Speaking of America Readings in U.S. History, Volume II: Since 1865 (with CD-ROM)
, by Belmonte, Laura A.
- ISBN: 9780155063631 | 0155063634
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/22/2003
SPEAKING OF AMERICA is a two-volume course reader that exposes a variety of sources on United States history, from the colonial era to the present day. The collection includes a wide array of primary documents, poems, short stories, song lyrics, monograph and article excerpts, and news accounts encompassing multicultural and regional perspectives. The selected readings address important episodes in politics, economics, and foreign policy as well as social and cultural changes. Both famous and ordinary Americans are featured.
| 1. Reconstruction | |
| Documents: African Americans and The Impact of Freedom (Includes Letter from Willie Ann Grey and Testimonies of Mingo White and Charles Davenport) | |
| Elizabeth Hyde Botume, A Northern Teacher's View of the Freedmen (1863-1865) | |
| The Louisiana Black Code (1865) | |
| African Americans Seek Protection (1865) | |
| Thaddeus Stevens Attacks Presidential Reconstruction (1865) | |
| President Andrew Johnson Opposes Black Suffrage (1867) | |
| A White Planter Responds to Emancipation (1866) | |
| Howell Cobb, "A White Southern Perspective on Reconstruction" (1868) | |
| Equal Rights Association Proceedings (1869) | |
| Susan B | |
| Anthony on Women's Rights (1869) | |
| The Ku Klux Klan During Reconstruction (1872) | |
| Article: Anne S | |
| Rubin, "Every 'True-Hearted' Southerner: Oaths and Southern Identity During Reconstruction" from A SHATTERED NATION: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CONFEDERACY, 1861-1868 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming) | |
| 2. The West | |
| Documents: Juan Cortina, Proclamation to Texans (1859) | |
| Report of the Commission on Indian Affairs (1869) | |
| Frank H | |
| Mayer Describes Buffalo Hunting in the 1870s | |
| HARPER'S WEEKLY on the Custer Massacre (1876) | |
| Chief Joseph's Lament (1879) | |
| A Cowboy Folk Song (undated) | |
| Benjamin "Pap" Singleton on the "Exodusters" (1880) | |
| Chester Arthur Calls for Indian Policy Reform (1881) | |
| Rules for Indian Schools (1890) | |
| Lakota Recall the Wounded Knee Massacre (1891) | |
| John Muir, "American Forests" (1901) | |
| IMAGE: John Gast, "American Progress" (1872) | |
| Article: L | |
| Moses, "Wild West Shows, Reformers, and the Image of the American Indian, 1887-1914." SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORY Vol | |
| 14, No | |
| 3 (Fall 1984): 193-221. 3 | |
| The Rise of Modern America | |
| Documents: IMAGES: Selling to the Masses (1870-1900); "Germproof" Glass; Lydia Pinkham ad from Salt Lake Herald (1881); Ice Cream Freezer and Tiffany Silver | |
| Frederick Law Olmsted on Urban Life (1870) | |
| "Bowery, Saturday Night" (1871) | |
| Dr | |
| John B | |
| Whitaker on Factory Worker Health (1871) | |
| Carroll D | |
| Wright Assesses the Factory System's Influence (1882) | |
| John Rockefeller on the Success of Standard Oil (1899) | |
| Henry W | |
| Grady, "The New South" (1886) | |
| A Conversation with Thomas Edison (1890) | |
| Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth (1889) | |
| Jacob Riis Describes Life in the Tenements (1890) | |
| Edward H | |
| Clarke, SEX AND EDUCATION (1873) | |
| A Day at Coney Island (1874) | |
| Book Excerpt: Edward L | |
| Ayers, "Store and Mill" from SOUTHERN CROSSING: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH, 1877-1906 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp | |
| 46-68. 4 | |
| Old Americans, New Americans | |
| Documents: 1. On The "Evils" of Chinese Immigration (1878) | |
| Yan Phou Lee, "The Chinese Must Stay," (1889) | |
| IMAGE: Grant Hamilton, "Where is the Blame?" (1891) | |
| William Graham Sumner on Poverty and Society (1883); Francis Walker Calls for Restriction of Immigration (1896); Sadie Frowne, A Polish Sweatshop Girl (1906); Florida Jim Crow Laws (1885-1913); Booker T | |
| Washington, The Atlanta Exposition Address (1895); W | |
