Constitution, from representation to federalism to the institution of slavery.
Documents include:

• The Three-Fifths Clause and Federal Representation (June 1787)
• The Revised Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan (June 1787)
• Creating the Electoral College (September 1787)
• The Committee of Detail Report (July–August 1787)

Political Parties

Trace the emergence and evolution of political parties and their role in American constitutional life.
Documents include:

• “A Candid State of Parties” (1792)
• “Cross of Gold” Speech (1896)
• Platform of the National Woman’s Party (1916)
• Republican Contract with America (1992)
• Citizens United v. FEC (2010)

Race & Civil Rights

Engage a wide range of voices wrestling with the meaning of equality and citizenship in America.
Documents include:

• “What the Black Man Wants” (1865)
• “An Address to the Country” (1906)
• “The Ballot or the Bullet” (1964)
• “Voluntary Segregation—A Disaster” (1969)
• “A More Perfect Union” (2008)

Reconstruction

Follow the effort to reunite the nation and secure the rights of freedmen—and the forces that ultimately undermined that effort.
Documents include:

• Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863)
• Black Codes of Mississippi (1865)
• Congressional Debate on the 14th Amendment (1866)
• Colfax Massacre Reports (1874–1875)
• “The United States Cannot Remain Half-Slave and Half-Free” (1883)

Religion in American History & Politics

Trace the long and complex relationship between religion and public life in America through foundational texts.
Documents include:

• Laws, Rights, and Liberties Related to Religion in Early America (1610–1682)
• Washington, Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport (1790)
• Lincoln, Temperance Address (1842)
• King, “Can a Christian Be a Communist?” (1962)
• Obama, Address at Cairo University (2009)

Religious Liberty

Examine the constitutional debate over the First Amendment’s religion clauses through key Supreme Court decisions.
Documents include:

• West Virginia v. Barnette
• Sherbert v. Verner
• McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky
• Burwell v. Hobby Lobby
• Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission

World War II

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Library Sets — Just $25

History Library

• Abraham Lincoln
• Constitutional Convention
• Race & Civil Rights
• Reconstruction
• World War II

Government Library

• Congress
• Political Parties
• Religion in American History & Politics
• Religious Liberty
• The Judiciary

Bring primary sources to life in your classroom—at a price that makes it easy to say yes. Don’t wait—this sale runs June 22 through August 14, or while supplies last.