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Sue Armitage is Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Emerita, Washington State University, Pullman. She is the coeditor (with Elizabeth Jameson) of The Women’s West (1987), Writing the Range: Race, Class and Culture in the Women’s West (1997), and editor of Women’s Oral History: The Frontiers Reader (2002).
Laurie Mercier is Professor of History, Washington State University, Vancouver. She is the author of Anaconda: Labor, Community and Culture in Montana’s Smelter City (2001) and The 1970s Social History of the United States (2008), and coeditor (with Jaclyn Gier) of Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670-2005 (2006). She is a former president of the Oral History Association and coauthor (with Madeline Buckendorf) of Using Oral History in Community History Projects (2007).
List of Illustrations | p. ix |
Series Editors' Foreword | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
1865-1900 | p. 7 |
Race Relations | p. 8 |
The End of Slavery | p. 9 |
Sharecropping and Violence | p. 13 |
A California Remembers the War | p. 14 |
A Wounded Knee Survivor Remembers | p. 18 |
Work on the Western Agricultural Frontier | p. 20 |
A Homesteader's Account | p. 21 |
A Cowboy's Story | p. 23 |
Immigration | p. 25 |
A Greek Peddler: Anonymous | p. 27 |
A Chinese Businessman | p. 29 |
Industrial War | p. 32 |
The Homestead Strike | p. 34 |
1900-1920 | p. 39 |
Reform Movements | p. 40 |
Women's Reform | p. 40 |
Race and Work in the South | p. 46 |
Child Labor | p. 46 |
Growing Up with Segregation | p. 50 |
Migrations | p. 52 |
From Russia to Chicago and Montana | p. 53 |
Beginning the Great Migration | p. 57 |
World War I | p. 59 |
At the Front | p. 60 |
On the Homefront | p. 65 |
The Influenza Epidemic | p. 69 |
1920-1945 | p. 71 |
Migrations | p. 72 |
North to the United States for ôa Steady Jobö | p. 72 |
From Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California | p. 76 |
Involuntary Migration to Mexico | p. 79 |
Leisure and Culture in the 1920s and 1930s | p. 82 |
Drinking and Leisure during Prohibition | p. 82 |
American Renaissance | p. 84 |
Turn Your Radio On | p. 88 |
Work and Labor during the Great Depression | p. 90 |
The New CIO and the 1937 Steel Strike | p. 92 |
Working for the Civilian Conservation Corps | p. 95 |
Discrimination and the Depression | p. 98 |
World War II: Opportunities and Tragedies | p. 101 |
Women at Work | p. 101 |
Women at War | p. 105 |
Negotiating Internment | p. 109 |
1945-1965 | p. 115 |
The Cold War at Home | p. 116 |
The Left during the Cold War | p. 117 |
The Cold War and Labor | p. 120 |
Migrations | p. 123 |
Opportunities in the Industrial North | p. 125 |
Urban Indians | p. 128 |
Race and Civil Rights | p. 131 |
Desegregating the Nation's Capital | p. 132 |
Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi | p. 136 |
Postwar Work, Family, and Community | p. 140 |
Negotiating Career and Family in Arizona | p. 142 |
Life in the D.C. Suburbs | p. 146 |
1965-2000 | p. 151 |
Protest and Social Change | p. 152 |
Rock ænÆ Roll and Cultural Protest | p. 153 |
Radical Protest-SDS and the Weatherman | p. 156 |
The Gender Revolution and its Backlash | p. 160 |
The Dawning of the Gay Rights Movement | p. 161 |
The Conservative Women's Movement | p. 165 |
Cold War Warriors | p. 169 |
Vietnam War Soldiers | p. 170 |
The Nuclear Cold War and Its Environmental Consequences | p. 174 |
Cold War Migrations | p. 178 |
ôBorn a Hmong Daughterö | p. 179 |
Sanctuary for Central American Refugees | p. 183 |
Economic Change and New Domestic Challenges | p. 187 |
Shrinking Jobs in the Industrial Economy | p. 187 |
Domestic Terrorism and the Oklahoma City Bombing | p. 191 |
Appendix | |
How to Conduct an Oral History Interview: A Quick Guide | p. 197 |
Select Bibliography | p. 199 |
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