| DuBois, THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK (1903) | |
| Book Excerpt: Martha Hodes, "Murder: Black Men, White Women, and Lynching | |
| from WHITE WOMEN, BLACK MEN: ILLICIT SEX IN THE 19TH-CENTURY SOUTH (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 176-208. 5 | |
| Protestors and Imperialists | |
| Documents: IMAGE: Thomas Eakins, "The Gross Clinic" (1875) | |
| Terence Powderly on The Knights of Labor (1878, 1889) | |
| Anthony Comstock, "The Suppression of Vice" (1882) | |
| Perspectives on the Haymarket Affair (1886) | |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Solitude of Self" (1892) | |
| The Omaha Platform of the Populist Party (1892) | |
| Theodore Dreiser, SISTER CARRIE (1900) | |
| Yellow Journalism and the Cuban Rebellion (1896) | |
| Charles Conant, "The Economic Basis of Imperialism" (1898) | |
| Albert J | |
| Beveridge Calls for an American Empire (1900) | |
| Aguinaldo's Case Against the United States (1899) | |
| Mark Twain, To the Person Sitting in Darkness (1901) | |
| Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904) | |
| Book Excerpt: Rebecca B | |
| Edwards "The Republican Party and Domestic Ideology | |
| Original Source: Rebecca B | |
| Edwards, ANGELS IN THE MACHINERY: GENDER IN AMERICAN PARTY POLITICS FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE PROGRESSIVE ERA (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp | |
| 27-34, 77-81. Adapted by the author for this volume | |
| 6. The Progressive Era | |
| Documents: 1. Charles Monroe Sheldon Asks "What Would Jesus Do?" (1897) | |
| Lincoln Steffens on Urban Political Corruption (1904) | |
| Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906) | |
| Mother Jones Attacks Child Labor (undated) | |
| Gifford Pinchot, The Fight for Conservation (1910) | |
| Theodore Roosevelt, The New Nationalism (1910) | |
| Jane Addams on the Fight Against Poverty (1910) | |
| The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911) | |
| Frederick Taylor, "The Principles of Scientific Management" (1912) | |
| The NAACP Attacks "The Birth of a Nation" (1915) | |
| Alice Duer Miller, Are Women People? (1915) | |
| Margaret Sanger, "Morality and Birth Control" (1918) | |
| Anzia Yezierska, "The Free Vacation House," in HUNGRY HEARTS (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920), pp | |
| 97-113. Article: Elisabeth I | |
| Perry, "The General Motherhood of the Commonwealth": Dance Hall Reform in the Progressive Era" AMERICAN QUARTERLY, Vol | |
| 37, No | |
| 5. (Winter, 1985), pp | |
| 719-733. 7 | |
| World War One | |
| Documents: William Jennings Bryan on American Neutrality (1914) | |
| Woodrow Wilson's Declaration of War Message (1917) | |
| Senator George Norris Opposes U | |
| Entry into World War I (1917) | |
| Alice Paul Inspires Her Fellow Suffragists (1917-1918) | |
| Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918) | |
| The Robert Prager Lynching (1918) | |
| On the Western Front (1918) | |
| Eugene V | |
| Debs Defends Political Dissent (1918) | |
| Schenck v | |
| United States (1919) | |
| NAACP Calls for Action (1919) | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge, Opposition to the League of Nations (1919) | |
| The Red Scare (1920) | |
| Book Excerpt: Tony Smith, "Wilson and a World Made Safe for Democracy," AMERICA'S MISSION THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLDWIDE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994), pp | |
| 84-109. 8 | |
| The Roaring Twenties | |
| Documents: American Civil Liberties Union Creed (1920) | |
| Marcus Garvey, "Africa for the Africans" (1922) | |
| Sinclair Lewis, BABBITT (1922) | |
| IMAGE: Selling to the Masses (1923) | |
| Restricting Immigration (1924) | |
| Langston Hughes, "I, Too" (1925) | |
| The Scopes Trial (1925) | |
| College Students on "Petting" (1925) | |
| Hiram Wesley Evans, "The Klan's Fight for Americanism" (1926) | |
| Fiorello La Guardia on Prohibition (1926) | |
| The Supreme Court and Eugenics (1927) | |
| Book Excerpt: Warren Susman, "Culture Heroes: Ford, Barton, Ruth" from CULTURE AS HISTORY: THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY (New York: Pantheon, 1984), pp | |
