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Exploring American Histories guides you through the nation’s history, giving voice to an extraordinary variety of Americans, while teaching you to work with historical documents in the same way as professional historians.
The Combined Volume includes all chapters.
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-14.
Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-29.
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Preface
Versions and Supplements
Maps, Figures, and Tables
How to Use This Book
Chapter 1
Mapping Global Frontiers, to 1590
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Malintzin and Martin Waldseemüller
Native Peoples in the Americas
Native Peoples Develop Diverse Cultures
The Aztecs, the Maya, and the Incas
Native Cultures to the North
Europe Expands Its Reach
The Mediterranean World
Portugal Pursues Long-Distance Trade
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 1.1 Martin Waldseemüller and Mathias Ringmann, Universalis Cosmographia, 1507
European Encounters with West Africa
Worlds Collide
Europeans Cross the Atlantic
Europeans Explore the Americas
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Who Are These Native People?
Source 1.2 Christopher Columbus, Description of His First Encounter with Indians, 1492
Source 1.3 Antonio Pigafetta, Journal, 1521
Mapmaking and Printing
The Columbian Exchange
Europeans Make Claims to North America
Spaniards Conquer Indian Empires
Spanish Adventurers Head North
Europeans Compete in North America
Spain Seeks Dominion in Europe and the Americas
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Indians in the New Spanish Empire
Source 1.4 Camilla Townsend, An Indian Woman Aids in the Conquest of Mexico, 2006
Source 1.5 Jane E. Mangan, Indians Seek to Benefit from Spanish Conquest, 2005
Conclusion: A Transformed America
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 1
Indian and Spanish Encounters in the Americas, 1519–1530
Source 1.6 Hernán Cortés, Letter to King Charles I, 1520 Source 1.7 Aztec Priests, Respond to the Spanish, 1524 Source 1.8 Hernán Cortés and Malintzin Meet Montezuma at Tenochtitlán, 1519 Source 1.9 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, La Relación, c. 1528
Chapter 2
Colonization and Conflicts, 1580–1680
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Powhatan and Anne Hutchinson
Religious, Economic, and Imperial Transformations
The Protestant Reformation
Spain’s Global Empire Declines
France Enters the Race for Empire
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 2.1 A French Nun Reports a Huron Woman’s View of the Jesuits, 1640
The Dutch Expand into North America
The English Seek an Empire
The English Establish Jamestown
Tobacco Fuels Growth in Virginia
Expansion, Rebellion, and the Emergence of Slavery
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Indentured Servants In the Chesapeake
Source 2.2 Sarah Tailer Charges Captain and Mrs. Thomas Bradnox with Abuse, 1659 Source 2.3 Report of a Committee of the Assembly Concerning the Freedom of Elizabeth Key, 1656
The English Compete for West Indies Possessions
Pilgrims and Puritans Settle New England
Pilgrims Arrive in Massachusetts
The Puritan Migration
The Puritan Worldview
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Colonial Models of and for English Society
Source 2.4 Jack P. Greene, The Chesapeake as a Model of and For English Society, 1988
Source 2.5 Alan Taylor, New England Puritans Develop Anglo-American Ideals, 2001
Dissenters Challenge Puritan Authority
Wars in Old and New England
Conclusion: European Empires in North America
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 2
King Philip’s War
Source 2.6 William Nahaton, Petition to Free an Indian Slave, 1675 Source 2.7 Benjamin Church, A Visit with Awashonks, Sachem of the Sakonnet,1716 Source 2.8 John Easton, A Relation of the Indian War, 1675 Source 2.9 Edward Randolph, Report on the War, 1676 Source 2.10 Mary Rowlandson, Narrative of Captivity, 1682
Chapter 3
Colonial America amid Global Change, 1680–1754
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
William Moraley Jr. and Eliza Lucas
Europeans Expand Their Claims
English Colonies Grow and Multiply
The Pueblo Revolt and Spain’s Fragile Empire
France Seeks Land and Control
European Wars and American Consequences
Colonial Conflicts and Indian Alliances
Indians Resist European Encroachment
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 3.1 The Tuscarora Appeal to the Pennsylvania Government, 1710
Conflicts on the Southern Frontier
The Benefits and Costs of Empire
Colonial Traders Join Global Networks
Imperial Policies Focus on Profits
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Seaport Cities and Consumer Cultures
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The Middle Passage
Source 3.2 Plan of a Slave Ship, 1794
Source 3.3 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789
Labor in North America
Finding Work in the Colonies
Coping with Economic Distress
Rural Americans Face Changing Conditions
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Individualism and Community in Colonial North America
Source 3.4 James T. Lemon, Individualism Flourishes in Pennsvylvania , 1972
Source 3.5 James A. Henretta, Ethnic and Religious Bonds Foster Community, 1978
Slavery Takes Hold in the South
Africans Resist Their Enslavement
Conclusion: Changing Fortunes in British North America
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 3
Tobacco and Slaves
Source 3.6 Virginia Slave Laws, 1662 and 1667 Source 3.7 Joseph Ball Instructs His Nephew on Managing Enslaved Workers, 1743 Source 3.8 Penny Print of Enslaved Blacks and Plantation Owner, c. 1750 Source 3.9 Richard Corbin Describes How to Become a Successful Planter, 1759 Source 3.10 Lieutenant Governor William Gooch to the Board of Trade, London, 1729
Chapter 4
Religious Strife and Social Upheavals, 1680–1750
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Gilbert Tennent and Sarah Grosvenor
An Ungodly Society?
