America Firsthand

by Marcus, Robert D.; Marcus, Robert D.; Burner, David

• ISBN13: 9780312153489
• ISBN10: 0312153481
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: St Martins Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Part One The South after the Civil War: The Failure of Reconstruction	1	(60)
Points of View: The KKK in South Carolina during Reconstruction (1871)	2	(59)
The Murder of Jim Williams	2	(10)
Rosy Williams
Defeat of the Klan The New York Tribune	12	(8)
Senator John Scott
For Critical Thinking	19	(1)
A Slaveowner's Journal at the End of the Civil War	20	(9)
Henry William Ravenel
African Americans During Reconstruction	29	(6)
Felix Haywood
White Southerners' Reactions to Reconstruction	35	(8)
Caleb G. Forshey
Reverend James Sinclair
Teacher of the Freedmen	43	(7)
Sarah Jane Foster
Work Under Sharecropper and Labor Contracts	50	(4)
Grimes Family
Swindell Brothers
Anti-Lynching Campaign in Tennessee	54	(7)
Ida B. Wells
Part Two Western Settlement: Winners and Losers	61	(44)
Points of View: The Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876)	62	(43)
Vengeance Against ``Long Hair'' She Walks with Her Shawl and One Bull	62	(5)
So Preposterous an Idea	67	(8)
Holmes Offley Paulding
For Critical Thinking	74	(1)
First Descent Down the Colorado River	75	(7)
John Wesley Powell
The Chinese in the Far West	82	(8)
James F. Rusling
School Days of an Indian Girl	90	(7)
Zitkala-Sa
A Prairie Populist	97	(8)
Luna Kellie
Part Three Industrial America: Opportunity and Exploitation	105	(50)
Points of View: The Triangle Shirwaist Fire (1911)	106	(49)
Conditions at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company	106	(5)
Pauline Newman
A Fire Trap	111	(7)
William Gunn Shepard
For Critical Thinking	117	(1)
Lecture to Young Men	118	(7)
Andrew Carnegie
George Rice Loses out to Standard Oil New York World	125	(7)
Part of the Working Class	132	(7)
Rose Pastor Stokes
A Bintel Brief	139	(7)
Abraham Cahan
Conditions at the Slaughterhouse	146	(9)
Upton Sinclair
Part Four War and Its Aftermath: A New Society	155	(50)
Points of View: The Scopes Trial (1925)	156	(49)
In Defense of the Bible	156	(7)
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow
To Expose a Fool	163	(6)
H. L. Mencken
For Critical Thinking	167	(2)
Letters from the Great Migration	169	(4)
Emmett J. Scott
Life in the Trenches---France	173	(7)
Louis Felix Ranlett
Memories of College Days	180	(8)
Zora Neale Hurston
My Fight for Birth Control	188	(7)
Margaret Sanger
Down and out in the Great Depression	195	(10)
Anonymous
Part Five Global Reach: War, Affluence, and Uncertainty	205	(64)
Points of View: Building an Atomic Bomb (1942--45)	206	(63)
Letters from Los Alamos	206	(6)
Phyllis Fisher
To Build a Bomb	212	(10)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
For Critical Thinking	220	(2)
Rosie the Riveter	222	(8)
Fanny Christina Hill
Memories of the Internment Camp	230	(7)
Ben Yorita
Philip Hayasaka
The Bataan Death March	237	(8)
Blair Robinett
Post-World War II ``Red Scare''	245	(6)
Mark Goodson
Life in Gray Flannel	251	(9)
Sloan Wilson
Launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott	260	(9)
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Part Six New Boundaries: Discontent and Yearning for Security	269	(1)
Points of View: The My Lai Incident (1968-70)	270	(1)
Disbelief and Corroboration	270	(8)
Ronald L. Ridenhour
Cover-Up and Outcome	278	(8)
General Westmoreland
President Nixon
For Critical Thinking	286	(1)
Agenda for a Generation Students for a Democratic Society	287	(5)
Letters to Betty Friedan	292	(4)
Anonymous
Mississippi Summer Freedom Project Student Workers	296	(9)
Crossing the Rio Grande	305	(8)
Al Santoli
A Welfare Great Grandmother	313	(9)
David Zucchino
Reconsidering Draft Dodging	322	(4)
Mark Helprin
Life and Death on the Internet	326
Katie Argyle