Going to the Source, Volume II: Since 1865 The Bedford Reader in American History

by Brown, Victoria Bissell; Shannon, Timothy J.

• ISBN13: 9780312652791
• ISBN10: 0312652798
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-30
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Many document readers offer lots of sources, but only Going to the Sourcecombines a rich diversity of primary and secondary sources with in-depth instructions for howand whento use each type of source. Mirroring the chronology of the U.S. history survey, each of the main chapters employs a single type of source from personal letters to political cartoons while focusing on an intriguing historical episode such as the Cherokee Removal or the 1894 Pullman Strike. A new capstone chapter in each volume prompts students to synthesize information on a single topic from a variety of source types. The wide range of topics and sources across 28 chapters 6 of them new provide students with all they need to become fully engaged with America's history.

Author Biography

Victoria Bissell Brown is the L.F. Parker Professor of History at Grinnell College, where she teaches Modern U.S. History, U.S. Women’s History, and U.S. Immigration History. She is the author of The Education of Jane Addams and the editor of the Bedford/St. Martin’s edition of Jane Addams’s Twenty Years at Hull-House. Her articles have appeared in Feminist Studies, The Journal of Women’s History, and The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. She has served as a Book Review Editor for The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and for the Women and Social Movements website.

 

Timothy J. Shannon is professor of History at Gettysburg College, where he teaches Early American and Native American History. His other books include Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier, Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America, and Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754, which received the Dixon Ryan Fox Prize from the New York State Historical Association and the Distinguished Book Award from the Society of Colonial Wars. His articles have appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly, Ethnohistory, and the New England Quarterly, and he has been a research fellow at the Huntington Library and John Carter Brown Library.

Table of Contents

Inside Cover: Guide to Using the Book

1. Political Terrorism during Reconstruction: Congressional Hearings and Reports on the Ku Klux Klan

Using the Source: Congressional Hearings and Reports

The Source: Testimony and Reports from the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States

2. Picturing a Western Myth: Photography and the Blackfeet Indians

Using the Source: Photographs

The Source: Photographs of the Blackfeet at Glacier National Park and on the Reservation, 1890–1930

3. Reading the 1894 Pullman Strike: Chicago’s Daily Papers Report the News

Using the Source: Newspaper Articles

The Source: Chicago Newspaper Articles in the Pullman Strike, May 12, 1894–July 15, 1894

4. Immigrant to the Promised Land: Memory and Autobiography

Using the Source: Autobiographies

The Source: I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl by Hilda Satt Polacheck

5. Selling Respectability: Advertisements in the African-American Press, 1910–1913

Using the Source: Magazine Advertisements

The Source: Advertisements from The Crisis, November 1910 – March 1913

6. Living under Fire: World War I Soldiers’ Diaries

Using the Source: Diaries

The Source: World War I Diaries from the St. Mihiel and Meuse Argonne Battles, 1918

*7. Singing of Struggle: Mexican Workers' Folk Songs from the American Southwest

Using the Source: Folk Music

The Source: Mexican Corridos (Folk Songs), 1910-1930

8. Painting a New Deal: U.S. Post Office Murals from the Great Depression

Using the Source: Public Art

The Source: Post Office Murals Depicting ÒWorkÓ in Local Communities, 1936–1942

9. Challenging Wartime Internment: Supreme Court Records from Korematsu v. United States

Using the Source: Supreme Court Records

The Source: Briefs and Supreme Court Opinions in Korematsu v. United States, October Term, 1944

10. Decision-Making on the Brink: Presidential Recordings of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Using the Source: Presidential Tapes

The Source: Presidential Tape Recordings from the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

11. Speaking of Equality: The Senate Debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Using the Source: Senate Speeches

The Source: Speeches from the Senate Debating the Civil Rights Act of 1964

 

*12. Writing on the Ivy Walls: A Popular History of the 1968 Columbia University Rebellion

Using the Source: Popular History

The Source: Excerpt from 1968 in America, by Charles Kaiser

13. Drawn to Summits: Political Cartoons on President Reagan and the Arms Race

Using the Source: Political Cartoons

The Source: Political Cartoons from the Reagan Era, 1981–1988

*CAPSTONE: Women, Work, and Family: 1950-2000
The Sources: Documents and Images on Women, Work, and Family

Appendix I: Avoiding Plagiarism

Appendix II: Documenting the Source

 

* new to this edition