The Rise of Religious Anxieties
Cries of Witchcraft
Family and Household Dynamics
Women’s Changing Status
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 4.1 Abigail Faulkner Appeals Her Conviction for Witchcraft, 1692
Working Families
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Elite Women’s Lives in the North American Colonies
Source 4.2 Isaac Royall and His Family, 1741
Source 4.3 Eliza Lucas, Letter to Miss Bartlett, London, c. 1742
Reproduction and Women’s Roles
The Limits of Patriarchal Order
Diversity and Competition in Colonial Society
Population Growth and Economic Competition
Increasing Diversity
Expansion and Conflict
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Finding a Middle Ground in New France
Source 4.4 Richard White, Cultural Accommodation on the Middle Ground, 1991
Source 4.5 Brett Rushforth, Indian Slavery and Accommodation, 2014
Religious Awakenings
The Roots of the Great Awakening
An Outburst of Revivals
Religious Dissension
Political Awakenings
Changing Political Relations
Dissent and Protest
Transforming Urban Politics
Conclusion: A Divided Society
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 4
Awakening Religious Tensions
Source 4.6 Benjamin Franklin, On George Whitefield, the Great Revivalist, 1739 Source 4.7 Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, 1741 Source 4.8 Newspaper Report on James Davenport, 1743 Source 4.9 George Whitefield Preaching, c. 1760 Source 4.10 Sarah Osborn, Letter to Reverend Joseph Fish, February 28, 1767
Chapter 5
War and Empire, 1754–1774
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
George Washington and Pontiac
Imperial Conflicts and Indian Wars, 1754–1763
The Opening Battles
A Shift to Global War
The Costs of Victory
Battles and Boundaries on the Frontier
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 5.1 Minavavana, Speech to Fur Trader Alexander Henry, 1761
Conflicts over Land and Labor Escalate
Postwar British Policies and Colonial Unity
Common Grievances
Forging Ties across the Colonies
Great Britain Seeks Greater Control
Resistance to Britain Intensifies
The Stamp Act Inspires Coordinated Resistance
The Townshend Act
The Boston Massacre
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Protesting the Stamp Act
Source 5.2 London Merchants Petition to Repeal the Stamp Act, 1766
Source 5.3 The Repeal, 1766
Continuing Conflicts at Home
Tea and Widening Resistance
The Continental Congress and Colonial Unity
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Colonial Identities in Eighteenth Century British North America
Source 5.4 Gordon Wood, Britain’s Influence on Colonial Identities, 1993
Source 5.5 Jon Butler, American Influences on Colonial Identities, 2000
Conclusion: Liberty within Empire
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 5
The Boston Massacre
Source 5.6 Deposition of William Wyatt, March 7, 1770 Source 5.7 Account of Boston Massacre Funeral Procession, March 12, 1770 Source 5.8 Paul Revere, Etching of the Boston Massacre, 1770 Source 5.9 Account of Captain Thomas Preston, June 25, 1770 Source 5.10 John Adams, Defense of the British Soldiers at Trial, October 1770
Chapter 6
The American Revolution, 1775–1783
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Thomas Paine and Elizabeth Freeman
The Question of Independence
Armed Conflict Erupts
Building a Continental Army
Reasons for Caution and for Action
Declaring Independence
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 6.1 Thomas Paine, Common Sense, January 1776
Choosing Sides
Recruiting Supporters
Choosing Neutrality
Committing to Independence
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
African Americans in New York City Amid the Upheavals of 1776
Source 6.2 Slaves Destroy Statue of King George III in New York City, 1776
Source 6.3 A Fire Burns British-Occupied New York City, September 1776
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Americans Decide to Revolt against British Rule
Source 6.4 Bernard Bailyn, The Importance of Ideas, 1967
Source 6.5 Timothy H. Breen, Insurgents Mobilize, 2010
Fighting for Independence, 1776–1777
British Troops Gain Early Victories
Patriots Prevail in New Jersey
A Critical Year of Warfare
Patriots Gain Critical Assistance
Surviving on the Home Front
Governing in Revolutionary Times
Colonies Become States
Patriots Divide over Slavery
France Allies with the Patriots
Raising Armies and Funds
Indian and Patriots Battle for Land
Conflicts Escalate on the Frontier
Winning the War and the Peace, 1778–1783
War Rages in the South
An Uncertain Peace
A Surprising Victory
Conclusion: Legacies of the Revolution
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 6
Women in the Revolution
Source 6.6 Christian Barnes, Letter to Elizabeth Inman, April 29, 1775 Source 6.7 Abigail Adams, Letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776 Source 6.8 Mary Brant, Letter to Capt. Daniel Claus, Montreal, 5 October 1779 Source 6.9 Esther De Berdt Reed, The Sentiments of an American Woman, 1780 Source 6.10 Elizabeth Mum Bett Freeman, 1811
Chapter 7
Forging a New Nation, 1783–1800
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Daniel Shays and Alexander Hamilton
Financial, Frontier, and Foreign Problems
Continental Officers Threaten Confederation
Indians, Land, and the Northwest Ordinance
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 7.1 United Indian Nations Council, Message to Congress, 1786
Depression and Debt
On the Political Margins
Separating Church and State
African Americans Struggle for Rights
Women Seek Wider Roles
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Women and Free Blacks Claim Rights in the Nation
