American Experiences: Readings in American History, Volume II

by Roberts, Randy; Olson, James S.

• ISBN13: 9780321086792
• ISBN10: 0321086791
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

This collection of secondary readings, written by a variety of authors, emphasizes social history readings that illuminate important aspects of America's past. American Experiences shows the complexity and richness of the nation's past by focusing on the people themselveshow they coped with, adjusted to, or rebelled against America. The readings examine people as they worked and played, fought and loved, lived and died.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Part One Reconstruction and the West	2	(24)
`Good Angels': Confederate Widowhood in Virginia	4	(12)
Jennifer Lynn Gross
A Road They Did Not Know	16	(10)
Larry Mcmurtry
Part Two The Gilded Age	26	(44)
American Assassin	28	(13)
Charles J. Guiteau
James W. Clarke
The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism	41	(9)
Henry M. Littlefield
She Couldn't Have Done it, Even if She Did	50	(10)
Kathryn Allamong Jacob
The First Chapter of Children's Rights	60	(10)
Peter Stevens
Marian Eide
Part Three War and Peace in a New Century	70	(50)
Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders	72	(8)
Robert J. Maddox
Living and Dying in Packingtown, Chicago from the Jungle	80	(11)
Upton Sinclair
Rose Schneiderman and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire	91	(9)
Bonnie Mitelman
Jack Johnson Wins the Heavyweight Championship	100	(10)
Randy Roberts
The Trench Scene	110	(10)
Paul Fussel
Part Four Heroes and Society in the 1920s	120	(50)
Demarbleizing Bobby Jones	122	(12)
Stephen R. Lowe
The Mood of the People	134	(12)
Roderick Nash
The Black Sox Scandal	146	(9)
Dean Smith
Organized Crime in Urban Society: Chicago in the Twentieth Century	155	(15)
Mark Haller
Part Five Depression and War	170	(62)
The Man of the Century	172	(11)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Black Blizzards Roll In	183	(9)
Donald Worster
Night of the Martians	192	(12)
Edward Oxford
My Guns: A Memoir of the Second World War	204	(10)
Roger J. Spiller
John Wayne Goes to War	214	(18)
Randy Roberts
Part Six America in the Age of Anxiety: 1945--1960	232	(52)
The Man Who Changed His Skin	234	(11)
Ernest Sharpe, Jr.
Dr. Yes	245	(16)
James H. Jones
Intellect on Television: The Quiz Show Scandals of the 1950s	261	(10)
Richard S. Tedlow
Smoking and Cancer	271	(13)
James T. Patterson
Part Seven Coming Apart: 1960--2000	284	(77)
Kennedy Liberalism	286	(13)
David Burner
Thomas R. West
Vietnam in the Comic Books	299	(18)
Bradford Wright
The Beatles' Revolution	317	(17)
Jon Weiner
Liberalism Overthrown	334	(12)
Matthew Dallek
Perfect Bodies, Eternal Youth: The Obsession of Modern America	346	(15)
Randy Roberts
James S. Olson
Photo Acknowledgments	361