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Table of Contents:
Era Fifteen: The Civil War
1. Jefferson Davis, Address to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America (1861)
2. THE "CORNERSTONE SPEECH" 1861
3. Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Confederate Lady's Diary (1861)
4. WHY THEY FOUGHT 1861
5. A CONFEDERATE GENERAL ASSESSES FIRST BULL RUN 1861
6. Charles Harvey Brewster, Three Letters from the Civil War Front (1862)
7. Clara Barton, Medical Life at the Battlefield (1862)
8. James Henry Gooding, Letter to President Lincoln (1863)
9. Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863)
10. John Dooley, Passages from a Journal (1863)
11. A FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE NEW YORK DRAFT RIOTS 1863
12. Susie King Taylor, Reminiscences of an Army Laundress (1902)
13. GENERAL WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN ON WAR 1864
Era Sixteen: Reconstruction
1. Address from the Colored Citizens of Norfolk, Virginia, to the People of the United States" (1865)
2. Carl Schurz, Report on the Condition of the South (1865)
3. Clinton B. Fisk, Plain Counsels for Freedmen (1865)
4. Mississippi Black Code (1865)
5. James C. Beecher, Report on Land Reform in the South Carolina Islands (1865, 1866)
6. THE MEMPHIS RIOT 1866
7. The Fourteenth Amendment (1868)
8. Albion W. Tourgee, Letter on Ku Klux Klan Activities (1870)
9. The Nation, "The State of the South" (1872)
10. SUSAN B. ANTHONY AND THE "NEW DEPARTURE" FOR WOMEN 1873
11. James T. Rapier, Testimony Before U.S. Senate Regarding the Agricultural Labor Force in the South (1880)
12. A Sharecrop Contract (1882)
Era Seventeen: New South, Expanding West
1. Edward Gould Buffum, Six Months in the Gold Mines (1850)
2. Lydia Allen Rudd, Diary of Westward Travel (1852)
3. Horace Greeley, An Overland Journey (1860)
4. Joseph G. McCoy, Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest (1874)
5. Helen Hunt Jackson, from A Century of Dishonor (1881)
6. A Sharecrop Contract (1882)
7. Congressional Report on Indian Affairs (1887)
8. Tragedy at Wounded Knee (1890)
9. Benjamin Harrison, Report on Wounded Knee Massacre and the Decrease in Indian Land Acreage (1891)
10. The Omaha Platform of the Populist Party (1892)
11. From Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
12. W. E. B. Du Bois, from "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others" (1903)
Era Eighteen: Industrializing America
1. Charles Loring Brace, "The Life of the Street Rats" (1872)
2. Progress and Poverty 1879
3. The Gilded Age 1880
4. Richard K. Fox, from Coney Island Frolics (1883)
5. Address by George Engel, Condemned Haymarket Anarchist (1886)
6. Edward Bellamy, from Looking Backward (1888)
7. 19-3 The Assassination of President Garfield 1889
8. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, from A Red Record (1895)
9. Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address (1895)
10. George Waring, Sanitary Conditions in New York (1897)
11. Lincoln Steffens, from The Shame of the Cities (1904)
12. Etiquette for the Upper Classes 1919
13. Scientific Management 1919
Era Nineteen: Immigrant and Urban Nation
1. Memorial of the Chinese Six Companies to U.S. Grant, President of the United States (1876)
2. Plain Facts for Old and Young 1884
3. Anglo-Saxon Culture Under Siege 1885
4. How the Other Half Lives 1890
5. The People's Party Platform (1892)
6. The Secret Oath of the American Protective Association (1893)
7. George Waring, Sanitary Conditions in New York (1897)
8. Adna Weber, The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century (1899)
9. Lee Chew, Life of a Chinese Immigrant (1903)
10. Lincoln Steffens, from The Shame of the Cities (1904)
11. William T. Riordon, from Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (1905)
12. John Spargo, From The Bitter Cry of Children 1906)
13. Mary Antin, The Promised Land (1912)
Era Twenty: America Around the Globe
1. Josiah Strong, from Our Country (1885)
2. Henry Cabot Lodge, "The Business World vs. the Politicians" (1895)
3. Albert Beveridge, "The March of the Flag" (1898)
4. The Spanish-American War 1898
5. William McKinley, "Decision on the Philippines" (1900)
6. The Boxer Rebellion 1900
7. Theodore Roosevelt, Third Annual Message to Congress (1903)
8. Mark Twain, "Incident in the Philippines" (1924)
Era Twenty-one: The Progressive Era
1. Frederick Winslow Taylor, "A Piece-Rate System" (1896)
2. William Graham Sumner, from "On Empire and the Philippines" (1898)
3. Eugene V. Debs, "The Outlook for Socialism in the United States" (1900)
4. Platform Adopted by the National Negro Committee (1909)
5. James H. Patten, Chairman of the National Legislative Committee of the American
6. Purity Federation, Testimony Before Congress (1910)
7. Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)
8. Theodore Roosevelt, from The New Nationalism (1910)
