Discovering the American Past

, by Wheeler, WIlliam Bruce

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ISBN: 9780395871881 | 0395871883
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Copyright: 12/4/1997

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Preface

The Problems of Reconstruction: Andrew Johnson, Congress, and Southern Suffrage

(28)

The Problem

(1)

Background

(4)

The Method

(1)

The Evidence

(18)

Correspondence between President Andrew Johnson and members of Congress, state politicians, and prominent individual and leaders during Reconstruction

Political cartoon

Thomas Nast

Questions to Consider

(2)

Epilogue

(2)

The Road to True Freedom: African American Alternatives in the New South

(29)

The Problem

(1)

Background

(1)

The Method

(7)

The Evidence

(17)

Excerpt from Ida B. Wells, United States Atrocities Booker T. Washington' Atlanta Exposition Address Henry McNeal Turner's ``The American Negro and His Fatherland,'' 1895

Excerpts from the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois

Table showing migration of Negro population by region, 1870-1920

Questions to Consider

(2)

Epilogue

(2)

How They Lived: Middle-Class Life, 1870--1917

(45)

The Problem

(1)

Background

(6)

The Method

(2)

The Evidence

(33)

Advertisements for clothing, beauty and health aids, firearms, books and home study courses, typewriters, insurance, bicycles, automobiles, household appliances and furnishings

Architectural drawings and descriptions of houses

Questions to Consider

100

(1)

Epilogue

101

(2)

Justifying American Imperialism: The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904

103

(29)

The Problem

103

(2)

Background

105

(4)

The Method

109

(3)

The Evidence

112

(14)

Photographs taken at the Louisiana Purchase International Exposition, 1904

Excerpt from W. J. McGee, ``Anthropology---A Congress of Nations at the Fair''

Questions to Consider

126

(2)

Epilogue

128

(4)

Homogenizing a Pluralistic Culture: Propaganda During World War I

132

(32)

The Problem

132

(1)

Background

133

(4)

The Method

137

(2)

The Evidence

139

(20)

Song and poetry, advertisements, posters, cartoons, speeches, movie stills

Questions to Consider

159

(2)

Epilogue

161

(3)

The ``New'' Woman of the 1920s: Image and Reality

164

(27)

The Problem

164

(1)

Background

165

(3)

The Method

168

(2)

The Evidence

170

(18)

Popular fiction versus nonfiction views of women in the 1920s

Still photographs of Mary Pickford and Clara Bow

Questions to Consider

188

(1)

Epilogue

188

(3)

Documenting the Depression: The FSA Photographers and Rural Poverty

191

(16)

The Problem

191

(1)

Background

192

(2)

The Method

194

(2)

The Evidence

196

(9)

Documentary photographs as instruments of reform

Questions to Consider

205

(1)

Epilogue

205

(2)

Presidential Leadership, Public Opinion, and the Coming of World War II: The USS Greer Incident, September 4, 1941

207

(32)

The Problem

207

(1)

Background

208

(3)

The Method

211

(2)

The Evidence

213

(22)

Gallup polls

Deck log and rolls, newspaper articles, correspondence, speeches, and congressional testimony pertaining to the USS Greer incident

Questions to Consider

235

(1)

Epilogue

236

(3)

Separate but Equal? African American Educational Opportunities and the Brown Decision

239

(17)

The Problem

239

(1)

Background

240

(4)

The Method

244

(2)

The Evidence

246

(7)

First section of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution

Amicus curiae briefs

Oral exchanges between the lawyers and the Court

Excerpts from the Brown I decision

Questions to Consider

253

(1)

Epilogue

254

(2)

A Generation in War and Turmoil: The Agony of Vietnam

256

(37)

The Problem

256

(1)

Background

257

(6)

The Method

263

(4)

The Evidence

267

(23)

Suggested release forms for oral history interviews

Responses of five males and two females to the Vietnam War

Family photographs

Questions to Consider

290

(1)

Epilogue

291

(2)

Democracy and Diversity: Affirmative Action in California

293

(20)

The Problem

293

(1)

Background

294

(3)

The Method

297

(3)

The Evidence

300

(9)

Excerpts pertaining to the American ideal of ``equality''

Excerpts from Proposition 209

Speeches, articles, statistics, and opinion polls for and against affirmative action

Questions to Consider

309

(1)

Epilogue

310

(3)

Text Credits

313

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Discovering the American Past

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