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Revised for the fifth edition ofAmerica's History, this affordable and comprehensive documents collection includes more than 350 primary-source documents 25% new to this edition and follows the organization of the textbook to provide students with a seamless learning experience. The number of visuals has been tripled and numerous sets of documents highlight different prespectives on the same issue. Each document is preceded by a brief introduction and followed by questions for further thought.

  Preface

  Chapter 15. Reconstruction, 1865-1877
    Presidential Reconstruction
       15-1 Andrew Johnson, Plan of Reconstruction (1865)
       15-2 Carl Shurz, Report on Conditions in the South (1865)
       15-3 The Mississippi Black Codes (1865)
       15-4 The Civil Rights Act of 1866
    Radical Reconstruction
       15-5 Thaddeus Stevens, Black Suffrage and Land Redistribution (1867)
       15-6 The Fourteenth Amendment and Woman Suffrage (1873, 1875)
       15-7 Richard H. Cain, An Advocate of Federal Aid for Land Purchase (1868)
       15-8 Statistics on Black Ownership (1870-1910)
    The Undoing of Reconstruction
       15-9 Visual Documents: The Rise and Fall of Northern Support for Reconstruction (1868, 1874)
       15-10 Albion W. Tourgee, A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools (1879)
       15-11 President Grant Refuses to Aid Republicans in Mississippi (1875)
       15-12 The Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)

PART 4: A MATURING INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY, 1877-1914

  Chapter 16. The American West
    The Great Plains
       16-1 Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor (1881)
       16-2 The Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
       16-3 Buffalo Bird Woman, Beginning a Garden (1917)
       16-4 Howard Ruede, Letter from a Kansas Homesteader (1878)
       16-5 John Wesley Powell, Report on the Lands of the Arid Region (1878)
    The Far West
       16-6 On Chinese Exclusion (1876, 1882)
       16-7 Nuestra Platforma: Hispanics Protest Anglo Encroachment in New Mexico (1890)
       16-8 John Muir, A Perilous Night on Shasta's Summit (1888)

  Chapter 17. Capital and Labor in the Age of Enterprise, 1877-1900
    Industrial Capitalism Triumphant
       17-1 Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879)
       17-2 Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth (1889)
    The World of Work
       17-3 Lilly B. Chase Wyman, Studies of Factory Life: Among the Women (1888)
       17-4 Anonymous (A Black Domestic), More Slavery at the South (c. 1912)
       17-5 Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management (1911)
    The Labor Movement
       17-6 Terrence V. Powderly, The Army of Unemployed (1887)
       17-7 Eugene V. Debs, How I Became a Socialist (1902)
       17-8 Testimony before the U.S. Strike Commission on the Pullman Strike (1894)

  Chapter 18. The Politics of Late Nineteenth-Century America
    The Politics of the Status Quo
       18-1 James Bryce, The American Commonwealth (1888)
       18-2 William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man (1883)
    Politics and the People
       18-3 Visual Document: Thomas Nast, "â€˜The Promised Land,' as Seen from the Dome of St. Peter's Rome" (1870)
       18-4 Republican and Democratic State Platforms on the Bennett English-Language School Law (Wisconsin, 1890) and the Liquor Question (Iowa, 1889)
       18-5 Frances E. Willard, Woman and Temperance (1876)
       18-6 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Solitude of Self (1892)
    Race and Politics in the New South
       18-7 The 1890 Mississippi Constitution
       18-8 Ida B. Wells, Lynching at the Curve (1892)
       18-9 Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address (1895)
       18-10 W.E.B. Du Bois, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others (1903)
    The Crisis of American Politics: The 1890s
       18-11 Democrat and Republican National Platforms on the Currency, the Tariff, and Federal Elections (1892)
       18-12 People's (Populist) Party National Platform (1892)
       18-13 Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894)
       18-14 William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold Speech (1896)

  Chapter 19. The Rise of the City
    Urbanization
       19-1 Julian Ralph, Colorado and its Capital (1893)
       19-2 Louis H. Sullivan, The Skyscraper (1896)
    Upper Class/Middle Class
       19-3 Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption (1899)
       19-4 Catherine E. Beecher, The Christian Family (1869)
       19-5 Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (1900)
    City Life
       19-6 The Immigrant Experience: Letters Home (1901-1903)
       19-7 Giuseppe Giacosa, A Visitor in Chicago (1892)
       19-8 Josiah Strong, The Dangers of Cities (1886)

  Chapter 20. The Progressive Era
    The Course of Reform
       20-1 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Dissenting Opinion, Lochner v. New York (1905)
       20-2 Walter Rauschenbusch, The Church and the Social Movement (1907)
       20-3 Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities (1904)
       20-4 Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910)
       20-5 Margaret Sanger, The Case for Birth Control (1917)
       20-6 Progressivism and Compulsory Sterilization (1907)
       20-7 Robert M. LaFollette, Autobiography (1913)
    Progressivism and National Politics
       20-8 Theodore Roosevelt, The Struggle for Social Justice (1912)
       20-9 Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (1912)
       20-10 Louis D. Brandeis, In Defense of Competition (1912)
       20-11 Walter Lipmann, Drift and Mastery (1914)

