The American Record: Volume 2, Since 1865

by GRAEBNER

• ISBN13: 9780072949599
• ISBN10: 0072949597
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-27
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Using primary and secondary source material and numerous photographs and illustrations,The American Recordpresents history through a broad perspective. Blending the traditional approach to American history (centered on politics, economics, diplomacy, and war) with the modern approach (including histories of women and children, people of color, and the poor and economically marginal), it offers a version of our national past that is inclusive, complex, and dynamic. Volume 1 covers the span from the European conquest of America through Reconstruction; Volume 2 covers Reconstruction to the present.

Table of Contents

Volume Two:

1: Reconstruction

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY

Promised Land, Elizabeth Rauh Bethel

SOURCES

Voices: The Meaning of Freedom

Letter from Jourdon Anderson to His Former Master, from The Freedmens Book, Edited by Lydia Maria Child, 1865

The Cartoonists View of Reconstruction

IMAGES

Ten Political Cartoons by Thomas Nast, 18651876

The South Redeemed

Map: The Barrow Plantation, 1860 and 1880

THE BIG PICTURE

2: The Gilded Age

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY

Gunfire and Brickbats: The Great Railway Strikes of 1877, Gerald G. Eggert

IMAGES

The Sixth Maryland Regiment, Fighting Its Way through Baltimore During the Great Strike of 1877; Robert M. Ammon, the Leader of the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne Railroad Strike, at His Post; The Great StrikeBlockade of Engines at Martinsburg, West Virginia; The Great StrikeBurning of the Lebanon Valley Railroad Bridge by the Rioters; Great Railroad Strike, Pittsburgh, 1877

ON THE WEB:

The 1877 strike in Baltimore

SOURCES

The Working Class, A Widespread Rising . . . E. L. Godkin

Voices: Almost Part of the Machinery

Testimony of John Morrison Before the U.S. Senate, 1883

Photo Essay: Alice Austen/Images of Work

IMAGES

Two bootblacks, City Hall Park; Sweeper in Rubber Boots; Rag Pickers with Billboard; Immigrant and Pretzel Vendor

THE BIG PICTURE

3: The West

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY

Americas Robin Hood, Kent L. Steckmesser

IMAGES:

Advertising Circular for a Production Based on the Life of Jesse James (ca. 1888); The Mythic Home of Jesse James; cover of An Authentic Life of Billy the Kid (1882)

SOURCES:

Voices: Growing Up Indian, in a White Mans World Zitkala-Sa

ON THE WEB:

The Life and Works of Zitkala-SA Visualizing Assimilation: Photographs from the Hampton Normal and Agriculture Institute, Hampton, Virginia (1880s) The Worlds of Quanah Parker: A Photo Essay

IMAGES:

Quanah Parker, Seated Next to a Portrait of His Mother; Comanche Chief Quanah Parker on Horseback Near His Home, Cache, Oklahoma Territory, (ca. 1910); Quanah Parker on the Porch of His Home (ca. 1895); Quanah Parker, with One of His Seven Wives; Quanah Parkers Home (1912) The Significance of the Frontier in American History, Frederick Jackson Turner

THE BIG PICTURE

4: Cities and Immigrants, Cities and Migrants

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY

Women and Migration: Autonomous Female Migrants to Chicago, 18801930, Joanne Meyerowitz

SOURCES:

Interior Space: The Dumbbell Tenement

IMAGE:

A Typical Dumbbell Tenement

ON THE WEB:

Virtual Tour of Manhattans Tenements Urban Images The Refined City: A Photo Essay

IMAGES:

Central Park, the Drive, by Currier and Ives (1862); Worlds Columbian Exposition, Chicago, (1893); Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago, Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; Delmonicos, New York City (1930) The Threatening City: A Photo Essay

IMAGES:

Bandits Roost, New York City (ca. 1887), by Richard Hoe Lawrence (2 versions); A Thompson Street Black and Tan Dive on the Lower East Side; Purdys Court, near the Capitol, Washington, D.C. (1980)

ON THE WEB:

Photographs of Richard Hoe Lawrence and Jacob Riis

VOICES:

The Perils of Unrestricted Migration (1894) Rena M. Atchison

THE BIG PICTURE

5: Empire

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY

Black Soldiers and the White Mans Burden, Willard B. Gatewood, Jr.

