The Broadview Sources Series

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  Roger Williams and His World

  Roger Williams, a 17th-century English immigrant to New England, was famously banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635 for his “new and dangerous opinions”…

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  European Racism: A History in Documents

  European Racism collects more than 130 primary sources—from religious tracts, legal codes, and government edicts, to novel excerpts, paintings, illustrations, and songs—to help readers trace…

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  Irish-English Relations: A History in Documents

  In 1919, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland noted that “there is a path of fatality which…

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  Ranching and the American West: A History in Documents

  The transformation of the American West is one of the key topics in the study of both US history and global environmental history. The role…

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  Spanish American Independence Movements: A History in Documents

  The independence movements of Spanish America in the early nineteenth century constitute one of the main junctures in Latin American history. Not only did they…

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  United States Immigration, 1800-1965: A History in Documents

  The debate over immigration has been a hallmark of the American nation since its earliest days, and it persists in generating a complex spectrum of…

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  Investigating Cholera in Broad Street: A History in Documents

  This book features various accounts of a cholera outbreak in West London that killed over 500 people in ten days during the late summer of…

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  Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents

  In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation approving the construction of the O’Shaughnessy Dam to inundate the Hetch Hetchy Valley inside Yosemite National Park. This…

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  Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West: A History in Documents

  Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West traces the history of medicine and medical practice from Ancient Egypt through to the end of the Middle…

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  The Great Irish Famine: A History in Documents

  In the fall of 1845, a mysterious blight ravaged Ireland’s potato harvest, beginning a prolonged period of starvation, suffering, and emigration that reduced the Irish…

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  Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents

  Many thousands of black people were enslaved in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Upper Canada between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is not surprising…

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  The Stamp Act of 1765: A History in Documents

  When Parliament sought to raise funds through the passing of the Stamp Act in 1765, they did not anticipate the protests and staunch opposition to…

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  The Trial of Charles I: A History in Documents

  In January 1649, after years of civil war, King Charles I stood trial in a specially convened English court on charges of treason, murder, and…