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American History Firsthand: Working with Primary Sources, Volume 2

If you're diving into the world of American history, "American History Firsthand: Working with Primary Sources, Volume 2" is your go-to resource. This comprehensive textbook is designed to give students an up-close and personal view of history, making it an essential tool for anyone interested in understanding the past.

Who Uses It?

Primarily, this book is used by students and educators in high school and college-level American history courses. It's also a valuable resource for anyone interested in exploring historical documents, visual materials, and material culture artifacts. Whether you're a student looking to deepen your understanding of historical events or an educator seeking innovative teaching methods, this book is perfect for you.

History and Editions

The second edition of "American History Firsthand: Working with Primary Sources, Volume 2" has been a staple in educational institutions since its publication in 2007. This edition has been updated to include 12 archives, each containing loose facsimiles of historical documents. The book also includes a four-page introduction for each archive, describing the issues and themes of the folders. This unique approach allows students to practice the art of historical analysis by exploring the ramifications of these sources.

Author and Other Works

The authors of "American History Firsthand: Working with Primary Sources, Volume 2" are Julie Roy Jeffrey and Peter J. Frederick. Julie Roy Jeffrey is known for her meticulous research and ability to present complex historical information in an engaging manner. Peter J. Frederick brings his expertise in historical analysis to the text, ensuring that it remains current and relevant.

Key Features

Comprehensive Archives: The book includes 12 archives, each containing a variety of historical documents such as paintings, letters, and maps.
Pedagogical Materials: Each archive is accompanied by a four-page introduction that describes the issues and themes of the folder.
Historical Analysis: The text encourages students to practice historical analysis by exploring the ramifications of the sources provided.
Material Culture Artifacts: The book includes material culture artifacts, giving students a hands-on experience with historical objects.

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Publication Details

Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication Date: October 17, 2007
Number of Pages: Varies by edition
Language: English

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Reconstruction: Clashing Dreams and Realities, 1865-1868
Painting, he Armed Slave, William Spang, about 1865
Confederate song, I'm a Good Old Rebel by R. B. Buckley, 1866
Legal form for the restoration of confiscated property held by the Freedmen's Bureau, South Carolina Freedmen's Bureau records
Black Codes [Laws] of Mississippi, 1865
Legal contract between Alonzo T. Mial and 27 freed laborers, 1866
Affidavit of ex-slave Enoch Braston, enclosed in letter from Chaplain L. S. Livermore to Lt. Col. R. S. Donaldson, January 10, 1866
Freedmen's School, 1866, appearing inFrank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 22, 1866
Broadside, The Freedman's Bureau, 1866
Letter from James A. Payne to stepdaughter Katherine F. Sterrett, September 1, 1867
Letter from a Mississippi black soldier, Calvin Holly, to Major General O. O. Howard, December 16, 1865
Letter from ex-slave Hawkins Wilson to Jane Wilson, May 11, 1867
Cartoon, This Is a White Man's Government by Thomas Nast, arper's Weekly, vol. 12, September 5, 1868

