Table of Contents:
Chapter 17. Reconstruction, 1863—1877
17—1 Charlotte Forten, Life on the Sea Islands, 1864
17—2 Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, 1865
17—3 The Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, 1865
17—4 Black Code of Mississippi, 1865
17—5 Frederick Douglass, Speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1865
17—6 The Civil Rights Act of 1866
17—7 President Johnson’s Veto of the Civil Rights Act, 1866
17—8 The First Reconstruction Act, 1867
17—9 Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan, 1868
17—10 Blanche K. Bruce, Speech in the Senate, 1876
17—11 A Sharecrop Contract, 1882
Chapter 18. Conquest and Survival: Communities in the Trans-Mississippi, 1860-1900
18—1 The Oklahoma Land Rush, 1889
18—2 The Homestead Act, 1862
18—3 Helen Hunt Jackson, The Thrill of Western Railroading, 1878
18—4 Bill Haywood, Miners and Cowboys, 1887
18—5 Red Cloud, Speech at Cooper Union, New York, 1870
18—6 Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor, 1881
18—7 The Dawes General Allotment (Severalty) Act, 1887
18—8 D. W. C. Duncan, How Allotment Impoverishes the Indian, 1906
18—9 Charles and Nellie Wooster, Letters from the Frontier, 1872
18—10 John Wesley Powell, Report on the Arid Lands of the West, 1879
Chapter 19. The Incorporation of America, 1860—1900
19—1 Paul Bourget, The Traffic in Meat, 1894
19—2 Andrew Carnegie, Wealth, 1889
19—3 John Morrison, Testimony of a Machinist, 1883
19—4 Terence V. Powderly, The Knights of Labor, 1889
19—5 Samuel Gompers, Testimony on Labor Unions, 1883
19—6 Lee Chew, Experiences of a Chinese Immigrant, 1903
19—7 John Hill, Testimony on Southern Texile Industry, 1883
19—8 Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption, 1899
19—9 M. Carey Thomas, Higher Education for Women, 1901
19—10 B. F. Keith, The Vogue of Vaudeville, 1898
Chapter 20. Commonwealth and Empire, 1870s—1900s
20—1 Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 1888
20—2 E. L. Godkin, A Great National Disgrace, 1877
20—3 Roscoe Conkling, Defense of the Spoils System, 1877
20—4 Populist Party Platform, 1892
20—5 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Solitude of Self, 1890
20—6 Pullman Strikers’ Statement, 1894
20—7 Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power, 1895
20—8 Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893
20—9 Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life, 1899
20—10 George F. Hoar, Against Imperialism, 1902
Chapter 21. Urban America and the Progressive Era, 1900—1920
21—1 Jane Addams, The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements, 1892
21—2 George Washington Plunkitt; Honest Graft, 1905
21—3 Louis Brandeis, The Living Law, 1916
21—4 Margaret Sanger, The Case for Birth Control, 1917
21—5 Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895
21—6 Ida B. Wells, A Red Record, 1895
21—7 The Niagara Movement, Declaration of Principles, 1905
21—8 Declaration of the Conservation Conference, 1908
21—9 Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, 1913
Chapter 22. World War I, 1914—1918
22—1 The President’s Commission at Bisbee, 1917
22—2 Theodore Roosevelt, Corollary to The Monroe Doctrine, 1904
22—3 Woodrow Wilson, War Message to Congress, 1917
22—4 George Norris, Against Entry into War, 1917
22—5 George Creel, How We Advertised America, 1920
22—6 Diary of an Unknown Aviator, 1918
22—7 Anna Howard Shaw, Woman’s Committee of the Council of National Defense, 1917
22—8 Eugene v. Debs, Statement to the Court, 1918
22—9 Letters from the Great Migration, 1916—1917
22—10 Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points, 1918
Chapter 23. The Twenties, 1921—1929
23—1 Motion Picture Diaries
23—2 Herbert Hoover, American Individualism, 1922
23—3 Bruce Barton, Jesus Christ as Businessman, 1925
23—4 Eleanor Wembridge, Petting and Necking, 1925
23—5 Paul Morand, Speakeasies in New York, 1929
23—6 U.S. Congress, Debating Immigration Restriction, 1921
23—7 Hiram Evans, The Klan’s Fight for Americanism, 1926
23—8 Charles S. Johnson, The City Negro, 1925
23—9 Sinclair Lewis, Our Ideal Citizen, 1922
Chapter 24. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929—1939
