American People, The: Creating a Nation and Society, Volume II, Primary Source Edition (Book Alone)

by Nash, Gary B.; Jeffrey, Julie Roy; Howe, John R.; Frederick, Peter J.; Davis, Allen F.; Winkler, Allan M.; Mires, Charlene; Pestana, Carla Gardina

• ISBN13: 9780321466822
• ISBN10: 0321466829
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

This Primary Source Edition provides 1 to 2 primary sources per chapter, tied to the chapter's content, with critical thinking questions for each source -- at no additional cost to your students. Providing students with a thought-provoking account of Americars"s past,The American Peopleexamines how American society assumed its present shape and developed its present forms of government.

Table of Contents

Features	xiv
Maps	xv
Figures	xvi
Tables	xvi
Preface	xvii
Supplements	xxiii
Acknowledgments	xxvii
About the Authors	xxviii
The Union Reconstructed	520	(32)
American Stories Blacks and Whites Redefine Their Dreams and Relationships	520	(6)
The Bittersweet Aftermath of War	522	(4)
American Voices Calvin Holly, A Black Union Soldier's Letter Protesting Conditions After the War	526	(2)
American Voices James A. Payne, A Southern White Man's Letter Protesting Conditions After the War	528	(14)
National Reconstruction Politics	528	(5)
The Lives of Freedpeople	533	(6)
Reconstruction in the Southern States	539	(3)
Recovering the Past Novels	542	(6)
Conclusion A Mixed Legacy	548	(4)
PART FOUR An Industrializing People, 1865--1900	552	(130)
Rural America: The West and the New South	552	(32)
American Stories Realizing Dreams: Life on the Great Plains	552	(4)
Modernizing Agriculture	554	(2)
How Others See Us A. Egmont Hake and O. E. Wesslau, ``The American Tariff War''	556	(12)
The West	556	(10)
Resolving the Native American Question	566	(2)
Recovering the Past Magazines	568	(2)
American Voices Sister Blandina Segale, From her Diary, November 1882	570	(12)
The New South	573	(6)
Farm Protest	579	(3)
Conclusion Farming in the Industrial Age	582	(2)
The Rise of Smokestack America	584	(40)
American Stories Telling His Story: O'Donnell and the Senators	584	(3)
The Texture of Industrial Progress	586	(1)
Analyzing History Steel: The Engine of Industrial Growth	587	(15)
Urban Expansion in the Industrial Age	592	(4)
The Industrial City, 1880--1900	596	(4)
The Life of the Middle Class	600	(2)
How Others See Us Herbert Spencer, ``The Americans''	602	(8)
Industrial Work and the Laboring Class	603	(7)
Recovering the Past Congressional Hearings	610	(2)
American Voices Helen Campbell, Interview with a Domestic Servant	612	(6)
Capital Versus Labor	612	(6)
American Voices Lee Chew Protests the Treatment of the Chinese in the United States	618	(2)
Conclusion The Complexity of Industrial Capitalism	620	(4)
Politics and Reform	624	(28)
American Stories A Utopian Novelist Warns of Two Americas	624	(14)
Politics in the Gilded Age	626	(5)
Middle-Class Reform	631	(7)
American Voices Elizabeth Cady Stanton, A Woman Speaks Out for a ``Woman's Bible''	638	(4)
Politics in the Pivotal 1890s	638	(4)
American Voices Ignatius Donnelly, A Minnesota Farmer Issues an Angry Call for Reform	642	(4)
Recovering the Past Political Campaign Artifacts: Buttons and Posters	646	(4)
Conclusion Looking Forward	650	(2)
Becoming a World Power	652	(30)
American Stories Private Grayson Kills a Soldier in the Philippines	652	(13)
Steps Toward Empire	654	(3)
Expansionism in the 1890s	657	(3)
War in Cuba and the Philippines	660	(5)
American Voices Jane Addams Speaks Out Against Imperialism, War, and Violence	665	(1)
Recovering the Past Political Cartoons	666	(12)
Theodore Roosevelt's Energetic Diplomacy	670	(8)
Conclusion The Responsibilities of Power	678	(4)
PART FIVE A Modernizing People, 1900--1945	682	(180)
The Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism	682	(38)
American Stories A Professional Woman Joins the Progressive Crusade	682	(4)
The Social Justice Movement	684	(2)
Recovering the Past Documentary Photographs	686	(6)
American Voices Rosa, An Italian Immigrant Learns English at a Settlement House in Chicago	692	(5)
The Worker in the Progressive Era	695	(2)
American Voices Pauline Newman, Conditions in a Garment Factory	697	(19)
Reform in the Cities and States	700	(4)
Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal	704	(8)
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom	712	(4)
Conclusion The Limits of Progressivism	716	(4)
The Great War	720	(34)
American Stories A Young Man Enlists in the Great Adventure	720	(16)
The Early War Years	722	(8)
The United States Enters the War	730	(4)
The Military Experience	734	(2)
Recovering the Past Government Propaganda	736	(4)
American Voices Private John Figarovsky, American Soldiers Get a Warm Welcome in France	740	(5)
Domestic Impact of the War	742	(3)
American Voices An African American Woman Decides to Move North	745	(6)
Planning for Peace	747	(4)
Conclusion The Divided Legacy of the Great War	751	(3)
Affluence and Anxiety	754	(36)
American Stories A Black Sharecropper and His Family Move North	754	(7)
Postwar Problems	756	(3)
A Prospering Economy	759	(2)
How Others See Us Luigi Barzini, Jr., An Italian Student Falls in Love with the United States	761	(4)
American Voices Babe Ruth Homers in the 1927 World Series	765	(1)
