The Way We Lived

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780618305865
• ISBN10: 0618305866
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-09
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Table of Contents

Part I The Emergence of an Urban, Industrial Society, 1865--1920	1	(132)
Reconstruction: Triumphs and Tragedies	3	(16)
Essay	5	(9)
``To Educate a Race''
Mark Andrew Huddle
Documents	14	(5)
A Letter ``To My Old Master,'' c. 1865
The Knights of the White Camelia, 1868
Frederick Douglass Demands the Franchise, c. 1865
The Last Frontier	19	(20)
Essay	20	(14)
``Linking a Continent and a Nation''
Jack Chen
Documents	34	(5)
Flush Times in Nevada, c. 1862
Homesteading in South Dakota in the 1880s (1930)
A Montana Cowtown, 1899
Indian Schools: ``Americanizing'' the Native American	39	(22)
Essay	41	(12)
``Educating Indian Girls at Nonreservation Boarding Schools, 1878--1920''
Robert A. Trennert
Documents	53	(8)
Rules for Indian Schools, 1890
A Government Official Describes Indian Race and Culture, 1905
The Cutting of My Long Hair, c. 1885
Woman's Sphere: Woman's Work	61	(17)
Essay	63	(15)
``Women in Wheat Country''
Pamela Riney-Kehrborg
Documents	72	(6)
``Is Not Woman Destined to Conduct the Rising Generation?'' 1844
Only Heroic Women Were Doctors Then (1865), 1916
Women's Separate Sphere, 1872
Life and Labor in Industrial America	78	(16)
Essay	79	(8)
``Rose Schneiderman and the Triangle Fire''
Bonnie Mitelman
Documents	87	(7)
Tenement Cigarmakers, c. 1890
``Our Daily Life Is Not a Pleasant One,'' 1902
An Italian Bootblack's Story, 1902
The Triumph of Racism	94	(16)
Essay	96	(9)
``The Birth of 'Separate but Equal'''
Keith Weldon Medley
Documents	105	(5)
A United States Senator Defends Lynching, 1907
A Call for Equality, 1905
``I Want to Come North,'' 1917
America Goes to War	110	(23)
Essay	112	(12)
``Building a National Army''
Meirion
Susie Harries
Documents	124	(9)
German-American Loyalty, 1917
Letters from Mennonite Draftees, 1918
Racism and the Army, 1918
Suggestions for Further Reading	129	(4)
Part II Modern American Society, 1920--Present	133
Intolerance: A Bitter Legacy of Social Change	135
Essay	137
``The Hooded Knights Revive Rule by Terror in the Twenties''
David Chalmers
Documents	146
The Klan's Fight for Americanism, 1926
Congress Debates Immigration Restriction, 1921
National-Origins Formula Reaffirmed, 1951
Morals and Manners in the 1920s	152
Essay	153
``The Sexual Revolution''
John D'Emilio
Estelle Friedman
Documents	163
Happiness in Marriage, 1926
Moving Pictures Evoke Concern, 1922
Prohibition Nonobserved, 1931
The Depression Years	169
Essay	171
``The Ordeal of the American People''
David M. Kennedy
Documents	178
The Great Depression in Philadelphia, 1933
The Okies in California, 1939
The Bronx Slave Market, 1935
World War II: The Home Front	185
Essay	187
``The People Are Willing''
William O'Neill
Documents	197
Joining the Navy (1939), c. 1991
Shipyard Diary of a Woman Welder (1940s), 1944
Conditions in the Camps (1942--1945), 1948
Moving to Suburbia: Dreams and Discontents	203
Essay	204
``The Baby Boom and the Age of the Subdivision''
Kenneth Jackson
Documents	217
``Little Boxes,'' 1962
Segregation in the Suburbs, 1994
Melting Pot Goes Suburban, 2002
The Black Struggle for Equality	224
Essay	226
``Crisis in Little Rock''
William Doyle
Documents	235
Growing Up Black in the South: A Remembrance, 1977
The Southern Manifesto, 1956
President Lyndon Johnson on Racial Equality, 1965
The Sixties: A Decade of Protest	244
Essay	246
``The Movement and the Sixties Generation''
Terry Anderson
Documents	258
Port Huron Statement, 1962
Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1971
The Revival of Feminism	265
Essay	267
``Feminism's Second Wave: The Opening Salvos''
Flora Davis
Documents	276
In Support of the ERA, 1970
A Woman's Right to Abortion, 1973
President George H. W. Bush Opposes Abortion, 1989
The New Immigration	283
Essay	285
``The Creation of Cuban Miami''
Guillermo J. Grenier
Lisandro Perez
Documents	293
``Favoritism Based on Nationality Will Disappear,'' 1965
An Undocumented Mexican Immigrant: Miguel Torres, 1977
The Hispanic Boom, 2002
Multiculturalism in the Workplace, 1998
Suggestions for Further Reading	303