For the Record

by Shi, David E.; Mayer, Holly A.

• ISBN13: 9780393924459
• ISBN10: 0393924459
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors	xvii
Where to Begin	xix
CHAPTER 18 RECONSTRUCTION: NORTH AND SOUTH	1	(21)
NEW YORK TIMES
FROM The Late Convention of Colored Men (1865)	3	(1)
CHARLES SOULE
To the Freed People of Orangeburg (1865)	4	(2)
MARY AMES
From a New England Woman's Diary in Dixie in 1865	6	(2)
Black Codes of Mississippi (1865)	8	(3)
HOWELL COBB
An Unreconstructed Southerner (1868)	11	(2)
Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan (1868)	13	(2)
LEE GUIDON
FROM Lay My Burden Down	15	(1)
Klan Terrorism in South Carolina	16	(6)
CHAPTER 19 NEW FRONTIERS: SOUTH AND WEST	22	(29)
HENRY W. GRADY
FROM The New South (1886)	24	(2)
D. AUGUSTUS STRAKER
FROM The New South Investigated (1888)	26	(1)
A Sharecrop Contract (1882)	27	(2)
Plesy v. Ferguson (1896)	29	(2)
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
The Atlanta Compromise (1895)	31	(3)
JOHN HOPE
A Critique of the Atlanta Compromise (1896)	34	(1)
The Life of an Illinois Farmer's Wife (1905)	35	(3)
RACHEL HASKELL
FROM Life in a Mining Camp (1867)	38	(2)
BENJAMIN SINGLETON
FROM Negro Exodus from the Southern States (1880)	40	(2)
CHIEF JOSEPH
An Indian's Perspective	42	(2)
HELEN HUNT JACKSON
FROM A Century of Dishonor (1881)	44	(3)
The Dawes Act (1887)	47	(1)
FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER
FROM The Frontier in American History (1893)	48	(3)
CHAPTER 20 BIG BUSINESS AND ORGANIZED LABOR	51	(17)
ANDREW CARNEGIE
FROM Wealth (1889)	53	(3)
Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878)	56	(2)
LEONORA M. BARRY
Organizing Women Workers	58	(2)
SAMUEL GOMPERS
The American Federation of Labor (1883)	60	(1)
EDWARD O'DONNELL
FROM Women as Bread Winners-The Error of the Age (1887)	61	(2)
PHILIP HUBERT
The Business of a Factory (1897)	63	(3)
EUGENE V. DEBS
FROM Outlook for Socialism in the United States (1900)	66	(2)
CHAPTER 21 THE EMERGENCE OF URBAN AMERICA	68	(17)
JOSIAH STRONG
FROM Our Country (1885)	70	(2)
ADNA FERRIN WEBER
FROM The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century (1899)	72	(2)
THEODORE DREISER
The Lure of the City (1900)	74	(2)
ROYAL MELENDY
Saloon Culture (1900)	76	(3)
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER
FROM The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over (1883)	79	(3)
The Athletic Craze (1893)	82	(3)
CHAPTER 22 GILDED-AGE POLITICS AND AGRARIAN REVOLT	85	(26)
GEORGE W. PLUNKITT
A Defense of Political Graft (1905)	87	(1)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)	88	(2)
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
FROM Should the Chinese Be Excluded? (1893)	90	(3)
FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER
A Black Woman's Appeal for Civil Rights (1891)	93	(1)
A BLACK WOMAN
Racism in the South (1902)	94	(3)
GROVER CLEVELAND
Veto of Pension Legislation (1886)	97	(1)
Populist Party Platform (1892)	98	(3)
MARY E. LEASE
The Money Question (1892)	101	(1)
EVA MCDONALD-VALESH
FROM The Strength and Weakness of the People's Movement (1892)	102	(2)
J. STERLING MORTON
What Farm Problem? (1896)	104	(1)
The Republican Party Platform of 1896	105	(1)
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
FROM The "Cross of Gold" Speech (1896)	106	(5)
CHAPTER 23 AN AMERICAN EMPIRE	111	(14)
NEW YORK WORLD
The War Must Be Ended (1897)	113	(1)
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
Declaration of War (1898)	114	(2)
ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE
FROM The March of the Flag	116	(2)
Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League (1899)	118	(1)
JOHN HAY
The Open Door in China (1899-1900)	119	(2)
JOSIAH QUINCY
FROM China and Russia (1900)	121	(2)
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904)	123	(2)
CHAPTER 24 THE PROGRESSIVE ERA	125	(36)
FREDERICK WINSLOW TAYLOR
Scientific Management (1912)	126	(2)
JANE ADDAMS
FROM The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements (1892)	128	(3)
UPTON SINCLAIR
FROM The Jungle (1906)	131	(2)
Muller v. Oregon (1908)	133	(2)
ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN
Working Women and the Vote (1912)	135	(3)
IDA B. WELLS
FROM Lynch Law in America (1900)	138	(2)
BENJAMIN R. TILLMAN
The Use of Violence against Southern Blacks (1900)	140	(1)
THE NIAGARA MOVEMENT
Declaration of Principles (1905)	141	(3)
Report of the Industrial Commission (1901)	144	(1)
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
FROM Message to Congress (1901)	145	(3)
WOODROW WILSON
FROM The New Freedom (1913)	148	(3)
INTERPRETING VISUAL SOURCES: PHOTOGRAPHY AND PROGRESSIVE REFORM	151	(187)
JACOB RIIS
Five Cents a Spot	154	(1)
JACOB RIIS
A Black-and-Tan Dive	155	(1)