Recovering the Past Advertising	766	(20)
Hopes Raised, Promises Deferred	769	(9)
The Business of Politics	778	(8)
Conclusion A New Era of Prosperity and Problems	786	(4)
The Great Depression and the New Deal	790	(36)
American Stories Coming of Age and Riding the Rails During the Depression	790	(8)
The Great Depression	792	(1)
Economic Decline	793	(3)
Roosevelt and the First New Deal	796	(2)
American Voices Mrs. Ivan G. Martin, ``What Is to Become of Us?'' An Oregon Woman Writes to Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt	798	(21)
One Hundred Days	799	(5)
The Second New Deal	804	(9)
The Last Years of the New Deal	813	(3)
The Other Side of the 1930s	816	(3)
How Others See Us Georges Duhamel, A French Writer Visits the United States and Finds Nothing to Admire	819	(1)
Recovering the Past The Movies	820	(3)
Conclusion The Mixed Legacy of the Great Depression and the New Deal	823	(3)
World War II	826	(36)
American Stories A Native American Boy Plays at War	826	(20)
The Twisting Road to War	828	(6)
The Home Front	834	(7)
Social Impact of the War	841	(5)
American Voices PFC Robert Kotlowitz Faces Battle	846	(8)
A War of Diplomats and Generals	846	(8)
Recovering the Past History, Memory, and Monuments	854	(2)
How Others See Us Yamaoka Michiko, On the Ground at Hiroshima	856	(2)
Conclusion Peace, Prosperity, and International Responsibilities	858	(4)
PART SIX A Resilient People, 1945--2005	862
Postwar America at Home, 1945--1960	862	(40)
American Stories An Entrepreneur Franchises the American Dream	862	(17)
Economic Boom	864	(6)
Demographic and Technological Shifts	870	(7)
Consensus and Conformity	877	(2)
American Voices Betty Friedan, From The Feminine Mystique	879	(1)
Recovering the Past Clothing	880	(4)
American Voices Allen Ginsberg, ``Howl''	884	(15)
Origins of the Welfare State	885	(5)
The Other America	890	(9)
Conclusion Qualms amid Affluence	899	(3)
Chills and Fever During the Cold War, 1945--1960	902	(34)
American Stories A Government Employee Confronts the Anti-Communist Crusade	902	(8)
Origins of the Cold War	904	(3)
Containing the Soviet Union	907	(3)
How Others See Us A West German Poster on the Marshall Plan	910	(4)
Recovering the Past Public Opinion Polls	914	(4)
Containment in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America	916	(2)
American Voices Colonel Lewis Puller, Speech to the Toops	918	(10)
Atomic Weapons and the Cold War	923	(4)
The Cold War at Home	927	(1)
American Voices HUAC Interrogation of Ring Lardner, Jr.	928	(6)
Conclusion The Cold War in Perspective	934	(2)
Reform and Rebellion in the Turbulent Sixties, 1960--1969	936	(36)
American Stories A Young Liberal Questions the Welfare State	936	(4)
John F. Kennedy: The Camelot Years	938	(2)
Recovering the Past Television	940	(12)
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society	946	(6)
American Voices Anne Moody, From Coming of Age in Mississippi	952	(8)
Continuing Confrontations with Communists	954	(4)
War in Vietnam and Turmoil at Home	958	(2)
Analyzing History The Vietnam War	960	(3)
American Voices Tom Hayden, Port Huron Statement	963	(6)
Conclusion Political and Social Upheaval	969	(3)
Disorder and Discontent, 1969--1980	972	(34)
American Stories An Older Woman Returns to School	972	(10)
The Decline of Liberalism	974	(7)
The Ongoing Effort in Vietnam	981	(1)
Recovering the Past Popular Music	982	(2)
American Voices Interview with Paul Meadlo on the My Lai Massacre	984	(1)
How Others See Us French and German Posters on the American War in Vietnam	985	(11)
Constitutional Conflict and Its Consequences	986	(5)
The Continuing Quest for Social Reform	991	(5)
American Voices Helen Chavez, Reflections on the Family's Struggle	996	(8)
Conclusion Sorting Out the Pieces	1004	(2)
The Revival of Conservatism, 1980--1992	1006	(36)
American Stories A Young Woman Embraces Republican Values	1006	(12)
The Conservative Transformation	1008	(8)
An End to Social Reform	1016	(2)
American Voices Jesse Jackson, Address to the 1984 Democratic National Committee	1018	(3)
American Voices Sherman Alexie, Four Related Poems	1021	(3)
Economic and Demographic Change	1023	(1)
Recovering the Past The Internet and the World Wide Web	1024	(2)
Analyzing History The Computer	1026	(12)
Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War	1031	(7)
Conclusion Conservatism in Context	1038	(4)
The Post--Cold War World, 1992--2005	1042
American Stories An Immigrant Family Struggles as the Economy Improves	1042	(10)
The Changing Face of the American People	1044	(5)
Economic and Social Change	1049	(3)
American Voices Michelle Kennedy, ``Mothering Without a Net''	1052	(8)
American Voices Marilyn Chin, ``How I Got That Name''	1060	(2)
Democratic Revival	1061	(1)
Recovering the Past Autobiography	1062	(13)
The Second Bush Presidency	1067	(3)
Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World	1070	(5)
How Others See Us Elfriede Jelinek, ``No New Wars''	1075	(1)
Conclusion The Recent Past in Perspective	1076
Appendix	1	(1)
The Declaration of Independence	2	(2)
The Constitution of the United States of America	4	(5)
Amendments to the Constitution	9	(4)
Presidential Elections	13	(3)
States of the United States	16	(1)
Population of the United States	17
Credits	1	(1)
Index	1	(40)
Primary Source Documents	41	(2)
How to Analyze Primary Source Documents	43