Source 7.2 Judith Sargent Murray, On the Equality of the Sexes, 1790
Source 7.3 Petition from Free Blacks of Charleston, 1791
Indebted Farmers Fuel Political Crises
Reframing the American Government
The Constitutional Convention of 1787
Americans Battle over Ratification
Organizing the Federal Government
Hamilton Forges an Economic Agenda
Years of Crisis, 1792–1796
Foreign Trade and Foreign Wars
Disease and Dissent
Further Conflicts on the Frontier
The First Party System
The Adams Presidency
The Election of 1800
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Partisan Campaigning in the Election of 1800
Source 7.4 Eric Burns, Federalists Attack Thomas Jefferson, 2006
Source 7.5 John Ferling, Democratic-Republicans Attack John Adams, 2013
Conclusion: A Young Nation Comes of Age
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 7
Debating the Constitution in New York State
Source 7.6 James Madison, Federalist 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, November 1787 Source 7.7 Melancton Smith, Antifederalist Argument at the New York State Convention, June 1788 Source 7.8 Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Argument at the New York State Convention, June 1788 Source 7.9 John Williams, Antifederalist Argument at the New York State Convention, June 1788 Source 7.10 The Eleventh Pillar of the Great National Dome, 1788
Chapter 8
The Early Republic, 1790–1820
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Parker Cleaveland and Sacagawea
The Dilemmas of National Identity
Education for a New Nation
Literary and Cultural Developments
Religious Renewal
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 8.1 Samuel Jennings, Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences, 1792
The Racial Limits of American Culture
A New Capital for a New Nation
Extending Federal Power
A New Administration Faces Challenges
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
White Responses to Black Rebellion
Source 8.2 Thomas Jefferson, Letter to U.S. Minister to Great Britain Rufus King, July 1802
Source 8.3 Leonora Sansay, Letter to Aaron Burr, November 1802
The Louisiana Territory and Indian Societies
The Supreme Court Extends Its Reach
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Religion and Politics in the Early Republic
Source 8.4 Nathan O. Hatch, Religion as a Democratizing Force, 1989
Source 8.5 Amanda Porterfield, Religion Sows Doubt and Nurtures Partisanship, 2012
Democratic-Republicans Expand Federal Powers
Remaking America’s Economic Character
Native Lands and American Migrations
Technology Reshapes Agriculture and Industry
Transforming Domestic Production
Technology, Cotton, and Slaves
Conclusion: New Identities and New Challenges
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 8
The Corps of Discovery: Paeans to Peace and Instruments of War
Source 8.6 William Clark, Journal, October 12, 1804 Source 8.7 Charles McKenzie, Narrative of a Fur Trader, November 1804 Source 8.8 William Clark, Journal, November 18, 1804 Source 8.9 William Clark, Journal, January 28, 1805, and Meriwether Lewis, February 1, 1805 Source 8.10 Meriwether Lewis, Journal, August 20, 1805
Chapter 9
Defending and Redefining the Nation, 1809–1832
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Dolley Madison and John Ross
Conflicts at Home and Abroad
Tensions at Sea and on the Frontier
War with Britain and their Indian Allies
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 9.1 Tecumseh, Speech to William Henry Harrison, 1810
National Expansion and Regional Economies
Governments Fuel Economic Growth
Americans Expand the Nation’s Borders
Regional Economic Development
Economic and Political Crises
The Panic of 1819
Slavery in Missouri
The Expansion and Limits of American Democracy
Expanding Voting Rights
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Protesting the Missouri Compromise
Source 9.2 Timothy Claimright, Maine Not to be Coupled with the Missouri Question, 1820 Source 9.3 Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Holmes, 1820
Racist Restrictions and Racial Violence
Political Realignments
The Presidential Election of 1828
Jacksonian Politics in Action
A Democratic Spirit?
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Expanding American Democracy for Whom?
Source 9.4 Alexander Keyssar, Broadening the Franchise, 2000
Source 9.5 James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, The Limits of Democratic Expansion, 1997
Confrontations over Tariffs and the Bank
Contesting Indian Removal
Conclusion: The Nation Faces New Challenges
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 9
The Cherokee Engage White America
Source 9.6 Women’s Petition to the Cherokee National Council, June 30, 1818 Source 9.7 Sequoyah’s Cherokee Syllabary, 1821 Source 9.8 Cherokee Constitution, 1827 Source 9.9 Nancy Reese, Letter to Reverend Fayette Shepherd, December 25, 1828 Source 9.10 John Ross, On the Treaty of New Echota, 1836
Chapter 10
Social and Cultural Ferment in the North, 1820–1850
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Charles Grandison Finney and Amy Kirby Post
The Market Revolution
Creating an Urban Landscape
The Lure of Urban Life
Roots of Urban Disorder
The New Middle Class
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 10.1 1850 U.S. Census of the Isaac and Amy Post Household
The Rise of Industry
Factory Towns and Women Workers
The Decline of Craft Work and Workingmen’s Responses
The Panic of 1837
Saving the Nation from Sin
The Second Great Awakening
New Visions of Faith and Reform
Transcendentalism
Organizing for Change
Varieties of Reform
The Problem of Poverty
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
How Can We Help the Poor?
