Introduction: Reading Culture | |
A Second American Revolution: 1865-1877 | |
Free at Last!: African American freedom--The Black Man's Vote and White Women's Suffrage Letter to the Editor | |
National Anti-Slavery Standard (1865) | |
"This is the Negro's Hour" National Anti-Slavery Standard (1865) | |
Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution (proposed) (1870) | |
Speech before the National Woman's Suffrage Convention (1869) | |
Frederick Douglass on Voting Rights for Women and African Americans (1868 & 1869) | |
White Terror | |
The Klan as Minstrelsy: Humor and Terror "A Terrified Negro" Nashville Union and American (1868) | |
"Ku Klux in a Safe" Nashville Union and American (1868) | |
"K.K.K.K.," Nashville Union and American (1868) | |
Testimony Taken at the Sub-Committee of Election in Louisiana (1870) | |
Sut Lovingood's Yarns (1867) | |
Sexualization of Politics & the Work of White Supremacy U.S. Senate Investigation of the Ku-Klux-Klan (1872) | |
Tracks of Conflict: Railroads and Chinese Immigration Daniel Webster | |
"Opening of the Northern Railroad," (1847) | |
"The Chinese in California," New York Tribune (1869) | |
Chinese Immigrants Challenge Nativist Discrimination--California State Senate Investigation (1876) | |
A "Striker," "Fair Wages" North American Review (1877) | |
"The Recent Strikes," North American Review (1877) | |
New and Old Frontiers: 1877-1900 | |
Wealth and Commonwealth: Battles for Workplace Authority | |
Incorporating Design: The Industrial Age in America | |
"The Modern Corporation" (1908) | |
"American Iron and Steel Works | |
The Works of the Edgar Thomson Steel Company (Limited)" (1878) Images | |
"Works of the Cambria Iron Company" (1878), and Carnegie Bros. and Co. | |
"The Edgar Thomson Steel Works" (1890) | |
The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) | |
Art Thou a Man?: Labor and Industrial Capitalism Knights of Labor pledge (1886) | |
"The Saloon in Chicago" (1900) | |
editorials, Locomotive Firemen's Magazine (1882-1888) | |
Friends of the Indians | |
"Reflections on the significance of the Dawes Act" (1896) | |
"Annual Address" to the Women's National Indian Association (1888) | |
"What Indians Must Do" (1914) Images: Before and After, Carlisle Indian School Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin), American Indian Stories (1921) | |
Re-building the Nation | |
The Adventures of Buffalo Bill: The America of | |
Wild West, 1876-1900 Image: Advertising poster, "Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World" (1899) | |
Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood... (1882?) | |
"The Indian War," New York Herald (1876) | |
Campaigning with Crook... (1890) | |
"Buffalo Bill; The Famous Scout Interviewed by an Eagle Representative...," Brooklyn Eagle (1883) | |
Image: "Death of Yellow Hand--Cody's First Scalp for Custer" (1884) | |
Official Programme, Buffalo Bill's...Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World. (ca. 1900) | |
Brick Pomeroy, editorial, New York Democrat (1886) | |
Imperialism and Nation Building | |
"The Venezuelan Question," speech before the New York Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 2, 1896 Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge (1896) Rep. | |
"Patriotism is again supreme in our hearts," speech before the House of Representatives (1898) | |
"Vigorous Men, A Vigorous Nation," Independent (Sept. 1, 1898) War | |
Songs: "The Southern Volunteer," "His Northern Brother," and "Dudes Before Santiago" (1898) Image | |
"Union and Confederate veterans reunite to free Little Cuba" (1898) Image | |
"Uncle Sam's new class in the art of self-government" (1898) George Ade, scene from The Sultan of Sulu, An Original Satire in Two Acts (1902) | |
"On the Anglo-Saxon," from Mr. Dooley in Peace and War (1898) | |
Order and Disorder: 1890-1920 | |
Mothering modernity: Progressive Reform and the "Club Woman" Jane Cunningham Croly | |
"The Future of the Woman's Club" (1902) | |
"Woman's Mission and Woman's Clubs" (1905) | |
Images: "The Modern Cornelia" (1869) | |
"Woman's Ultra Country Club" (1899) | |
Lily Hardy Hammond, Southern Women and Racial Adjustment (1917) | |
"The Negro Home and the Future of the Race" (1918) Images: Anti-suffrage newspaper cartoons | |
The Romance of Commerce: Shopping and selling in the early twentieth century | |
