American Issues: A Primary Source Reader in United States History, Volume II: Since 1865

by Unger, Irwin; Tomes, Robert R.

• ISBN13: 9780130940186
• ISBN10: 0130940186
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

For a two-semester, freshman/sophomore undergraduate level course in Survey of American History. This popular two-volume series presents an anthology of primary documents, letters, and articles in which participants and contemporary observers express their opinions, make their observations, and reach their conclusions about events and issues of their own day that affected the nation and the American society as a whole. Updated throughout with new material and fresh perspectives, the texts continue to stimulate critical thinking and promote active learning about American historyleading students to reject received ideas when appropriate, relate the past to their own experience, and reach conclusions on the basis of evidence.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Reconstruction	1	(32)
Harsh Versus Lenient Victors (1865)	2	(8)
The White South Responds (1865, 1866, 1868, 1874)	10	(11)
The Black Response (1865, 1868, 1866)	21	(12)
An Urban and Industrial Nation	33	(29)
The Industrial Status Quo Defended (1883)	34	(4)
The Industrial Worker (1885, 1878)	38	(7)
Labor Rejects Capitalism (1912)	45	(5)
The Cities Acclaimed (1905)	50	(4)
The Cities Deplored (1890)	54	(2)
City Government (1905)	56	(6)
The Last West and Populism	62	(25)
The Mining Frontier (1864)	63	(3)
The Buffalo Destroyed (1876-1877)	66	(2)
The Cattle Kingdom (1888)	68	(6)
Native Americans (1877, 1881)	74	(5)
The Populist Party Platform (1892)	79	(4)
William Allen White and the Kansas Populists (1896)	83	(4)
Outward Thrust	87	(13)
Racial Destiny (1885)	87	(4)
Race and Power (1903)	91	(1)
Manhood and Imperialism (1899)	92	(2)
Trade and Markets (1900)	94	(3)
The Anti-Imperialists (1899)	97	(3)
The Progressive Impulse	100	(24)
The Danger of Concentrated Wealth (1912, 1913)	100	(12)
Conservation and Efficiency (1908, 1912)	112	(6)
Social Justice Progressivism (1892, 1906, 1908)	118	(6)
Race and Ethnicity	124	(24)
The Great Migration: The Dark Side (1905,1919)	125	(7)
Black Americans Respond (1905, 1923)	132	(5)
The New Immigration and American Toleration (1912, 1916)	137	(8)
Asian-American Immigration (1882, 1908)	145	(3)
World War I	148	(25)
The Submarine Dimension (1915)	149	(5)
Voices for Intervention (1915)	154	(7)
Opponents of Intervention (1917)	161	(5)
Idealism and Disillusionment (1918, 1920)	166	(7)
The Twenties' Cultural War	173	(19)
Sacco-Vanzetti (1927)	174	(8)
The Ku Klux Klan (1924, 1921)	182	(4)
Wets Versus Drys (1915, 1924)	186	(6)
The New Deal	192	(15)
Roosevelt. Explains His Policies (1934)	193	(3)
The New Deal and the ``Common Man'' (1934, 1936)	196	(4)
Attack from the Right (1932, 1936)	200	(3)
Thunder from the Left (1934)	203	(4)
World War II	207	(23)
Isolationism (1935, 1939)	202	(11)
Interventionists (1935)	213	(3)
America First Versus Aid to Britain (1940, 1941)	216	(6)
Undeclared War (1941)	222	(4)
A New American Internationalism (1941)	226	(4)
The Fifties	230	(22)
Suburbia (1955, 1954, 1950)	231	(7)
The Red Scare (1950)	238	(14)
The Cold War	252	(28)
The Soviet Menace, The Truman Doctrine, The Marshall Plan, and Massive Relatiaion (1947, 1954)	253	(10)
A Military-Industrial Complex? Economic Aspects of the Cold War (1949, 1959, 1981)	263	(17)
The Civil Rights Revolution	280	(19)
School Desegregation (1954, 1963, 1965)	281	(9)
Christian Love Versus Racial Anger (1964, 1967)	290	(9)
The Great Society	299	(19)
Defenders (1964)	300	(3)
The Attack from the Right (1964)	303	(4)
The Attack from the Left (1962)	307	(11)
The New Feminism	318	(14)
The National Organization for Women's Bill of Rights (1967)	319	(2)
Radical Feminism (1909, 1968)	321	(5)
The Counterattack (1972)	326	(6)
The Vietnam War	332	(28)
The Hawk Position (1954, 1964, 1965)	335	(14)
The North Vietnamese Analyze American Intervention (1965)	349	(3)
The Antiwar Movement Strikes Back (1965, 1966)	352	(8)
Watergate	360	(14)
The Tapes (1972)	362	(4)
Nixon Defends Himself (1973)	366	(4)
The Vote for Impeachment (1974)	370	(4)
The Reagan Revolution and Conservative Ascendancy	374	(19)
The New Right (1981, 1978)	375	(9)
The Liberals Hit Back (1982)	384	(9)
The New Environmentalism	393	(1)
The Ecology Ethic (1980, 1981)	394	(7)
The Business Perspective (1972)	401