Source 10.2 Matthew Carey, Appeal to the Wealthy of the Land, 1833
Source 10.3 Emily G. Kempshall, Letter to Rochester Female Charitable Society, 1838
The Temperance Movement
Utopian Communities
Abolitionism Expands and Divides
The Beginnings of the Antislavery Movement
Abolition Gains Ground and Enemies
Abolitionism and Women’s Rights
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Religion, Race, and the Call to End Slavery
Source 10.4 Lawrence J. Friedman, The Religious Roots of Immediate Abolition, 1982
Source 10.5 Manisha Sinha, The Black Roots of Immediate Abolition, 2016
The Rise of Antislavery Parties
Conclusion: From the North to the Nation
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 10
Religious Faith and Women’s Activism
Source 10.6 Charles G. Finney, An Influential Woman Converts, 1830 Source 10.7 Elizabeth Emery and Mary P. Abbott, Founding a Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1836 Source 10.8 Maria Stewart, On Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, 1831 Source 10.9 Congregational Pastoral Letter, 1837 Source 10.10 Sarah Grimké, Response to the Pastoral Letter, 1837
Chapter 11
Slavery Expands South and West, 1830–1850
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
José Antonio Menchaca and Solomon Northrup
Planters Expand the Slave System
A Plantation Society Develops in the South
Urban Life in the Slave South
The Consequences of Slavery’s Expansion
Slave Society and Culture
Enslaved Labor Fuels the Economy
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 11.1 Edward Strutt Abdy, Description of Washington D.C., Slave Pen, 1833
Developing an African American Culture
Resistance and Rebellion
Planters Tighten Control
Harsher Treatment for Southern Blacks
White Southerners without Slaves
Planters Seek to Unify Southern Whites
Democrats Face Political and Economic Crises
The Battle for Texas
Indians Resist Removal
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Two Views on Texas Independence
Source 11.2 Colonel William Travis, Appeal for Reinforcements, March 3, 1836
Source 11.3 Benjamin Lundy, The War in Texas, 1836
Van Buren and the Panic of 1837
The Whigs Win the White House
The National Government Looks to the West
Expanding to Oregon and Texas
Pursuing War with Mexico
Debates over Slavery Intensify
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Families in Slavery
Source 11.4 Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, Planters Shape Slave Families, 1974
Source 11.5 Deborah Gray White, The Roles of Enslaved Women, 1985
Conclusion: Geographical Expansion and Political Division
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 11
Lives in Slavery
Source 11.6 William Wells Brown, Memories of Childhood Source 11.7 Harriet Jacobs, A Girl Threatened by Sexual Exploitation Source 11.8 Solomon Northup, Endless Labor and Constant Fear Source 11.9 Friedrich Shulz, The Slave Market Source 11.10 Mary Reynolds, Recalling Work, Punishment, and Faith c. 1850s
Chapter 12
Imperial Ambitions and Sectional Crises, 1842–1861
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
John C. Frémont and Dred Scott
Claiming the West
Traveling the Overland Trail
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 12.1 Elizabeth Smith Geer, Oregon Trail Diary, 1847
The Gold Rush
A Crowded Land
Expansion and the Politics of Slavery
California and the Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act Inspires Northern Protest
Pierce Encourages U.S. Expansion
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The Fugitive Slave Law Contested
Source 12.2 William C. Nell, Meeting of Colored Citizens of Boston, September 30, 1850
Source 12.3 President Millard Fillmore, Proclamation 56 Calling on Citizens to Assist in the Recapture of a Fugitive Slave, February 18, 1851
Sectional Crises Intensify
Popularizing Antislavery Sentiment
The Kansas-Nebraska Act Stirs Dissent
Bleeding Kansas and the Election of 1856
The Dred Scott Decision
From Sectional Crisis to Southern Secession
Cortina’s War and John Brown’s Raid
The Election of 1860
From Secession to War
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
White Southerners Decide To Secede
Source 12.4 Michael P. Johnson, Georgians Choose Secession, 1977
Source 12.5 J. Mills Thornton, Alabamans Move toward Secession, 1978
Conclusion: A Nation Divided
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 12
Debating Secession
Source 12.6 Robert Toombs, Supporting Secession in Georgia, November 13, 1860 Source 12.7 Waitman T. Willey, Speech at Virginia State Secession Convention, March 4, 1861 Source 12.8 Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Jefferson Davis about to become Provisional President of the Confederacy, March 16, 1861 Source 12.9 Alexander Stephens, Cornerstone Speech, March 21, 1861 Source 12.10 Mary Boykin Chesnut, Diary entries, April 4-12, 1861
Chapter 13
Civil War, 1861–1865
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Frederick Douglass and Rose O’Neal Greenhow
The Nation at War, 1861-1862
Both Sides Prepare for War
Wartime Roles of African Americans, Indians, and Mexican Americans
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 13.1 General Benjamin Butler, Enslaved Blacks Flee to Union Army Camps, May 27, 1861
Union Politicians Consider Emancipation
War Transforms the North and the South
Life and Death on the Battlefield
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Photographers Bring the War Home
Source 13.2 Union Soldiers in Camp, c. 1863
Source 13.3 Battlefield Dead at Antietam, 1862
The Northern Economy Expands
Urbanization and Industrialization in the South
Women Aid the War Effort
Dissent and Protest in the Midst of War
The Tide of War Turns, 1863–1865
Key Victories for the Union
African Americans Contribute to Victory
The Final Battles of a Hard War
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Why Union Soldiers Fought the Civil War
Source 13.4 Chandra Manning, The Fight Against Slavery (2007)
Source 13.5 Gary Gallagher, The Fight to Save the Union (2011)
The War Comes to an End
Conclusion: An Uncertain Future
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 13
Firsthand Accounts of the Civil War
Source 13.6 Frederick Spooner, Letter to His Brother Henry, April 30, 1861 Source 13.7 John Hines, Letter to His Parents, April 22, 1862 Source 13.8 Suzy King Taylor, Caring for the Thirty-third U.S. Colored Troops, 1863 Source 13.9 Thomas Freeman, Letter to His Brother-in-Law, March 26, 1864 Source 13.10 Eliza Frances Andrews, On Union Prisoners of War, 1865
Chapter 14
Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1863–1877
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Jefferson Long and Andrew Johnson
Emancipation
African Americans Embrace Freedom
Reuniting Families Torn Apart by Slavery
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 14.1 Freedpeople Petition for Land, 1865
Freedom to Learn
Freedom to Worship and the Leadership Role of Black Churches
National Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln Plans for Reunification
Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction
Johnson and Congressional Resistance
Congressional Reconstruction
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Debating the Freedmen’s Bureau
Source 14.2 Colonel Eliphalet Whittlesey, Report on the Freedman’s Bureau, 1865
Source 14.3 Democratic Flier Opposing the Freedman’s Bureau Bill, 1866
The Struggle for Universal Suffrage
Remaking the South
Whites Reconstruct the South
Black Political Participation and Economic Opportunities
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Race and Reconstruction
Source 14.4 William A. Dunning, Radical Reconstruction (1907)
Source 14.5 John Hope Franklin, The South’s New Leaders (1961)
White Resistance to Congressional Reconstruction
The Unraveling of Reconstruction
The Republican Retreat
Congressional and Judicial Retreat
The Presidential Compromise of 1876
Conclusion: The Legacies of Reconstruction
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 14
Testing and Contesting Freedom
Source 14.6 Mississippi Black Code, 1865 Source 14.7 Richard H. Cain, Federal Aid for Land Purchase, 1868 Source 14.8 Willis B. Bocock and Black Laborers, Sharecropping Agreement, 1870 Source 14.9 Ellen Parton, Testimony on Klan Violence, 1871 Source 14.10 Thomas Nast, Colored Rule in a Reconstructed (?) State, 1874
Chapter 15
The West, 1865–1896
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Annie Oakley and Geronimo
Opening the West
The Great Plains
Federal Policy and Foreign Investment
Indians and Resistance to Expansion
Indian Civilizations
Federal Policy toward Indians before 1870
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 15.1 Buffalo Hunting, c. 1875
Reconstruction and Indians
Indian Defeat
Reforming Indian Policy
Indian Assimilation and Resistance
The Mining and Lumber Industries
The Business of Mining
Life in the Mining Towns
The Lumber Boom
The Cattle Industry and Commercial Farming
The Life of the Cowboy
The Rise of Commercial Ranching
Commercial Farming
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Cowboy Myths and Realities
Source 15.2 Poster Advertising Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 1893
Source 15.3 George C. Duffield, Diary of a Real Cowboy, 1866
Women Homesteaders
Farming on the Great Plains
Diversity in the Far West
Mormons
Californios and Mexican Americans
The Chinese
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The Significance of the Frontier
Source 15.4 Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893
Source 15.5 Patricia Nelson Limerick, Deemphasizing the Concept of the Frontier, 1987
Conclusion: The Ambiguous Legacy of the West
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 15
American Indians and Whites in the West
Source 15.6 James Michael Cavanaugh, Support for Indian Extermination, 1868 Source 15.7 Helen Hunt Jackson, Challenges to Indian Policy, 1881 Source 15.8 Thomas Nast, Patience until the Indian Is Civilized—So to Speak, 1878 Source 15.9 Zitkala-Ša, Life at an Indian Boarding School, 1921 Source 15.10 Chief Joseph, Views on Indian Affairs, 1879
Chapter 16
Industrial America, 1877–1900
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Andrew Carnegie and John Sherman
America Industrializes
The New Industrial Economy
Innovation and Inventions
Building a New South
Industrial Consolidation
The Growth of Corporations
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 16.1 Horace Taylor, What a Funny Little Government, 1900
Laissez-Faire, Social Darwinism, and Their Critics
The Doctrines of Success
Challenges to Laissez-Faire
Society and Culture in the Gilded Age
Wealthy and Middle-Class Leisure-Time Pursuits
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Leisure-Class Women
Source 16.2 The Delineator, 1900
Source 16.3 Alice Austen and Trude Eccleston, 1891
Changing Gender Roles
Black America and Jim Crow
National Politics in the Era of Industrialization
The Weak Presidency
Congressional Inefficiency
The Business of Politics
An Energized and Entertained Electorate
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Robber Baron or Captain of Industry?
Source 16.4 Matthew Josephson, The Robber Barons, 1934
Source 16.5 Ron Chernow, John D. Rockefeller, Industrial Statesman, 1998
Conclusion: Industrial America
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 16
Debates about Laissez-Faire
Source 16.6 William Graham Sumner, A Defense of Laissez-Faire, 1883 Source 16.7 Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 2000–1887, 1888 Source 16.8 Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth, 1889 Source 16.9 Henry Demarest Lloyd, Critique of Wealth, 1894
Chapter 17
Workers and Farmers in the Age of Organization, 1877–1900
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
John McLuckie and Mary Elizabeth Lease
Working People Organize
The Industrialization of Labor
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 17.1 John Morrison, Testimony on the Impact of Mechanization, 1883
Organizing Unions
Clashes between Workers and Owners
Working-Class Leisure in Industrial America
Farmers Organize
Farmers Unite
Populists Rise Up
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Farmers and Workers Organize: Two Views
Source 17.2 Walter Huston, Here Lies Prosperity, 1895
Source 17.3 Populist Party Platform, 1892
The Depression of the 1890s
Depression Politics
Political Realignment in the Election of 1896
The Decline of the Populists
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The Agrarian Myth and Populism
Source 17.4 Richard Hofstadter, The Agrarian Myth, 1955
Source 17.5 Charles Postel, The Populist Vision, 2007
Conclusion: A Passion for Organization
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 17
The Pullman Strike of 1894
Source 17.6 George Pullman, Testimony before the U.S. Strike Commission, 1894 Source 17.7 Eugene V. Debs, On Radicalism, 1902 Source 17.8 Jennie Curtis, Testimony before the U.S. Strike Commission, 1894 Source 17.9 Report from the Commission to Investigate the Chicago Strike, 1895
Chapter 18
Cities, Immigrants, and the Nation, 1880–1914
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Beryl Lassin and Maria Vik Takacs
A New Wave of Immigrants
Immigrants Arrive from Many Lands
Creating Immigrant Communities
Hostility toward Recent Immigrants
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 18.1 Anzia Yerzierska, Immigrant Fathers and Daughters, 1925
The Assimilation Dilemma
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The Chinese in America
Source 18.2 Saum Song Bo, A Chinese View of the Statue of Liberty 1885
Source 18.3 Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 1886
Becoming an Urban Nation
The New Industrial City
Expand Upward and Outward
How the Other Half Lived
Urban Politics at the Turn of the Century
Political Machines and City Bosses
Urban Reformers
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Immigration, Nativism, and Whiteness
Source 18.4 John Higham, Nativism and Race, 1955
Source 18.5 Katherine Benton-Cohen, Nativism, Mexicans, and Whiteness, 2009
Conclusion: A Nation of Cities
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 18
Melting Pot or Vegetable Soup?
