Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Documents in US History, Volume II

by Corbett, P. Scott; Naugle, Ronald C.

• ISBN13: 9780072840193
• ISBN10: 0072840196
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-16
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This is an affordable two-volume anthology for introductory American history courses in which instructors use primary source materials to supplement the main textbook. A balanced collection, it features readings from a variety of fields of history, including economic, political, cultural, and social. Each volume contains approximately 75 pieces, including traditional political treatises, songs, diaries, orations and speeches, and journals. Chapter introductions accompany the selections.

Table of Contents

Chapter 16 ~ His Terrible Swift Sword - The Civil War

1 ~ Declaration of Causes

2 ~ A Diary from Dixie

3 ~ Lincoln's Orders

4 ~ New Jersey Recruitment Poster

5 ~ General Ulysses S. Grant to President Abraham Lincoln

6 ~ The Battle Hymn of the Republic

7 ~ Robert E. Lee, General Order, No. 9

Chapter 17 ~ Binding the Wounds

1 ~ Letter from General William T. Sherman

2 ~ The Statutes at Large of the United States of America

3 ~ Amendment XIV

4 ~ Rufus Saxton, Testimony Before Congress, 1866

5 ~ Henry W. Grady, His Life, Writings, and Speeches

6 ~ Testimony of Benjamin Singleton

Chapter 18 ~ Rising Phoenix; Dying Thunderbird

1 ~ Letter from Uriah W. Oblnger to Matie V. Oblinger and Ella Oblinger

2 ~ Frank Collinson, Life in the Saddle

3 ~ The Trial of Standing Bear

4 ~ The Dawes Severalty Act: An Indian Homestead Act

5 ~ Ida B. Wells on Lynching

6 ~ The Conquest of the Philippines by the United States

Chapter 19 ~ The Goose That Lays Golden Eggs

1 ~ Songs of Work

2 ~ Occupational Distribution, 1880 and 1920

3 ~ Acres of Diamonds

4 ~ A Railroad Timetable

5 ~ The Appeal to Reason

6 ~ Frederick Winslow Taylor on the Principles of Scientific Management

7 ~ Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward

Chapter 20 ~ Urban Canyons

1 ~ Photograph of the Flatiron Building

2 ~ Growth of New Orleans to 1900

3 ~ "I Seen My Opportunities and I Took 'Em," George W. Plunkitt

4 ~ Lincoln Steffins, The Shame of the Cities

5 ~ Cartoons of Thomas Nast

6 ~ Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives

7 ~ Charles Monroe Sheldon, In His Steps

Chapter 21 ~ More Hell and Less Corn

1 ~ Frank Norris, The Pit

2 ~ Mary E. Lease, "The Bloodhounds of Money"

3 ~ "Good-bye, My Part, Good-bye"

4 ~ "You Can't Come In"

5 ~ Interstate Commerce Act

6 ~ William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" Speech

Chapter 22 ~ Social Engineers

1 ~ Mary C. Todd: "Education of Indian Girls in the West"

2 ~ Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House

3 ~ Laws Affecting Women and Children in the Suffrage and Non-Suffrage States

4 ~ The Bureau of Corporations, 1903

5 ~ Establishment of Standard Time

6 ~ Sixteenth Amendment

7 ~ Seventeenth Amendment

8 ~ John Muir, The Endangered Valley--The Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park

Chapter 23 ~ Unilateralism among Friends

1 ~ The Council of National Defense

2 ~ Woodrow Wilson's War Message

3 ~ George Creel, How We Advertised America

4 ~ Mirian E. Tefft, Recollections as 15 Year-old Girl in Bisbee Arizona

5 ~ Mathew Chopin, "Through the Valley of Death"

6 ~ Letter on Negro Soldiers

7 ~ Ida Clyde Clarke, American Women and the World War

Chapter 24 ~ The Tribal Twenties

1 ~ Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., My Years With General Motors

2 ~ Robert S. Lynd & Helen Merrell Lynd, Middletown

3 ~ J.A. Evans, "Extension Work Among Negroes Conducted by Negro Agents, 1923"

4 ~ The Indian Citizenship Act (1924)

5 ~ Immigration by the Numbers

6 ~ Malcolm Crowley, Exile's Return: A Narrative

Chapter 25 ~ Restoring the Temple

1 ~ Herbert Hoover's Inaugural Address

2 ~ Radio Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 7, 1933

3 ~ Letters from the "Forgotten Man"

4 ~ Photograph from Let us Now Praise Famous Men

5 ~ Woodie Guthrie's "Tom Joad"

6 ~ A Battle in San Francisco

7 ~ Eleanor Roosevelt,A Letter on Lynching

Chapter 26 ~ American Money, American Guns, and Russian Blood

1 ~ The Atlantic Charter

2 ~ Executive Order No. 9066

3 ~ E.B. White, The Meaning of Democracy

4 ~ A Tuskegee Airman Remembers

5 ~ William Menchester, Goodbye, Darkness

6 ~ Poems about Hiroshima

Chapter 27: Organizational Men and Governments

1 ~ The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944

2 ~ Arthur Miller, "All My Sons"

3 ~ New York State Anti-Discrimination Act, March 12, 1945

4 ~ Marilyn R. Allen, Alien Minorities and Mongrelization

5 ~ Ferdinand Lundberg and Marynia F. Farnham, Modern Women: The Lost Sex

6 ~ Harry S. Truman Remembers the Beginning of the Korean War

7 ~ Joseph McCarthy's Speech at Wheeling, W. Virginia, 1950

Chapter 28 ~ Redeeming Promissory Notes

1 ~ Myrlie Evers Remembers

2 ~ Declaration of Indian Purpose

3 ~ The Voting Rights Act of 1965

4 ~ South Boston High School

5 ~ Missing Emmett

6 ~ A Christmas Letter of Hope

Chapter 29 ~ Hubris

1 ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Ponders Involvement in Vietnam

2 ~ John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address

3 ~ John F. Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis Speech

4 ~ Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" Program

5 ~ Port Huron Statement

6 ~ "Ballad of Joe Hill"

7 ~ Manifesto Addressed to the President of the United States from the Youth of America

Chapter 30 ~ Crisis Confidence

1 ~ Two Photographs: Vietnam and Kent State

2 ~ Richard M. Nixon, "Peace with Honor"

3 ~ Richard Nixon's Resignation

4 ~ Gerald R. Ford, "Withdrawal from Vietnam"

5 ~ Gerald R. Ford, Proclamation 4417: An American Promise

6 ~ Death of Elvis Presley

7 ~ Three Mile Island

8 ~ Jimmy Carter's "Malaise" Speech

Chapter 31 ~ Standing Tall

1 ~ Hostile Takeovers

2 ~ Reaganite Culture

3 ~ George Bush, Breaking Down the Berlin Wall

4 ~ Contract with America

5 ~ Elinor Burkett, America in the Age of AIDS

6 ~ Native American Ironic Humor

Chapter 32 ~ Rainbows and Webs

1 ~ The Early Days of ARPANET

2 ~ Native American Casinos

3 ~ C.P. Ellis, Race: The American Obsession

4 ~ Fighting Hate

5 ~ Women's Reproductive Rights

6 ~ Truth in Accounting

7 ~ Fatal College Daze