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Written and developed by leading historians under the direction of the Ohio State University Department of History, this customizable reader offers professors the freedom and flexibility to tailor a U.S. History reader whose content, organization and price meets their course needs exactly! Professors can select sections of primary and secondary source readings from 81 different, compelling chapters, each of which covers a key topic in American history. In addition, professors can build a reader strictly from primary sources using the 310 documents provided in the Retrieving the American Past Document Library, or they can add their own course syllabi, notes and handouts, and third-party content. For the latest information about Retrieving the American Past, go to www.rtapreader.com. Custom publishing provides instructors with unlimited flexibility and timely solutions to create a text that exactly fits their course and teaching style. Instructors are free to choose any combination of chapters they want. Retrieving the American Past offers students maximum value for their textbook dollar by including only those chapters that instructors will use in their course.

Table of Contents:
I. TOPICAL CHAPTERS. Pre-Colonial to 1600. The Historical Legacies of Christopher Columbus. Colonial: 1600-1763. Indians' New World: Native Americans After the European Invasion, 1585-1783. What Did It Mean to Be a Puritan? NEW!: The First Great Awakening. The Causes of Bacon's Rebellion. The Salem Witchcraft Scare. Violent Crime in Early America. Marriage in Colonial America. Colonial American Political Culture: Deference or Democracy? Revolution and Early National: 1763-1820. The Role of Religion in the Coming of the Revolution. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. Women and the American Revolution: The Formation of Republican Motherhood. Why the British Lost the Revolutionary War. The Struggle Over the Constitution: Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists. Jeffersonian Republicans vs. Federalists: The Struggle Over the Sedition Act. Lewis and Clark: The Opening of the American West. The War of 1812. Antebellum: 1820-1860. Andrew Jackson and Cherokee Removal. The Development of American Political Parties, 1815-1840: The Emergence of the Whigs and Democrats. Growing Up in Nineteenth-Century America. Transcendentalism. Jacksonian Democracy. The First Women's Rights Movement. The Mexican-American War. Manifest Destiny. NEW!: The Settlement of the Midwest. The Political Crisis of the 1850s. Women on the Frontier. NEW!: Westward Expansion & The Environment. From Artisans to Factory Hands: The Beginnings of an Industrial Society. The World of the Slaves: The Roots of Modern African American Culture. Nat Turner and Slave Resistance. Abolitionism. Civil War and Reconstruction: 1860-1877. Women at War: The Role of Women in the Crisis of the Union. Why Union Soldiers Fought. Why Confederate Soldiers Fought. The Decision for Emancipation. The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. The Struggle for Black Rights during Reconstruction. The Gilded Age: 1877-1900. Transformation, Endurance, and Rejuvenation of Native American Societies, 1870-1995. NEW!: Native Americans and the Closing of the Frontier. The Rise of Big Business and the Persistence of Small Business in American Industry, 1850-1920. The Age of Industrial Violence. Irony and Paradox: Farmer Discontent in Late Nineteenth-Century America. Progressive Era: 1890-1920. What Was Progressivism? The Emergence of the Modern Labor Movement. The Debate Over Annexing the Philippines, 1898-1900. The Grueling Battle for Woman Suffrage. The Temperance and Prohibition Movement. NEW!: The Industrial City. Mexican Americans in the U.S. Race Relations, 1890-1915: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois. The First Sexual Revolution. The Interwar Period: 1914-1945. A Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s. Advertising and Marketing in American Society During the 1920s and 1930s. Hoover, the “Associative State” and the Great Depression. Industrial Unionism: A Chapter in American Democracy. New Deal Liberalism. United States Entry into World War