Going to the Source, Volume 2: Since 1865 The Bedford Reader in American History

by Brown, Victoria Bissell; Shannon, Timothy J.

• ISBN13: 9780312448233
• ISBN10: 0312448236
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-07
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Lots of readers offer lots of sources, but onlyGoing to the Sourcegives students a clear method for how to use them. The reader's strong pedagogical framework, developed by historians with extensive teaching experience, helps students learn how to ask fruitful questions in order to evaluate documents effectively and develop critical reading skills. Mirroring the chronology of the U.S. history survey, each chapter introduces students to the excitement of working with documents by focusing on a single intriguing historical episode. The reader's wide variety of chapter topics that complement the survey course and its rich diversity of sources from personal letters to political cartoons provokes students' interest as it teaches them the skills they need to successfully grapple with historical sources.

Table of Contents

VOLUME II: SINCE 1865

1. Political Terrorism during Reconstruction: Congressional Hearings and Reports on the Ku Klux Klan

Using the Source: Congressional Hearings and Reports



The Source: Testimony and Reports from the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States

2. Picturing a Western Myth: Photography and the Blackfeet Indians

Using the Source: Photographs

The Source: Photographs of the Blackfeet at Glacier National Park and on the Reservation, 1890–1930

3. Reading the 1894 Pullman Strike: Chicago's Daily Papers Report the News

Using the Source: Newspaper Articles

The Source: Chicago Newspaper Articles in the Pullman Strike, May 12, 1894–July 15, 1894

4. Immigrant to the Promised Land: Memory and Autobiography

Using the Source: Autobiographies

The Source: I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl by Hilda Satt Polacheck

5. Selling Respectability: Advertisements in the African-American Press, 1910–1913

Using the Source: Magazine Advertisements

The Source: Advertisements from The Crisis, November 1910 – March 1913

] 6. Living under Fire: World War I Soldiers' Diaries

Using the Source: Diaries

The Source: World War I Diaries from the St. Mihiel and Meuse Argonne Battles, 1918

7. Flappers in the Barrio: A Chapter from a Historian's Book

Using the Source: Secondary Sources

The Source: From Out of the Shadows: Mexican-American Women in the Twentieth Century by Vicki Ruiz

8. Painting a New Deal: U.S. Post Office Murals from the Great Depression

Using the Source: Public Art

The Source: Post Office Murals Depicting ÒWorkÓ in Local Communities, 1936–1942

9. Challenging Wartime Internment: Supreme Court Records from Korematsu v. United States

Using the Source: Supreme Court Records

The Source: Briefs and Supreme Court Opinions in Korematsu v. United States, October Term, 1944

] 10. Decision-Making on the Brink: Presidential Recordings of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Using the Source: Presidential Tapes

The Source: Presidential Tape Recordings from the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

11. Speaking of Equality: The Senate Debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Using the Source: Senate Speeches

The Source: Speeches from the Senate Debating the Civil Rights Act of 1964

12. A Son Writes Home: Letters from the Vietnam War

Using the Source: Personal Letters

The Source: Jeff Rogers' Letters from Vietnam, November 10, 1968–August 28, 1969

] 13. Declarations for Changing Times: Student Protest Manifestos from the 1960s

Using the Source: Protest Manifestos

The Source: Student Manifestos from the Sixties

] 14. Drawn to Summits: Political Cartoons on President Reagan and the Arms Race

Using the Source: Political Cartoons

The Source: Political Cartoons from the Reagan Era, 1981–1988

Appendix I: Avoiding Plagiarism

Appendix II: Documenting the Source



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