Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, Volume 2: Since 1865
, by Johnson, Michael P.
- ISBN: 9781319212018 | 1319212018
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/6/2019
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.
Preface for Instructors
Introduction for Students
16. RECONSTRUCTION, 1863–1877
16-1 Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South Report on the Condition of the South, 186516-2 Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families
Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865–187016-3 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, 186716-4 Klan Violence against Blacks
Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating
the Ku Klux Klan, 187116-5 The Ignorant Vote and the Election of 1876
Thomas Nast, The Ignorant Vote, 1876
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
17. THE CONTESTED WEST, 1865–1900
17-1 Transcontinental Railroad Completed, 1870 Through to the Pacific
17-2 Pun Chi Appeals to Congress in Behalf of Chinese Immigrants in California
A Remonstrance from the Chinese in California, ca. 187017-3 Mattie Oblinger Describes Life on a Nebraska Homestead
Mattie V. Oblinger to George W. Thomas, Grizzie B. Thomas, and Wheeler Thomas Family, June 16, 187317-4 Texas Rangers on the Mexican Border
N. A. Jennings, A Texas Ranger, 187517-5 In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat Describes White Encroachment
Chief Joseph, Speech to a White Audience, 1879
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
18. BUSINESS AND POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE, 1870-1895
18-1 William Graham Sumner on Social Obligations What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 183318-2 Henry Demarest Lloyd Attacks Monopolies
Wealth against Commonwealth, 189418-3 The Bosses of the Senate
Joseph Keppler, The Bosses of the Senate, 188918-4 Andrew Carnegie Explains the Gospel of Wealth
Wealth, 188918-5 Henry George Explains Why Poverty Is a Crime
An Analysis of the Crime of Poverty, 1885
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
19. THE CITY AND ITS WORKERS, 1870-1900
19-1 A Textile Worker Explains the Labor Market Thomas O’Donnell, Testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee, 188519-2 Domestic Servants on Household Work
Interviews with Journalist Helen Campbell, 1880s19-3 Jacob Riis Photographs a Jewish Cobbler in New York City
Jacob Riis, Hebrew Making Reading for Sabbath Eve in his Coal Cellar, ca. 189019-4 Walter Wyckoff Listens to Revolutionary Workers in Chicago
Among the Revolutionaries, 189819-5 George Washington Plunkitt Explains Politics
William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, 1905
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
20. DISSENT, DEPRESSION, AND WAR, 1890-1900
20-1 Mary Elizabeth Lease Reports on Women in the Farmers’ Alliance
Women in the Farmers’ Alliance, 189120-2 Cherokee Strip Land Rush, 1893
The Cherokee Strip Land Rush, 189320-3 White Supremacy in Wilmington, North Carolina
Gunner Jesse Blake, Narrative of the Wilmington Rebellion of 1898
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, 189420-5 Emilio Aguinaldo Criticizes American Imperialism in the Philippines
Case against the United States, 1899
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
21. PROGRESSIVISM FROM THE GRASS ROOTS TO THE WHITE HOUSE, 1890-1916
21-1 Jane Addams on Settlement Houses
The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements, 189221-2 Pietro Learning to Write
Jacob Riis, Pietro Learning to Write, 189221-3 A Sociologist Studies Working-Class Saloons in Chicago
Royal Melendy, Ethical Substitutes for the Saloon, 190021-4 Marie Jenney Howe Parodies the Opposition to Women’s Suffrage
An Anti-Suffrage Monologue, 191321-5 Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation
The Atlanta Exposition Address, 189521-6 W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality
Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
22. WORLD WAR I: THE PROGRESSIVE CRUSADE AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1914-1920
22-1 The Human American Eagle, 1918 John D. Thomas and Arthur S. Mole, The Human American Eagle, Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Georgia, 191822-2 Eugene V. Debs Attacks Capitalist Warmongers
Speech Delivered in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 191822-3 A Doughboy’s Letter from the Front
Anonymous Soldier, Letter to Elmer J. Sutters, 191822-4 Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Defends America from Communists
The Case against the Reds, 192022-5 An African American Responds to the Chicago Race Riot
Stanley B. Norvell, Letter to Victor F. Lawson, 1919
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
23. FROM NEW ERA TO GREAT DEPRESSION, 1920-1932
23-1 Demonstrating the Need for a Federal Highway System
Army Convoy Truck Stuck on the Road, 191923-2 Reinhold Niebuhr on Christianity in Detroit
Diary Entries, 1925–192823-3 The Ku Klux Klan Defends Americanism
Hiram W. Evans, The Klan’s Fight for Americanism, 192623-4 Mothers Seek Freedom from Unwanted Pregnancies
