Chapter 15. Reconstruction, 1865-1877 [[swing chapter]]
The Struggle for National Reconstruction
15-1 Andrew Johnson, Plan of Reconstruction (1865)
15-2 Carl Schurz, Report on Conditions in the South (1865)
15-3 The Mississippi Black Codes (1865)
15-4 An Interview with Andrew Johnson (1866)
15-5 The Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Meaning of Freedom
15-6 Frederick Douglass, What the Black Man Wants (1865)
15-7 Thaddeus Stevens, Black Suffrage and Land Redistribution (1867)
15-8 The Fourteenth Amendment and Woman Suffrage (1873, 1875)
The Undoing of Reconstruction
15-9 Thomas Nast, The Rise and Fall of Northern Support for Reconstruction (1868, 1874)
15-10 President Grant Refuses to Aid Republicans in Mississippi (1875)
15-11 The Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)
15-12 Susan Myrick Interviews Ex-Slave Catherine Beale (1929)
Chapter 16. Conquering a Continent, 1861-1877
The Republican Vision
16-1 Alexander Toponce, The Golden Spike (1869)
Incorporating the West
16-2 Howard Ruede, Letter from a Kansas Homesteader (1878)
16-3 John Wesley Powell, Report on the Lands of the Arid Region (1878)
16-4 The White Caps, Nuestra Platforma: Hispanics Protest Anglo Encroachment in New Mexico (1890)
16-5 Mormon Renunciation of Polygamy, Woodruff Manifesto (1890)
A Harvest of Blood: Native Peoples Dispossessed
16-6 The Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
16-7 Custer's Last Stand, Helena Daily Herald (July 4, 1876)
16-8 Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor (1881)
16-9 Buffalo Bird Woman, Beginning a Garden (1917)
Part V. Bold Experiments in an Era of Industrialization, 1877-1929
Chapter 17. The Busy Hive: Industrial America at Work, 1877-1917
Business Gets Bigger
17-1 John D. Rockefeller, Testimony before the U.S. Industrial Commission (December 30, 1899)
17-2 Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879)
17-3 Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth (1889)
17-4 Justin Smith Morrill, On the Origin of the Land-Grant College Act (ca. 1874)
17-5 On Child Labor (1877)
17-6 Lillie B. Chase Wyman, Studies of Factory Life: Among the Women (1888)
17-7 Frederick Winslow Taylor, Principles of Scientific Management (1911)
Immigrants, East and West
17-8 The Immigrant Experience: Letters Home (1901-1903)
17-9 Giuseppe Giacosa, A Visitor in Chicago (1892)
17-10 On Chinese Immigration (1876, 1882)
Labor Gets Organized
17-11 Terrence V. Powderly, The Army of Unemployed (1887)
17-12 Eugene V. Debs, How I Became a Socialist (1902)
17-13 Testimony Before the U.S. Strike Commission on the Pullman Strike (1894)
Chapter 18. The Victorians Meet the Modern, 1880-1917
Women, Men, and the Solitude of Self
18-1 Catharine E. Beecher, The Christian Family (1869)
18-2 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Solitude of Self (1892)
18-3 John Muir, A Perilous Night on Shasta's Summit (1888)
18-4 Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life (1899)
18-5 Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption (1899)
Domesticity Goes Public
18-6 Susan B. Anthony, A Woman's Right to Suffrage (1873)
18-7 Carry A. Nation, Smashing at Kiowa (1899)
Science and Faith
18-8 Henry Ward Beecher, Evolution and Religion (1885)
18-9 William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man (1883)
18-10 Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (1900)
Chapter 19. “Civilization's Inferno”: The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917
The New Metropolis