24—1 Bob Stinson, Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936
24—2 Meridel Le Sueur, Women on the Breadlines, 1932
24—3 Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933
24—4 Huey Long, Share Our Wealth, 1935
24—5 National Labor Relations Act, 1935
24—6 U.S. Senate, Investigation of Strikebreaking, 1939
24—7 Republican Party Platform, 1936
24—8 Carey Mc Williams, Okies in California, 1939
24—9 Hiram Sherman, The Federal Theater Project, 1936
Chapter 25. World War II, 1930s—1945
25—1 Bernice Brode, Tales of Los Alamos, 1943
25—2 Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms, 1941
25—3 Burton K. Wheeler, Radio Address on Lend-Lease, 1941
25—4 Ernie Pyle, The Toughest Beachhead in the World, 1944
25—5 R. L. Duffus, A City that Forges Thunderbolts, 1943
25—6 Virginia Snow Wilkinson, From Housewife to Shipfitter, 1943
25—7 Earl B. Dickerson, The Fair Employment Practices Committee, 1941—43
25—8 Barbara Wooddall and Charles Taylor, Letters to and from the Front, 1941—1944
25—9 Korematsu v. United States, 1944
Chapter 26. The Cold War, 1945—1952
26—1 Clark Clifford, Memorandum to President Truman, 1946
26—2 Henry Wallace, Letter to President Truman, 1946
26—3 The Truman Doctrine, 1947
26—4 The Truman Loyalty Order, 1947
26—5 American Medical Association, Campaign against Compulsory Health Insurance, 1949
26—6 Ronald Reagan and Albert Maltz, Testimony before HUAC, 1947
26—7 Joseph McCarthy, Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, 1950
26—8 The Advertising Council, The Miracle of America, 1948
26—9 NSC—68, 1950
Chapter 27. America at Midcentury, 1952—1963
27—1 The Teenage Comumer, 1959
27—2 Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, 1961
27—3 John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961
27—4 Newton Minow, Address to the NationalAssociation of Broadcasters, 1961
27—5 John K. Galbreath, The Affluent Society, 1958
27—6 Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962
27—7 Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957
27—8 Betty Friedan, The Problem That Has No Name, 1963
27—9 Jerry Lee Lewis and Sam Phillips Discuss “Great Balls of Fire,” 1957
27—10 John F. Kennedy, Speech at American University, 1963
Chapter 28. Civil Rights and the Great Society, 1945—1966
28—1 Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
28—2 Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
28—3 Southern Manifesto on Integration, 1956
28—4 Julian Bond, Sit-ins and the Origins of SNCC, 1960
28—5 Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963
28—6 Fannie Lou Hamer, Voting Rights in Mississippi 1962—1964
28—7 Letters from Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964
28—8 Casey Hadon and Mary King, Sex and Caste, 1965
28—9 The Civil Rights Act, 1964
28—10 Michael Harrington, The Other America, 1962
Chapter 29. War Abroad, War at Home, 1965—1974
29—1 Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement, 1962
29—2 Lyndon B. Johnson, The Great Society, 1964
29—3 Lyndon B. Johnson, Why We Are in Vietnam, 1965
29—4 Stokely Carmichael, Black Power, 1966
29—5 Martin Luther King, Jr., Conscience and the Vietnam War, 1967
29—6 Report of the National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders, 1968
29—7 Robin Morgan, Radical Feminism, 1975
29—8 Spiro Agnew, The Dangers of Constant Carnival, 1969
29—9 John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1971
29—10 Roe v. Wade, 1973
29—11 Articles of Impeachment against Richard M. Nixon, 1974
Chapter 30. The Over-Extended Society, 1974—1980
30—1 Town Meeting, Middletown, Pennsylvania, 1979
30—2 William Julius Wilson, The Urban Underclass, 1980
30—3 Affirmative Action in Atlanta, 1974
30—4 Lois Gibbs, Love Canal 1978
30—5 Jimmy Carter, The Crisis of Conscience, 1979
30—6 Presidential Press Conference, 1979
30—7 Richard Viguerie, Why the New Right Is Winning 1981
Chapter 31. The Conservative Ascendancy, 1980—1992
31—1 Jesse Jackson, Common Ground, 1988
31—2 Cecelia Rosa Avila, Third Generation Mexican American, 1988
31—3 Howard Rheingold, Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, 1993
31—4 America Enters a New Century with Terror, 2001