An Enchantment and a Snare: The Modern Department Store | |
Image: Sears, Roebuck and C., Consumers Guide (1897) "John Wanamaker," Moody's Magazine (1914) | |
"The Promotive Education Of Modern Advertising" Wanamaker store advertisement, New York Times (1903) | |
"The Department Store at Close Range," Everybody's Magazine (1907) | |
"Christmas from Behind the Counter," Independent (1907) | |
"Why Don't More Women Trade With Me?" System (1917) "Selling Men's Shirts," Store Life (1904) | |
The Politics of Style: The Shirtwaist Strikes of 1909 | |
"The Uprising of the Girls," Collier's (1909) | |
"Leader Tells Why 40,000 Girls Struck," New York Evening Journal (1909) | |
"The Jobless Girls," New York Call (1909) | |
Progressive Playgrounds: Amusement Parks and Dance Halls Image: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle at Coney Island (1917) | |
"Amusing People," Metropolitan Magazine (1910) | |
"A Day of Rest at Coney Island," Everybody's Magazine (1908) | |
"The Way of the Girl," The Survey (1909) | |
"The Angle Worm Wiggle" (ca. 1910) Investigator's Reports, Committee of Fourteen, New York City (1912, 1918) Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle, Modern Dancing (1914) | |
The Profits and Perils of Prosperity: 1915-1932 | |
The Great War and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the War Years | |
Images: "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier" (ca. 1915), and "Halt the Hun!" (ca. 1917) | |
Images: "Serve on the Rhine--NOW in the A.E.F" (ca. 1917), and "Destroy This Mad Brute" (ca. 1918) | |
selected letters of Paul Eliot Green (1917-1919) | |
"Over There," (ca. 1917) "New York Cheers 'Yip, Yip, Yaphank,'" Theatre (1918) | |
Irving Berlin, "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up In the Morning" (1918) | |
Rural Values | |
Of What Value Is Evolution? Science and the Scopes Trial | |
A Civic Biology Presented in Problems (1914) "Mr. [William Jennings] Bryan's Last Speech" (ca. 1925) | |
The New Decalogue of Science (1923) | |
"The Battle Hymn of Tennessee," Nashville Tennessean (1925) | |
Images: "The Stuff That Men Are Made Of," and "He's a Variety of the 'Species,'" Memphis Commercial-Appeal (1925) | |
"The John T. Scopes Trial" (1925) | |
The Gentry Family Quartet, "You Can't Make a Monkey Out of Me" (1928) | |
Wild Women Don't Have The Blues: Gender, Race, and Class in the 1920s | |
"When Will I Get to be Called a Man?" (1928) | |
"Mean Tight Mama" (1922) | |
"Wild Women Don't Have The Blues" (1924) | |
"Mistreatin' Daddy" (date unknown) | |
"Toward a Critique of Negro Music," Opportunity (1934) | |
"The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," The Nation (1926) | |
The Most Advertised Athlete in the Game: Babe Ruth and Baseball in the 1920s "Ruth Fined $5,000; Costly Star Banned for Acts Off Field," and "Johnson Upholds Huggins," and editorial, "Two Heroes," New York Times (1925) | |
"What Draws the Crowds," Collier's (1925) | |
"When Babe Ruth was Beaten by John J. McGraw," Baseball (1922) | |
Bad Times and Good Times: The Era of the Depression, 1928-1942 | |
Coping with the Depression Bernarr Macfadden, "A Great Moral Force," True Story (1934) | |
"The Wife Who Stood Still... Was it jealousy or fear that made her fight her husband's ambition?" True Story (1931) | |
"The Big Secret of Dealing With People," How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) | |
Making a New Deal: Americans Appeal to Their President and First Lady | |
State of the Union address (1935) Letters to the President and Mrs. Roosevelt (1935-36, 1941-43) | |
Tuning In: Resistance and reassurance in popular culture | |
The Sounds of the Depression "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" (1933) | |
"Love for Sale" (1930) No?l Coward, "I Went to a Marvellous Party" (1939) | |
The Carter Family, "No Depression (in Heaven)" (1936) | |
The Problems of Amos 'n' Andy Check and Double Check publicity material (1930) Amos 'n' Andy, episodes 862, 865 (1930) | |
Images: Amos 'n' Andy (1929-30) Clarence Leroy Mitchell and Roy Wilkins, letters to the editor, The Afro-American (1930) | |
"A Nation-wide Protest against 'Amos 'n' Andy,'" Pittsburgh Courier (1931) | |
"Why We Fight": World War II and American Culture, 1942-1949 | |
Something Bigger than a War Poster: The Four Freedoms Franklin Delano Roosevelt, State of the Union address (1941) | |
