The authors have carefully selected and edited more than 300 documents that relate directly to the themes and content of the text and organized them into five general categories: community, social history, government, culture and politics. Each document is two pages long and includes a brief introduction and study questions.
Table of Contents:
Preface ix
Chapter 17. Reconstruction, 1863—1877 219
17—1 Charlotte Forten, Life on the Sea Islands, 1864 219
17—2 Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, 1865 220
17—3 The Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, 1865 221
17—4 Black Code of Mississippi, 1865 222
17—5 Frederick Douglass, Speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1865 224
17—6 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 226
17—7 President Johnson’s Veto of the Civil Rights Act, 1866 227
17—8 The First Reconstruction Act, 1867 229
17—9 Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan, 1868 230
17—10 Blanche K. Bruce, Speech in the Senate, 1876 231
17—11 A Sharecrop Contract, 1882 232
Chapter 18. Conquest and Survival: Communities in the Trans-Mississippi, 1860-1900 234
18—1 The Oklahoma Land Rush, 1889 234
18—2 The Homestead Act, 1862 236
18—3 Helen Hunt Jackson, The Thrill of Western Railroading, 1878 237
18—4 Bill Haywood, Miners and Cowboys, 1887 238
18—5 Red Cloud, Speech at Cooper Union, New York, 1870 240
18—6 Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor, 1881 241
18—7 The Dawes General Allotment (Severalty) Act, 1887 243
18—8 D. W. C. Duncan, How Allotment Impoverishes the Indian, 1906 244
18—9 Charles and Nellie Wooster, Letters from the Frontier, 1872 245
18—10 John Wesley Powell, Report on the Arid Lands of the West, 1879 248
Chapter 19. The Incorporation of America, 1860—1900 251
19—1 Paul Bourget, The Traffic in Meat, 1894 251
19—2 Andrew Carnegie, Wealth, 1889 253
19—3 John Morrison, Testimony of a Machinist, 1883 254
19—4 Terence V. Powderly, The Knights of Labor, 1889 256
19—5 Samuel Gompers, Testimony on Labor Unions, 1883 258
19—6 Lee Chew, Experiences of a Chinese Immigrant, 1903 260
19—7 John Hill, Testimony on Southern Textile Industry, 1883 261
19—8 Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption, 1899 264
19—9 M. Carey Thomas, Higher Education for Women, 1901 267
19—10 B. F. Keith, The Vogue of Vaudeville, 1898 268
Chapter 20. Commonwealth and Empire, 1870s—1900s 271
20—1 Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 1888 271
20—2 E. L. Godkin, A Great National Disgrace, 1877 274
20—3 Roscoe Conkling, Defense of the Spoils System, 1877 275
20—4 Populist Party Platform, 1892 276
20—5 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Solitude of Self, 1890 279
20—6 Pullman Strikers’ Statement, 1894 280
20—7 Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power, 1895 281
20—8 Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893 283
20—9 Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life, 1899 285
20—10 George F. Hoar, Against Imperialism, 1902 287
Chapter 21. Urban America and the Progressive Era, 1900—1920 289
21—1 Jane Addams, The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements, 1892 289
21—2 George Washington Plunkitt; Honest Graft, 1905 291
21—3 Louis Brandeis, The Living Law, 1916 293
21—4 Margaret Sanger, The Case for Birth Control, 1917 294
21—5 Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895 296
21—6 Ida B. Wells, A Red Record, 1895 298
21—7 The Niagara Movement, Declaration of Principles, 1905 300
21—8 Declaration of the Conservation Conference, 1908 302
21—9 Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, 1913 303
Chapter 22. World War I, 1914—1918 306
22—1 The President’s Commission at Bisbee, 1917 306
22—2 Theodore Roosevelt, Corollary to The Monroe Doctrine, 1904 307
22—3 Woodrow Wilson, War Message to Congress, 1917 309
22—4 George Norris, Against Entry into War, 1917 311
22—5 George Creel, How We Advertised America, 1920 312
22—6 Diary of an Unknown Aviator, 1918 314
22—7 Anna Howard Shaw, Woman’s Committee of the Council of National Defense, 1917 315
22—8 Eugene v. Debs, Statement to the Court, 1918 317
22—9 Letters from the Great Migration, 1916—1917 318
22—10 Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points, 1918 320
Chapter 23. The Twenties, 1921—1929 322
23—1 Motion Picture Diaries 322
23—2 Herbert Hoover, American Individualism, 1922 323
23—3 Bruce Barton, Jesus Christ as Businessman, 1925 325
23—4 Eleanor Wembridge, Petting and Necking, 1925 327
23—5 Paul Morand, Speakeasies in New York, 1929 328
23—6 U.S. Congress, Debating Immigration Restriction, 1921 329
23—7 Hiram Evans, The Klan’s Fight for Americanism, 1926 330