JACOB RIIS
Dens of Death	156	(1)
JACOB RIIS
Police Station Lodger	157	(1)
JACOB RIIS
Tenement Yard	158	(1)
JACOB RIIS
In a Sweat Shop	159	(2)
CHAPTER 25 AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR	161	(21)
The Zimmermann Note (1917)	163	(1)
WOODROW WILSON
Declaration of War against Germany (1917)	164	(2)
RANDOLPH BOURNE
The War and the Intellectuals (1917)	166	(4)
GEORGE NORRIS
The Profits of War (1917)	170	(2)
HIRAM JOHNSON
Why Not a Dollar Draft? (1919)	172	(1)
ROBERT C. HOFFMAN
FROM I Remember the Last War	173	(4)
WOODROW WILSON
The League of Nations (1919)	177	(2)
HENRY CABOT LODGE
The League of Nations Must Be Revised (1919)	179	(3)
CHAPTER 26 THE MODERN TEMPER	182	(18)
A. MITCHELL PALMER
FROM The Case against the Reds (1920)	184	(1)
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
The Red Scare Is Un-American (1920)	185	(1)
The Sacco-Vanzetti Case (1927)	186	(1)
HIRAM W. EVANS
FROM The Klan's Fight for Americanism (1926)	187	(2)
The Need for Immigration Restriction (1923)	189	(2)
ROBERT H. CLANCY
The Immigration Act of 1924	191	(2)
The Great Black Migration (1917)	193	(2)
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
FROM Shall the Fundamentalists Win? (1922)	195	(3)
The Scopes Trial (1925)	198	(2)
CHAPTER 27 REPUBLICAN RESURGENCE AND DECLINE	200	(28)
EDWARD PURINTON
Big Ideas from Big Business (1921)	203	(1)
The La Follette Platform of 1924	204	(3)
CALVIN COOLIDGE
FROM Government and Business (1925)	207	(3)
HERBERT HOOVER
FROM The "New York City" Speech (1928)	210	(3)
LORRY MILL STRIKE
MARGARET LARKIN
Tragedy in North Carolina (1929)	213	(3)
FREDERICK NELSON
North Carolina Justice (1929)	216	(2)
Women Take Active Part in the Gastonic Mill Strike (1929)	218	(1)
Loray Strikers Are Communists (1929)	219	(2)
TWELVE SOUTHERNERS
FROM I'll Take My Stand (1930)	221	(2)
MERIDEL LE SUEUR
FROM Women on the Breadlines (1932)	223	(2)
Two Views of the Great Depression (1932)	225	(3)
CHAPTER 28 NEW DEAL AMERICA	228	(21)
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
First Inaugural Address (1933)	230	(2)
Letters to the Roosevelts during the Depression	232	(1)
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
After Capitalism-What? (1933)	233	(4)
Communist Efforts to Organize a Steel Union (1936)	237	(2)
HUEY LONG
Share Our Wealth (1935)	239	(2)
Republican Party Platform (1936)	241	(4)
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Roosevelt's "Court-Packing" Plan (1937)	245	(1)
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
FROM Civil Liberties-The Individual and the Community (1940)	246	(3)
CHAPTER 29 FROM ISOLATION TO GLOBAL WAR	249	(13)
HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR.
FROM The Meaning of the Kellogg-Briand Treaty (1928)	250	(2)
HENRY L. STIMS0N
FROM War Is an Illegal Thing (1932)	252	(1)
JOSEPH GREW
A More Forceful Response to Japan Is Needed (1937)	253	(1)
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Quarantine the Aggressors (1937)	254	(3)
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The Four Freedoms (1941)	257	(2)
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH
Address to America First Rally (1941)	259	(1)
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
War Message to Congress (1941)	260	(2)
CHAPTER 30 THE SECOND WORLD WAR	262	(20)
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND WINSTON CHURCHILL
The Atlantic Charter (1941)	264	(2)
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
FROM The Casablanca Conference Radio Address (1943)	266	(1)
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH
FROM Call to Negro America to March on Washington (1941)	267	(2)
Women in War Industries	269	(3)
FROM Korematsu v United States (1944)	272	(4)
HARRY S. TRUMAN
The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima-The Public Explanation (1945)	276	(2)
KARL T. COMPTON
If the Atomic Bomb Had Not Been Used (1946)	278	(4)
CHAPTER 31 THE FAIR DEAL AND CONTAINMENT	282	(19)
MR. X [GEORGE F. KENNAN]
FROM The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947)	285	(2)
WALTER LIPPMANN
A Critique of Containment (1947)	287	(1)
The Truman Doctrine (1947)	288	(3)
The Marshall Plan (1947)	291	(2)
JOSEPH MCCARTHY
Democrats and Communists (1950)	293	(1)
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS
The Black Silence of Fear (1952)	294	(2)
HARRY S. TRUMAN
Statement on the Korean War (1950)	296	(2)
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
Address to Congress (1951)	298	(3)
CHAPTER 32 THROUGH THE PICTURE WINDOW: SOCIETY AND CULTURE, 1945-1960	301	(21)
FROM Up from the Potato Fields (1950)	303	(2)
FROM What TV Is Doing to America (1955)	305	(4)
BETTY FRIEDAN
FROM The Feminine Mystique	309	(2)
WILLIAM H. WHYTE, JR.
