The Social Fabric: American Life from the Civil War to the Present

by Hartshorne, Thomas L.; Wheeler, Robert A.

Edition:

8th

ISBN13:

9780321003058

ISBN10:

0321003055

Format:

Paperback

Pub. Date:

10/1/1998

Publisher(s):

Pearson College Div

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This reader acquaints students with the aspects of ordinary Americans by showing how the "big" and "important" events of the nation were reflected in the everyday lives of ordinary people. These readings highlight the diversity of Americans experiences -- based on differences in race, ethnicity, and gender -- and the way in which those differences have at times led to conflict. Articles new to this edition reflect the latest scholarship on gender, Native Americans, and Hispanic Americans.

Preface

PART I EXPANSION AND CHANGE

(74)

1 After Slavery How patterns of social segregation were established--in prisons, in the use of public facilities, and in transportation--during the era of Reconstruction. From Joel Williamson, After Slavery.

(18)

2 The Reservation and the Destruction of Indian Culture How life on reservations destroyed the Sioux way of life. From Robert M. Utley, The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890.

(14)

3 The Farmer's Frontier How settlers on the Great Plains adapted to the harsh environmental and psychological conditions of life there. From Robert V. Hine, Community on the American Frontier.

(12)

4 Labor in the Gilded Age The working conditions faced by those who worked in the southern textile mills. From Jacquelyn Dowd Hall et al., Like a Family.

(14)

5 Labor Violence in Industrial America A confrontation between immigrant coal miners and the coal operators in a Pennsylvania mining town, and the tragic consequences that ensued. From Michael Novak, The Guns of Lattimer.

(14)

PART II REORGANIZATION AND REFORM

(64)

6 The City at the Turn of the Century The delights and drawbacks of urban life in America in the early twentieth century. From David Nasaw, Children of the City.

(14)

7 Immigration and Cultural Conflict Life on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the century. From Elizabeth Ewen, Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars

(16)

8 Immigrant Children at School How the Children of immigrants reacted to efforts to educated them. From Selma Berrol, "Immigrant Children at School, 1880-1940: A Child's Eye View."

109

(16)

9 African-American Migration Why and how millions of African Americans abandoned the rural South for the urban centers of the North in the first two decades of the twentieth century. From Florette Henri, Black Migration.

125

(16)

PART III THE TENSIONS OF PROSPERITY

141

(56)

10 The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana The social and economic aims and actions of the Klan in the 1920s. From Kathleen M. Blee, Women of the Klan.

143

(20)

11 Mexican-Americans in the Southwest The lives of Hispanics in the Anglo culture in the 1920s. From Sarah Deutsch, No Separate Refuge.

163

(18)

12 Women and Housework in the 1920s. How modern mass-production technology changed the American home. From Ruth Schwartz Cowan. More Work for Mother.

181

(16)

PART IV DEPRESSTION AND WAR

197

(64)

13 The Nation Confronts the Great Depression How poverty, fear, and bewilderment changed the outlook and way of life of Americans in the Depression of the 1930s. From Caroline Bird, The Invisible Scar.

199

(14)

14 Work Relief in the Great Depression The Variety of Programs fashioned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal to find work for the millions of Americans unemployed in the 1930s. From Edward Robb Ellis, A Nation in Torment

213

(18)

15 The Home Front During World War II Employment, business, housing, mental health, marriage, and morals at home during the war. From Richard R. Lingeman, Don't You Know There's War On?

231

(18)

16 The GI Bill of Rights How higher education in America was changed by the flood of veterans in American colleges in the postwar period. From Michael J. Bennett, When Dreams Came True.

249

(12)

PART V AFFLUENCE AND ITS DISCONTENTS

261

17 The Baby Boom How postwar affluence enabled Americans to search for the good life in suburbia. From Landon Y. Jones, Great Expectations.

263

(12)

18 The Struggle for Civil Rights What happened during the voter registration drive known as Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964. From Doug McAdam, Freedom Summer

275

(24)

19 The Counterculture How and why the hippies rebelled against the American cultural mainstream. From Jay Stevens, Storming Heaven.

299

(20)

20 Vietnam--and After What American soldiers experienced in Vietnam and what they encountered when they returned home. From Loren Baritz, Backfire

319

(14)

21 Sexuality in Contemporary America How ideas and behavior are changing in regard to sex, marriage, and the family. From John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters.

333

(14)

22 Culture War How the emergence of the religious right affected one American community. From William Martin, With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America

347

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