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9780737731866

Opposing Viewpoints in American History

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    9780737731866

  • ISBN10:

    0737731869

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-12-15
  • Publisher: Greenhaven Pr
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Summary

Opposing Viewpoints[Registered] in American History are anthologies of primary documents from America's past. Assembled in two volumes, Volume 1 From Colonial Times to Reconstruction and Volume 2 From Reconstruction to the Present, these writings discuss important and controversial events, personalities, movements, and ideas from the nation's history. Each volume presents more than eighty original sources in which men and women of various classes and professions express their opinions on the issues of their times. The writings are arranged in a pro/con format, creating a running historical debate on specific topics within each era. Opposing Viewpoints[Registered] in American History offers students the opportunity to interpret history for themselves by studying original documents on the debates that forged our present social, political, and economic structures. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
PART 1: REBUILDING AFTER THE CIVIL WAR (1865--1895)
Chronology
1(3)
Preface
4(3)
Reconstruction and the New Social Order in the South
Reconstruction Should Be Harsh (1865)
7(1)
William Mason Grosvenor
Reconstruction Should Be Lenient (1866)
8(2)
Herman Melville
The Ku Klux Klan Is a Terrorist Organization (1870)
10(2)
Albion W. Tourgee
The Ku Klux Klan Is a Peacekeeping Organization (1872)
12(2)
John Brown Gordon
The Gilded Age: Industrialization and Labor Conflicts
Concentrations of Wealth Harm America (1883)
14(3)
Henry George
Concentrations of Wealth Help America (1889)
17(3)
Andrew Carnegie
The Organizing of Labor into Unions Is Dangerous (1886)
20(2)
Henry Clews
Labor Unions Are Essential (1894)
22(1)
Samuel Gompers
A Populist Prescription for Social Reform (1892)
23(2)
A Social Darwinist View of Social Reform (1914)
25(2)
William Graham Sumner
PART 2: THE PROGRESSIVE ERA (1895--1920)
Chronology
27(3)
Preface
30(3)
Jim Crow and Black Response
Blacks Should Stop Agitating for Political Equality (1895)
33(1)
Booker T. Washington
Blacks Should Strive for Political Equality (1903)
34(3)
W.E.B. Du Bois
Racial Segregation Is Constitutional (1896)
37(2)
Henry B. Brown
Racial Segregation Is Unconstitutional (1896)
39(3)
John Marshall Harlan
American Empire
America Should Retain the Philippines (1900)
42(3)
Albert J. Beveridge
America Should Not Rule the Philippines (1900)
45(3)
Joseph Henry Crooker
Progressive Era Reforms and Issues
Child Labor Should Be Abolished (1906)
48(2)
Edwin Markham
Child Labor May Be Beneficial (1883, 1906)
50(2)
Thomas L. Livermore
American Women Should Have the Right to Vote (1909)
52(3)
Julia Ward Howe
American Women Should Not Have the Right to Vote (1909)
55(3)
Emily P. Bissell
Hetch Hetchy Valley Should Be Preserved (1912)
58(1)
John Muir
Hetch Hetchy Valley Should Be Dammed (1913)
59(2)
Gifford Pinchot
The Federal Government Should Regulate Trusts: Roosevelt's New Nationalism (1910)
61(2)
Theodore Roosevelt
The Federal Government Should Oppose Trusts: Wilson's New Freedom (1913)
63(3)
Woodrow Wilson
World War I and the League of Nations
America Should Enter World War I (1917)
66(3)
Woodrow Wilson
America Should Not Enter World War I (1917)
69(2)
George W. Norris
War Dissenters' Freedoms of Speech and Assembly Must Be Preserved (1917)
71(2)
Robert La Follette
War Dissenters' Freedoms of Speech and Assembly Must Be Limited (1917)
73(1)
The United States Should Join the League of Nations (1919)
74(2)
James D. Phelan
The United States Should Not Join the League of Nations (1919)
76(3)
Lawrence Sherman
PART 3: PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION, AND WAR (1920--1945)
Chronology
79(3)
Preface
82(3)
Social and Cultural Issues of the 1920s
The Department of Justice Is Defending America from Communist Subversion (1920)
85(2)
A. Mitchell Palmer
The Department of Justice Is Violating Constitutional Freedoms (1920)
87(2)
H.L. Mencken Critiques America (1922)
89(2)
H.L. Mencken
A Critique of H.L. Mencken (1928)
91(2)