| 122-149. 9 | |
| The Great Depression, The New Deal | |
| Documents: Herbert Hoover, "American Individualism" (1928) | |
| The Depression Hits Philadelphia (1931) | |
| The Great Depression in Rural America (1932) | |
| Franklin D | |
| Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933) | |
| Huey P | |
| Long Explains the "Share Our Wealth" Plan (1934) | |
| Francis Perkins on Social Security (1935) | |
| IMAGES: The New Deal and the Arts (1935-1939) [Includes IMAGE: "C | |
| A Young Man's Opportunity for Work Play Study and Health," Albert Bender, Chicago Federal Art Project, WPA, ca | |
| 1935; IMAGE: "Mine Rescue," Fletcher Martin, Treasury Section of Fine Arts, 1939; IMAGE: Candide, New York, NY, 1935; Agency: FTP, WPA; Owner; IMAGE: Farmer and sons | |
| ust storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma | |
| 1936. Photographer: Arthur Rothstein, FSA-OWI Collection; IMAGE: Destitute pea pickers in California | |
| (Often referred to as "Migrant Mother") | |
| 1936. Photographer: Dorothea Lange, FSA-OWI Collection] | |
| Songs of American Workers: Sarah Ogan Gunning, "I Hate the Company Bosses (I Hate the Capitalist System);" Lester Hunter, "I'd Rather Not be on Relief;" Woody Guthrie and Millard Lampell, "Union Maid;" Florence Reece, "Which Side Are You On?" IMAGE: Grant Wood, "American Gothic" (1930) | |
| The Hays Motion Picture Code (1930) | |
| John Steinbeck, THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1939) | |
| Book Excerpt: Alan Brinkley, "The New Deal Experiments" in LIBERALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), pp | |
| 17-36, 312-313. 10 | |
| World War Two | |
| Documents: Joseph C | |
| Grew on Japan (1933) | |
| The Nuremberg Laws (1935) | |
| Franklin D | |
| Roosevelt, Chautauqua Speech (1936) | |
| Franklin D | |
| Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms Speech (1941) | |
| Charles Lindbergh Opposes Intervention (1941) | |
| Franklin Roosevelt, Declaration of War Message (1941) | |
| IMAGES: Propaganda on the Homefront (1942-1944) (Includes IMAGE ONE: "WARNING! Our Homes Are in Danger Now!"; IMAGE TWO: "When You Ride Alone You Ride with Hitler!" by Weimer Pursell; IMAGE THREE: "Longing Won't Bring Him Back Sooner | |
| by Lawrence Wilbur, 1944) | |
| Sybil Lewis and Adele Erenberg on Defense Work (1942-1945) | |
| Charles Kukuchi on Life in a Japanese Internment Camp (1942) | |
| The U | |
| Response to the Holocaust (1944) | |
| An African-American Soldier Attacks the Paradox of American Democracy (1944) | |
| Infantryman Bob Slaughter Remembers D-Day (1944) | |
| Harry S | |
| Truman on Deciding to Use the Atomic Bomb (1955) | |
| Kinue Tomouasu Remembers the Hiroshima Attack (1986) | |
| Book Excerpt: George H | |
| Roeder, Jr | |
| "Rationing Death" from THE CENSORED WAR: AMERICAN VISUAL EXPERIENCE DURING WORLD WAR TWO (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), 7-25. 11 | |
| The Early Cold War | |
| Documents: George F | |
| Kennan, The Long Telegram (1946); The Truman Doctrine (1947); Secretary of State George C | |
| Marshall Offers Aid to Europe (1947); Walter Lippmann Questions Containment (1947); The Federal Loyalty Program (1947); John Howard Larsen Testifies Before HUAC (1947); Joseph McCarthy on Communists in the U | |
| Government (1950); Margaret Chase Smith, Declaration of Conscience (1950); The Lavender Scare (1950); John Foster Dulles on Massive Retaliation (1954); Surviving Nuclear War (1956); Dwight D | |
| Eisenhower Responds to Sputnik (1957) | |
| Book Excerpt: John Lewis Gaddis, "Cold War Empires: Europe," in WE NOW KNOW: RETHINKING COLD WAR HISTORY (New York: Oxford University, 1997), pp | |
| 26-53, 304-312. 12 | |
| Postwar America | |
| Documents: LADIES HOME JOURNAL, "When Your Soldier Comes Home" (1945) | |
| Dr | |
| Benjamin Spock Advises Parents (1946) | |
| A Veteran and The G | |
| Bill | |
| A Journalist Describes Levittown (1948) | |
| Malvina Reynolds, "Little Boxes" (1962) | |
| The U | |
| Supreme Court Strikes Down School Segregation (1954) | |
