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9780618660872

Contending Voices Biographical Explorations of the American Past, Volume I: To 1877

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    9780618660872

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    0618660879

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-06-22
  • Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Each chapter inContending Voicesexamines the lives of two individuals--some of them familiar historical figures and some of them lesser known--who took opposing positions on important issues in American history. The "paired biographies" in the text are followed by a set of four to six related primary sources, many in the individuals' own voices; a "Questions to Consider" section; and an annotated bibliography. This unique format promotes critical thinking and engages students in historical debates. New!In Volume I, new chapters include "Politics, Morality, and Race in the Abolitionist Crusade: William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass"; "The Feminine Sphere in Antebellum Society: Catharine Beecher and Elizabeth Cady Stanton"; and "Yankees and 'Border Ruffians' in 'Bleeding Kansas': Sara Robinson and David Atchison." New!New chapters in Volume II include "Science, Religion, and 'Culture Wars' in the 1920s: William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow"; "Politics and Principle in the Second Red Scare: Joseph McCarthy and Margaret Chase Smith"; and "The Battlefields of Vietnam: Robert McNamara and John Kerry." A running glossary of important historical terms, events, and people appears at the bottom of selected pages in every chapter. Each of the two volumes contains 15 chapters to parallel the coverage in most survey texts.

Table of Contents

Preliminary
Note: An asterisk (*) designates a new chapter
The Cross and the Sword in Spain's New World: Bartolomeacute; de Las Casas and Hernaacute;n Corteacute;s
Corteacute;s Describes the Aztecs (1519, 1520)
An Aztec View of the Temple Massacre (ca. 1550)
Corteacute;s Defends Encomiendas (1522)
Las Casas Attacks Conversion by Conquest (1537)
Las Casas Attacks Encomiendas (1542)
Revolt on the Virginia Frontier
Frontier Planters Appeal to Governor
"Declaration and Remonstrance" (May 1676)
A Summary of the June Assembly's Laws (1676)
Bacon's Manifesto (July 1676)
Grievances Submitted to the King's Commissioners (1677)
Enthusiasm, Authority, and the Great Awakening
"A Song of Praise" (1742)
Enthusiasm Described and Caution'd Against (1742)
"A Report on Religious Excess at New London" (1743)
Confession and Retractions (1744)
Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England (1743)
The Price of Patriotism: Jonathan Sewall and John Adams
"Instructions of the Town of Braintree to the Representative" (1765)
Jonathan Sewall Offers a Defense of British Authority (1771)
Jonathan Sewall on the Revolutionary Threat (1775)
"Novanglus" (1775)
The Conflict over the Constitution: Patrick Henry and James Madison
An Antifederalist Attacks the Constitution (1787)
"The Federalist No. 10" (1788)
Speech to the Virginia Convention (June 4, 1788)
Speech to the Virginia Convention (June 5, 1788)
"The Federalist No. 39" (1788)
Agrarians and Capitalists in the Early Republic
Notes on the State of Virginia (1787)
First Report on Public Credit (1790)
Report on Manufactures (1791)
Arator (1813)
Values of the Manufactures of the United States, Exclusive of Doubtful Articles (1810)
Resistance and Western Expansion
Letter to William Henry Harrison (1803)
Letter to William Eustis, Secretary of War (1809)
A Discourse on the Aborigines of the Ohio Valley (1838)
Speech to Harrison at Vincennes (1810)
"Sleep Not Longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws" (1811)
The Fruits of the Factory System: Sarah Bagley and Nathan Appleton
"The Introduction of the Power Loom, and Origin of Lowell" (1858)
Regulations of the Appleton Company (1833)
"The Pleasures of Factory Life" (1840)
"Voluntary?" (1845)
"Labor, Its Relations, in Europe and the United States Compared" (1844) vNathan Appleton
Politics, Morality, and Race in the Abolitionist Crusade
Detail of Liberator Masthead (1831)
His New Reform Policy (1837)
Recounts His Life as a Slave (1845)
"No Union with Slaveholders" (1844)
"The Right To Criticize American Institutions" (1847)
Responds to William Lloyd Garrison (1853)
"What to the American Slave Is Your Fourth of July"? (1852)
The Feminine Sphere in Antebellum Society
Catharine Beecher on women's Proper Place (1837)
A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841)
"Declaration of Sentiments" of the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
Addresses the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
Answers the Critics of Woman's Rights (1848)
Traditional Dress and the Bloomer (ca. 1850)
Hale on Female Voting (1852)
"Words of Comfort for a Discouraged Housekeeper" (1863)
Manifest Destiny and Conquest
Assess the Californios (1840)
Thomas Larkin on the Situation in California (1845)
Alvarado on the Conquest of California (1876)
Vigilante Justice in Los Angeles (1857)
The South and the Slavery Debate
Slavery Justified (1850)
Cannibals All! (1857)
Helper on Chinese Immigrants (1855)
The Impending Crisis of the South (1857)
Reminiscences of Georgia (1850)
Yankees and "Border Ruffians" in "Bleeding Kansas"
"Address to the People of the Southern States"(1849)
David Atchison on the Abolitionist Threat" (1854)
Sara Robinson on the Proslavery Threat (1855)
Report of the Committee To Investigate the Troubles in Kansas (1856)
Sara Robinson on the "Sack" of Lawrence (1856)
David Atchison on the "Abolitionist" Threat (1856)
Mr. Lincoln's War
Assaults a Southern Colleague (1854)
Letter to Horace Greeley (1862)
The Wade-Davis Manifesto (1864)
"The Great Civil War in America" (1863)
Attacks Benjamin Wade (1862)
Race and Redemption in the Reconstructed South: Robert Smalls and Carl Schurz
"Memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives" (1865)
Report on the Condition of the South (1865)
Representative Robert Smalls Protests the Withdrawal of Federal Troops (1876)
The Prostrate State (1874)
speech in the Senate (1872)
Race and Redemption in the Reconstructed South: Robert Smalls and Carl Schurz
"Memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives" (1865)
Report on the Condition of the South (1865)
Representative Robert Smalls Protests the Withdrawal of Federal Troops (1876)
The Prostrate State (1874)
speech in the Senate (1872)
Craftsmen and Buccaneers in an Industrial Age
Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878)
Calls for Cooperatives (1880)
Correspondence of Jay Gould and Terence Powderly (1886)
Knights of Labor Attack on Jay Gould (1886)
Jay Gould Testifies Before Congress (1886)
Farmers and the "New South"
"The New South: (1886)
"The Farmer and the Cities" (1889)
Tom Watson on "Silver-Tounged Orators (1889)
People's Party Platform (1892)
"The Negro Question in the South" (1892)
Sex, Anarchism, and Domestic Science in Progressive America
Euthenics (1910)
"Who Is to Blame for High Prices?" (1910)
"Marriage and Love" (1917)
"The Woman Suffrage Chameleon" (1917)
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