Discovering the American Past A Look at the Evidence, Volume II: Since 1865

by Wheeler, William Bruce; Becker, Susan; Glover, Lorri

• ISBN13: 9780495915010
• ISBN10: 0495915017
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This primary source reader in the popular DISCOVERING series contains a six-part pedagogical framework that guides readers through the process of historical inquiry and explanation.

The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data. Each chapter is organized around the same pedagogical framework: The Problem, Background, The Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue. By following this pattern, and using a variety of sources such as letters, maps, statistics, drawings, song lyrics, and cartoons, students learn to examine sources critically, the way historians do.

The Seventh Edition integrates new documents and revised coverage throughout. For example, the Reconstruction chapter, appearing in Volumes I and II, now explores Thomas Nast's political cartoons and their effect on public opinion.

Table of Contents

Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Political Cartoonist And Public Opinion

Cartoons of Thomas Nast

The Road To True Freedom: African American Alternatives In The New South

Excerpt from Ida B. Wells's United States Atrocities (1892)

Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address (1895)

Excerpt from Henry McNeal Turner's "The American Negro and His Fatherland" (1895)

Excerpts from W.E.B. DuBois's "The Talented Tenth" (1903) and Niagara Address (1906)

Excerpt from E. W. Harper's "Enlightened Motherhood" (1892)

Table showing migration of Negro population by U.S. region, 1870-1920

Selling Consumption, 1890-1930

Excerpts from essays on the business of advertising

Advertisements from leading department stores, 1876-1926

Department store architecture

Child Labor Reform And The Redefinition Of Childhood, 1880-1920

Photographs of impoverished working children

Excerpts from Jacob Riis, How The Other Half Lives

Florence Kelley describes child labor and sweatshops

Letters to the Children's Bureau

Experts' advice to parents

Changes in child labor laws

Homogenizing A Pluralistic Nation: Propaganda During World War I. War songs and poetry

Advertisements and posters

Editorial cartoons

Speeches

Moving picture stills and ads

The "New" Woman: Debating Women's Roles In The 1920S

Experts' advice for women

Social science literature on working women

Marital advice literature

Photographs and newspaper reports about "flappers."

Understanding Rural Poverty During The Great Depression

Children's letters to Eleanor Roosevelt

Documentary photographs from the Farm Security Administration

The American Judicial System And Japanese American Internment During World War II

United States Supreme Court opinion and dissenting opinions in Korematsu v. U.S. (323 U.S. 214)

The Student Campaign For Civil Rights

Jim Crow laws

Sample literacy teSt. Excerpts from interviews with student sit-in leaders

Sit-In literature and songs

National news coverage of the student sit-ins

Excerpt of 1961 speech by the Rev

Martin Luther King Jr. Photographs of sit-in participants

A Generation In War And Turmoil: The Agony Of Vietnam

Sample release forms for oral history interviews

Interviews and photographs with a sampling of the Vietnam Generation

Who Owns History? The Texas Schoolbook Controversy

Texas state educational code

Proceedings of the Texas Educational Agency

Texas Essential Knowledge Skills (TEKS) standards

Texans debate their history standards

Sample of national media coverage of the Texas textbook debate

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