Source 18.6 Israel Zangwill, The Melting-Pot, 1908 Source 18.7 The Mortar of Assimilation—And the One Element That Won’t Mix, 1889 Source 18.8 Be Just—Even to John Chinaman, 1893 Source 18.9 Alfred P. Schultz, The Mongrelization of America, 1908 Source 18.10 Randolph S. Bourne, Trans-national America, 1916
Chapter 19
Progressivism and the Search for Order, 1900–1917
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Gifford Pinchot and Gene Stratton-Porter
The Roots of Progressivism
Progressive Origins
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 19.1 Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis, 1907
Muckrakers
Humanitarian and Social Justice Reform
Female Progressives and the Poor
Fighting for Women’s Suffrage
Progressivism and African Americans
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Addressing Racial Inequality
Source 19.2 Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Compromise, 1895
Source 19.3 Ida B. Wells, A Critique of Booker T. Washington, 1904
Progressivism and Indians
Morality and Social Control
Prohibition
Prostitution, Narcotics, and Juvenile Delinquency
Birth Control
Immigration Restriction
Good Government Progressivism
Municipal and State Reform
Conservation and Preservation of the Environment
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Progressivism in White and Black
Source 19.4 C. Van Woodward, Progressivism for Whites Only, 1951
Source 19.5 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Southern Black Women and Progressivism, 1996
Presidential Progressivism
Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal
Taft Retreats from Progressivism
The Election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom Agenda
Conclusion: The Progressive Legacy
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 19
Women’s Suffrage and Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
Source 19.6 Jane Addams, Why Women Should Vote, 1910 Source 19.7 Adella Hunt Logan, Colored Women as Voters, 1912 Source 19.8 Belle Kearney, The South and Women’s Suffrage, 1903 Source 19.9 Rose Winslow, Prison Notes, 1917 Source 19.10 America When Feminized, c. 1919-1920
Chapter 20
Empire, Wars, and Pandemic, 1898–1919
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Alfred Thayer Mahan and José Martí
The Awakening of Imperialism
The Economics of Expansion
Cultural Justifications for Imperialism
Gender and Empire
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 20.1 Rudyard Kipling, The White Man’s Burden, 1899
The War with Spain
Revolution in Cuba
The War of 1898
The Pacification of Cuba
The Philippine War
Extending U.S. Imperialism, 1899–1913
Theodore Roosevelt and Big Stick Diplomacy
Opening the Door in China
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Fighting in the Philippines
Source 20.2 President McKinley Defends His Decision
Source 20.3 William Carson, A Bigger Job Than He Thought For, 1899
Wilson and American Foreign Policy, 1912–1917
Diplomacy and War
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The U.S. Chooses to Enter World War I
Source 20.4 Arthur S. Link, Woodrow Wilson and Neutrality, 1963
Source 20.5 John Whiteclay Chambers II, Woodrow Wilson’s Unneutral Neutrality, 2000
Making the World Safe for Democracy
Fighting the War at Home
Government by Commission
Winning Hearts and Minds
1918-19 Influenza Pandemic
Waging Peace
The Failure of Ratification
Conclusion: A U.S. Empire
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 20
The Challenges of the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic
Source 20.6 Philadelphia Inquirer Describes the Crisis, 1918 Source 20.7 A Letter from a Native American, Volunteer Nurse, 1918 Source 20.8 Advertisement to Stop Influenza, 1918 Source 20.9 Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams on Fake Influenza Remedies, 1918 Source 20.10 U.S. Public Health Service Information on Influenza, 1919
Chapter 21
The Twenties, 1919–1929
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
D. C. Stephenson and Ossian Sweet
Social Turmoil
The Red Scare, 1919–1920
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 21.1 A. Mitchell Palmer, The Case against the Reds, 1920
Racial Violence in the Postwar Era
Prosperity, Consumption, and Growth
Government Promotion of the Economy
Americans Become Consumers
Urbanization
Perilous Prosperity
Challenges to Social Conventions
Breaking with the Old Morality
The Harlem Renaissance
Marcus Garvey and Black Nationalism
Culture Wars
Prohibition
Nativists versus Immigrants
Resurrection of the Ku Klux Klan
Fundamentalism versus Modernism
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Men and Women of the KKK
Source 21.2 Gerald W. Johnson, The Ku Kluxer, 1924
Source 21.3 Women of the Ku Klux Klan, 1927
Politics and the Fading of Prosperity
The Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party
Lingering Progressivism
Financial Crash
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The Impact of Prohibition
Source 21.4 Andrew Sinclair, The Excesses of Prohibition, 1962
Source 21.5 Lisa McGirr, The National State and Crime Control, 2016
Conclusion: The Transitional Twenties
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 21
The New Negro and the Harlem Renaissance
Source 21.6 A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen, The New Negro—What Is He? 1919 Source 21.7 Claude McKay, If We Must Die, 1919 Source 21.8 Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, 1921 Source 21.9 Aaron Douglas, Illustration, The New Negro, 1925 Source 21.10 Bessie Smith, Down-Hearted Blues, 1923
Chapter 22
Depression, Dissent, and the New Deal, 1929–1940
AMERICAN HISTORIES
Eleanor Roosevelt and Luisa Moreno
The Great Depression
Hoover Faces the Depression
Hoovervilles and Dust Storms
Challenges for Racial Minorities
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 22.1 Plea from the Scottsboro Prisoners, 1932