19-1 Julian Ralph, Colorado and Its Capital (1893)
19-2 Louis H. Sullivan, The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896)
19-3 Josiah Strong, The Dangers of Cities (1886)
19-4 Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890)
Governing the Great City
19-5 William L. Riordan, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (1905)
19-6 Lincoln Steffens, Tweed Days in St. Louis (1902)
Cities as Crucibles of Reform
19-7 Walter Rauschenbusch, The Church and the Social Movement (1907)
19-8 Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910)
19-9 Margaret Sanger, The Case for Birth Control (1917)
19-10 Progressivism and Compulsory Sterilization (1907)
19-11 Theodore Roosevelt, The Struggle for Social Justice (1912)
Chapter 20. Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880-1917
Reform Visions, 1880-1892
20-1 James Bryce, The American Commonwealth (1888)
20-2 Republican and Democratic State Platforms on the Bennett English-Language School Law (Wisconsin, 1890) and the Liquor Question (Iowa, 1889)
20-3 Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894)
The Political Earthquakes of the 1890s
20-4 Democratic and Republican National Platforms on the Currency, the Tariff, and Federal Elections (1892)
20-5 People's (Populist) Party National Platform (1892)
20-6 The 1890 Mississippi Constitution
20-7 Ida B. Wells, Lynching at the Curve (1892)
20-8 Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address (1895)
20-9 William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold Speech (1896)
Reform Reshaped, 1901-1917
20-10 Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (1912)
20-11 Robert M. La Follette, Autobiography (1913)
20-12 Florence Kelley, Women in Industry and the Eight-Hour Day (1916)
The Progressive Legacy
20-13 Walter Lippmann, Drift and Mastery (1917)
Chapter 21. An Emerging World Power, 1877-1918
From Expansion to Imperialism
21-1 Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893)
21-2 Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1890)
21-3 Albert J. Beveridge, The March of the Flag (1898)
21-4 Mark Twain, To the Person Sitting in Darkness (1901)
21-5 William James, The Philippines Tangle (1899)
A Power Among Powers
21-6 William McKinley, On Prayer and the Philippines (1899)
21-7 John Hay, Open-Door Notes (1899, 1900)
21-8 Theodore Roosevelt, The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904, 1905)
21-9 Arthur Zimmermann, The Zimmerman Telegram (1917)
The United States in World War I
21-10 Woodrow Wilson, War Message to Congress (April 2, 1917)
21-11 Robert M. La Follette, Antiwar Speech (April 4, 1917)
21-12 Wartime Propaganda Poster (c. 1917)
21-13 Hervey Allen, German Dugouts (1918)
21-14 Bernard M. Baruch, The War Industries Board (1917-1918)
21-15 George Creel, The Home Front: The Four Minute Men (1920)
21-16 Carrie Chapman Catt, Woman Suffrage (1923)
The Treaty of Versailles
21-17 Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points (1918)
21-18 Treaty of Versailles, Select Articles (1919)
21-19 Henry Cabot Lodge, Speech Before the Senate (1919)
Chapter 22. Wrestling with Modernity, 1917-1929
Conflicted Legacies of World War I
22-1 W. E. B. DuBois, Returning Soldiers (1919)
22-2 William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, Transcript of the Scopes Trial (1925)
22-3 Edwin P. Hubble, Discovery of the Modern Universe (1924, 1929)
Politics in the 1920s
22-4 Herbert Hoover, American Individualism (1922)
22-5 The Ku Klux Klan (1924)
