Voices of Freedom A Documentary History

by Foner, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780393925043
• ISBN10: 0393925048
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-20
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Edited by Eric Foner and coordinated with each chapter of the text, this companion to Give Me Liberty! includes 139 primary-source documents touching on the theme of American freedom. The freedom theme is explored in the words of well-known historical figures and ordinary Americans. Each document is accompanied by an introductory headnote and study questions.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
15 "What Is freedom?": Reconstruction,1865-1877
69. Colloquy with Colored Ministers (1865)	3	(4)
70. Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865)	7	(3)
71. Sidney Andrews on the White South and Black Freedom (1866)	10	(4)
72. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Home Life" (ca. 1875)	14	(4)
73. Robert B. Elliott on Civil Rights (1874)	18	(5)
16 America's Gilded Age, 1090-1090
74. Chief Joseph, "An Indian's View of Indian Affairs" (1879)	23	(5)
75. William Graham Sumner on Social Darwinism (ca. 1880)	28	(4)
76. George E. McNeill on the Labor Movement in the Gilded Age (1887)	32	(4)
77. Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879)	36	(4)
78. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1888)	40	(5)
17 Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1090-1900
79. The Populist Platform (1892)	45	(6)
80. John Marshall Harlan, Dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)	51	(5)
81. Saum Song Bo, Chinese-American Protest, from American Missionary (1885)	56	(2)
82. Rev. Charles G. Ames on the Anti-Imperialist Movement (1898)	58	(6)
18 The Progressive ERA, 1900-1916
83. Manuel Gamio on a Mexican-American Family and American Freedom (ca. 1926)	64	(4)
84. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898)	68	(4)
85. John Mitchell, "The Workingman's Conception of Industrial Liberty" (1910)	72	(4)
86. The Industrial Workers of the World and the Free Speech Fights (1909)	76	(6)
87. Margaret Sanger on "Free Motherhood," from Woman and the New Race (1920)	82	(4)
88. Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom (1912)	86	(4)
19 Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916-1920
89. Woodrow Wilson on America and the World (1916)	90	(4)
90. Eugene V. Debs, Speech to the Jury (1918)	94	(4)
91. Randolph Bourne, "Trans-National America" (1916)	98	(5)
92. Marcus Garvey on Africa for the Africans (1921)	103	(4)
93. John A. Fitch on the Great Steel Strike (1919)	107	(6)
20 From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920-1932
94. André Siegfried on the "New Society," from the Atlantic Monthly (1928)	113	(4)
95. The Fight for Civil Liberties (1921)	117	(6)
96. Clarence Darrow at the Scopes Trial (1924)	123	(5)
97. Alain Locke, The New Negro (1925)	128	(4)
98. Walton H. Hamilton, "Freedom and Economic Necessity" (1928)	132	(5)
21 The New Deal, 1912-1940
99. Letter to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (1937)	137	(3)
100. John L. Lewis on Labor's Great Upheaval (1936)	140	(4)
101. Franklin D. Roosevelt on Economic Freedom (1936)	144	(5)
102. Herbert Hoover on the New Deal and Liberty (1936)	149	(4)
103. W.E.B. Du Bois, "A Negro Nation within a Nation" (1935)	153	(5)
22 Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941-1945
104. Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Four Freedoms (1941)	158	(2)
105. Henry R. Luce, The American Century (1941)	160	(3)
106, Henry A. Wallace on "The Century of the Common Man" (1942)	163	(3)
107. F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944)	166	(4)
108. Justice Robert A. Jackson, Dissent in Korematsu v. United States (1944)	170	(5)
23 The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953
109. The Truman Doctrine (1947)	175	(3)
110. NSC 68 and the Ideological Cold War (1950)	178	(5)
111. Walter Lippmann, a Critique of Containment (1947)	183	(3)
112. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)	186	(6)
113. President's Commission on Civil Rights, To Secure These Rights (1947)	192	(6)
114. Henry Steele Commager, "Who Is Loyal to America?" (1947)	198	(5)
24 An Affluent Society, 1953-1960
115. Clark Kerr, Industrialism and Industrial Man (1960)	203	(4)
116. David E. Lilienthal on Big Business and American Freedom (1952)	207	(4)
117. C. Wright Mills on "Cheerful Robots" (1959)	211	(3)
118. Allen Ginsberg, Howl (1956)	214	(2)
119. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)	216	(5)
25 The Sixties, 1960-1960
120. James Baldwin on Student Radicals (1960)	221	(3)
121. Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at Howard University (1965)	224	(4)
122. The Port Huron Statement (1962)	228	(7)
123. Paul Potter on the Antiwar Movement (1965)	235	(4)
124. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)	239	(5)
125. César Chávez, "Letter from Delano" (1969)	244	(5)
26 The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969-1900
126. Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (1962)	249	(3)
127. The Sharon Statement (1960)	252	(3)
128. Barry Goldwater on "Extremism in the Defense of Liberty" (1964)	255	(4)
129. Jimmy Carter on Human Rights (1977)	259	(4)
130. Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address (1981)	263	(4)
27 Globalization and Its Discontents, 1989-2000
131. Declaration for Global Democracy (1999)	267	(2)
132. Dick Armey, The Freedom Revolution (1995)	269	(4)
133. Bill Clinton, Remarks at the "America's Millennium" Celebration (1999)	273	(5)
28 Epilogue: September 11 and the Next American Century
134. The Bush Doctrine (2001)	278	(3)
135. The National Security Strategy of the United States (2002)	281	(3)
136. Robert Byrd on the War in Iraq (2003)	284	(4)
137. Anthony Kennedy, Opinion of the Court in Lawrence v. Texas (2003)	288