SOURCES:

Voices: Combat: An Officers Account, William Connor

Picturing Empire: A Photo Essay

IMAGES:

Admiral Dewey on the deck of the Olympia with his dog, Bob (1899); Dancing Sailors (1899); Frances Benjamin Johnston in the crews mess of the Olympia (1899)

DEBATES:

Debating Empire

March of the Flag and Our Philippine Policy Albert J. Beveridge

Americas Mission and Imperialism William Jennings Bryan

ON THE WEB: Music of John Philip Sousa

Imagining the African Other

Voices: Touring Darkest Africa Mabel E. Barnes

IMAGE:

Tickets Here for Darkest Africa

The Search for the Primitive: Tarzan of the Apes

IMAGE:

Cover of the September 1, 1912, Issue of the All-Story Magazine

THE BIG PICTURE

6: Progressivism: The Age of Reform

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY

Cleaning Up the Dance Halls, Elisabeth Perry

ON THE WEB:

Belle Israels; The Triangle Fire

SOURCES:

Hull-House: The Softer Side of Progressive Reform? Jane Addams

The Progressive Vision of Lewis Hine: A Photo Essay

IMAGES:

Child Workers in Shrimp and Oyster Canneries, Pass Christian, Mississippi (ca. 1912); Alfred, 13, Who Lost Part of a Finger in a Spinning Machine (1915); City Children Pressed into Service to Pick Cotton (1914); Children at a Fall River, Massachusetts, Mill (1914); Cotton Pickers and a Cotton-Picking Machine (1914)

Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty, Emma Goldman

IMAGES:

Poster, Join the Army (ca. 1918); Emma Goldman, Riding a Tram (ca. 1918)

ON THE WEB:

Exhibition on Emma Goldman

THE BIG PICTURE

7: From War to Normalcy

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY

Political Fundamentalism, William E. Leuchtenburg

SOURCES:

The Scopes Trial: Testimony of William Jennings Bryan

IMAGES:

Crowded Courtroom in Dayton, Tennessee; Evolution in Tennessee (1925), by Clifford Kennedy Berryman

ON THE WEB:

The Scopes Trial

The New Woman: A Photo Essay

IMAGES:

Miss Suzette Dewey, Beside Her Roadster (1927); Margaret Gorman, Miss America (1921); Tybee Beach No. 6, Savannah, Georgia; Girls Dancing During Noon Hour (1927); The Gay Northeasterners Strolling on 7th Avenue (ca. 1927)

VOICES:

Singing the Blues

Lyrics from Blues Songs by Gertrude Rainey, Porter Grainger, Bessie Smith, and Thomas Dorsey

IMAGE:

Portrait of Bessie Smith

THE BIG PICTURE

8: The Great Depression and the New Deal

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY

Mean Streets: Black Harlem in the Great Depression, Cheryl Greenberg

IMAGES:

Midsummer Night in Harlem, by Palmer Hayden; Black Children Playing Leapfrog in a Harlem Street (ca. 1930)

ON THE WEB:

Greenbelt, Maryland, Jersey Homesteads

SOURCES:

Voices: Letters from the Forgotten Man, Robert S. McElvaine

Images from the 1930s: A Visual Essay

IMAGES:

Allan Thomas, Extending the Frontier in Northwest Territory; Xavier Gonzalez, Pioneer Saga; Paul Meltsner, Ohio; Caroline S. Rohland, Spring; Howard Cook, Steel Industry, Migrant Mother

IMAGES:

Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother (no. 2), Migrant Mother (no. 6)

THE BIG PICTURE

9: World War II: Optimism and Anxiety

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY

Strangers from a Different Shore: The Relocation of Japanese Americans, Ronald Takaki

IMAGE:

Billboard, Buy War Bonds

SOURCES:

Voices: The Kikuchi Diary, Charles Kikuchi

Tanforan: A Photo Essay

IMAGES:

A Family Enjoys the Sunshine on the Porch of Their Quarters; A Watchtower Guard Scrutinizes the Landscape; An Evacuee Artist Sketches a Model; Evacuees Who Were Citizens Retained Right to Vote

ON THE WEB:

Ansel Adams Photographs of The Manzanar, California, Relocation Center

IMAGE:

Bataan (1943)

Truman on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)

Dark Victory: A Visual Essay

IMAGES:

Soldier Home on Furlough, Brown Summit, North Carolina (1944); Returning veteran Fre Derry Applies for a Job in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); The Tanner Family, at Home in the Humble Oil Company Poor Boy Camp, Tomball, Texas (1945); A Barmaid in Great Falls, Montana (1944); Image from Riverside High School Skipper, Buffalo, New York (1946)

THE BIG PICTURE

10: Cold War, Cold War at Home

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY

The Postwar Sex Crime Panic, George Chauncey, Jr.

IMAGES:

How Safe Is Your Daughter? (1947); Detroit Brochure on the Dangers of Sex Crime

SOURCES:

The Search for Communists: HUAC Investigates Hollywood

Testimony of Actor Adolph Menjou

IMAGE:

Adolph Menjou at the Un-American Activities Hearing, October 1, 1947

ON THE WEB:

Paul Robeson, Clifford Odets, And Others Accused Of Being Communists Or Communist Sympathizers

Tail Gunner Joe: The Wheeling Address Joseph McCarthy

IMAGE:

Joseph McCarthy and Joseph Welch at the Army-McCarthy Hearings, 1954

ON THE WEB:

Narration of Events at the University Of Washington, Where Three Professors Were Fired In 1949

Selling America

IMAGES:

The A. Jackson Cory Family in the Living Room of Their Takoma Park, Maryland, Home (1950); Brennan Jacques, a Typical American Teenager, Playing the Piano for a Group of Young People (1957)