Treaty of Fort Laramie between the United States and the Sioux (Lakota), 1868
Indian pictograph of heroic exploits, on buffalo hide, northern Plains, probably Cheyenne
Yanktonai Sioux pictograph, inter Count,1890-1891
Pictographic account of the Battle of Little Bighorn by the Miniconjou Lakota Sioux Chief Red Horse, June 25-26
Camping with the Sioux, Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher, September 24, and October 5, 1881
Act of Congress, the General Allotment Act (Dawes Act), 1887
Map platting, Indian Allotments on the Rosebud Reservation, 1903
Legal allotment certificate for William Shakespeare (War Bonnet), Shoshone Agency, 1904
Autobiographical narrative by Luther Standing Bear on his first days at the Carlisle (Pennsylvania) Indian School
Photograph of Chief Standing Bear the elder visiting his son at Carlisle, in Luther Standing Bear
Autobiographical narrative by Zitkala-Sa on her first days at boarding school in Indiana, in Zitkala-Sa
Photograph of young Sioux at Carlisle boarding school, 1879
Photograph of the first graduating class at Carlisle boarding school, 1889
Photograph of four generations of the Two Strike family, by John A. Anderson, about 1906
Indian pictograph by Wo-Haw, he Buffalo Who Wouldn't Die
Indian pictograph by Wo-Haw, kinning a Buffalo
Indian pictograph by Wo-Haw, lassroom at Fort Marion
American Imperialism: War with the Philippines
Poem by 1st Colorado volunteer soldier praising his Filipina girlfriend, Colorado Soldier's DELF Denver Post, , author unknown
Description of warfare by 1st Colorado Infantry Regiment volunteer Guy Sims, TMs, Wauneta, Nebraska, 1941
Letter from Private Carl Larsen, 1st Colorado volunteer, to Dear Friend February 25, 1899
Magazine dispatch filed August 30, 1898, by John Bass, inHarper's Weekly
Speech/essay by Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Lif
Congressional speeches on imperialism, by Senator Albert Beveridge (Indiana) and Senator George Hoar (Massachusetts), United States Senate, January 9, 1900
Speech by President William McKinley
Poem by Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden;1899
Poem by Ernest Howard Crosby, The Real White Man's Burden' 1899
Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League, October 18, 1899
Speech on imperialism by Senator George F. Hoar (Massachusetts), United States Senate, January 9, 1899
Cartoon in magazine, The Spanish Brute Adds Mutilation to Murder by Grant Hamilton, inJudge, uly 9, 1898
Cartoon in magazine, Is He to Be a Despot artist unknown,1899
Essay by Mark Twain, To the Person Sitting in Darkness February 1901
Confronting the Problems of Urban, Industrial America
Magazine article on the changing character of immigration, by Kate Claghorn (1900-1901)
Cartoon of the Party boss, undated, artist unknown
Songs by Samuel Golden Rul Jones, in Samuel M. Jones, Jr. (1899-1901)
Movie poster forThe Jungle,1913
Movie poster forThe Jungle,1913
Photograph by Jacob Riis, inishing Pants
Photograph by Lewis Hines, enry McShane,1908
Photograph by Lewis Hines, nnie Fedele,1912
Extract from magazine article on Our Poorer Brother by Theodore Roosevelt, 1897
W. E. B. DuBois's The Seventh Ward of Philadelphia 1899
Settlement house records on Margaret Mitchell's neighborhood visits, around January 1907
Settlement house records on Margaret Mitchell's neighborhood visits, August 1907
Settlement house records on Margaret Mitchell's neighborhood visits, October 1907
Settlement house records on Margaret Mitchell's neighborhood visits, November 2, 1907 and January 17, 1908
The Americans' Experience in the Great War
Sheet music, I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier by Al Piantadosi and Alfred Bryan, 1915
President Wilson's war message to Congress, 1917
War poster, True Sons of Freedom 1918, by Charles Gustrine
Sheet music, Good Bye Alexander 1918, by Creamer and Layton
Journal entries of James C. Adell, 1917-1918
Army Intelligence Test, ALPHA, Form 5, Test 8, 1921
A report on a German-American family, undated and unsigned, probably around April 17, 1918, by Clayton Ely Emig
Letters from Rufus Ullman to his family, May 13 and August 31, 1918
Journal entries of Dudley J. Hard, 1918
Form letter from John J. Pershing, February 28, 1919
The Emergence of Modernism Between the Wars
Book excerpt on women and consumption, Christine Frederick, elling Mrs. Consumer,1929
Advertisement for a Dodge sedan, adies' Home Journal, ecember 1922
Advertisement for a Cadillac, ood Housekeeping, ebruary 1926
Advertisement for Listerine, ood Housekeeping, ebruary 1926
Advertisement for Sellers kitchen cabinets, ood Housekeeping, February 1926
Advertisement for Lifebuoy soap, adies' Home Journal, ctober 1935
Magazine article on worldliness, John Roach Straton, How Rationalism in the Pulpit Makes Worldliness in the Pew Moody Bible Institute Monthly, anuary 1923
The Creed of Klanswomen 1924.The Kluxer, arch 8, 1924, p. 20
A criticism of prohibition, in Fabian Franklin, hat Prohibition Has Done to America,1922
Foreword from The New Negro, 1925
Photograph by James VanDerZee, Couple in Raccoon Coats, 1932
Two poems by Langston Hughes, Langston Hughes, he Weary Blues(New York: Knopf, 1926), Proe and Epilogu
Rural America During the New Deal
Radio broadcast by Henry A. Wallace, May 13, 1933
Printed handbill for a mass meeting of North Dakota farmers, July 30, 1933
Report on drought conditions in western Kansas, April 1935
An Open Letter to Rex Tugwell, 1939
Newsreel transcript, The Land of Cotton Partial transcript fromMarch of Timenewsreel August 1936
An examination of the plight of sharecroppers, 1936
Letter from Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hannon to Eleanor Roosevelt, 1939
Photograph by Dorothea Lange, The Trek of Bums, February 1936
Photograph by Dorothea Lange, Dispossessed Arkansas Farmers, 1935
Photograph by Dorothea Lange of Oklahoma Dust Bowl Refugees, June 1935
An attack on New Deal farm policies, 1936
Radio broadcast of President Roosevelt's fireside chat, September 6, 1936
The Good Wa;: A Diverse Nation in World War II
Transcript of interview with Bob Barker, January or February, 1942
Magazine illustrations depicting the Four Freedoms, 1943, by Norman Rockwell
War poster, United We Win, 1943
War poster, Above and Beyond the Call of Duty, undated, by David Stone Martin
War poster, Man the Guns-Join the Navy, 1942, by McClelland Barclay
War poster, You Talk of Sacrifice, undated, produced by Winchester
March on Washington flier, 1941
Oral interview with Robert Rasmus, in Studs Terkel, he Good Wa;: An Oral History of World War II, 1984
Oral interview with Timuel Black, in Studs Terkel, he Good Wa;: An Oral History of World War II, 1984
Photograph of the Buss family, 1942
Oral interview with Peggy Terry, in Studs Terkel, he Good Wa;: An Oral History of World War II, 1984
Photograph of women working on the fuselage of a bomber aircraft during WWII, October 1942
Photograph of Japanese internment camp meal line, June 12, 1942
Poem about a relocation camp, undated, author unknown
Oral interview with Peter Ota, in Studs Terkel, he Good Wa;: An Oral History of World War II, 1984
Illustration picturing the postwar world, 1943
Social and Cultural Life in a Mass Society
C. Wright Mills's analysis of mass media, 1963
Cookbook excerpts, 1948
An account of the birth of McDonald's1977
Magazine advertisement for International Harvester trucks picturing an American family June 22, 1957
Newspaper advertisement for Halo shampoo, 1954
Magazine advertisement for Powers fluid foundation, 1953
Magazine article on the younger generation, 1951
Rock and roll lyrics, Yakety Yak 1958
Photograph of Elvis Presley singing on stage, June 22, 1956
A television script, Living 1950--The Children of Strangers November-December 1950
Photograph of crowd action at Central High School, 1957
Photograph of Elizabeth Eckford waiting for the bus, 1957
Holograph letter from Daisy Bates to Ray Wilkens, December 17, 1957
The United States and the Vietnam War
Declaration of Independence for the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, September 2, 1945
Policy statement about American objectives in Southeast Asia, June 25, 1952
Report by Vice President Johnson on his visit to Asian countries, May 23, 1961
Magazine advertisement about the dangers of socialism.The Saturday Evening Post, April 5, 1952
General Vo Nguyen Giap's reflections on the people's war, 1961
Photograph of Vietnamese resistance measures, 1965
Photograph of tunnel construction, 1965
Photograph of making weapons from unexploded American bombs, 1965
Photograph of a Cu Chi female guerrilla, 1965
Photograph of making bamboo traps, 1965
Cartoon about the war, 1964
Testimony by marine William Crandell at the Winter Soldier Investigation, January 31 and February 1, 1971
Testimony by members of the First Marine Division at the Winter Soldier Investigation, January 31 and February 1, 1971
Testimony by members of the Twenty-fifth Infantry Division at the Winter Soldier Investigation, January 31 and February 1, 1971
Photograph of American soldiers wading in rice paddy, 1966
Photograph of U.S. soldiers jumping from helicopters, November 16, 1967
Photograph of U.S. troops in action in South Vietnam, February 22, 1968
Photograph of an American patrol stopping Vietnamese civilians, November 1969
Photograph of an American soldier with Vietnamese police, December 1969
Experiencing the Sixtie
Political and protest buttons, 1960s
The Port Huron Statemen of the Students for a Democratic Society, June 1962
Issues paper no. 7, Student Subversion, the Majority Replies 1965, Young Americans for Freedom
Pamphlet, What Can I Do? to Combat Communism about 1965, Students Associated Against Totalitarianism
Oral history of the civil rights activist Lawrence Guyot, 1978
Enclosure in letter from SNCC: SNCC Does Not Wish to Become A New Version of the White Man's Burden June 6, 1966
Black Panther Flyer, If You're Not Part of the Solution You're Part of the Problem 1968
Black Panther Flyer, Racist Dog Policemen 1968
Black Panther Flyer, We Will Not Sit Back and Let the Fascists Murder Chairman Bobby in the Electric Chair no date
Oral history of a student activist, James Seff, 1973
Photograph of students and professors in a brawl at Columbia University, April 28, 1968
Antiwar appeal from teachers, Help Stop the War in Vietnam 1967