FROM The Organization Man (1956)	311	(4)
GIBSON WINTER
FROM The Church in Suburban Captivity (1955)	315	(3)
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
FROM Varieties of Religious Revival (1955)	318	(4)
CHAPTER 33 CONFLICT AND DEADLOCK: THE EISENHOWER YEARS	322	(16)
JOHN FOSTER DULLES
Massive Retaliation (1954)	324	(2)
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
A Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem (1954)	326	(1)
The Eisenhower Doctrine (1957)	327	(1)
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka (1954)	328	(3)
Southern Declaration on Integration (1956)	331	(1)
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
The Situation in Little Rock (1957)	332	(3)
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Farewell Address (1961)	335	(3)
CHAPTER 34 NEW FRONTIERS: POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE 1960's	338	(55)
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Inaugural Address (1961)	340	(2)
MICHAEL HARRINGTON
FROM The Other America (1962)	342	(2)
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
FROM Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)	344	(4)
GEORGE C. WALLACE
The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax (1964)	348	(4)
FANNIE LOU HAMER
Why We Need the Vote (1964)	352	(2)
MALCOLM X
FROM "The Black Revolution" Speeches (1964)	354	(1)
STOKELY CARMICHAEL
FROM Black Power (1966)	355	(4)
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968)	359	(2)
CASEY HAYDEN AND MARY KING
Feminism and the Civil Rights Movement (1965)	361	(6)
THE VIETNAM CONFLICT
FROM The Rusk-McNamara Report (1961)	367	(2)
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
FROM Peace without Conquest (1965)	369	(2)
GEORGE BALL
FROM A Compromise Solution in South Vietnam (1965)	371	(1)
LE DUAN
A North Vietnamese View of American Intervention (1965)	372	(2)
CLARK M. CLIFFORD
FROM A Vietnam Reappraisal (1968)	374	(2)
GAYLE SMITH
The Nurse with Round Eyes (1971)	376	(3)
RICHARD M. NIXON
Vietnamizing the War (1969)	379	(3)
THOMAS J. VALLELY
Dishonoring the Vietnam Tragedy	382	(2)
The War Powers Act (1973)	384	(2)
INTERPRETING VISUAL SOURCES: VIETNAM WAR PHOTOGRAPHS	386	(7)
A Buddhist Ablaze	388	(1)
EDDIE ADAMS
Execution of a Viet Cong Suspect	389	(1)
NICK UT
Napalm Attack	390	(1)
JOHN PAUL FILO
A God-Awful Scream	391	(2)
CHAPTER 35 REBELLION AND REACTION IN THE 1960's AND 1970's	393	(19)
TOM HAYDEN
FROM The Port Huron Statement (1962)	395	(5)
GLORIA STEINEM
Women's Liberation (1970)	400	(3)
The Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest (1970)	403	(1)
TOM GRACE
The Shooting at Kent State (1970)	404	(4)
TOM BENDER
FROM Sharing Smaller Pies (1975)	408	(4)
CHAPTER 36 A CONSERVATIVE INSURGENCY	412	(18)
JERRY FALWELL
FROM Listen America (1980)	414	(3)
RONALD REAGAN
Speech to the House of Commons (1982)	417	(2)
RONALD REAGAN
The "Evil Empire" (1983)	419	(3)
NEW YORK TIMES
The Cold War Is Over (1989)	422	(2)
GEORGE H.W. BUSH
A New World Order (1991)	424	(3)
WADE HUNTLEY
Who Won the Cold War? (1993)	427	(3)
CHAPTER 36 TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY: AMERICA AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY	430
Contract with America (1994)	436	(2)
SHELBY STEELE
The New Segregation (1992)	438	(4)
BETTY FRIEDAN
FROM Beyond Gender (1995)	442	(1)
ROBERT D. PUTNAM
FROM Bowling Alone (1995)	443	(5)
RICHARD M. VALELLY
Couch-Potato Democracy? (1996)	448	(1)
JOHN LEWIS GiDIs
Setting Right a Dangerous World (2002)	449