Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War

David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, and Steven Mintz, Professor of History at the University of Houston, chose 360 original documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. The authors have woven these rare letters, diaries, personal narratives, speeches, broadsides, and contemporary accounts into a new history of America through 1870, one based largely on first-hand documentary evidence.