23—8 Charles S. Johnson, The City Negro, 1925 332
23—9 Motion Picture Production Code, 1930 334
Chapter 24. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929—1939 337
24—1 Bob Stinson, Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936 337
24—2 Meridel Le Sueur, Women on the Breadlines, 1932 339
24—3 Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933 340
24—4 Huey Long, Share Our Wealth, 1935 342
24—5 National Labor Relations Act, 1935 343
24—6 U.S. Senate, Investigation of Strikebreaking, 1939 345
24—7 Republican Party Platform, 1936 347
24—8 Carey Mc Williams, Okies in California, 1939 350
24—9 Hiram Sherman, The Federal Theater Project, 1936 351
Chapter 25. World War II, 1930s—1945 353
25—1 Bernice Brode, Tales of Los Alamos, 1943 353
25—2 Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms, 1941 355
25—3 Burton K. Wheeler, Radio Address on Lend-Lease, 1941 356
25—4 Ernie Pyle, The Toughest Beachhead in the World, 1944 357
25—5 R. L. Duffus, A City that Forges Thunderbolts, 1943 358
25—6 Virginia Snow Wilkinson, From Housewife to Shipfitter, 1943 361
25—7 Earl B. Dickerson, The Fair Employment Practices Committee, 1941—43 364
25—8 Barbara Wooddall and Charles Taylor, Letters to and from the Front, 1941—1944 365
25—9 Korematsu v. United States, 1944 368
Chapter 26. The Cold War, 1945—1952 370
26—1 Clark Clifford, Memorandum to President Truman, 1946 370
26—2 Henry Wallace, Letter to President Truman, 1946 372
26—3 The Truman Doctrine, 1947 374
26—4 The Truman Loyalty Order, 1947 376
26—5 American Medical Association, Campaign against Compulsory Health Insurance, 1949 379
26—6 Ronald Reagan and Albert Maltz, Testimony before HUAC, 1947 381
26—7 Joseph McCarthy, Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, 1950 384
26—8 The Advertising Council, The Miracle of America, 1948 385
26—9 NSC—68, 1950 387
Chapter 27. America at Midcentury, 1952—1963 390
27—1 The Teenage Comumer, 1959 390
27—2 Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, 1961 391
27—3 John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961 392
27—4 Newton Minow, Address to the National Association of Broadcasters, 1961 394
27—5 John K. Galbraith, The Affluent Society, 1958 396
27—6 Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962 398
27—7 Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957 399
27—8 Betty Friedan, The Problem That Has No Name, 1963 401
27—9 Jerry Lee Lewis and Sam Phillips Discuss “Great Balls of Fire,” 1957 402
27—10 John F. Kennedy, Speech at American University, 1963 404
Chapter 28. The Civil Rights Movement, 1945—1966 406
28—1 Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955 406
28—2 Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 409
28—3 Southern Manifesto on Integration, 1956 411
28—4 Julian Bond, Sit-ins and the Origins of SNCC, 1960 412
28—5 Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963 414
28—6 Fannie Lou Hamer, Voting Rights in Mississippi 1962—1964 417
28—7 Letters from Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964 420
28—8 The Civil Rights Act, 1964 424
28—9 Michael Harrington, The Other America, 1962 425
28—10 Stokely Carmichael, Black Power, 1966 428
Chapter 29. War Abroad, War at Home, 1965—1974 432
29—1 Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement, 1962 432
29—2 Casey Hayden and Mary King Respond to Sexism in the Movement, 1965 435
29—3 Lyndon B. Johnson, The Great Society, 1964 436
29—4 Lyndon B. Johnson, Why We Are in Vietnam, 1965 438
29—5 Martin Luther King, Jr., Conscience and the Vietnam War, 1967 440
29—6 Report of the National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders, 1968 443
29—7 Robin Morgan, Radical Feminism, 1975 445
29—8 Spiro Agnew, The Dangers of Constant Carnival, 1969 448
29—9 John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1971 450
29—10 Roe v. Wade, 1973 452
29—11 Articles of lmpeachment against Richard M. Nixon, 1974 455
Chapter 30. The Conservative Ascendancy, 1974—1987 458
30—1 Town Meeting, Middletown, Pennsylvania, 1979 458
30—2 William Julius Wilson, The Urban Underclass, 1980 459
30—3 Affirmative Action in Atlanta, 1974 461
30—4 Lois Gibbs, Love Canal 1978 464
30—5 Jimmy Carter, The Crisis of Conscience, 1979 467
30—6 Presidential Press Conference, 1979 469
30—7 Richard Viguerie, Why the New Right Is Winning 1981 472
Chapter 31. Toward a Transitional America, since 1988 475
31—1 Jesse Jackson, Common Ground, 1988 475
31—2 Cecelia Rosa Avila, Third-Generation Mexican American, 1988 476
31—3 Howard Rheingold, Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, 1993 478
31—4 America Enters a New Century with Terror, 2001 480