II. Truman's Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb. The Expulsion and Relocation of Japanese Americans in World War II. Mobilizing Women for War, 1941-1945. NEW!: The Rise of the New Right. Post-War America: 1945-1965. The Origins of the Cold War. Anti-Communism at Home: The Second Red Scare and the Problems of Internal Security in a Democracy. NEW!: The Sputnik Crisis and The Space Race. The Korean War and the Rise of the National Security State. American Life in the 1950s. The CIA in the World in the 1950s. NEW!: History, Conspiracy, and the Kennedy Assassination. The Feminine Mystique and the Organization Man. Nonviolence and the Civil Rights Movement. Television as a Social Force. Contemporary America: 1965-Present. The Environmental Movement. Why Did the United States Lose the Vietnam War? The Vietnam Era Antiwar Movement. Dissent in the 1960s: Definitions and Context. The Resurgence of Feminism. Deindustrialization. The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Movement. Did the United States Cease to be a Middle Class Nation in the 1980s? II. DOCUMENTS LIBRARY. (NOTE: Tentative Contents: For a complete and up-to-date list, please visit http://www.pearsoncustom.com/dbase/rtap/html.) Pre-Colonial and Colonial: 1600 to 1763. Christopher Columbus, from The Journal of Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus, The Letter of Columbus to Ferdinand and Isabel. Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, The Onset of the Epidemics. Jose de Acosta, Ecological Change, from Latin American Civilization: History and Society 1492 to the Present. Captain John Smith, First Encounters. Powhatan, “Address to John Smith,” 1608. Thomas Harriot, “Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia.” “Virginia Company Charter,” 1609. “The Mayflower Compact,” 1620. The Narragansetts of Rhode Island, The Narragansetts Challenge Massachusetts Bay's Authority. Anonymous French account, Interdependence and Exchange in Colonial Louisiana. Anthony F.C. Wallace, Dreams of Rebellion. The Chickasaws, Petition of the Chickasaw Headman. Nathaniel Bacon, Bacon Justifies Rebellion on Behalf of “the People.” Governor William Berkeley, Berkeley Declares Bacon a Rebel. Records of the First Church in Salem Massachusetts, “To Walk Together”: The Role of Puritan Congregation, Mather, Dane, and Bradstreet. Nathaniel Ward, A Puritan Justifies Intolerance. Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637. Increase Mather, Bringing the Witch Trials to an End. Official Court Documents, The Case Against Bridget Bishop. J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Equality and Opportunity in Eighteenth-Century America. Robert Munford, The Practice of Politics: How to Get Elected—An Eighteenth-Century Guide. Robert Brown, Robert Gross, and Gary Nash, Who Could Vote and for Whom Did They Vote? The Statistics from Massachusetts. Albany Plan of Union. Benjamin Franklin, from Poor Richard's Almanac. Jonathan Edwards, “Suspended Above Hell's Fire.” George Whitfield, “The Grand Itinerant.” Leonard W. Labaree, “Whitfield Comes to Town!” Gilbert Tennent, “A 'Dead Ministry,'” 1742. Revolution and Early National: 1763-1820. Stamp Act Resolves. Virginians Assert Their Rights, from The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792. Property and the Right to Vote, from Papers of John Adams, May 1776. Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence. Thomas Paine, Common Sense. Hector St. John de Crevecour, Letters From an American Farmer, 1782. Phyllis Wheatley, An African American Perspective on Liberty, 1774. The Problem of Slavery, from “To His Excellency Thomas Gage…,” 1774. John Wolfe Lydekker, A Loyalist Perspective. Janet Schaw, Loyalists Besieged: A British Woman Comments on Affairs in Wilmington, North Carolina, 1775. Thomas Jefferson, “Notes on State of Virginia,” 1782. Atrocity and Counteratrocity on the Carolina Frontier, 1779. Policing the Community, from Adams Family Correspondence, July 1777. Daughters of Liberty, Newspaper articles from The Portsmouth Mercury, The Massachusetts Gazzette, The Boston Weekly News-Letter, 1766-1769. Politics at Home—the Republican Wife, from The Correspondence of Hannah Fayerweather Winthrop and Mercy Otis Warren, Letterbook, 1774-1776. Esther de Berdt Reed, The Purest Patriotism, 1780. Judith Sargent Murray, On Women's Education. Benjamin Rush, Republican Mothers, 1787. Willi Paul Adams, Changes in Suffrage and Voting Behavior (Tables). Pennsylvania State Constitution. The Articles of Confederation. Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton Introduces the Federalist Argument, from “The Federalist No. 1,” 1787. James Madison, The Federalist Defense of the Constitution, from “The Federalist No. 10,” 1787. Federalist No. 9. Federalist No. 14. Federalist No. 51. Federalist No. 84. Samuel Bryan, The Anti-Federalist Critique of the Constitution. The Virginia Ratification Debates, 1788. The Constitution. George Washington, Farewell Address (1796). Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, 1801. Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Defends His Vision of Liberty and Republicanism. Lewis and Clark, Jefferson's Role in Beginning the Expedition. Lewis and Clark, Lewis Reports on the Prospects of the Expedition. Lewis and Clark, The Trek Across the Continent. Lewis and Clark, Lewis Reports a Successful Conclusion of the Expedition. Marbury v. Madison, 1803. McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819. American Alarm at Anglo-Indian Warfare. Chief of the Seneca Tribe, Address to American Clergymen. Felix Grundy, Felix Grundy Advocates War Against Great Britain, 1811. James Madison, President Madison Asks Congress to Declare War, 1812. Hartford Convention, “Final Report of the Convention, 1815.” Antebellum: 1820-1860. Monroe Doctrine, 1823. Joel H. Silbey, Increasing Turnouts among the Electorate. Alexis de Tocqueville, A European View, from Democracy in America. Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message. Andrew Jackson, The Bank Veto. Henry Clay, The Whig Response. Andrew Jackson, A Benevolent Policy, 1830. A Breakdown of National Law? From “Worcester vs. The State of Georgia,” 1832. Cherokee Nation, Vain Protest, from “Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee Nation,” 1836. Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address. Regulations Governing Workers' Conduct at the Springfield Armory, 1816. Richard Trevellick, A Ship Carpenter's Day, 1830. John Avery, Factory Regulations in Lowell. Anonymous, Railroads and Competition, Letter from “A Mechanic.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature, 1836. Henry David Thoreau, from Civil Disobedience. Margaret Fuller, excerpts from Women in the Nineteenth Century…, 1855. Harriet Noble, Journey to the Old Northwest, 1820. Anonymous Immigrant, “This is Canaan, July 6, 1838.” Eduard Zimmerman, “Freedom and Slavery,” 1838. W.E. Channing, W.E. Channing Denounces Expansionism, 1837. James K. Polk, Whose Land is it Anyway? Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Challenges Polk's Justification for War, 1848. Charles Sumner, The Expansion of Slavery Condemned, 1847. The Expansion of Slavery Justified, from “An Editorial Condemning the Wilmot Proviso,” 1846. William Lloyd Garrison, The American Anti-Slavery Society Declares Its Sentiments, 1833. William Lloyd Garrison, The Influence of Slavery, 1852. Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, A Call for Women to Become Abolitionists,1836. Lydia Maria Child, A Northern Woman Condemns Prejudice, 1833. Theodore Weld, from American Slavery as It Is. Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Lunsford Lane, Religion as a Bulwark of Slavery, 1842. Solomon Northrup, Popular Reaction to a Rumored Revolt in Louisiana, 1853. A Northern Editor Reacts to Nat Turner's Revolt, 1831. John Floyd, A Virginia State Official Explains Nat Turner's Revolt, 1831. William Lloyd Garrison, An Abolitionist Reacts to Nat Turner's Revolt, 1831. Maria Stuart, Black Women's Activism, 1831. Sarah Grimke, Sarah Grimke Challenges the Clergy, 1837. Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott, from “The Declaration of Sentiments,” 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony, The Stanton-Anthony Partnership, 1852-1857. Fugitive Slave Act, 1850. Calhoun Speaks Against Compromise of 1850. The New York Tribune, Editorials, The Crime Against Sumner and the Emergence of the Republican Party, 1856. The Dred Scott Decision, 1857. