The American Promise, Volume 2 From 1865
, by Roark, James L.; Johnson, Michael P.; Cohen, Patricia Cline; Hartmann, Susan M.; Stage, Sarah- ISBN: 9781457668395 | 1457668394
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- Copyright: 12/12/2014
James L. Roark (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of American History at Emory University. In 1993, he received the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2001–2002 he was Pitt Professor of American Institutions at Cambridge University. He has written Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction and coauthored Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South with Michael P. Johnson.
Michael P. Johnson (Ph.D., Stanford University) is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. His publications include Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia; Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Speeches and Writings; and Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, the documents reader for The American Promise. He has also coedited No Chariot Let Down: Charleston’s Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War with James L. Roark.
Patricia Cline Cohen (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005–2006. She has written A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America and The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York, and she has coauthored The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York.
Sarah Stage (Ph.D., Yale University) has taught U.S. history at Williams College and the University of California, Riverside, and she was visiting professor at Beijing University and Szechuan University. Currently she is professor of Women’s Studies at Arizona State University. Her books include Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Women’s Medicine and Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession.
Susan M. Hartmann (Ph.D., University of Missouri) is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. In 1995 she won the university's Exemplary Faculty Award in the College of Humanities. Her publications include Truman and the 80th Congress; The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s; From Margin to Mainstream: American Women and Politics since 1960; and The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment.
- Reflections on Presidential Reconstruction LaunchPad
- Reflections on Congressional Reconstruction LaunchPad
- Reflections on Reconstruction Collapses LaunchPad
- Reflections on Forced Assimilation and Indian Resistance LaunchPad
- Reflections on Mining the West LaunchPad
- Reflections on Land Fever LaunchPad
- Reflections on Railroads and the Rise of New Industries LaunchPad
- Reflections on Politics and Culture LaunchPad
- Reflections on Presidential Politics LaunchPad
- Reflections on Economic Issues and Party Realignment LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Rise of the City LaunchPad
- Reflections on At Work in Industrial America LaunchPad
- Reflections on Workers Organize LaunchPad
- Reflections on At Home and at Play LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Farmers Unite LaunchPad
- Reflections on Women’s Activism LaunchPad
- Reflections on Depression Politics LaunchPad
- Reflections on The United States and the World LaunchPad
- Reflections on Grassroots Progressivism LaunchPad
- Reflections on Progressivism: Theory and Practice LaunchPad
- Reflections on Progressivism Finds a President: Theodore Roosevelt LaunchPad
- Reflections on Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism at High Tide LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Limits of Progressive Reform LaunchPad
- Reflections on Woodrow Wilson and the World LaunchPad
- Reflections on "Over There" LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Crusade for Democracy at Home LaunchPad
- Reflections on A Compromised Peace LaunchPad
- Reflections on Democracy at Risk LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Roaring Twenties LaunchPad
- Reflections on Resistance to Change LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Great Crash LaunchPad
- Reflections on Life in the Depression LaunchPad
- Reflections on Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Patrician in Government LaunchPad
- Reflections on Challenges to the New Deal LaunchPad
- Reflections on Toward a Welfare State LaunchPad
- Reflections on The New Deal from Victory to Deadlock LaunchPad
- Reflections on Peacetime Dilemmas LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Onset of War LaunchPad
- Reflections on Mobilizing for War LaunchPad
- Reflections on Fighting Back LaunchPad
- Reflections on Toward Unconditional Surrender LaunchPad
Document 25-2: A Japanese American War Hero Recalls Pearl Harbor: Grant Hirabayashi, Oral History, 1999 LaunchPad
Document 25-3: The Holocaust: A Journalist Reports on Nazi Massacres of Jews: Varian Fry, The Massacre of the Jews, December 21, 1942 LaunchPad
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; and David Mark Olds, Letter, July 12, 1945 LaunchPad
Document 25-5: Rosies the Riveters Recall Working in War Industries: Rosie the Riveter Memoirs LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 25 LaunchPadChapter 25 Summative Quiz LaunchPad26. COLD WAR POLITICS IN THE TRUMAN YEARS, 1945–1953Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadFrom the Grand Alliance to ContainmentThe Cold War BeginsDOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Emerging Cold War"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPadThe Truman Doctrine and the Marshall PlanVISUALIZING HISTORY: "Selling the Marshall Plan"Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPadBuilding a National Security StateSuperpower Rivalry around the Globe
- Reflections on From the Grand Alliance to Containment LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Cold War Becomes Hot: Korea LaunchPad
Document 26-2: George F. Kennan Outlines Containment: The Long Telegram, February 22, 1946 LaunchPad
Document 26-3: Cold War Blueprint: NSC-68: U.S. Objectives and Programs for National Security, 1950 LaunchPad
Document 26-4: Senator Joseph McCarthy Hunts Communists: Speech Delivered in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950 LaunchPad
Document 26-5: Donald M. Griffith Recalls Combat in the Korean War: Donald M. Griffith Interview, 2003 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 26 LaunchPadChapter 26 Summative Quiz LaunchPad27. THE POLITICS AND CULTURE OF ABUNDANCE, 1952–1960Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadEisenhower and the Politics of the "Middle Way"Modern RepublicanismTermination and Relocation of Native AmericansThe 1956 Election and the Second Term
- Reflections on Eisenhower and the Politics of the "Middle Way" LaunchPad
- Reflections on Liberation Rhetoric and the Practice of Containment LaunchPad
- Reflections on New Work and Living Patterns in an Economy of Abundance LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Culture of Abundance LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Emergence of a Civil Rights Movement LaunchPad
Document 27-2: Vance Packard Analyzes the Age of Affluence: The Status Seekers, 1959 LaunchPad
Document 27-3: George E. McMillan Reports on Racial Conditions in the South in 1960: George E. McMillan, "Sit-Downs: The South's New Time Bomb," 1960 LaunchPad
Document 27-4: Civil Defense in the Nuclear Shadow: North Dakota Civil Defense Agency, How You Will Survive, 1960 LaunchPad
Document 27-5: President Dwight D. Eisenhower Warns about the Military-Industrial Complex: Farewell Address, January 1961 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 27 LaunchPadChapter 27 Summative Quiz LaunchPad28. REFORM, REBELLION, AND REACTION, 1960–1974Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadLiberalism at High TideThe Unrealized Promise of Kennedy’s New FrontierJohnson Fulfills the Kennedy PromisePolicymaking for a Great SocietyAssessing the Great SocietyThe Judicial Revolution
- Reflections on Liberalism at High Tide LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Second Reconstruction LaunchPad
- Reflections on A Multitude of Movements LaunchPad
- Reflections on The New Wave of Feminism LaunchPad
- Reflections on Liberal Reform in the Nixon Administration LaunchPad
- Reflections on New Frontiers in Foreign Policy LaunchPad
- Reflections on Lyndon Johnson’s War against Communism LaunchPad
- Reflections on A Nation Polarized LaunchPad
- Reflections on Nixon, Détente, and the Search for Peace in Vietnam LaunchPad
- Reflections on Nixon, Conservatism, and Constitutional Crisis LaunchPad
- Reflections on The "Outsider" Presidency of Jimmy Carter LaunchPad
- Reflections on Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Ascendancy LaunchPad
- Reflections on Ronald Reagan Confronts an "Evil Empire" LaunchPad
- Reflections on Domestic Stalemate and Global Upheaval: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Clinton Administration’s Search for the Middle Ground LaunchPad
- Reflections on The United States in a Globalizing World LaunchPad
- Reflections on President George W. Bush: Conservatism at Home and Radical Initiatives Abroad LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Obama Presidency: Reform and Backlash LaunchPad
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