| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction: Sources and Interpretations |
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Part One An Industrializing People |
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2 | (92) |
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Past Traces A letter ``To My Old Master . . .'' (1865) |
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4 | (2) |
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Reading ``African Americans in Public Office During the Era of Reconstruction: A Profile'' |
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6 | (21) |
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23 | (1) |
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23 | (1) |
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Past Traces ``Life of a Chinese Immigrant'' (1903) |
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24 | (3) |
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Reading ``The Chinese Link a Continent and a Nation'' |
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27 | (12) |
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35 | (1) |
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35 | (1) |
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Past Traces The Omaha Platform of the Populist Party (1892) |
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36 | (3) |
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Reading ``The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism'' |
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39 | (17) |
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51 | (1) |
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51 | (1) |
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Past Traces A Young Immigrant in New York City (1918) |
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52 | (4) |
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Reading ``First Encounters: Immigrant Women in the City'' |
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56 | (13) |
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66 | (1) |
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66 | (1) |
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Past Traces ``Coney Island Frolics'' (1883) |
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67 | (2) |
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Reading ``Talking and Singing Machines, Parlors, and Peep Shows: Popular Amusements in Turn-of-the-Century America'' |
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69 | (13) |
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78 | (1) |
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78 | (1) |
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Past Traces Red Cloud (1890) and Flying Hawk (1936) on Wounded Knee |
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79 | (3) |
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Reading ``Lozen: An Apache Woman Warrior'' |
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82 | (12) |
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93 | (1) |
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93 | (1) |
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Part Two A Modernizing People |
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94 | (114) |
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Past Traces ``The Agricultural Labor Force in the South'' (1880) |
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96 | (4) |
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Reading ``A Bridge of Bent Backs and Laboring Muscles: The Rural South, 1880--1915'' |
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100 | (20) |
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116 | (1) |
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116 | (1) |
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Past Traces ``Mount Ritter'' (1911) |
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117 | (3) |
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Reading ``John Muir: The Mysteries of Mountains'' |
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120 | (11) |
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127 | (1) |
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127 | (1) |
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Past Traces The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) |
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128 | (3) |
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Reading ``Unbound Feet: Chinese Immigrant Women in Early Twentieth-Century San Francisco'' |
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131 | (23) |
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151 | (1) |
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151 | (1) |
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Past Traces Advertisements (1925, 1927) |
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152 | (2) |
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Reading ``Messenger of the New Age: Station KGIR in Butte'' |
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154 | (15) |
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163 | (1) |
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163 | (1) |
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Past Traces ``The Despair of Unemployed Women'' (1932) |
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164 | (5) |
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Reading ``What the Depression Did to People'' |
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169 | (19) |
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183 | (1) |
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183 | (1) |
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Past Traces Benny Goodman Explains Swing (1939) |
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184 | (4) |
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Reading ``The Crowd Goes Wild: The Youth Culture of Swing'' |
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188 | (20) |
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207 | (1) |
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207 | (1) |
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Part Three A Resilient People |
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208 | (99) |
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Past Traces ``The Port Huron Statement'' (1962) Students for a Democratic Society |
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210 | (1) |
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Reading ``The Making of the 1960s Youth Culture'' |
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211 | (15) |
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223 | (1) |
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223 | (1) |
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Past Traces ``A Chicana Critique of the Chicano Movement'' (1969) |
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224 | (2) |
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Reading ``Claiming Public Space: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America'' |
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226 | (14) |
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236 | (1) |
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237 | (1) |
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Past Traces Restrictions at Levittown (Late 1940s) |
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238 | (2) |
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Reading ``The Drive-In Culture of Contemporary America'' |
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240 | (19) |
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254 | (1) |
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254 | (1) |
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Past Traces ``Commencement Address at Howard University'' (1965) |
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255 | (4) |
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Reading ``The Vietnam War, the Liberals, and the Overthrow of LBJ'' |
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259 | (17) |
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271 | (1) |
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271 | (1) |
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Past Traces ``Southie Won't Go'' (1975) |
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272 | (4) |
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Reading ``After Civil Rights: The African American Working and Middle Classes'' |
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276 | (17) |
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288 | (1) |
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288 | (1) |
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Past Traces ``Yuppies---The New Class'' (1985) |
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289 | (4) |
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Reading ``The Insidious Cycle of Work and Spend'' |
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293 | (14) |
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307 | (1) |
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