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Preface for Instructors | p. iii |
Introduction for Students | p. viii |
Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | p. 1 |
Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South | p. 1 |
Report on the Condition of the South, 1865 | |
Black Codes Enacted in the South | p. 5 |
Mississippi Black Code, November 1865 | |
Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families | p. 9 |
Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865-1870 | |
A Black Convention in Alabama | p. 14 |
Address of the Colored Convention to the People of Alabama, 1867 | |
Klan Violence against Blacks | p. 18 |
Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871 | |
Comparative Questions | p. 21 |
The Contested West, 1870-1900 | p. 22 |
Pun Chi Appeals to Congress in Behalf of Chinese Immigrants in California | p. 22 |
A Remonstrance from the Chinese in California, ca. 1870 | |
Swedish Immigrants on the Kansas Prairie | p. 26 |
Ida Lindgren, Letters, 1870-1874 | |
Texas Rangers on the Mexican Border | p. 30 |
N. A. Jennings, A Texas Ranger, 1875 | |
In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat Describes White Encroachment | p. 33 |
Chief Joseph, Speech to a White Audience, 1879 | |
A Plea to "Citizenize" Indians | p. 37 |
Richard Pratt, "Kill the Indian ... and save the man," 1892 | |
Comparative Questions | p. 40 |
Business and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1895 | p. 41 |
Jay Gould on Capital and Labor | p. 41 |
Testimony before the U.S. Senate, 1883 | |
William Graham Sumner on Social Obligations | p. 45 |
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 1883 | |
Henry Demarest Lloyd Attacks Monopolies | p. 48 |
Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894 | |
Andrew Carnegie Explains the Gospel of Wealth | p. 52 |
Wealth, 1889 | |
Henry George Explains Why Poverty Is a Crime | p. 55 |
An Analysis of the Crime of Poverty, 1885 | |
Comparative Questions | p. 59 |
The City and its Workers, 1870-1900 | p. 60 |
A Textile Worker Explains the Labor Market | p. 60 |
Thomas O'Donnell, Testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee, 1885 | |
Domestic Servants on Household Work | p. 64 |
Interviews with Journalist Helen Campbell, 1880s | |
Jacob Riis Describes Abandoned Babies in New York City's Slums | p. 67 |
Waifs of New York City's Slums, 1890 | |
Labor Contractors and Italian Immigrants | p. 71 |
S. Merlino, Italian Immigrants and Their Enslavement, 1893 | |
George Washington Plunkitt Explains Politics | p. 75 |
William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, 1905 | |
Comparative Questions | p. 78 |
Dissent, Depression, and War, 1890-1900 | p. 79 |
Addressing the Crisis in Rural America | p. 79 |
Populist Party Platform, July 4, 1892 | |
White Supremacy in Wilmington, North Carolina | p. 84 |
Gunner Jesse Blake, Narrative of the Wilmington "Rebellion" of 1898 | |
Pinkertons Defeated at Homestead | p. 88 |
Pinkerton Guard Testimony, 1893 | |
Conflicting Views about Labor Unions | p. 91 |
N. F. Thompson, Testimony before the Industrial Commission on the Relations and Conditions of Capital and Labor, 1900 | |
Samuel Gompers, Letter to the American Federationist, 1894 | |
Emilio Aguinaldo Criticizes American Imperialism in the Philippines | p. 97 |
Case against the United States, 1899 | |
Comparative Questions | p. 101 |
Progressivism from the Grass Roots to the White House, 1890-1916 | p. 102 |
Jane Addams on Settlement Houses | p. 102 |
The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements, 1892 | |
A Sociologist Studies Working-Class Saloons in Chicago | p. 106 |
Royal Melendy, Ethical Substitutes for the Saloon, 1900 | |
John D. Rockefeller Jr. Explains "The Best Thing for Us All" | p. 110 |
Speech to Colorado Fuel and Iron Officials and Employee Representatives, October 2, 1915 | |
Mother Jones on the Futility of Class Harmony | p. 113 |
Letter to Mrs. Potter Palmer, January 12, 1907 | |
Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation | p. 115 |
The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895 | |
W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality | p. 118 |
Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903 | |
Comparative Questions | p. 121 |
World War I: The Progressive Crusade at Home and Abroad, 1914-1920 | p. 123 |
President Woodrow Wilson Asks Congress for a Declaration of War | p. 123 |
Speech to Congress, April 2, 1917 | |
Eugene V. Debs Attacks Capitalist Warmongers | p. 127 |
Speech Delivered in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918 | |
A Doughboy's Letter from the Front | p. 130 |
Anonymous Soldier, Letter to Elmer J. Sutters, 1918 | |
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Defends America from Communists | p. 133 |
The Case against the "Reds," 1920 | |
An African American Responds to the Chicago Race Riot | p. 138 |
Stanley B. Norvell, Letter to Victor F. Lawson, 1919 | |
Comparative Questions | p. 142 |
From New Era to Great Depression, 1920-1932 | p. 144 |
President Calvin Coolidge on Government and Business | p. 144 |
Address before the New York Chamber of Commerce, November 19, 1925 | |
Reinhold Niebuhr on Christianity in Detroit | p. 148 |
Diary Entries, 1925-1928 | |
The Ku Klux Klan Defends Americanism | p. 151 |
Hiram W. Evans, The Klan's Fight for Americanism, 1926 | |
Mothers Seek Freedom from Unwanted Pregnancies | p. 155 |
Margaret Sanger, Motherhood in Bondage, 1928 | |
Marcus Garvey Explains the Goals of the Universal Negro Improvement Association | p. 158 |
The Negro's Greatest Enemy, 1923 | |
Comparative Questions | p. 162 |
The New Deal Experiment, 1932-1939 | p. 164 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt Proposes an Activist Government | p. 164 |
Speech to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, 1932 | |
Working People's Letters to New Dealers | p. 169 |
Letter to Frances Perkins, January 27, 1935 | |
Letter to Frances Perkins, March 29, 1935 | |
Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 23, 1936 | |
Letter to Frances Perkins, July 27, 1937 | |
Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 27, 1939 | |
Huey Long Proposes Redistribution of Wealth | p. 174 |
Speech to Members of the Share Our Wealth Society, 1935 | |
A Mexican American Farmworker Describes the Importance of Sticking Together | p. 177 |
Jose Flores, Interview, Farm Security Administration Migrant Labor Camp, El Rio, California, 1941 | |
Conservatives Criticize the New Deal | p. 181 |
Herbert Hoover, Anti-New Deal Campaign Speech, 1936 | |
Minnie Hardin, Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, December 14, 1937 | |
Comparative Questions | p. 185 |
The United States and the Second World War, 1939-1945 | p. 187 |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt Requests Declaration of War on Japan | p. 187 |
Speech to Congress, December 8, 1941 | |
A Japanese American War Hero Recalls Pearl Harbor | p. 189 |
Grant Hirabayashi, Oral History, 1999 | |
The Holocaust: A Journalist Reports on Nazi Massacres of Jews | p. 192 |
Varian Fry, The Massacre of the Jews, December 21, 1942 | |
Soldiers Send Messages Home | p. 197 |
Sergeant Irving Strobing, Radio Address from Corregidor, Philippines, May 5 or 6, 1942 | |
John Conroy, Letter, December 24, 1942 | |
Allen Spach, Letter, February 1943 | |
James McMahon, Letter, March 10, 1944 | |
David Mark Olds, Letter, July 12, 1945 | |
The War between the Sexes | p. 204 |
Willard Waller, The Coming War on Women, 1945 | |
Comparative Questions | p. 208 |
Cold War Politics in the Truman Years, 1945-1953 | p. 209 |
General Marshall Summarizes the Lessons of World War II | p. 209 |
For the Common Defense, 1945 | |
George F. Kennan Outlines Containment | p. 214 |
The Long Telegram, February 22, 1946 | |
Cold War Blueprint | p. 218 |
NSC-68: U.S. Objectives and Programs for National Security, 1950 | |
