Living American History : Our Nation's Past Through Its Documents Volume Ii

, by Young, William D.; Clark, Vincent

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ISBN: 9780787272890 | 0787272892
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Copyright: 9/1/2001

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Preface

vii

Acknowledgements

Reconstruction and Beyond: Old South, New South?

(26)

An Anonymous Journalist Describes the South in 1866

(6)

A Report from the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, June 20 1866

(2)

The Louisiana Black Code 1865

(1)

Petition from a Convention of Loyal African American Citizens 1865

(1)

The Atlanta News Calls for Whites to Use Brute Force

(1)

Personal Accounts of Ku Klux Klan Attacks

(2)

General Alfred Terry Testifies about Race Relations in Georgia

(1)

Black Life during Reconstruction

(2)

Black Land Ownership and Sharecropping in the Postwar South

(1)

A Texas Shares Contract

(1)

Lynchings in the South

(2)

Booker T. Washington: The Atlanta Compromise

(5)

Differing Views of the Western Frontier

(22)

Observers of the Last Great Clash: the Battle of Little Bighorn

A Sioux Woman's Account

(2)

A Sioux Man's Account

(2)

An Account by One of Custer's Scouts

(5)

Indians Attempt to Adjust to the New White World

A Young Sioux Woman Goes East to School

(5)

The Farmers' Frontier

Letter from a Kansas Pioneer Woman

(1)

Immigrants on the Farm Frontier (1870-1874)

(7)

Work and Workers in the Age of Big Business

(20)

Wages of Iron and Steel Workers

(3)

Price Indexes 1866-1890

(2)

Workers' Views

(1)

Part of the Working Class

(4)

Management Documents

(2)

The Principles of Scientific Management

(8)

The Cities and Their People

(26)

Immigrants

Restriction of Immigration (1896)

(4)

Russian Jews as Desirable Immigrants

(6)

How the Other Half Lives

(2)

From A Bintel Brief

(4)

Strenuous Life of the Tammany District Leader

(10)

The First World War: ``Over There'' and Here at Home

(18)

Life in the Trenches

(4)

Reminiscences of an American Nurse

100

(2)

The Espionage Act, May 16 1918

102

(1)

In Defense of Free Speech in Wartime

102

(3)

An Attack on the War

105

(8)

The New Era: Life and Culture in the 1920s

113

(22)

Big Ideas from Big Business

113

(2)

The Man Nobody Knows

115

(1)

The Ku Klux Klan's Fight for Americanism (1926)

116

(1)

Speech in the House of Representatives in Support of Prohibition, April 19, 1926

117

(10)

Speech in the Senate Opposing Prohibition, February 8 1926

127

(2)

The Real Reasons for Prohibition

129

(6)

Surviving the Great Depression

135

(18)

The Philosophy of the New Deal

135

(4)

``We Have Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself,'' First Inaugural Address

139

(2)

The Second Fireside Chat of 1934

141

(2)

Share Our Wealth

143

(1)

Letters to New Deal Officials

144

(9)

The American People in World War II

153

(12)

``A Date Which Will Live in Infamy''

153

(1)

The Bataan Death March

154

(5)

An African-American Becomes a ``Rosie the Riveter''

159

(6)

America and the Cold War

165

(36)

The Necessity for Containment: The ``Long Telegram'' (1946)

166

(7)

Are We Only Paying Lip Service to Peace? (1946)

173

(3)

The United States Must Be Firm (1946)

176

(2)

President Truman Announces the Truman Doctrine

178

(3)

The Marshall Plan

181

(2)

The Korean War and the Dismissal of MacArthur

183

(2)

Address to Congress, April 19 1951

185

(2)

The Threat of Communism (1950)

187

(4)

Declaration of Conscience (1950)

191

(1)

McCarthy's Charges Rebutted

192

(9)

1950s America

201

(10)

Up from the Potato Fields

201

(2)

What TV Is Doing to America

203

(3)

The ``Humble Role of Housewife''

206

(5)

The Civil Rights Struggle in the 1950s and 1960s

211

(18)

96 Southern Congressmen and Senators Oppose Integration

212

(1)

President Eisenhower Speaks to the Nation about the Situation in Little Rock

213

(2)

Letter from the Birmingham City Jail

215

(3)

``I Have a Dream''

218

(2)

What We Have Gone through for the Right to Vote

220

(2)

Black Power

222

(7)

The Vietnam War and the Culture of Protest

229

(26)

President Johnson Asks for the Tonkin Gulf Resolution

230

(2)

President Johnson's Vision for Vietnam

232

(1)

``Attention All Military Personnel''

233

(2)

U.S. Military Commander Announces Progress in the Vietnam War

235

(4)

Vietnam Veterans Recount Their Experiences

239

(8)

President Nixon Announced the ``Vietnamization'' of the War

247

(8)

Watergate

255

(14)

Nixon Seeks to Avert Responsibility

256

(3)

The ``Smoking Gun'' Tape of Conversation in the Oval Office, June 30 1972

259

(2)

Articles of Impeachment

261

(2)

The President Resigns

263

(6)

The New Conservatism

269

(26)

A Conservative President's Inaugural Address, Ronald Reagan

270

(3)

Wealth and Poverty, George Gilder

273

(2)

A Call to Return to Traditional Religious Morality, Jerry Falwell

275

(4)

The Importance of Religion, Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals 1983, Ronald Reagan

279

(5)

The Failure of Communism, Ronald Reagan

284

(5)

A Call for Common Ground and Common Sense

289

(6)

The ``Contract with America''

295

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