Margaret Sanger, Motherhood in Bondage, 192823-5 Marcus Garvey Explains the Goals of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
The Negro’s Greatest Enemy, 1923
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
24. THE NEW DEAL EXPERIMENT, 1932-1939
24-1 Martha Gellhorn Reports on Conditions in North Carolina in 1934 Martha Gellhorn to Harry Hopkins, November 11, 193424-2 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, 193924-3 Oklahoma Tenant Farmer Leads His Family Down the Road, 1938
Dorothea Lange, Family Walking on Highway, five children, 193824-4 Huey Long Proposes Redistribution of Wealth
Speech to Members of the Share Our Wealth Society, 193524-5 Conservatives Criticize the New Deal
Herbert Hoover, Anti–New Deal Campaign Speech, 1936
Minnie Hardin, Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, December 14, 1937
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
25. THE UNITED STATES AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939-1945
25-1 A Japanese American War Hero Recalls Pearl Harbor
Grant Hirabayashi, Oral History, 199925-2 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, 194225-3 Rosies the Riveter Recall Working in War Industries
Rosie the Riveter Memoirs, ca. 200425-4 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, 194525-5 U. S Generals Inspect Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, 1945
U. S Generals Inspect Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, April 12, 1945
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
26. THE NEW WORLD OF THE COLD WAR, 1945-1960
26-1 General Marshall Summarizes the Lessons of World War II
For the Common Defense, 194526-2 George F. Kennan Outlines Containment
The Long Telegram, February 22, 194626-3 Cold War Blueprint
NSC-68: U.S. Objectives and Programs for National Security, 195026-4 Civilians Prepare for Nuclear Attack
Miami Couple Honeymoons in Fallout Shelter, 195926-5 A Veteran Recalls Combat in the Korean War
Donald M. Griffith Interview, 2003
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
27. POSTWAR CULTURE AND POLITICS, 1945-1960
27-1 Edith M. Stern Attacks the Domestic Bondage of Women
Women Are Household Slaves, 194927-2 Vance Packard Analyzes the Age of Affluence
The Status Seekers, 195927-3 George E. McMillan Reports on Racial Conditions in the South in 1960
Sit-Downs: The South’s New Time Bomb, 196027-4 Youth Culture and the Draft
Elvis Presley Joins the Army, 195827-5 President Dwight D. Eisenhower Warns about the Military-Industrial
Complex
Farewell Address, January 1961
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
28. RIGHTS, REBELLION, AND REACTION, 1960-1974
28-1 Martin Luther King Jr. Explains Nonviolent Resistance
Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 196328-2 George C. Wallace Denounces the Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax, July 4, 196428-3 Equal Rights for Women
National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose, October 29, 196628-4 Black Power
Chicago Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Leaflet, 196728-5 Students Protest the Vietnam War
National Guard Soldiers Shoot Kent State University Students, 1970
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
29. AN AGE OF LIMITS, 1961–1979
29-1 A Secret Government Assessment of the Vietnam War
Robert S. McNamara, Actions Recommended for Vietnam, October 14, 196629-2 Military Discipline in an Unpopular War
Robert D. Heinl Jr., The Collapse of the Armed Forces, June 7, 197129-3 The Evacuation of Saigon Exposes the Limits of U.S. Military Power
Evacuation of Saigon, April 30, 197529-4 The Watergate Tapes: Nixon, Dean, and Haldeman Discuss the Cancer
within the Presidency Transcript from Tape-Recorded Meeting, March 21, 197329-5 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
30. DIVISIONS AT HOME AND ABROAD IN A CONSERVATIVE ERA, 1980–2000
30-1 President Ronald Reagan Defends American Morality
Address to the National Association of American Evangelicals, 198330-2 Norma McCorvey Explains How She Became Roe of Roe v. Wade
Affidavit, United States District Court, District of New Jersey, 200030-3 A Vietnamese Immigrant on the West Coast
Anonymous Man, Oral History, 198330-4 President Bush Announces a New World Order, September 11, 1990 Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress, September 11, 199030-5 Police Brutality and Los Angeles Riots, 1992
Pat Oliphant, Free at Last, 1992
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
31. AMERICA IN A NEW CENTURY, SINCE 2000
31-1 National Security of the United States Requires Preemptive War
The National Security Strategy of the United States, September 200231-2 A Captured 9/11 Terrorist Confesses
Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Confession, 200731-3 A Christian Leader Argues That Evangelical Christianity Has Been
Hijacked Tony Campolo, Interview, 200431-4 President Barack Obama Declares a New Beginning in U.S. Relations with the Muslim World
On a New Beginning, June 4, 200931-5 President Trump Addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference
President Donald J. Trump Hugs the Flag, 2019
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
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