Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface for Instructors
Introduction for Students
Contents
16. RECONSTRUCTION, 1863?1877
16?1 Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South
Report on the Condition of the South, 1865
16?2 Black Codes Enacted in the South
Mississippi Black Code, November 1865
16?3 Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families
Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865?1870
16?4 Planter Louis Manigault Visits His Plantations and Former Slaves
A Narrative of a Post?Civil War Visit to Gowrie and East Hermitage Plantations, March 22, 1867
16?5 Klan Violence against Blacks
Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
17. THE CONTESTED WEST, 1865?1900
17?1 Pun Chi Appeals to Congress in Behalf of Chinese Immigrants in California
A Remonstrance from the Chinese in California, ca. 1870
17?2 Mattie Oblinger Describes Life on a Nebraska Homestead
Mattie V. Oblinger to George W. Thomas, Grizzie B. Thomas, and Wheeler Thomas Family, June 16, 1873
17?3 Texas Rangers on the Mexican Border
N. A. Jennings, A Texas Ranger, 1875
17?4 In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat Describes White Encroachment
Chief Joseph, Speech to a White Audience, 1879
17?5 A Plea to ?Citizenize? Indians
Richard Pratt, ?Kill the Indian . . . and save the man,? 1892
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
18. BUSINESS AND POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE, 1870?1895
18?1 Marshall Kirkman Likens Railroad Corporations to Armies
The Railway Army, 1894
18?2 William Graham Sumner on Social Obligations
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 1883
18?3 Henry Demarest Lloyd Attacks Monopolies
Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894
18?4 Andrew Carnegie Explains the Gospel of Wealth
Wealth, 1889
18?5 Henry George Explains Why Poverty Is a Crime
An Analysis of the Crime of Poverty, 1885
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
19. THE CITY AND ITS WORKERS, 1870?1900
19?1 A Textile Worker Explains the Labor Market
Thomas O?Donnell, Testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee, 1885
19?2 Domestic Servants on Household Work
Interviews with Journalist Helen Campbell, 1880s
19?3 Jacob Riis Describes Abandoned Babies in New York City?s Slums
Waifs of New York City?s Slums, 1890
19?4 Walter Wyckoff Listens to Revolutionary Workers in Chicago
Among the Revolutionaries, 1898
19?5 George Washington Plunkitt Explains Politics
William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, 1905
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
20. DISSENT, DEPRESSION, AND WAR, 1890?1900
20?1 Mary Elizabeth Lease Reports on Women in the Farmers? Alliance
Women in the Farmers? Alliance, 1891
20?2 White Supremacy in Wilmington, North Carolina
Gunner Jesse Blake, Narrative of the Wilmington ?Rebellion? of 1898
20?3 Pinkertons Defeated at Homestead
Pinkerton Guard Testimony, 1893
20?4 Conflicting Views about Labor Unions
N. F. Thompson, Testimony before the Industrial Commission on the Relations and Conditions of Capital and Labor, 1900
Samuel Gompers, Letter to the American Federationist, 1894
20?5 Emilio Aguinaldo Criticizes American Imperialism in the Philippines
Case against the United States, 1899
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
21. PROGRESSIVISM FROM THE GRASS ROOTS TO THE WHITE HOUSE, 1890?1916
21?1 Jane Addams on Settlement Houses
The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements, 1892
21?2 A Sociologist Studies Working-Class Saloons in Chicago
Royal Melendy, Ethical Substitutes for the Saloon, 1900
21?3 Mother Jones on the Futility of Class Harmony
Letter to Mrs. Potter Palmer, January 12, 1907
21?4 Marie Jenney Howe Parodies the Opposition to Women?s Suffrage
An Anti-Suffrage Monologue, 1913
21?5 Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation
The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895
21?6 W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality
Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
22. WORLD WAR I: THE PROGRESSIVE CRUSADE AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1914?1920
22?1 The North American Review Considers War a Blessing, Not a Curse
For Freedom and Democracy, April 1917
22?2 Eugene V. Debs Attacks Capitalist Warmongers
Speech Delivered in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918
22?3 A Doughboy?s Letter from the Front
Anonymous Soldier, Letter to Elmer J. Sutters, 1918
22?4 Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Defends America from Communists
The Case against the ?Reds,? 1920
22?5 An African American Responds to the Chicago Race Riot
Stanley B. Norvell, Letter to Victor F. Lawson, 1919
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
23. FROM NEW ERA TO GREAT DEPRESSION, 1920?1932
23?1 Edward Earle Purinton Celebrates American Business as the Salvation of the World
Big Ideas From Big Business: Try Them Out for Yourself, April 16, 1921
23?2 Reinhold Niebuhr on Christianity in Detroit
Diary Entries, 1925?1928
23?3 The Ku Klux Klan Defends Americanism
Hiram W. Evans, The Klan?s Fight for Americanism, 1926
23?4 Mothers Seek Freedom from Unwanted Pregnancies
Margaret Sanger, Motherhood in Bondage, 1928
23?5 Marcus Garvey Explains the Goals of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
The Negro?s Greatest Enemy, 1923
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
24. THE NEW DEAL EXPERIMENT, 1932?1939
24?1 Martha Gellhorn Reports on Conditions in North Carolina in 1934
Martha Gellhorn to Harry Hopkins, November 11, 1934