9. Walker Percy, "Birmingham under the Commission Plan" (1911)
10. Helen M. Todd, "Getting Out the Vote" (1911)
11. Louis Brandeis, Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It (1913)
12. Woodrow Wilson, from The New Freedom (1913)
13. Herbert Croly, Progressive Democracy (1914)
Era Twenty-two: World War One
1. The Great War
2. Boy Scouts of America from, Boy Scouts Support the War Effort (1917)
3. Letters from the Great Migration (1917)
4. American Troops in the Trenches 1918
5. Eugene Kennedy, A "Doughboy" Describes the Fighting Front (1918)
6. Newton D. Baker, "The Treatment of German-Americans" (1918)
7. An Official Report
8. Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918)
9. Warren G. Harding, Campaign Speech at Boston (1920)
10. Edward Earle Purinton, "Big Ideas from Big Business" (1921)
Era Twenty-Three: The 1920s and Modern America
1. J. Grimke, "Address of Welcome to the Men Who Have Returned from the Battlefront" (1919)
2. The Sahara of the Bozart 1920
3. Comprehensive Immigration Law (1924)
4. National Origins Quota Act, 1924
5. Advertisements (1925, 1927)
6. Family Planning 1926
7. Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Court Statement (1927)
Era Twenty-Four: Depression and New Deal
1. Herbert Hoover, Speech at New York City (1932
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1932)
3. FDR's First Inauguration Speech 1932
4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Speech at San Francisco (1932)
5. Share the Wealth
6. The Victims of the Ku Klux Klan (1935)
7. Father Charles E. Coughlin, "A Third Party" (1936)
8. Mrs. Henry Weddington, Letter to President Roosevelt (1938)
Era Twenty-Five: World War 11
1. Albert Einstein, Letter to President Roosevelt (1939)
2. Charles Lindbergh, Radio Address (1941)
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms (1941)
4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Annual Message to Congress (1941)
5. A. Philip Randolph, "Why Should We March?" (1942)
6. Japanese Relocation Order, February 19, 1942
7. Sterling A. Brown, "Out of Their Mouths" (1942)
Era Twenty-Six: Cold War
1. George F. Kennan, "Long Telegram" (1946)
2. Kenneth MacFarland, "The Unfinished Work" (1946)
3. George Marshall, The Marshall Plan (1947)
4. Containment 1947
5. Harry S Truman, The Truman Doctrine (1947)
6. Ronald Reagan, Testimony Before the House Un-American Activities Committee (1947)
7. Joseph R. McCarthy, from Speech Delivered to the Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia (1950)
8. National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 (1950)
9. Senator Joseph McCarthy's telegram to President Truman following the 'Wheeling [W. Va.] Speech,' February 11, 1950
Era Twenty-Seven: Consensus and Conformity
1. The Kinsey Report 1948
2. Brown v. Board of Education(1954)
3. Ladies Home Journal, "Young Mother" (1956)
4. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Statement of Purpose (1960)
Era Twenty-Eight: The Changing Liberal State
1. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 1954
2. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Decision Not to Intervene at Dien Bien Phu (1954)
3. Charles Sherrod, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Memorandum (1961)
4. John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Address (1962)
5. Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962)
6. John Lewis, Address at the March on Washington (1963)
7. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
8. The Tonkin Gulf Incident (1964)
9. Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at Howard University (1965)
10. Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton, from Black Power (1967)
11. Donald Wheeldin, "The Situation in Watts Today" (1967)
12. Vietnamization 1969
Era Twenty-Nine: The Struggle For Social Change
1. John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961)
2. The Feminist Mystique 1963
3. Lyndon Johnson, The War on Poverty (1964)
4. National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose (1966)
5. The Gay Liberation Front, Come Out (1970)
6. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education 1971
7. Roe v. Wade 1973
8. Ione Malloy, Southie Won't Go (1975)
9. Jimmy Carter, The "Malaise" Speech (1979)
Era Thirty: America at the Millennium
1. House Judiciary Committee, Conclusion on Impeachment Resolution (1974)
2. Jimmy Carter, The "Malaise" Speech (1979)
3. Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address (1981)
4. Ronald Reagan, Speech to the House of Commons (1982)
5. Ronald Reagan, Address to the National Association of Evangelicals (1983)
6. T. Boone Pickens, "My Case for Reagan" (1984)
7. Paul Craig Roberts, The Supply-Side Revolution (1984)
8. Bill Chappell, Speech to the American Security Council Foundation (1985)
9. Patricia Morrisroe, "The New Class" (1985)
10. George Bush, Address to the Nation Announcing Allied Military Action in the Persian Gulf (1991)
