America Firsthand, Volume Two : Readings from Reconstruction to the Present,9780312656416

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America Firsthand, Volume Two : Readings from Reconstruction to the Present

by Marcus, Anthony; Giggie, John M.; Burner, David

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9th

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9780312656416

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0312656416

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Pub. Date:

12/5/2011

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Bedford/St. Martin's

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Summary

This distinctive, class-tested primary source reader tells America's story through the words and other creative expressions of the ordinary and extraordinary Americans who shaped it. Now featuring the contributions of new co-author John M. Giggie, an award-winning teacher and scholar from the University of Alabama, America Firsthandoffers a remarkable range of first-person perspectives that bring the past vividly to life from an African American minister's message of racial liberation, to the prison notes of suffragists, to a writer's recollections of Sputnik. "Points of View" sections provide varied vantage points on important topics, and "Visual Portfolios" draw students into interpreting the visual record. This carefully crafted, ready-to-go collection saves instructors time and effort in finding consistently engaging and informative sources.

Author Biography

Anthony Marcus is an Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. He has published widely on urban public policy, American legal history, African American history and culture, and economic and social development in America and abroad. His book, Where Have All the Homeless Gone: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis looks at political discourses on poverty and public policy from the Great Depression to the Clinton era.

John M. Giggie is an Associate Professor of history at the University of Alabama. His published works include articles on nineteenth-century America, southern U.S. history, and U.S. religion, as well as his recently published books After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875–1915 and Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban Commercial Culture. His current research projects include African American religion and the Civil War; early blues music; and religion and the civil rights movement.

David Burner, late professor of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, wrote two books on John F. Kennedy, as well as books on Herbert Hoover, the 1960s, the Democratic Party in the 1920s, and a number of textbooks.

VOLUME TWO

* = new to this edition

Introduction: Using Sources to Study the Past

PART ONE
After the Civil War: New South and New West

Points of View: The Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)
1. She Walks with Her Shawl, and One Bull
Victory at Greasy Grass
2. Charles DeRudio
Witness to Custer’s Last Stand

3. Felix Haywood et al.
African Americans during Reconstruction

*4. Ida B. Wells
African American Protest

5. Caleb G. Forshey and the Reverend James Sinclair
White Southerners’ Reactions to Reconstruction

*6. Unknown Photographer
Picturing Violence

7. Grimes Family and Swindell Brothers
Work under Sharecropper and Labor Contracts

8. Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin)
School Days of an Indian Girl

VISUAL PORTFOLIO: The Peopling of the West

PART TWO
The Gilded Age: Industrial Growth and Crisis

*Points of View: The Rise of Labor Unions
*9. The Knights of Labor
Early Efforts at Labor Organizing
*10. Industrial Workers of the World
Demanding a New Workplace

11. William Steinway
Workers Prosper as Industry Grows

12. George Rice
Losing Out to Standard Oil

*13. Albert Parsons
The Haymarket Riot

*14.    The Omaha Platform
Agrarian Protests

15. Pauline Newman et al.
Conditions at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company

VISUAL PORTFOLIO: Urban Industrial America

*PART THREE
A Society in Flux: Preparing for an American Century

*Points of View: Suppressing the “Dreadful Curse of Liquor”
*16. Carrie Nation
Smashing the Evils of Alcohol
*17. Percy Andreae
A Glimpse behind the Mask of Prohibition

*18. Letters from the Battle Front and the Home Front
Debating War in the Philippines

19. Abraham Cahan
A Bintel Brief

20. Emmett J. Scott et al.
Letters from the Great Migration

*21. Lucy Burns and Alice Paul
Prison Notes

22. Kate Richards O’Hare et al.
The Trial of Kate Richards O’Hare

PART FOUR
A New Society: Between the Wars

Points of View: The Scopes Trial (1925)
23. William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow
In Defense of the Bible
24. H. L. Mencken
An Odd Eulogy for William Jennings Bryan

25. Langston Hughes
The Harlem Renaissance

26. Margaret Sanger
My Fight for Birth Control

*27. Unknown Photographer
Capitalizing on New Fears: The Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s

*28. Manuel Gamio
Crossing Borders: Mexican Migrants and the Promise of America

29. Morey Skaret
On the Road during the Great Depression

30. Genora Dollinger
Taking a Stand: The Sit-Down Strikes of the 1930s

*VISUAL PORTFOLIO: Advertising in the Interwar Years: The Marketing of Race

PART FIVE
“The American Century”: War, Affluence, and Uncertainty

Points of View: Building and Using an Atomic Bomb (1942–1945)
31. J. Robert Oppenheimer
To Build an Atomic Bomb
32. Paul Tibbets and George Weller
To Use an Atomic Bomb

33. Fanny Christina Hill
Rosie the Riveter

34. Ben Yorita and Philip Hayasaka
Memories of the Internment Camp

*35. Charles (Chuck) Yeager
Shot Down Behind Enemy Lines

36. Ring Lardner Jr.

Blacklisted: The Post–World War II Red Scare

37. Homeowners’ Guide and Images
Levittown: Making America Suburban

*38. Homer Hickam
The Sputnik Crisis: The Beep Heard ’Round the World

PART SIX
Awakenings: Authority and Liberty in the Modern Age

Points of View: The My Lai Massacre and Its Aftermath (1968–1970)
39. Ronald L. Ridenhour et al.
Disbelief and Corroboration
40. General Westmoreland, President Nixon et al.
Cover-Up and Outcome

41. Kathie Sarachild
Feminism and Consciousness-Raising

*42. Phyllis Schlafly
The Limits of the Women’s Movement

43. Letters from Student Workers
Mississippi Freedom Summer

44. Pablo Guzmán
The Young Lords

*45. César Chávez
Toward Mexican American Civil Rights

*46. Robert Amsel
Recalling the Stonewall Uprising

VISUAL PORTFOLIO: Protest Movements of the 1960s and 1970s

*PART SEVEN
Between History and Tomorrow: Toward a New Century

*Points of View: Perspectives on Hurricane Katrina
*47. Scott Delacroix
The Tragedy of Hurricane Katrina
*48. George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush
A Visit with Hurricane Katrina Refugees

*49. Cathy Langston
When PATCO Went on Strike

*VISUAL PORTFOLIO: Some Consequences of Reagonomics

50. Dennis W. Shepard
Homophobia in the Heartland

*51. Jason Armagost
The Costs and Meaning of War

52. James Yee
What Price Security? The View from Inside Gitmo

*53. Geraldine Ferraro and Jesse Jackson
Electing the Unexpected: Reflections on Barack Obama’s Historic Campaign

*54. Tom Bennett
Aid for a Long-Suffering Environment