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, from The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858. The New York Herald, Editorial, Northern Opinion on the Eve of Conflict, 1860. Civil War and Reconstruction: 1860-1877. Constitution of Confederate States. John Quincy Adams Campbell, The Diary of a Union Soldier, 1861-1863. William Thomas Poague, Lawyer to Lieutenant. General Edward Porter Alexander, Fighting for the Confederacy. African American Women in the South, Excerpts from Letters from Slaves. Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Replies to a Petition Urging Him to Adopt Emancipation. Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Responds to Horace Greeley's “Prayer of Twenty Millions,” 1862. Excerpt from “The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation,” 1862. Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address. Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address. Andrew Johnson, Plan for Reconstruction. Debates Over African American Rights: The Civil Rights Act. Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Argues in Favor of Black Suffrage, 1865. The Nation Supports Black Suffrage, 1866. Opposition to Black Suffrage, 1867. The Black Codes. Amzi Rainey, James Chestnut, Simpson Bobo, Violent Resistance to Equal Rights in the South, 1872. Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Carolina, The need for the Freedmen's Bureau. Frederick Douglass, from Reconstruction. George S. Boutwell and James F. Wilson, The Debate Over Impeachment in the House, 1867. The Fifteenth Amendment, 1869. The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era: 1877-1920. O.H. Kelley, Outline of the Order, 1875. Carl Schurz, “Present Aspects of the Indian Problem,” 1881. Senator Dawes, Senator Dawes Reviews “Indian Problem,” 1886. Henry Dawes, “The Vanishing Indian” 1887. Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Steel. Andrew Carnegie, from Gospel of Wealth. George Rice, Opposition to Standard Oil, November 11, 1899. Terence V. Powderly, The “Rule of Perfect Equality Among Men”—The Knights of Labor. Samuel Gompers, “A Permanent Constructive and Conserving Force”— The American Federation of Labor. Josiah Strong, Urban Conditions and Reform, 1885. Leonora Barry, Attitudes toward Women Separatism: The Knights of Labor, 1887-1888. Eliza Daniel Stewart, The Woman's Crusade of 1873-74, 1888. Wade Hampton, Lessons of the Pullman Boycott from a Business Perspective, 1894. Samuel Gompers, Attitudes toward Women Paternalism: Samuel Gompers and the AFL. Samuel Gompers, Lessons of the Pullman Boycott from a Union Perspective, 1894. Albert Beveridge, Beveridge Advocates American Expansionism, 1898. William Graham Sumner, Sumner Denounces American Imperialism, 1898. Emilio Aguinaldo, Aguinaldo Declares Philippines Independence, 1899. Albert Beveridge, Beveridge Urges Retention of the Islands, 1900. William Jennings Bryan, Bryan Rejects Imperialists' Arguments, 1900. Elihu Root, Root Defends McKinley's Policy, 1900. Havelock Ellis, Same-Sex Subcultures, 1901. J. Wallace Darrow, Achievements of the Grange, 1904. Corollary to Monroe Doctrine, 1904. Lincoln Steffens, Urban Politics and Reform, 1904. W.E.B. DuBois, from The Souls of Black Folk. W.E.B. DuBois, Declaration of Principles. Booker T. Washington, Washington's Speech at the Atlanta Exposition. Theodore Roosevelt, Seventh Annual Message to Congress, 1907. George Kibble Turner, The Saloon Observed, 1907. Walter Rauschenbusch, Preaching the “Social Gospel,” 1907. Industrial Workers of the World, “Abolition of the Wage System,” 1908. Rheta Childe Dorr, The “Woman Mind” Transforms Society, 1910. Jane Addams, The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements, 1910. Theodore Roosevelt, “New Nationalism,” 1910. Frederick Winslow Taylor, from Principles of Scientific Management, 1911. Theodore Roosevelt, “Standing at Armageddon,” 1912. Walter E. Weyl, The Revolt of the “Ultimate Consumer,” 1912. Socialist Party Platform, 1912. Arguments for and Against Prohibition, Excerpts from the Congressional Debate on Prohibition, 1914. Harry Aubrey Toulmin, The Gospel of Business Efficiency, 1915. Charles Eastman, An Assimilated Indian Questions Civilization, 1916. Richard Wright, The City for African Americans. Lewis Mumford, The Cultural Allure of Cities. Frederick C. Howe, The “Confession” of a Progressive Activist, 1925. Richard T. Ely, Professionalism and Social Activism, 1938. The Interwar Period: 1914-1945. Advertising Images from the Late 1800s to the Great Depression. Lyman Abbott, Essential Differences Between the Sexes, 1903. Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, The Threat to the Home, 1913. Anonymous, from “Sex O'Clock” in America, 1913. Woodrow Wilson, “New Freedom,” 1913. Woodrow Wilson, Note to Germany Following Sinking of the Lusitania. James P. Craig, “Employer Response to Mexican Labor,” 1914. H.L. Mencken, The Flapper, 1915. Randolph S. Bourne, Comments on “100% Americanism,” 1916. The Zimmerman Telegram, 1917. Woodrow Wilson, Declaration of War, 1917. Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points for Peace, 1918. Woodrow Wilson, Speech at Pueblo, Colorado, on the Treaty of Versailles. Schenck v. United States, 1919. A. Mitchell Palmer, “The Case Against the Reds,” 1920. Mrs. Oreloa Williams Haskell, Suffrage Tactics in New York, 1922. The Monkey Trial and the New York Times, 1925. Bruce Barton, Advertising as a Religion, 1925. Jose Garcia, “Mexicans Fight Back,” 1927. Luther Standing Bear, An Indian Boy at Boarding School, 1928. Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928. Paul S. Taylor, “Anglo Attitudes Towards Mexicans,” 1930. Lucia Martinez, “A Long Hard Journey.” Frederick Lewis Allen, The Second KKK, 1931. Frank B. Linderman, “When the Buffalo Went Away,” 1932. Anonymous, Letters to the Administration, 1930. Herbert Hoover, The Administration's Record: Hoover's View, 1932. Jim Sheridan and A. Everette McIntyre, The Rout of the Bonus Marchers, 1932. Franklin. D. Roosevelt, from the Acceptance Address at the Democratic National Convention, 1932. Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933. Social Security Act, 1933. The National Recovery Act, 1933. The Neutrality Act of 1935. Earl Browder, from a Speech to the Communist Party National Convention, 1936. Norman Thomas, from After the New Deal, What?, 1936. Herbert Hoover, from the Address to the Republican National Convention, 1936. Bob Stinson, An Eyewitness Account of the Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1937. Franklin D. Roosevelt, The President Presents a Plan for the Reorganization of the Judicial Branch of the Government, 5 February 1937. Charles A. Beard, Beard Favors Neutrality, 1939. Thomas E. Dewey, from The Case Against the New Deal, 1940. Roosevelt's “Arsenal of Democracy” Address, 1940. F.D. Roosevelt, from “Shoot On Sight,” 1941. America First Committee, America First Committee Charges Roosevelt with Fighting a One-Man War, 1941. F.D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt's War Message, 1941. An Evacuation Order, 1942. Yoshiko Uchida, The Uchida Family is Evacuated. Minoru Yasui, A Description of a Camp. Frank Chuman, The Japanese-American Loyalty Questionnaire, 1943. From “Preliminary Supplement (A) to the U.S. Government Campaign on Manpower,” 1943. From Korematsu v. U.S., 1944. Henry Wallace, Excerpts from a Speech, January 1944. Norma Yeger Queen, Wartime Public Opinion, 1944. Huey Long, “Share Our Wealth.” Studs Terkel, from Hard Times. Kwando Mbiassi Kinshasa, “Scottsboro Boys.” John Barbero, The Human Legacy of the Union Movement. Stella Nowicki, Women Workers and Industrial Unionism. Fanny Christina Hill, An African American Woman War Worker. Beatrice Morales Clifton, A Mexican American Woman War Worker. Shigenori Togo, The Emperor's Desire for Peace. Post-War America: 1945-1965. A. Philip Randolph, A. Philip Randolph Calls for a March on Washington, 1941. The Joint Chief of Staffs' Casualty Estimates, 1945. Frances Perkins, from The Roosevelt I Knew, 1946. Eleanor Roosevelt, from This I Remember, 1949. Josef Stalin, Stalin Suggests That Conflict Is Inevitable, 1946. George F. Kennan, Kennan Warns of Russian Expansion, 1946. Harry S. Truman, The Truman Doctrine, 1947. Izvestia, Soviets Denounce the Truman Doctrine, 1947. George F. Kennan, Containment through Nonmilitary Means, 1947. From NSC-68, 1950. Reinhold Neibuhr, The Evil of the Communist Idea, 1953. Harry S Truman, Truman's Postwar Casualty Estimates, 1953. Harry S. Truman, Address in Oklahoma City, 1948. Lillian Ross, The Anti-Radical Hysteria Hits Hollywood, 1948. Ralph G. Martin, The New Suburbia, 1950. From the Memorandum on the Secretary of State's Recommendation in the Case of John Carter Vincent, 1953. Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954. Kenneth B. Clark, Segregation's Human Cost, 1955. NSC-5412/2: Authorizing Covert Action, National Security Council, 1955. Howell Raines, Rosa L. Parks is Arrested in Montgomery, Alabama on 1 December 1955. William H. Whyte, Jr., “A Generation of Bureaucrats,” 1956. Daniel Bell, Women and Work, 1956. Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Unmasking a Rogue Elephant, 1976. Newsweek, “The Red Conquest,” 1957. Lorraine Hansberry, The Gay and Lesbian Movement, 1957. Ella J. Baker, Bigger Than a Hamburger, 1960. Reverend James Lawson, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Statement of Purpose, 1960. “The Creed of the Young Right,” 1960. Lyndon Baines Johnson, “LBJ Answers Kennedy's Questions,” 1961. John F. Kennedy, “…Before this decade is out…” 1961. Newton N. Minow, Equal Time, 1961. From The Port Huron Statement, 1962. Rachel Carson, The Chemical Threat, 1962. Betty Friedan, “The Sexual Sell,” 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr., from “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have a Dream,” 1963. From “The Warren Report,” 1964. Malcolm X, To Mississippi Youth from Malcolm X, 1964. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964. Contemporary America: 1965-Present. Hans Morgenthau, The Establishment Critics' Dissent, 1965. Lyndon Baines Johnson, Speech on Voting Rights Act, 1965. Stokely Carmichael, “Black Power,” 1966. I.F. Stone, LBJ Launches the Quiet War, 1967. George Dennison and Staughton Lynd, From Protest to Resistance, 1967. Chet Huntley, U.S. Public Learns of Tet Offensive Attack, 1968. William C. Westmoreland, General Westmoreland Reacts. Clark M. Clifford, Questions in the Wake of Tet. Peter Braestrup, A Reporter's View. Walter Cronkite, Commentary on Tet Offensive. Robert McNamara, from In Retrospect. Attacking Corporate America, Excerpts from Proceeding of the Conference on Pollution of Lake Michigan and Its Tributary Basin, 1968. Abbie Hoffman, The Yippies! In Chicago, 1968. National Organization for Women, A Bill of Rights for Women, 1968. Radical Feminism, “No More Miss America! Ten Points of Protest,” 1968. Sidney Mills, Vietnam Vet Issues Modern Battle Cry for Treaty Rights, 1968. George Wallace, George Wallace and the “Average Man on the Street,” 1968. Martha Shelly, Lesbian Feminism, 1969. Lucian Truscott IV, Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square, 1969. Raymond Mungo, Communes and Alternative Living, 1970. Spiro T. Agnew, The “Silent Majority” Responds, 1970. The War Powers Act of 1973. The Black Panther Party, Excerpts from “Playboy Interview: Huey Newton,” 1973. Roe v. Wade, 1973. The National Black Feminist Organization, “Statement of Purpose,” 1973. Nixon's Resignation Speech, 1974. Jonathan Katz, The Gay and Lesbian Movement: Interviews with Harry Hay, 1974. Betty Friedan, The Founding of NOW, 1976. Phyllis Schlafly, Anti-Feminism, 1977. U.S. House, Select Committee on Assassinations, The House Investigation of the John F. Kennedy Assassination, 1979. American Enterprise Institute, U.S. Industry in Trouble, 1980. Lois Gibbs, Protecting Working-Class Communities, 1980. Barry Bluestone, Bennett Harrison, and Lawrence Baker, Corporate Flight, 1981. Ronald Reagan, “The Vision of Ronald Reagan,” 1981. Ronald Reagan, Government is the Problem, 1981. Bill Devall and George Sessions, Basic Principles of Deep Ecology, 1985. Phyllis Schlafly, “Goldwater was Right!” Robert I. Lerman and Harold Salzman, The Problem Was Not General Deskilling, 1988. Andrea Weiss and Greta Schiller, The Gay and Lesbian Movement: Interview with Audre Lorde and Maua Adele Ajanak, 1988. David Rankin, Concern about Middle-Class Civility, 1988. Stephanie Coontz, Cultural and Economic Changes in the 1980s, 1992.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780321100481
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321100484
  • Publisher Date: 28 Feb 2002
  • Binding: Paperback


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