Families under Strain
Organized Protest
The New Deal
Roosevelt Restores Confidence
Steps toward Recovery
Direct Assistance and Relief
New Deal Critics
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt
Source 22.2 Mildred Isbell to Mrs. Roosevelt, January 1, 1936
Source 22.3 Minnie Harden to Mrs. Roosevelt, December 14, 1937
The New Deal Moves to the Left
Expanding Relief Measures
Establishing Social Security
Organized Labor Strikes Back
A Half Deal for Racial Minorities
Decline of the New Deal
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
New Deal or Raw Deal
Source 22.4 William E. Leuchtenburg, The Roosevelt Reconstruction, 1963
Source 22.5 Barton J. Bernstein, The Conservative Achievements of Liberal Reform, 1969
Conclusion: New Deal Liberalism
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 22
The Depression in Rural America
Source 22.6 Ann Marie Low, Dust Bowl Diary, 1934 Source 22.7 John P. Davis, A Black Inventory of the New Deal, 1935 Source 22.8 A Sharecropper’s Family in Washington County, Arkansas, 1935 Source 22.9 Martin Torres, Protest Against Maltreatment of Mexican Laborers in California, 1934 Source 22.10 Otis Nation, Testimony to the Great Plains Committee, 1937
Chapter 23
World War II, 1933–1945
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
J. Robert Oppenheimer and Fred Korematsu
The Road toward War
The Growing Crisis in Europe
The Challenge to Isolationism
The United States Enters the War
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 23.1 Monica Sone, Memories of Pearl Harbor
The Home-Front Economy
Managing the Wartime Economy
New Opportunities for Women
Everyday Life on the Home Front
Fighting for Equality at Home
The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
Struggles for Mexican Americans
American Indians
The Ordeal of Japanese Americans
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Japanese American Internment
Source 23.2 Charles Kikuchi, Internment Diary, 1942
Source 23.3 Justice Hugo Black, Korematsu v. United States, 1944
Global War
War in Europe
War in the Pacific
Ending the War
Evidence of the Holocaust
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust
Source 23.4 David S. Wyman, FDR Abandoned the Jews, 1984
Source 23.5 Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman, FDR Did Not Abandon the Jews, 2013
Conclusion: The Impact of World War II
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 23
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
Source 23.6 Petition to the President of the United States, July 17, 1945 Source 23.7 President Harry S. Truman, Press Release on the Atomic Bomb, August 6, 1945 Source 23.8 Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 Source 23.9 U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, 1946 Source 23.10 Father Johannes Siemes, Eyewitness Account of the Hiroshima Bombing, 1945
Chapter 24
The Opening of the Cold War, 1945–1961
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
George Kennan and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
The Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1947
Mutual Misunderstandings
The Truman Doctrine
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 24.1 Henry Wallace, The Way to Peace, 1946
The Marshall Plan and Economic Containment
The Cold War Hardens, 1948–1953
Military Containment
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The Marshall Plan and the Soviet Union
Source 24.2 George C. Marshall, The Marshall Plan, 1947
Source 24.3 Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Objections to the Marshall Plan, 1947
The Korean War
The Korean War and the Imperial Presidency
Combating Communism at Home, 1945–1954
Loyalty and the Second Red Scare
McCarthyism
The Cold War Expands, 1953 –1961
Nuclear Weapons and Containment
Decolonization
Interventions in the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa
Early Intervention in Vietnam, 1954–1960
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Causes of the Cold War
Source 24.4 William Appleman Williams, Expanding the Economic Open Door, 1959
Source 24.5 John Lewis Gaddis, Competing Ideologies, 1972
Conclusion: The Cold War and Anticommunism
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 24
McCarthyism and the Hollywood Ten
Source 24.6 Ronald Reagan, Testimony before HUAC, 1947 Source 24.7 John Howard Lawson, Testimony before HUAC, 1947 Source 24.8 The Waldorf Statement and the Introduction of the Blacklist, 1947 Source 24.9 Herblock, You Mean I’m Supposed to Stand on That, 1950 Source 24.10 Lillian Hellman, Letter to HUAC, 1952
Chapter 25
Troubled Innocence, 1945–1961
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Alan Freed and Grace Metalious
Peacetime Transition and the Boom Years
Peacetime Challenges, 1945–1948
Economic Conversion and Labor Discontent
Truman, the New Deal Coalition, and the Election of 1948
Economic Boom
Baby Boom
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 25.1 Adlai E. Stevenson, A Purpose for Modern Woman,1955
Changes in Living Patterns
The Culture of the 1950s
The Rise of Television
Wild Ones on the Big Screen
The Influence of Teenage Culture
The Lives of Women
Religious Revival
Beats and Other Nonconformists
The Growth of the Civil Rights Movement
The Rise of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
School Segregation and the Supreme Court
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
White Resistance to Desegregation
The Sit-Ins
Civil Rights Struggles in the North
Civil Rights Struggles in the West
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The Civil Rights Movement and Its Opponents
Source 25.2 The Southern Manifesto, 1956
Source 25.3 Ella Baker, Bigger Than a Hamburger, 1960
Domestic Politics in the Eisenhower Era
Modern Republicanism
The Election of 1960
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
When Did the Civil Rights Movement Begin?