Catherine Beech Ely
Prohibition Is a Success (1924)
93(1)
John Gordon Cooper
Prohibition Is a Failure (1926)
94(2)
William H. Stayton
The Great Depression and the New Deal
Self-Help Is the Best Response to Unemployment (1932)
96(2)
Henry Ford
Self-Help Is Not Enough (1932)
98(3)
Charles R. Walker
America Needs a New Deal (1932)
101(3)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt's New Deal Would Destroy America (1932)
104(2)
Herbert Hoover
Redistributing America's Wealth Would Solve the Depression (1934)
106(1)
Huey P. Long
Long's ``Share-Our-Wealth'' Plan Is Impractical (1935)
107(1)
Hamilton Basso
World War II
The United States Should Give Lend-Lease Aid to Great Britain (1940)
108(3)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lend-Lease Aid Will Drag the United States into War (1941)
111(4)
James F. O'Connor
The Internment of Japanese Americans Was Justified (1944)
115(1)
Hugo Black
The Internment of Japanese Americans Was Not Justified (1944)
116(3)
Frank Murphy
Using the Atomic Bomb Against Japan Is Justified (1945)
119(1)
Harry S. Truman
Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan Was Immoral (1945)
120(3)
Christian Century
PART 4: THE COLD WAR ABROAD AND AT HOME (1945--1989)
Chronology
123(3)
Preface
126(5)
Rise of the Cold War
America Should Seek Peace with the Soviet Union (1946)
131(2)
Henry A. Wallace
America Should Contain the Soviet Union (1947)
133(4)
George F. Kennan
Communist Subversives Threaten America (1950)
137(1)
Joseph R. McCarthy
McCarthyism Threatens America (1950)
138(3)
America Should Send a Man to the Moon (1961)
141(2)
John F. Kennedy
America's Race to the Moon Is Misguided (1962)
143(2)
Carl Dreher
The Struggle for Civil Rights and Equality
Racial Segregation in Public Schools Is Unconstitutional (1954)
145(3)
Earl Warren
The Supreme Court Should Not Interfere in Southern Racial Practices (1956)
148(1)
Blacks Should Strive to Be Part of the American Dream (1961)
149(4)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Blacks Can Never Be Part of the American Dream (1963)
153(3)
Malcolm X
American Women Need an Equal Rights Amendment (1970)
156(2)
Margaret M. Heckler
An Equal Rights Amendment Would Be Harmful (1970)
158(2)
Myra Wolfgang
The Turbulent Sixties
America Is Fighting for a Just Cause in Vietnam (1965)
160(2)
Lyndon B. Johnson
America Is Not Fighting for a Just Cause in Vietnam (1967)
162(2)
Eugene McCarthy
Riots Are Mob Criminal Acts (1966)
164(2)
Richard M. Nixon
Riots Are Social Revolutions (1967)
166(3)
Tom Hayden
America's Youth Must Lead a New Revolution (1962, 1968)
169(3)
Student Rebellion Leaders Are a Disgrace (1969)
172(2)
K. Ross Toole
From Nixon to Reagan
Executive Privilege Protects a President's Private Communications (1973)
174(2)
Richard M. Nixon
A President's Executive Privilege Is Not Absolute (1974)
176(2)
Warren Burger
America Is Facing a Crisis of Confidence (1979)
178(3)
Jimmy Carter
The American Spirit Remains Strong (1980)
181(3)
Ronald Reagan
The End of the Cold War
The Cold War Was a Great Victory for the United States (1992)
184(3)
John Lewis Gaddis
The Cold War Was Not a Great Victory for the United States (1993)
187(3)
Wade Huntley
PART 5: NEW CHALLENGES AFTER THE COLD WAR (1991--PRESENT)
Chronology
190(2)
Preface
192(3)
Domestic Challenges
America Must Reform Its Health Care System (1994)
195(1)
Bill Clinton
America's Health Care System Does Not Need Government Reform (1993)
196(3)
Fred Barnes
President Bill Clinton Should Be Impeached (1998)
199(2)
Clinton's Impeachment Is Not Justified (1998)
201(2)
Jerrold Nadler
Gay Marriage Must Be Banned (2003)
203(2)
Gay Marriage Should Not Be Banned (2006)
205(2)
Jamie Raskin
National Security, Terrorism, and Iraq
America Must Use Military Force Against Iraq to Liberate Kuwait (1991)
207(1)
George H. W. Bush
War Against Iraq Is Unnecessary (1991)
208(2)
Arthur Schlesinger
America Must Wage War Against Terrorists (2001)
210(3)
George W. Bush
America Must Seek Alternatives to a Military Response to Terrorism (2001)
213(2)
Joyce Neu
President George W. Bush Is Abusing the War Powers of His Office (2006)
215(2)
Elizabeth Holtzman
The President Needs Broad Wartime Powers to Protect the Nation (2006)
217(3)
John Yoo
Index 220

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