Photograph, Stop the Vietnam Wa rally, Central Park, NYC, 1968
Photograph, Along the March Route Washington, DC, 1967
Photograph, Pentagon Peace Demonstration Washington, DC, 1967
Photograph, Pro-war Demonstrator New York City, 1968
Oral History of cultural rebellion of Erika Taylor, 1973
Flyer, Love: A Psychedelic Celebration, Tompkins Square Park October 6, 1966
Book covers, Our Bodies Our Selves: A Book by and for Women, 1971 and 1998
The Return of Conservatism to America
Foreword to The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater 1960
Conclusion to speech, A Choice Not an Echo by Barry Goldwater, 1964, accepting the Republican nomination for president
Speech by Ronald Reagan to the National Association of Evangelicals, March 8, 1983
Catalog cover and introduction, Restoring America 2007-2008
Presidential election flyer, Where Do the Candidates Stand on Abortion 1992
Planned Parenthood flflyer, A Closer Look at The Violent Opposition undated
Statement of Concerned Women for America on the Passing of Ruth Bell Graham June 15, 2007
Mission Statement, Promise Keepers 2001-2005
Newspaper article, Hundreds of Thousands Gather On the Mall in a Day of Prayers October 5, 1997
Seven Questions Women Ask About Promise Keepers 2001-2005
Alliance Defense Fund pamphlet, The Truth About Student Right
Alliance Defense Fund pamphlet, The Truth About Faith in the Workplac
Transcript of Bush statement on Constitutional ban on same sex marriage, February 24, 2004
Photograph of gay couple, 2003
Photograph of man protesting gay marriage, 2004
Excerpts from George W. Bush's discussion on Social Security, April 29, 2005
Cartoon, Fixing This Should Be Eas
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