22-6 Cabinet Meeting-If Al Were President (1928)
Intellectual Modernism
22-7 Marcus Garvey, Editorial in Negro World (1924)
22-8 F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Rich Boy (1926)
From Boom to Bust
22-9 Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows (1925)
22-10 Advertisement for Listerine (1923)
22-11 Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd, Remaking Leisure in Middletown (1929)
Part VI: The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1929-1972
Chapter 23. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
The Early Years of the Depression, 1929-1932
23-1 Herbert Hoover's Plan (1931)
23-2 John T. McCutcheon, A Wise Economist Asks a Question (1931)
23-3 Hard Times and Hoovervilles (1930, 1932, 1941)
23-4 Meridel Le Sueur, Women on the Breadlines (1932)
The New Deal Arrives, 1933-1935
23-5 Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933)
23-6 Rexford G. Tugwell, Design of Government (1933)
23-7 John Maynard Keynes, An Open Letter to President Roosevelt (1933)
23-8 Eleanor Roosevelt, The State's Responsibility for Fair Working Conditions (1933)
23-9 Huey P. Long, The Long Plan (1933)
The Second New Deal and the Redefining of Liberalism, 1935-1938
23-10 Republican and Democratic National Platforms (1936)
23-11 Norman Thomas, What Was the New Deal? (1936)
The New Deal's Impact on Society
23-12 Mary Heaton Vorse, The Sit-Down Strike at General Motors (1937)
23-13 Richard Wright, Communism in the 1930s (1944)
23-14 The Federal Antilynching Bills (1938)
23-15 Lorena Hickok, Field Report on Arizona to Harry L. Hopkins (1934)
23-16 Paul B. Sears, Deserts on the March (1937)
Chapter 24. The World at War, 1937-1945
The Road to War
24-1 Gerald P. Nye, The Profits of War and Preparedness (1934)
24-2 C. D. Batchelor, The Reluctance to Go to War (1936)
24-3 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat on the Great Arsenal of Democracy (1940)
24-4 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Four Freedoms Speech (1941)
Organizing for Victory
24-5 Norma Yerger Queen, Women Working at the Home Front (1944)
24-6 Mother, When Will You Stay Home Again? (1944)
24-7 Wartime Posters: The Japanese and Venereal Disease as Enemies (c. 1944)
Life on the Home Front
24-8 Remembering the War Years on the Home Front (1984)
24-9 Executive Order 9066 to Prescribe Military Areas (1942)
Fighting and Winning the War
24-10 Ernie Pyle, Street Fighting (1944)
24-11 William McConahey and Dorothy Wahlstrom, Remembering the Holocaust (1945)
24-12 Albert Einstein, Letter to President Roosevelt (1939)
24-13 Henry L. Stimson, Draft of Press Release Announcing the Use of the Atomic Bomb (1945)
Chapter 25. Cold War America, 1945-1963
Containment in a Divided World
25-1 Nikolai Novikov, Telegram: A Soviet View of U.S. Foreign Policy (1946)
25-2 George F. Kennan, Containment Policy (1947)
25-3 NSC-68 (1950)
Cold War Liberalism
25-4 Lyndon B. Johnson, The American West: America's Answer to Russia (1950)
25-5 Joseph R. McCarthy, Communists in the U.S. Government (1950)
Containment in the Postcolonial World
25-6 Nikita Krushchev, Peaceful Coexistence (1956)
25-7 John Foster Dulles, Cold War Foreign Policy (1958)
25-8 Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address (1961)
Chapter 26. The Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963
Economy: From Recovery to Dominance
26-1 Henry R. Luce, The Dangerous Age of Abundance (1959)
26-2 Herbert Block, “Let's See, Now-Where Can We Raise More Taxes?”