Senator Joseph McCarthy Hunts Communists | p. 222 |
Speech Delivered in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950 | |
A South Korean Soldier Remembers the Korean War | p. 225 |
Hong An, Interview, 1997 | |
Comparative Questions | p. 229 |
The Politics and Culture of Abundance, 1952-1960 | p. 230 |
Edith M. Stern Attacks the Domestic Bondage of Women | p. 230 |
Women Are Household Slaves, 1949 | |
Vance Packard Analyzes the Age of Affluence | p. 235 |
The Status Seekers, 1959 | |
Rosa Parks Says "No": A Memoir | p. 239 |
My Story, 1992 | |
Civil Defense in the Nuclear Shadow | p. 243 |
North Dakota Civil Defense Agency, How You Will Survive, 1960 | |
President Dwight D. Eisenhower Warns about the Military-Industrial Complex | p. 247 |
Farewell Address, January 1961 | |
Comparative Questions | p. 250 |
Reform, Rebellion, and Reaction, 1960-1974 | p. 251 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson Describes the Great Society | p. 251 |
Address at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1964 | |
New Left Students Seek Democratic Social Change | p. 254 |
Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement, 1962 | |
Martin Luther King Jr. Explains Nonviolent Resistance | p. 259 |
Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963 | |
Black Power | p. 264 |
Chicago Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Leaflet, 1967 | |
Equal Rights for Women | p. 268 |
National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose, October 29, 1966 | |
Comparative Questions | p. 272 |
Vietnam and the Limits of Power, 1961-1975 | p. 273 |
President Kennedy Explains Why We Are in Vietnam | p. 273 |
Bobbie Lou Pendergrass, Letter to President John F. Kennedy, February 18, 1963 | |
President John F. Kennedy, Letter to Bobbie Lou Pendergrass, March 6, 1963 | |
A Secret Government Assessment of the Vietnam War | p. 276 |
Robert S. McNamara, Actions Recommended for Vietnam, October 14, 1966 | |
Military Discipline in an Unpopular War | p. 281 |
Robert D. Heinl Jr., The Collapse of the Armed Forces, June 7, 1971 | |
An American Soldier in Vietnam | p. 285 |
Arthur E. Woodley Jr., Oral History of a Special Forces Ranger | |
A Vietcong Guerrilla Describes Tunnel Warfare | p. 290 |
Tran Thi Gung, Interview, ca. 1998 | |
Comparative Questions | p. 293 |
America Moves to the Right, 1969-1989 | p. 294 |
George Wallace Campaigns for President | p. 294 |
American Independent Party Platform, 1968 | |
The Watergate Tapes: Nixon, Dean, and Haldeman Discuss the Cancer within the Presidency | p. 299 |
Transcript from Tape-Recorded Meeting, March 21, 1973 | |
Roe v. Wade and Abortion Rights | p. 306 |
Supreme Court Decision, 1973 | |
President Ronald Reagan Defends American Morality | p. 310 |
Address to the National Association of American Evangelicals, 1983 | |
A Vietnamese Immigrant on the West Coast | p. 315 |
Anonymous Man, Oral History, 1983 | |
Comparative Questions | p. 318 |
The End of the Cold War and the Challenges of Globalization, Since 1989 | p. 319 |
Supreme Court Dissents from Deciding 2000 Presidential Election | p. 319 |
Supreme Court Dissents in George W. Bush v. Albert Gore Jr., December 12, 2000 | |
President George W. Bush Receives CIA Warning about Al Qaeda and Addresses Congress after 9/11 Terrorist Attacks | p. 324 |
President's Daily Brief, Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S., August 6, 2001 | |
President George W. Bush, Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, September 20, 2001 | |
National Security of the United States Requires Preemptive War | p. 329 |
The National Security Strategy of the United States, September 2002 | |
A Captured 9/11 Terrorist Confesses | p. 334 |
Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Confession, 2007 | |
A Christian Leader Argues That Evangelical Christianity Has Been Hijacked | p. 337 |
Tony Campolo, Interview, 2004 | |
Comparative Questions | p. 341 |
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