Discovering the American Past

by Wheeler, WIlliam Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780395871881
• ISBN10: 0395871883
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-04
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
The Problems of Reconstruction: Andrew Johnson, Congress, and Southern Suffrage	1	(28)
The Problem	1	(1)
Background	2	(4)
The Method	6	(1)
The Evidence	7	(18)
Correspondence between President Andrew Johnson and members of Congress, state politicians, and prominent individual and leaders during Reconstruction
Political cartoon
Thomas Nast
Questions to Consider	25	(2)
Epilogue	27	(2)
The Road to True Freedom: African American Alternatives in the New South	29	(29)
The Problem	29	(1)
Background	29	(1)
The Method	30	(7)
The Evidence	37	(17)
Excerpt from Ida B. Wells, United States Atrocities Booker T. Washington' Atlanta Exposition Address Henry McNeal Turner's ``The American Negro and His Fatherland,'' 1895
Excerpts from the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois
Table showing migration of Negro population by region, 1870-1920
Questions to Consider	54	(2)
Epilogue	56	(2)
How They Lived: Middle-Class Life, 1870--1917	58	(45)
The Problem	58	(1)
Background	59	(6)
The Method	65	(2)
The Evidence	67	(33)
Advertisements for clothing, beauty and health aids, firearms, books and home study courses, typewriters, insurance, bicycles, automobiles, household appliances and furnishings
Architectural drawings and descriptions of houses
Questions to Consider	100	(1)
Epilogue	101	(2)
Justifying American Imperialism: The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904	103	(29)
The Problem	103	(2)
Background	105	(4)
The Method	109	(3)
The Evidence	112	(14)
Photographs taken at the Louisiana Purchase International Exposition, 1904
Excerpt from W. J. McGee, ``Anthropology---A Congress of Nations at the Fair''
Questions to Consider	126	(2)
Epilogue	128	(4)
Homogenizing a Pluralistic Culture: Propaganda During World War I	132	(32)
The Problem	132	(1)
Background	133	(4)
The Method	137	(2)
The Evidence	139	(20)
Song and poetry, advertisements, posters, cartoons, speeches, movie stills
Questions to Consider	159	(2)
Epilogue	161	(3)
The ``New'' Woman of the 1920s: Image and Reality	164	(27)
The Problem	164	(1)
Background	165	(3)
The Method	168	(2)
The Evidence	170	(18)
Popular fiction versus nonfiction views of women in the 1920s
Still photographs of Mary Pickford and Clara Bow
Questions to Consider	188	(1)
Epilogue	188	(3)
Documenting the Depression: The FSA Photographers and Rural Poverty	191	(16)
The Problem	191	(1)
Background	192	(2)
The Method	194	(2)
The Evidence	196	(9)
Documentary photographs as instruments of reform
Questions to Consider	205	(1)
Epilogue	205	(2)
Presidential Leadership, Public Opinion, and the Coming of World War II: The USS Greer Incident, September 4, 1941	207	(32)
The Problem	207	(1)
Background	208	(3)
The Method	211	(2)
The Evidence	213	(22)
Gallup polls
Deck log and rolls, newspaper articles, correspondence, speeches, and congressional testimony pertaining to the USS Greer incident
Questions to Consider	235	(1)
Epilogue	236	(3)
Separate but Equal? African American Educational Opportunities and the Brown Decision	239	(17)
The Problem	239	(1)
Background	240	(4)
The Method	244	(2)
The Evidence	246	(7)
First section of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution
Amicus curiae briefs
Oral exchanges between the lawyers and the Court
Excerpts from the Brown I decision
Questions to Consider	253	(1)
Epilogue	254	(2)
A Generation in War and Turmoil: The Agony of Vietnam	256	(37)
The Problem	256	(1)
Background	257	(6)
The Method	263	(4)
The Evidence	267	(23)
Suggested release forms for oral history interviews
Responses of five males and two females to the Vietnam War
Family photographs
Questions to Consider	290	(1)
Epilogue	291	(2)
Democracy and Diversity: Affirmative Action in California	293	(20)
The Problem	293	(1)
Background	294	(3)
The Method	297	(3)
The Evidence	300	(9)
Excerpts pertaining to the American ideal of ``equality''
Excerpts from Proposition 209
Speeches, articles, statistics, and opinion polls for and against affirmative action
Questions to Consider	309	(1)
Epilogue	310	(3)
Text Credits	313