Reading the American Past Selected Historical Documents Volume 2 Since 1865 1st edition by Michael Johnson ISBN B07WRF42NJ 978-1319212025

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ISBN 10: B07WRF42NJ
ISBN 13: 978-1319212025
Author: Michael Johnson

With five carefully selected documents per chapter, this popular two-volume primary source reader presents a wide range of documents representing political, social, and cultural history in an accessible way. Expertly edited by Michael Johnson, co-author of The American Promise, the readings can be used to spark discussion in any classroom and will fit into any syllabus.

Reading the American Past Selected Historical Documents Volume 2 Since 1865 1st Table of contents:

Introduction for Students

Contents

Chapter 16: Reconstruction: 1863–1877

Document 16–1: Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South

Report on the Condition of the South, 1865

Document 16–2: Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families

Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865–1870

Document 16–3: Planter Louis Manigault Visits His Plantations and Former Slaves

A Narrative of a Post–Civil War Visit to Gowrie and East Hermitage Plantations, March 22, 1867

Document 16–4: Klan Violence against Blacks

Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871

Document 16–5: The Ignorant Vote and the Election of 1876

Thomas Nast, “The Ignorant Vote,” 1876

Comparative Questions

Chapter 17: The Contested West: 1865–1900

Document 17–1: Transcontinental Railroad Completed, 1870

“Through to the Pacific,” ca. 1870

Document 17–2: Pun Chi Appeals to Congress in Behalf of Chinese Immigrants in California

A Remonstrance from the Chinese in California, ca. 1870

Document 17–3: Mattie Oblinger Describes Life on a Nebraska Homestead

Mattie V. Oblinger to George W. Thomas, Grizzie B. Thomas, and Wheeler Thomas Family, June 16, 1873

Document 17–4: Texas Rangers on the Mexican Border

N. A. Jennings, A Texas Ranger, 1875

Document 17–5: In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat Describes White Encroachment

Chief Joseph, Speech to a White Audience, 1879

Comparative Questions

Chapter 18: The Gilded Age: 1865–1900

Document 18–1: William Graham Sumner on Social Obligations

What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 1883

Document 18–2: Henry Demarest Lloyd Attacks Monopolies

Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894

Document 18–3: The Bosses of the Senate

Joseph Keppler, “The Bosses of the Senate,” 1889

Document 18–4: Andrew Carnegie Explains the Gospel of Wealth

Wealth, 1889

Document 18–5: Henry George Explains Why Poverty Is a Crime

An Analysis of the Crime of Poverty, 1885

Comparative Questions

Chapter 19: The City and Its Workers: 1870–1900

Document 19–1: A Textile Worker Explains the Labor Market

Thomas O’Donnell, Testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee, 1885

Document 19–2: Domestic Servants on Household Work

Interviews with Journalist Helen Campbell, 1880s

Document 19–3: Jacob Riis Photographs a Jewish Cobbler in New York City

Jacob Riis, “Hebrew Making Ready for Sabbath Eve in his Coal Cellar,” ca. 1890

Document 19–4: Walter Wyckoff Listens to Revolutionary Workers in Chicago

Among the Revolutionaries, 1898

Document 19–5: George Washington Plunkitt Explains Politics

William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, 1905

Comparative Questions

Chapter 20: Dissent, Depression, and War: 1890–1900

Document 20–1: Mary Elizabeth Lease Reports on Women in the Farmers’ Alliance

Women in the Farmers’ Alliance, 1891

Document 20–2: Cherokee Strip Land Rush, 1893

The Cherokee Strip Land Rush, 1893

Document 20–3: White Supremacy in Wilmington, North Carolina

Gunner Jesse Blake, Narrative of the Wilmington “Rebellion” of 1898

Document 20–4: Conflicting Views about Labor Unions

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

Document 20–5: Emilio Aguinaldo Criticizes American Imperialism in the Philippines

Case against the United States, 1899

Comparative Questions

Chapter 21: Progressive Reform: 1890–1916

Document 21–1: Jane Addams on Settlement Houses

The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements, 1892

Document 21–2: Pietro Learning to Write

Jacob Riis, Pietro Learning to Write, 1892

Document 21–3: A Sociologist Studies Working-Class Saloons in Chicago

Royal Melendy, Ethical Substitutes for the Saloon, 1900

Document 21–4: Marie Jenney Howe Parodies the Opposition to Women’s Suffrage

An Anti-Suffrage Monologue, 1913

Document 21–5: Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation

The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895

Document 21–6: W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality

Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903

Comparative Questions

Chapter 22: World War I: The Progressive Crusade: 1914–1920

Document 22–1: “The Human American Eagle,” 1918

John D. Thomas and Arthur S. Mole, “The Human American Eagle,” Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Georgia, 1918

Document 22–2: Eugene V. Debs Attacks Capitalist Warmongers

Speech Delivered in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918

Document 22–3: A Doughboy’s Letter from the Front

Anonymous Soldier, Letter to Elmer J. Sutters, 1918

Document 22–4: Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Defends America from Communists

The Case against the “Reds,” 1920

Document 22–5: An African American Responds to the Chicago Race Riot

Stanley B. Norvell, Letter to Victor F. Lawson, 1919

Comparative Questions

Chapter 23: From New Era to Great Depression: 1920–1932

Document 23–1: Demonstrating the Need for a Federal Highway System

Army Convoy Truck Stuck on the Road, 1919

Document 23–2: Reinhold Niebuhr on Christianity in Detroit

Diary Entries, 1925–1928

Document 23–3: The Ku Klux Klan Defends Americanism

Hiram W. Evans, The Klan’s Fight for Americanism, 1926

Document 23–4: Mothers Seek Freedom from Unwanted Pregnancies

Margaret Sanger, Motherhood in Bondage, 1928

Document 23–5: Marcus Garvey Explains the Goals of the Universal Negro Improvement Association