Source 25.4 Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, The Long Civil Rights Movement, 2005
Source 25.5 Steven F. Lawson, The Short Civil Rights Movement, 2011
Conclusion: Postwar Politics and Culture
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 25
Teenagers in Postwar America
Source 25.6 Dick Clark, Your Happiest Years, 1959 Source 25.7 Charlotte Jones, Letter on Elvis, 1957 Source 25.8 The Desegregation of Central High School, 1957 Source 25.9 Gloria Lopez-Stafford, A Mexican American Childhood in El Paso, Texas, 1949 Source 25.10 Why No Chinese American Delinquents? 1955
Chapter 26
Liberalism and Its Challengers, 1960–1973
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Earl Warren and Bayard Rustin
The Politics of Liberalism
Kennedy’s New Frontier
Kennedy, the Cold War, and Cuba
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 26.1 Edmund Valtman, The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
The Civil Rights Movement Intensifies, 1961–1968
Freedom Rides
Kennedy Supports Civil Rights
Freedom Summer and Voting Rights
Civil Rights and Black Power
Federal Efforts toward Social Reform, 1964–1968
The Great Society
The Warren Court
The Vietnam War, 1961–1969
Kennedy’s Intervention in South Vietnam
Johnson Escalates the War in Vietnam
Challenges to the Liberal Establishment
The New Left
The Counterculture
Liberation Movements
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Chicano and Native American Freedom Movements
Source 26.2 Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán, 1969
Source 26.3 The Alcatraz Proclamation, 1969
The Revival of Conservatism
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Race and Class in Second Wave Feminism
Source 26.4 Anne Valk, Feminist Interactions, 2008
Source 26.5 Linda Gordon, Race, Class, and Feminism, 2014
Conclusion: Liberalism and Its Discontents
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 26
Freedom Summer
Source 26.6 Prospectus for Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964
Source 26.7 Nancy Ellin, Letter Describing Freedom Summer, 1964 Source 26.8 White Southerners Respond to Freedom Summer, 1964 Source 26.9 Fannie Lou Hamer, Address to the Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee, 1964 Source 26.10 Lyndon B. Johnson, Monitoring the MFDP Challenge, 1964
Chapter 27
The Swing toward Conservatism, 1968–1980
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Pauli Murray and Louise Day Hicks
Nixon: War and Diplomacy, 1969–1974
The Election of 1968
The Failure of Vietnamization
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 27.1 Richard Nixon, Speech Accepting the Republican Nomination for President, August 8, 1968
The Cold War Thaws
Crisis in the Middle East and at Home
Nixon and Politics, 1969–1974
Pragmatic Conservatism
The Nixon Landslide and Watergate Scandal, 1972–1974
The Presidency of Jimmy Carter, 1976–1980
Jimmy Carter and the Limits of Affluence
The Perils of Détente
Challenges in the Middle East
The Persistence of Liberalism in the 1970s
Popular Culture
Women’s Movement
Environmentalism
Racial Struggles Continue
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Women of Color and Feminism
Source 27.2 Workshop Resolutions, First National Chicana Conference, 1971
Source 27.3 Combahee River Collective, A Black Feminist Statement, 1977
Mexican Americans Challenge Discrimination
The New Right Rises
Tax Revolt
Neo-Conservatism
Christian Conservatism
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The Rise of the New Right
Source 27.4 Dan T. Carter, George Wallace, Race, and the New Right, 1996
Source 27.5 Daniel K. Williams, The Christian Right, 2010
Conclusion: The Swing toward Conservatism
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 27
The New Right and Its Critics
Source 27.6 Proposition 13, California, 1978 Source 27.7 Phyllis Schlafly, What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women? 1972 Source 27.8 Gloria Steinem, Testimony on the Equal Rights Amendment, May 6, 1970 Source 27.9 Paul Weyrich, Building the Moral Majority, 1979 Source 27.10 A. Bartlett Giamatti, The Moral Majority Threatens Freedom, 1981
Chapter 28
The Triumph of Conservatism, the End of the Cold War, and the Rise of the New World Order, 1980–1992
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
George Shultz and Demetria Martinez
The Reagan Revolution
Reagan and Reaganomics
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 28.1 Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981
The Implementation of Social Conservatism
Reagan and the End of the Cold War, 1981–1988
The Evil Empire
Human Rights and the Fight against Communism
Fighting International Terrorism
The Nuclear Freeze Movement
The Road to Nuclear De-escalation
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The Nuclear Freeze Movement
Source 28.2 New Jersey Referendum on Nuclear Freeze, 1982
Source 28.3 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Pastoral Letter on War and Peace, 1983
The Presidency of George H. W. Bush, 1989–1993
Kinder and Gentler Conservatism
The Breakup of the Soviet Union
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The End of the Cold War
Source 28.4 John Spanier, Gorbachev Needed to End the Cold War, 1992
Source 28.5 Beth Fischer, Reagan Ends the Cold War, 1997
Globalization and the New World Order
Managing Conflict after the Cold War
The 1992 Election
Conclusion: Conservative Ascendancy and the End of the Cold War
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 28
The Iran-Contra Affair
Source 28.6 The Boland Amendments, 1982 and 1984 Source 28.7 CIA Freedom Fighter’s Manual, 1983 Source 28.8 Ronald Reagan, Speech on the Iran-Contra Affair, 1987 Source 28.9 Oliver North, Testimony to Congress, July 1987 Source 28.10 George Mitchell, Response to Oliver North, 1987
Chapter 29
The Challenges of a Globalized World, 1993 to the present
COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES
Bill Gates and Alicia Garza
Transforming American Society
The Computer Revolution
The Changing American Population
Political Polarization and Globalization in the Clinton Years
Politics during the Clinton Administration
GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Source 29.1 Bo Yee, The New American Sweatshop, 1994
Global Challenges
The Presidency of George W. Bush
Bush and Compassionate Conservatism
The Iraq War
Bush’s Second Term
COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The War in Iraq
Source 29.2 George W. Bush, Declaration of Victory in Iraq, May 1, 2003
Source 29.3 Farnaz Fassihi, Report from Baghdad, 2004
The Challenges Faced by President Barack Obama
The Great Recession
Obama and the Great Recession
The 2010 Revolt Against Obama
Obama’s Second Term
Latinos and Immigration
Asian Americans
African Americans and Institutional Racism
The Native American Struggle Continued
Obama and the World
COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The Election of Barack Obama
Source 29.4 Frederick C. Harris, Decline of Black Politics, 2012
Source 29.5 Randall Kennedy, The Importance of Symbolism, 2011
The Presidency of Donald Trump
The 2016 Election
The Trump Presidency
Pandemic, Protests, and Politics
Conclusion: Technology and Terror in a Global Society
Chapter Review
PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 29
The Uses of September 11
Source 29.6 Diana Hoffman, The Power of Freedom, 2002 Source 29.7 Khaled Abou El Fadl, Response to September 11, 2001 Source 29.8 Anti-Muslim Discrimination, 2011 Source 29.9 Edward Snowden, Interview, 2014 Source 29.10 Alice M. Greenwald, Message from the Director of the 9/11 Memorial Museum
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