Norman Rockwell: My Adventures as an Illustrator (1960) | |
Images: Norman Rockwell, "Freedom from Fear" and "Freedom of Speech" (1943) | |
Good Guys and Bad Guys | |
Personal Heroes: Gender and Race in World War II "Masculinity and the Role of the Combat Soldier," | |
The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath (1949) | |
"My Personal Hero" (1944) | |
Women war workers: Fanny Christina Hill and Beatrice Morales | |
Menninger, Psychiatry in a Troubled World: Yesterday's War and Today's Challenge (1948) | |
Advertisement for Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Saturday Evening Post (1943) | |
Knowing the Enemy, abroad and at home Image: Air Fighters Comics (ca. 1942) "The Japanese," Fortune (1942) | |
"These Nips Are Nuts," American Magazine (1945) | |
Image: "How to Tell Your Enemies From the Japs," Time (1942) | |
Image: "Lookout Monks! Here's Your Plane Warning" (ca. 1943) | |
"As We See It: News and Views," editorial, Santa Cruz Sentinel-News (1942) | |
"'Soul-Stirring Hate' Needed To Wipe Out Japs--Gardner," Watsonville Register-Pajaronian (1944) | |
"Nisei Plea For Understanding," Watsonville Register-Pajaronian (1945) | |
Zoot Suits: Race Politics and the War at Home | |
Image: Eddie Winfred "Doc" Helm, "Man in Zoot-Suit" (ca. 1943) Editorial, "Why Our Slogan is 'Double V,'" Pittsburgh Courier (1942) | |
"Pursuit of Democracy; Sees Opportunities Broadening for Race Women in Crisis," Pittsburgh Courier (1942) "Zoot Suits and Service Stripes: Race Tension Behind the Riots," Newsweek (1943) | |
C?sar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa (1975) Letter to the editor, Time (1943) | |
"That's What the Well-Dressed Man in Harlem Will Wear" (1942) | |
"The Zoot-Suit Kid," Saturday Evening Post (1943) | |
At Home with the Cold War, 1948-1960 | |
Kitchen Debates: Ideal womanhoods and the new frontiers of domesticity [The Kitchen Debate] "Encounter," Newsweek (1959) | |
"Goodbye Mammy, Hello Mom," Ebony (1947) | |
"The 2-car family with a 1-Woman Kitchen," House Beautiful (1951) | |
Image: Tupperware party (ca. 1952) | |
"Help Yourself to Happiness," Woman's Home Companion (1954) | |
Dream Doll: The Ruth Handler Story (1994) | |
Race and Rebellion in the 1950s | |
Jackie Robinson Stories Wendell Smith, "Jackie Bats 667 in Tilts," Pittsburgh Courier (1947) | |
speech (1956) | |
"Let's Take It In Stride" Pittsburgh Courier (1947) Screenplay, The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) | |
"Jackie Wouldn't Have Gotten to First Base...," Better Homes and Gardens (1950) | |
Emmett Till's Mother: Race and domesticity "Mississippi's Infamy," Chicago Defender (1955) | |
Letter to the Editor, Chicago Defender (1955) | |
"I Want You to Know What They Did to My Boy," The Afro-American (1955) | |
"Emmett Till's Mother: What Is True Story About Mrs. Bradley?" Chicago Defender (1955) | |
The Popular Culture of Red Baiting | |
American Weaknesses: Domestic Subversion in the Age of McCarthyism The Doolittle Report (1954) | |
"We Need Revival!" (1949) | |
One Lonely Night (1951) | |
Image: Cover illustration, One Lonely Night (1951) | |
"How Red Girl Spies Make Suckers of G.I.'s," National Police Gazette (1954) | |
Image: "The Girl Next Door," Playboy (1957) | |
Inflaming Youth with Tomtoms: The early years of rock 'n' roll Gertrude Samuels | |
"Why They Rock 'n' Roll--and Should They?" New York Times Magazine (1958) | |
"A Warning to the Music Business," Variety (1955) | |
"Musical Treatment," The Southerner (1956) | |
"Shake, Rattle and Roll," performed by "Big" Joe Turner (1954) | |
Bill Haley and his Comets, "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" Little Richard, "Tutti Frutti," (1955) | |
Pat Boone, "Tutti Frutti" (1955) | |
The Politics of Hope and Rage: the 1960s in the United States | |
The Birth of a New Nation: From Civil Rights to Black Power | |
"The Birth of a New Nation" (1957) Martin Luther King, Jr., address, Memphis, Tennessee (1968) | |
"We're Not Afraid," Washington Post (1968) "Armed Black Brothers in Richmond Community," The Black Panther (1967) | |
"SNCC Position Paper" (1964) | |
"The Special Plight and the Role of Black Women," (1971) | |
"The End of Silence," Seize the Time (1969) | |
Quagmires: The Vietnam War in American Culture | |