The Negro’s Greatest Enemy, 1923

Comparative Questions

Chapter 24: The New Deal Experiment: 1932–1939

Document 24–1: Martha Gellhorn Reports on Conditions in North Carolina in 1934

Martha Gellhorn to Harry Hopkins, November 11, 1934

Document 24–2: Working People’s Letters to New Dealers

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

Document 24–3: Oklahoma Tenant Farmer Leads His Family Down the Road, 1938

Dorothea Lange, “Family Walking on Highway, five children,” 1938

Document 24–4: Huey Long Proposes Redistribution of Wealth

Speech to Members of the Share Our Wealth Society, 1935

Document 24–5: Conservatives Criticize the New Deal

Herbert Hoover, Anti–New Deal Campaign Speech, 1936

Minnie Hardin, Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, December 14, 1937

Comparative Questions

Chapter 25: The United States and the Second World War: 1939–1945

Document 25–1: A Japanese American War Hero Recalls Pearl Harbor

Grant Hirabayashi, Oral History, 1999

Document 25–2: American Jewish Leaders Notify FDR about the Holocaust

Memorandum Submitted to the President of the United States at the White House on Tuesday, December 8, 1942

Document 25–3: Rosies the Riveter Recall Working in War Industries

Rosie the Riveter Memoirs, ca. 2004, Susan E. Page, Journeyman Welder

Document 25–4: Soldiers Send Messages Home

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

Document 25–5: U.S. Generals Inspect Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, 1945

U.S. Generals Inspect Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, April 12, 1945

Comparative Questions

Chapter 26: The New World of the Cold War: 1945–1960

Document 26–1: General Marshall Summarizes the Lessons of World War II

For the Common Defense, 1945

Document 26–2: George F. Kennan Outlines Containment

The Long Telegram, February 22, 1946

Document 26–3: Cold War Blueprint

NSC-68: U.S. Objectives and Programs for National Security, 1950

Document 26–4: Civilians Prepare for Nuclear Attack

Miami Couple Honeymoons in Fallout Shelter, 1959

Document 26–5: A Veteran Recalls Combat in the Korean War

Donald M. Griffith Interview, 2003

Comparative Questions

Chapter 27: Postwar Culture and Politics: 1945–1960

Document 27–1: Edith M. Stern Attacks the Domestic Bondage of Women

Women Are Household Slaves, 1949

Document 27–2: Vance Packard Analyzes the Age of Affluence

The Status Seekers, 1959

Document 27–3: George E. McMillan Reports on Racial Conditions in the South in 1960

Sit-Downs: The South’s New Time Bomb, 1960

Document 27–4: Youth Culture and the Draft

Elvis Presley Joins the Army, 1958

Document 27–5: President Dwight D. Eisenhower Warns about the Military-Industrial Complex

Farewell Address, January 1961

Comparative Questions

Chapter 28: Rights, Rebellion, and Reaction: 1960–1974

Document 28–1: Martin Luther King Jr. Explains Nonviolent Resistance

Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963

Document 28–2: George C. Wallace Denounces the Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax, July 4, 1964

Document 28–3: Equal Rights for Women

National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose, October 29, 1966

Document 28–4: Black Power

Chicago Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Leaflet, 1967

Document 28–5: Students Protest the Vietnam War

National Guard Soldiers Shoot Kent State University Students, 1970

Comparative Questions

Chapter 29: Confronting Limits: 1961–1979

Document 29–1: A Secret Government Assessment of the Vietnam War

Robert S. McNamara, Actions Recommended for Vietnam, October 14, 1966

Document 29–2: Military Discipline in an Unpopular War

Robert D. Heinl Jr., The Collapse of the Armed Forces, June 7, 1971

Document 29–3: The Evacuation of Saigon Exposes the Limits of U.S. Military Power

Evacuation of Saigon, April 30, 1975

Document 29–4: The Watergate Tapes: Nixon, Dean, and Haldeman Discuss the Cancer within the Presidency

Transcript from Tape-Recorded Meeting, March 21, 1973

Document 29–5: President Carter Declares Energy Conservation the Moral Equivalent of War, 1977

Address to the Nation on Proposed National Energy Policy, April 18, 1977

Comparative Questions

Chapter 30: Divisions at Home and Abroad in a Conservative Era: 1980–2000

Document 30–1: President Ronald Reagan Defends American Morality

Address to the National Association of American Evangelicals, 1983

Document 30–2: Norma McCorvey Explains How She Became “Roe” of Roe v. Wade

Affidavit, United States District Court, District of New Jersey, 2000

Document 30–3: A Vietnamese Immigrant on the West Coast

Anonymous Man, Oral History, 1983

Document 30–4: President Bush Announces a New World Order, September 11, 1990

Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress, September 11, 1990

Document 30–5: Police Brutality and Los Angeles Riots, 1992

Pat Oliphant, “Free at Last,” 1992

Comparative Questions

Chapter 31: America in a New Century: Since 2000

Document 31–1: National Security of the United States Requires Preemptive War

The National Security Strategy of the United States, September 2002

Document 31–2: A Captured 9/11 Terrorist Confesses

Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Confession, 2007

Document 31–3: A Christian Leader Argues That Evangelical Christianity Has Been Hijacked

Tony Campolo, Interview, 2004

Document 31–4: President Barack Obama Declares a New Beginning in U.S. Relations with the Muslim World

On a New Beginning, June 4, 2009

Document 31–5: President Trump Addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference

President Donald J. Trump Hugs the Flag, 2019

Comparative Questions

Acknowledgments

Notes

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