24?2 Working People?s Letters to New Dealers
Letter to Frances Perkins, January 27, 1935
Letter to Frances Perkins, March 29, 1935
Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 23, 1936
Letter to Frances Perkins, July 27, 1937
Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 27, 1939
24?3 Huey Long Proposes Redistribution of Wealth
Speech to Members of the Share Our Wealth Society, 1935
24?4 A Mexican American Farmworker Describes the Importance of Sticking Together
Jose Flores, Interview, Farm Security Administration Migrant Labor Camp, El Rio, California, 1941
24?5 Conservatives Criticize the New Deal
Herbert Hoover, Anti?New Deal Campaign Speech, 1936
Minnie Hardin, Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, December 14, 1937
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
25. THE UNITED STATES AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939?1945
25?1 President Franklin D. Roosevelt Requests Declaration of War on Japan
Speech to Congress, December 8, 1941
25?2 A Japanese American War Hero Recalls Pearl Harbor
Grant Hirabayashi, Oral History, 1999
25?3 The Holocaust: A Journalist Reports on Nazi Massacres of Jews
Varian Fry, The Massacre of the Jews, December 21, 1942
25?4 Soldiers Send Messages Home
Sergeant Irving Strobing, Radio Address from Corregidor, Philippines, May 5 or 6, 1942
John Conroy, Letter, December 24, 1942
Allen Spach, Letter, February 1943
James McMahon, Letter, March 10, 1944
David Mark Olds, Letter, July 12, 1945
25?5 Rosies the Riveter Recall Working in War Industries
Rosie the Riveter Memoirs, ca. 2004
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
26. COLD WAR POLITICS IN THE TRUMAN YEARS, 1945?1953
26?1 General Marshall Summarizes the Lessons of World War II
For the Common Defense, 1945
26?2 George F. Kennan Outlines Containment
The Long Telegram, February 22, 1946
26?3 Cold War Blueprint
NSC-68: U.S. Objectives and Programs for National Security, 1950
26?4 Senator Joseph McCarthy Hunts Communists
Speech Delivered in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950
26?5 A Veteran Recalls Combat in the Korean War
Donald M. Griffith Interview, 2003
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
27. THE POLITICS AND CULTURE OF ABUNDANCE, 1952?1960
27?1 Edith M. Stern Attacks the Domestic Bondage of Women
Women Are Household Slaves, 1949
27?2 Vance Packard Analyzes the Age of Affl uence
The Status Seekers, 1959
27?3 George E. McMillan Reports on Racial Conditions in the South in 1960
Sit-Downs: The South?s New Time Bomb, 1960
27?4 Civil Defense in the Nuclear Shadow
North Dakota Civil Defense Agency, How You Will Survive, 1960
27?5 President Dwight D. Eisenhower Warns about the Military-Industrial Complex
Farewell Address, January 1961
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
28. REFORM, REBELLION, AND REACTION, 1960?1974
28?1 New Left Students Seek Democratic Social Change
Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement, 1962
28?2 Martin Luther King Jr. Explains Nonviolent Resistance
Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963
28?3 George C. Wallace Denounces the Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax, July 4, 1964
28?4 Black Power
Chicago Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Leafl et, 1967
28?5 Equal Rights for Women
National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose, October 29, 1966
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
29. VIETNAM AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR CONSENSUS, 1961?1975
29?1 President Kennedy Explains Why We Are in Vietnam
Bobbie Lou Pendergrass, Letter to President John F. Kennedy, February 18, 1963
President John F. Kennedy, Letter to Bobbie Lou Pendergrass, March 6, 1963
29?2 A Secret Government Assessment of the Vietnam War
Robert S. McNamara, Actions Recommended for Vietnam, October 14, 1966
29?3 Military Discipline in an Unpopular War
Robert D. Heinl Jr., The Collapse of the Armed Forces, June 7, 1971
29?4 An American Soldier in Vietnam
Arthur E. Woodley Jr., Oral History of a Special Forces Ranger
29?5 John Kerry Denounces the Vietnam War
Testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 1971
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
30. AMERICA MOVES TO THE RIGHT, 1969?1989
30?1 The Watergate Tapes: Nixon, Dean, and Haldeman Discuss the Cancer within the Presidency
Transcript from Tape-Recorded Meeting, March 21, 1973
30?2 Roe v. Wade and Abortion Rights
Supreme Court Decision, 1973
30?3 Norma McCorvey Explains How She Became ?Roe? of Roe v. Wade
Affidavit, United States District Court, District of New Jersey, 2000
30?4 President Ronald Reagan Defends American Morality
Address to the National Association of American Evangelicals, 1983
30?5 A Vietnamese Immigrant on the West Coast
Anonymous Man, Oral History, 1983
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
31. THE PROMISES AND CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION, SINCE 1989
31?1 National Security of the United States Requires Preemptive War
The National Security Strategy of the United States, September 2002
31?2 A Captured 9/11 Terrorist Confesses
Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Confession, 2007
31?3 A Christian Leader Argues That Evangelical Christianity Has Been Hijacked
Tony Campolo, Interview, 2004
31?4 Joseph Stiglitz Describes Capitalist Fools? Responsibility for the Economic Crisis
Capitalist Fools, December 11, 2008
31?5 President Barack Obama Declares a New Beginning in U.S. Relations with the Muslim World
On a New Beginning, June 4, 2009
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
