Thinking Through the Past

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780618046690
• ISBN10: 0618046690
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-14
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Introduction	2	(7)
Historians and Textbooks: The ``Story'' of Reconstruction	9	(15)
Setting	10	(1)
Investigation	11	(1)
Sources	12	(10)
Reconstruction (1906)
The Negro in Reconstruction (1922)
The Ordeal of Reconstruction (1966)
Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution (2001)
Conclusion	22	(1)
Further Reading	23	(1)
Notes	23	(1)
Using Primary Sources: Industrialization and the Condition of Labor	24	(29)
Setting	25	(1)
Investigation	26	(1)
Sources	27	(24)
Testimony of Workingmen (1879)
Earnings, Expenses and Conditions of Workingmen and Their Families (1884)
Wages in the Iron and Steel Industry 1858-1900
Price Indexes, 1866-1890
Why We Struck at Pullman (1895)
Colored Workmen and a Strike (1887)
Women Make Demands (1869)
Summary of Conditions among Women Workers Found by the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor (1887)
Work in a Garment Factory (1902)
Gainful Workers by Age, 1870-1920
Breaker Boys (1906)
Night Shift in a Glass Factory (1906)
Conclusion	51	(1)
Further Reading	51	(1)
Notes	52	(1)
Evaluating Primary Sources: ``Saving'' the Indians in the Late Nineteenth Century	53	(28)
Setting	55	(1)
Investigation	56	(1)
Sources	57	(22)
``Land and Law as Agents in Educating Indians'' (1885)
The Dawes Act (1887)
A Cheyenne Tells His Son about the Land (ca. 1876)
Cheyennes Try Farming (ca. 1877)
A Sioux Recalls Severalty (ca. 1900)
Supervised Indian Land Holdings by State 1881
A Proposal for Indian Education (1888)
Instructions to Indian Agents and Superintendents of Indian Schools (1889)
The Education of Indian Students at Carlisle (1881)
Luther Standing Bear Recalls Carlisle (1933)
Wohaw's Self-Portrait (1877)
Taking an Indian Child to School (1891)
A Crow Medicine Woman on Teaching the Young (1932)
Percentage of Population Over Ten Illiterate, 1900-1930
Conclusion	79	(1)
Further Reading	80	(1)
Notes	80	(1)
Evaluating a Historical Argument: The Populist Appeal in the 1890s	81	(33)
Setting	83	(1)
Investigation	84	(1)
Sources	85	(27)
The Populist Persuasion (1995)
Platform of the People's Party (1892)
The Negro Question in the South (1892)
Financial Conspiracies (1888)
The Farmer's Troubles and Their Remedy (1891)
Cross of Gold Speech (1896)
The English Octopus (1894)
Wall Street Milks the West and South (1894)
An Account of Mary Lease (1892)
James A. Troutman on the Populist Party (1894)
Description of the 1896 Populist Convention (1896)
What's the Matter with Kansas? (1896)
A Southern Newspaper reports on a ``Beastly'' Assault (1898)
Kansas Populists William Peffer and ``Sockless Jerry'' Simpson Take Their Seats in Congress (1891)
Bryan Blows Himself around the Country (1896)
Urban and Rural Population, 1850-1900
Prices of Commodities, 1866-1890
Gross National Product, 1896-1901
Total Currency in the United States, 1866-1900
Conclusion	112	(1)
Further Reading	113	(1)
Notes	113	(1)
The Problem of Historical Motivation: The Bungalow as the ``Progressive'' House	114	(27)
Setting	115	(2)
Investigation	117	(1)
Sources	118	(20)
The Progressive Housewife and the Bungalow (1981)
A Victorian House (1881)
A Craftsman Cottage (1909)
The Craftsman Contrasts Complexity and Confusion with Cohesion and Harmony (1907)
Gustav Stickley on the Craftsman Home (1909)
Edward Bok on Simplicity (1900)
Cover from the Bungalow Magazine (1909)
Putting the American Woman and Her Home on a Business Basis (1914)
The Efficient and Inefficient Kitchen (1920)
Domestic Economy (1904)
Double Bungalow Plan, Bowen Court
Average Daily Servants' Wage Rates, Chicago, 1890-1910
Female Servants by Regions, per 1,000 Families, 1880-1920
Clerical Workers in the United States, by Sex, 1870-1920
Conclusion	138	(1)
Further Reading	139	(1)
Notes	139	(2)
Ideology and History: Closing the ``Golden Door''	141	(23)
Setting	143	(1)
Investigation	144	(1)
Sources	144	(19)
Racism and Immigration Restriction (1984)
The Passing of the Great Race (1916)
Whose Country Is This? (1921)
The Klan s Fight for Americanism (1926)
Because You're a Jew (1908)
Her Father's Daughter (1921)
A Congressman Calls for Restriction (1921)
The Bootleggers (1925)
Immigrant Occupation Groups, 1899-1924
Unemployment Rates, 1900-1924
Conclusion	163	(1)
Further Reading	163	(1)
Note	163	(1)
History ``From the Top Down'': Eleanor Roosevelt, Reformer	164	(29)
Setting	166	(1)
Investigation	167	(1)
Sources	168	(23)