THE BIG PICTURE

11: The Fifties

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY

Rebels Without a Cause? Teenagers in the 1950s, Beth Bailey

SOURCES:

The Suburbs

IMAGES:

Levittown, New York, Aerial View; A Levittown House, 1958

Rock n Roll

Song Lyrics from Joe Turners and Bill Haleys Versions of Shake, Rattle and Roll

ON THE WEB:

The Popular Culture of The 1950s

VOICES:

Challenging the Consensus: Integrating the Public Schools , Melba Pattillo Beals

IMAGES:

Troops of 11th Airborne Division Move Crowd Away from in Front of Central High School; African American Students Arriving at Central High School in U.S. Army Car; African American Student Elizabeth Eckford Endures Epithets of White Girl Outside Central High School; African American Students from Little Rocks Central High School Display Their $1, Awards from the National Negro Elks Convention

ON THE WEB:

Will Counts Photographs of The Little Rock Segregation Crisis

Television: A Visual Essay

IMAGES:

Give your family a Crosley Christmas (195); Coffee with Your TV (1950); RCA Eye Witness Television (1948); Crosley Full Room Vision (1950); Get Set for New Holiday Thrills (1951); Happiness Is Sure Headin Your Way (1949); Watching the Philco (1949); Tune In on History, with a Westinghouse (1952)

THE BIG PICTURE

12: The 1960s: Resistance

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY

Confronting the War Machine, Michael S. Foley

IMAGE:

Dr. William Sloan Coffin, Jr., Yale University Chaplin, Waits for Verdict on Draft Conspiracy Charges in Boston (1968)

SOURCES:

Resisting the Draft: A Statistical Profile (5 Tables)

Debates: Vietnam

Pattern for Peace in Southeast Asia (1965) Lyndon Johnson

Vietnam Veterans against the War (1971) John Kerry

IMAGES:

President Lyndon Johnson Listens to a Tape Recording from Capt. Charles Robb (1968); Vietnam Veteran John Kerry at a Press Conference (1971)

Resisting the Dominant Culture: Playing the Intersection Game, Charles Perry

IMAGE:

The San Francisco Mime Troupe Entertains (1967)

ON THE WEB:

The Digger Archives, And the Berkeley Free Speech Movement

THE BIG PICTURE

13: Under Siege, Coming Apart

IMAGE:

John Travolta in His Famous Disco-Dancing Pose in Saturday Night Fever (1977)

ON THE WEB:

Jimmy Carters Crisis of Confidence Address (1979)

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY

From Integration to Diversity, Bruce J. Schulma

IMAGE:

The Jeffersons

SOURCES:

The New Feminism

Visualizing Feminism

IMAGES:

The Woman Citizen (1948); The Woman Citizen (1971)

The Equal Rights Amendment

The ERA

Positions For and Against the ERA

ON THE WEB: Chronology of the ERA, Since 1923

The Decline of the Hero

Polling for Heroes (1977)

IMAGE:

Lee Majors, star of the television series The Six Million Dollar Man, and his wife, Farah Fawcett Majors, star of Charlies Angels

THE BIG PICTURE

14: Reagan's America

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY

Reckoning with Reagan, Michael Schaller

SOURCES:

The Reagan Image: A Photo Essay

IMAGES:

Ronald Reagan Reading His Morning Papers While Eating Breakfast in the Oval Office (1982); Ronald Reagan Riding at the Ranch (1983); Ronald Reagan After a Days Work on the Ranch (1983); Ronald and Nancy Reagan Taking a Boat Ride at the Ranch (1983)

ON THE WEB:

Iran/Contra

The Homeless: A Photo Essay

IMAGES:

One of a New Breed of Cart People, Baltimore (1986); A Homeless Man Lies Under a Clear Blanket in Lafayette Square, Across the Street from the White House (1987); Delia Torres Serves Food to Some of the Homeless, New York City (1986); A Homeless Couple in a Cardboard Box near Madison Square Garden (1992)

Reagan and the Religious Right

Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, March 3, 1983

Ronald Reagan

ON THE WEB:

Cultural History of The 1980s

THE BIG PICTURE

15: New World Order

ON THE WEB:

Reports of the National Commission On Terrorist Attacks (2004)

INTERPRETIVE ESSAY

The Vulcans, James Mann

SOURCES:

Debates: Nation-Building and the New World Order

George W. Bush Debates Al Gore (2000)

IMAGE:

George W. Bush, Al Gore, and Moderator Jim Lehrer at the Second Presidential Debate, Wake Forest University, October 11, 2000

ON THE WEB:

Text of President Debates Since 1948

The Bush Record on Foreign Relations: A Collage

Project for the New American Century, Statement of Principles, June 3, 1997

President George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 29, 2002

The White House, The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, September 2002

IMAGE:

President George W. Bush on the Flight Deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 1, 23, Announcing an End to Major Combat Operations in Iraq

THE BIG PICTURE

ON THE WEB:

This Land, A 2-Minute Film Featuring Puppet like Figures of George W. Bush and John Kerry (Summer, 2004)