| Anne Moody Recalls The Lynching of Emmett Till (1968) | |
| The Southern Manifesto (1956) | |
| Dwight D | |
| Eisenhower Responds to Racial Unrest in Little Rock (1957) | |
| John Kenneth Galbraith, THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY (1958) | |
| IMAGE: Jackson Pollock, "Lavender Mist: Number 1, 1950" (1950) | |
| Two Versions of "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" (1954) | |
| Allen Ginsberg, "Howl" (1956) | |
| Book Excerpt: Stephanie Coontz, "American Families in the 1950s" from THE WAY WE NEVER WERE: AMERICAN FAMILIES AND THE NOSTALGIA TRAP (New York: BasicBooks, 1992): 23-41, 295-300. 13 | |
| The Tumultuous Sixties | |
| Documents: 1. John F | |
| Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961) | |
| Young Americans for Freedom, The Sharon Statement (1961) | |
| Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962) | |
| Rachel Carson, SILENT SPRING (1962) | |
| Betty Friedan, THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE (1963) | |
| 6. Martin Luther King, Jr | |
| Letter from A Birmingham Jail (1963) | |
| Malcolm X, "The Ballot or The Bullet" (1964) | |
| Lyndon Johnson Proposes the "Great Society" (1964) | |
| George Ball and Robert McNamara on U | |
| Policy in Vietnam (1965) | |
| Paul Potter, "The Incredible War" (1965) | |
| Letters from Soldiers in Vietnam | |
| The Black Panthers Platform (1966) | |
| Guy Strait, "What is A Hippie?" (1967) | |
| The Kerner Commission Reports on Urban Unrest (1968) | |
| No More Miss America | |
| Richard Nixon, Address at the Republican National Convention (1968) | |
| Article; Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, "The Failure and Success of the New Radicalism" in Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds | |
| THE RISE AND FALL OF THE NEW DEAL ORDER, 1930-1980 Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, pp | |
| 212-242. 14 | |
| Conservative Resurgence | |
| Documents: Richard Nixon, Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam (1969) | |
| Perspectives on Kent State (1970) Part One: Tom Grace on Kent State; Part Two: James Michener, Letters to the Editor | |
| Gloria Steinem on the Equal Rights Amendment (1970) | |
| Mary Crow Dog Recalls the Siege of Wounded Knee (1973) | |
| Roe v | |
| Wade (1973) | |
| Richard Nixon, Resignation Speech (1974) | |
| Phyllis Schlafly Attacks the Equal Rights Amendment (1977) | |
| Lois Gibbs Recalls Life in Love Canal (1978) | |
| Jimmy Carter, The "Malaise" Speech (1979) | |
| Reverend Jerry Falwell Establishes the Moral Majority (1979) | |
| Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address (1981) | |
| Ronald Reagan, "Evil Empire" Speech (1983) | |
| Mario Cuomo, "A Tale of Two Cities" (1984) | |
| Article: Laura A | |
| Belmonte, "Harvey Milk, San Francisco, and Gay Migration | |
| in THE HUMAN TRADITION IN THE AMERICAN WEST, eds | |
| Reagan Lutz and Benson Tong | |
| Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc, 2001, pp | |
| 209-225. 15 | |
| Cultural Politics | |
| Documents: Mitch Snyder on Homelessness (1982) | |
| Larry Kramer, "1,112 and Counting" (1983) | |
| A Day in the Life of Donald Trump (1987) | |
| The Iran-Contra Affair (1987) | |
| The Crack Epidemic (1988) | |
| Rosa and José Urbina on Living as Undocumented Aliens (1988) | |
| George H | |
| Bush Calls for "A New World of Freedom" (1989) | |
| Major Rhonda Cornum on the Persian Gulf War (1991) | |
| The Hill-Thomas Hearings (1991) | |
| Asian Americans Describe Life in the United States (1991-1992) | |
| Book Excerpt: Michael Schaller, "Rhetoric, Reality, and Results: The Reagan Years at Home," from RECKONING WITH REAGAN: AMERICA AND ITS PRESIDENT IN THE 1980S (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp | |
| 67-96. 16 | |
| State of the Nation | |
| Documents: Bill Clinton, State of the Union (1993) | |
| Republican Contract with America (1994) | |
| Clifford Stoll, Second Thoughts on the Information Highway (1995) | |
| The Starr Report (1998) | |
| Richard Lacayo, The New Gay Struggle (1998) |
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