A Suburban Nation
26-3 Green Acres (1950)
26-4 George M. Humphrey, The Interstate Highway System (1955)
26-5 Neil Morgan, The Footloose Migration (1961)
26-6 Herbert Gans, Boston's West Enders (1962)
26-7 What Does Chicago's Renewal Program Mean? (1963)
26-8 Carey McWilliams, North From Mexico (1949)
Gender, Sex, and Family in the Era of Containment
26-9 Benjamin Spock, How Do You Make Him Leave Certain Things Alone? (1946)
26-10 Help Wanted-Women (1957)
Chapter 27. Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973
The Emerging Civil Rights Struggle: 1941-1957
27-1 Harry S. Truman, Order to Desegregate the U.S. Armed Forces (1948)
27-2 Civil Rights and the National Party Platforms (1948)
27-3 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
Forging a Protest Movement: 1955-1966
27-4 Rosa Parks, Describing My Arrest (1955)
27-5 The Southern Manifesto (1956)
27-6 Lyndon B. Johnson, The Next and More Profound Stage of the Battle for Civil Rights (1965)
Beyond Civil Rights: 1966-1973
27-7 Malcolm X and Yusef Iman, Black Nationalism (1964)
27-8 Inés Hernández, Para Teresa
27-9 DRUMS Committee of the Menominee, The Consequences of Termination for the Menominee of Wisconsin (1971)
Chapter 28. Uncivil Wars: Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1964-1972
The Great Society: Liberalism at High Tide
28-1 Theodore H. White, The Television Debates (1960)
28-2 John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961)
28-3 Michael Harrington, The Other America (1962)
28-4 Lyndon B. Johnson, Address at the University of Michigan (1964)
28-5 National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose (1966)
The War in Vietnam, 1963-1968
28-6 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
28-7 Lyndon B. Johnson, Peace Without Conquest (1965)
28-8 Philip Caputo, The Splendid Little War (1965)
28-9 Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962)
28-10 Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (1968)
Days of Rage, 1968-1972
28-11 John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival), Fortunate Son (1969)
28-12 An Advertisement for Birth Control (1967)
28-13 Gloria Steinem, Statement in Support of the Equal Rights Amendment (1970)
Richard Nixon and the Politics of the Silent Majority
28-14 Richard Nixon, Vietnamization and the Nixon Doctrine (1969)
28-15 Richard Nixon, The Invasion of Cambodia (1970)
28-16 Dan Rather's Conversation with President Nixon (1972)
28-17 Watergate: Taped White House Conversations (1972)
Part VII: Global Capitalism and the End of the American Century, 1973-2011
Chapter 29. The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980
An Era of Limits
29-1 Rachel Carson, And No Birds Sing (1962)
29-2 NASA Image, Earthrise (1966)
29-3 Gallup Polls, National Problems, 1950-1999
Reform and Reaction in the 1970s
29-4 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Memorandum on Benign Neglect (1970)
29-5 Phyllis Schlafly, The Power of the Positive Woman (1977)
The American Family on Trial
29-6 William Serrin, Homestead (1970s)
29-7 Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
Chapter 30. Conservative America Ascendant, 1973-1991
The Rise of the New Right
30-1 Barry Goldwater, Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention (1964)
30-2 Jimmy Carter, The National Crisis of Confidence (1979)
30-3 Ronald Reagan, Acceptance Speech, Republican National Convention (1980)
The Dawning of the Conservative Age
30-4 Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals (1983)
30-5 Creationism, the Public Schools, and the First Amendment, Edwards v. Aguillard (1987)
30-6 George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty (1981)
30-7 Jonathan Kozol, Rachel and Her Children (1988)
The End of the Cold War
30-8 Ronald Reagan, Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall (1987)
30-9 Francis Fukuyama, The End of History (1989)
30-10 Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations? (1993)
30-11 George H. W. Bush, Iraqi Aggression in Kuwait (1990)
30-12 David Maraniss, University Students Reflect on the Gulf War (1991)
Chapter 31. National Dilemmas in a Global Economy, 1989-2011
America in the Global Economy
31-1 Anthony Giddens, Globalization (1999)
31-2 Bill Gates, Friction-Free Capitalism (1995)
Politics and Partisanship in a New Era
31-3 William Jefferson Clinton, Speech at Mason Temple (1993)
31-4 Proposition 187 (1994)
31-5 Contract with America (1994)
Into a New Century
31-6 Stephen Goldsmith, What Compassionate Conservatism Is--and Is Not (2000)
31-7 U.S. National Security Strategy (2002)
31-8 Osama bin Laden, The Two Towers of Lebanon (2004)
31-9 Barrack Obama, This Crisis Is Largely of Our Own Making (2009)