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Great Depression (1987)
Letter to Lorena Hickok (1933)
Transcripts of Eleanor Roosevelt's Press Conferences (1933-1938)
``The Negro and Social Change'' (1936)
Letter to Her Daughter (1937)
This I Remember (1949)
My Parents: A Differing View (1976)
Letter from Barry Bingham to Marvin McIntyre (1934)
Excerpts from Letters to Franklin Roosevelt (1935)
It's Up to the Women (1933)
News Item, ``Definition of Feminism'' (1935)
News Item, ``Opposes Amendment'' (1938)
Conclusion	191	(1)
Further Reading	191	(1)
Notes	191	(2)
History ``From the Bottom Up'': The Detroit Race Riot of 1943	193	(25)
Setting	195	(1)
Investigation	196	(1)
Sources	197	(19)
The Detroit Rioters of 1943 (1991)
A Handbill for White Resistance (1942)
Black Employment in Selected Detroit Companies, 1941
An Explanation for Strikes (1943)
Black Workers Protest against Chrysler (1943)
A Complaint about the Police (1939)
Changes in White and Black Death Rates, 1910-1940
A Profile of the Detroit Rioters
Conclusion	216	(1)
Further Reading	216	(1)
Notes	216	(2)
Popular Culture as History: The Cold War Comes Home	218	(27)
Setting	220	(1)
Investigation	221	(1)
Sources	222	(21)
The Culture of the Cold War (1991)
Advertisement for Runaway Daughter (1953)
Promotional Material for Walk East on Beacon (1952)
A Game Show Producer Remembers the Red Scare (1995)
A Playwright Recalls the Red Scare (1995)
The Hammer Song (1949)
A Folk Singer Remembers the Early 'Fifties (1995)
Sixty Minute Man (1951)
Sweet Little Sixteen (1958)
Pogo (1952)
Conclusion	243	(1)
Further Reading	243	(1)
Notes	243	(2)
History and Popular Memory: The Civil Rights Movement	245	(35)
Setting	246	(3)
Investigation	249	(1)
Sources	250	(28)
I've Got the Light of Freedom (1995)
A SNCC Founder Discusses Its Goals (1966)
A Mississippi Civil Rights Pioneer Bids Farewell to the ``N-Double-A'' (ca. 1975)
Chronology of Violence, 1961 (1963)
A Sharecropper's Daughter Responds to the Voter Registration Campaign (ca. 1975)
A Black Activist Endorses White Participation (ca. 1975)
A SNCC Organizer Recalls Federal Intervention (ca. 1975)
A Letter from a Freedom Summer Volunteer (1964)
``Deeper Than Politics: The Mississippi Freedom Schools'' (1964)
Freedom School Poetry (1965)
An ``Insider'' Recalls the Divisions in SNCC (1966)
Fannie Lou Hamer on the Lessons of 1964 (1967)
``What We Want'' (1966)
Conclusion	278	(1)
Further Reading	279	(1)
Notes	279	(1)
Causation and the Lessons of History: Explaining America's Longest War	280	(25)
Setting	281	(2)
Investigation	283	(1)
Sources	283	(20)
Fighting in ``Cold Blood'': LBJ's Conduct of Limited War in Vietnam (1994)
God's Country and American Know-How (1986)
Lyndon Johnson Defends the American Commitment to Vietnam (April 1965)
LBJ Expresses Doubts about Vietnam (June 1965)
LBJ Recalls His Decision to Escalate (1971)
The Central Intelligence Agency Reports on the War (1967)
McNamara Recalls the Decision to Escalate (1995)
A Medical Corpsman Recalls the Vietnamese People (1981)
Fighting a Technological War of Attrition (1977)
Conclusion	303	(1)
Further Reading	304	(1)
Notes	304	(1)
Gender, Ideology, and Historical Change: Explaining the Women's Movement	305	(36)
Setting	306	(2)
Investigation	308	(1)
Sources	309	(29)
Feminism and Family Change: 1960-1980 (1983)
Cold War Ideology and the Rise of Feminism (1988)
The Problem That Has No Name (1963)
Civil Rights and the Rise of Feminism (1987)
NOW's Statement of Purpose (1966)
Redstockings Manifesto (1969)
``What's Wrong with 'Equal Rights' for Women?'' (1972)
On Women and Sex (1972)
Our Bodies, Ourselves (1973)
The Politics of Housework (ca. 1970)
Sex Ratios of High School and College Graduates in the United States, 1940-1980
Women s Labor Force Participation, by Marital Status, 1940-1987
Median Earnings of Year-round, Full-time Workers, by Sex, 1955-1985
Conclusion	338	(1)
Further Reading	339	(1)
Notes	340	(1)
Why Historical Interpretation Matters: Assessing the ``Reagan Revolution''	341
Setting	343
Investigation	345
Sources	346
Roosevelt Revolution, Reagan Counterrevolution (1988)
Summing Up the Reagan Era (1990)
Five-Year Economic Program for the U.S. (1980)
The Budget: Guns Up, People Down (1982)
The Triumph of Politics (1986)
The Unfinished Agenda (1987)
The Contract with America (1994)
Real Average Weekly Earnings, 1947-1986 (in 1986 dollars)
Pay of Workers and Corporate Chief Executives, 1965-1988
Federal Budget Priorities, 1980-1987
Total Government Expenditures, 1929-1990
Federal Budget Deficits, 1980-1990
Conclusion	370
Further Reading	371
Notes	372