Vigorous Proponents of the National Interest: Gender and Strategies for Winning the War in Vietnam Sen. | |
"The Presidency in 1960" (1960) | |
"A Green Beret--All the Way," from The Green Berets (1965) | |
"They Can Win a War If Someone Shows Them How," from The Making of a Quagmire (1965) | |
Beyond Your Command: Popular Songs about the Vietnam War | |
"The Ballad of the Green Berets" (1966) | |
"I Kill Therefore I Am" (1971) | |
"Fightin' Side of Me" (1970) Creedence Clearwater Revival/John Fogerty, "Fortunate Son" (1969) | |
performed | |
Protesting Gender: Antiwar and Counterculture | |
Campus Radicals Images: Free Speech Movement (1963) and Anti-war demonstration (1968) | |
"Campus Conservatives," Time (1961) | |
Young Americans for Freedom, "The Sharon Statement" (1960) | |
Students for a Democratic Society, "Introduction: Agenda for a Generation," Port Huron Statement (1962) | |
A Digger (Peter Berg) explains "what's happening," from Leonard Wolf, Voices from the Love Generation (1968) | |
"Chicago Retrospective," Berkeley Barb (1968) | |
"Marry or Die'--The New Feminism," Guardian (1969) | |
Image: "GIRLS SAY YES to boys who say NO" | |
The Challenges of Feminism New York Radical Women, "No More Miss America" (1968) | |
"A Critique of the Miss America Protest" (1968) | |
"Colonized Women: The Chicana" (1969) | |
"The Older Woman: A Stockpile of Losses," Prime Time (1972) | |
All in the Family: American Cultural Wars, 1970-1992 | |
Sexual Revolutions: The Matter of Women's Sexuality | |
"An End to Woman's 'Bad Days'?" Reader's Digest (1962) | |
"The Pill: How It Is Affecting U.S. Morals, Family Life," U.S. News & World Report (1966) | |
"The Pill," 1975 Barbara Seaman, The Doctors' Case Against the Pill (1969) | |
Boston Women's Health Book Collective, "Preface," Our Bodies, Ourselves (1973) | |
Keeping America Beautiful: Fashioning the New Environmental Consciousness Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962) | |
Advertisement for Earth Day, New York Times (1970) | |
"People Start Pollution..." Keep American Beautiful Foundation (1971) Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel), The Lorax (1971) | |
The Virus in Our System: AIDS and the Culture Wars Larry Kramer The Normal Heart (1985) Sen. | |
remarks on Amendment No. 956 (1987) | |
"The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS," New York Times Sunday Magazine (1987) | |
Interview with Gregg Bordowitz (2002) | |
Image: "The Government Has Blood On Its Hands, " ACT UP, 1988? | |
statement to the Presidential Commission on the HIV Epidemic (1988) | |
Earvin "Magic" Johnson, statement upon retiring from professional basketball, Washington Post (1991) | |
Image: Cover illustration, Magic Johnson, What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS (1992) | |
Past and Present: American Culture at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century | |
Electronic Frontiers: Radical Individualism and Virtual Community on the World Wide Web Albert Gore, speech delivered at the Information Superhighway Summit at UCLA January 11, 1994 | |
"Against the Tide? Small Groups, Social Movements, and the Net," from Bowling Alone (2000) | |
"What Is DOOM?" from The Official Doom FAQ | |
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (2003) (excerpt) | |
"The Making of an X-Box Warrior," New York Times Magazine (2004) | |
"What Is Second Life?" an "Overview" of website for "Second Life | |
Your World | |
Your Imagination | |
A 3D Digital Online World Imagined, Created, and Owned by Its Residents..." | |
"The Unreal Estate Boom," Wired (2003) | |
Fundamental Families: The Politics of Marriage and Parenthood in Contemporary America The Defense of Marriage Act | |
Marriage Under Fire: Why We Must Win This Battle (excerpt) | |
Single Mothers by Choice: A Guidebook for Single Women Who Are Considering or Have Chosen Motherhood (excerpt) | |
The Expectant Father: Facts, Tips and Advice for Dads-to-Be (excerpts) | |
"Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage," excerpted from Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality (1995) | |
"What Marriage Is For," Weekly Standard (2003) Gil Mangaoang and Juan Lombard discuss their marriage, from Lesbian and Gay | |
Marriage: Private Commitments, Public Ceremonies (1992) | |
Heather Has Two Mommies (1989) (excerpts) | |
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