  Chapter 21. An Emerging World Power, 1877-1914
    The Roots of Expansion
       21-1 Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890))
       21-2 Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893)
    An American Empire
       21-3 Albert J. Beveridge, The March of the Flag (1898)
       21-4 William James, The Philippines Tangle (1899)
    Onto the World Stage
       21-5 Visual Document: R.C. Bowman, Cartoon on the Philippines and Cuba (1901)
       21-6 John Hay, Open-Door Notes (1899, 1900)
       21-7 Mark Twain, To the Person Sitting in the Darkness (1901)
       21-8 Theodore Roosevelt, The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904, 1905)

PART 5: THE MODERN STATE AND SOCIETY, 1914-1945

  Chapter 22. War and the American State, 1914-1920
    The Great War, 1914-1918
       22-1 Zimmerman Telegram (1917)
       22-2 Woodrow Wilson, War Message to Congress (1917)
       22-3 Robert M. La Follette, Anti-War Speech (1917)
       22-4 Hervey Allen, German Dugouts (1918)
       22-5 Visual Document: Posters from the Anti-Venereal Disease Campaign (1917-1918)
    War on the Home Front
       22-6 Bernard M. Baruch, The War Industries Board (1917-1918)
       22-7 Marcus L. Hansen, The Home Front: The Young Women's Christian Association (1920)
       22-8 Visual Document: Wartime Propaganda Poster
       22-9 George Creel, The Home Front: The Four Minute Men (1920)
       22-10 Help Us to Help, from The Crisis (1917)
    An Unsettled Peace, 1919-1920
       22-11 Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points (1918)
       22-12 Treaty of Versailles, Select Articles (1919)
       22-13 Henry Cabot Lodge, Speech before the Senate (1919)
       22-14 Woodrow Wilson, Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana (1919)
       22-15 Report on the Chicago Race Riot (1919)
       22-16 W.E.B. Du Bois, Returning Soldiers (1919)

  Chapter 23. Modern Times: The 1920s
    Business-Government Partnership of the 1920s
       23-1 Herbert Hoover, American Individualism (1922)
       23-2 Andrew W. Mellon, Fundamental Principles of Taxation (1924)
    A New National Culture
       23-3 Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows (1925)
       23-4 Visual Document: Advertisement for Listerine (1923)
       23-5 Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrel Lynd, Remaking Leisure in Middletown (1929)
    Dissenting Values and Cultural Conflict
       23-6 The Ku Klux Klan, The Good Citizen (1924)
       23-7 William Jennings Bryan, The Scopes Trial (1925)
       23-8 Visual Document: Cabinet Meeting--If Al Were President (1928)
       23-9 Marcus Garvey, Editorial in Negro World (1924)
       23-10 Louis D. Rubin, A Statement of Southern Principles (1930)

  Chapter 24. The Great Depression
    The Coming of the Great Depression
       24-1 John Dewey, The House Divided against Itself (1930)
       24-2 Stuart Chase, Balancing the Books (1929)
       24-3 B. C. Forbes and Julius Klein, Proposals for Recovery (1930-1931)
    Hard Times
       24-4 Visual Document: John T. McCutcheon, A Wise Economist Asks a Question (1932)
       24-5 Mirra Komarovsky, The Unemployed Man and His Family (1940)
       24-6 Meridel Le Sueur, Women on the Breadlines (1932)
    Harder Times
       24-7 A Report on the Harlem Riot of 1935
       24-8 Richard Wright, Communism in the 1930s
       24-9 A Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt (1934)
       24-10 John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
    Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
       24-11 Herbert Hoover's Plan (1931)
       24-12 Milo Reno, Why the Farmers' Holiday? (1932)

  Chapter 25. The New Deal, 1933-1939
    The New Deal Takes Over, 1933-1935
       25-1 Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933)
       25-2 Rexford G. Tugwell, Design for Government (1933)
       25-3 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Criticism of the Schechter v. United States Decision (1935)
       25-4 Huey P. Long, The Long Plan (1933)
    The Second New Deal
       25-5 Harlan F. Stone, Dissenting Opinion, U.S. v. Butler (1936)
       25-6 Republican and Democratic National Platforms (1936)
       25-7 Norman Thomas, What Was the New Deal? (1936)
       25-8 The Federal Antilynching Bills (1938)
    The New Deal's Impact on Society
       25-9 Eleanor Roosevelt, The State's Responsibility for Fair Working Conditions (1933)
       25-10 Mary Heaton Vorse, The Sit-Down Strike at General Motors (1937)
       25-11 Lorena Hickok's Report on Arizona to Harry L. Hopkins (1934)

  Chapter 26. The World at War, 1939â€“1945
    The Road to War
       26-1 Visual Document: C.D. Batchelor, The Reluctance to Go to War (1936)
       26-2 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat on the Great Arsenal of Democracy (1940)
       26-3 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Four Freedoms Speech (1941)
       26-4 The Atlantic Charter (1941)
    Organizing for Victory
       26-5 Norma Yerger Queen, Women Working at the Home Front (1944)
       26-6 Visual Document: Mother, When Will You Stay Home Again? (1944)
       26-7 Stanley Reed, The Supreme Court on White Primaries in the South (1944)
       26-8 Visual Document: Wartime Posters, The Japanese and Venereal Disease
    Life on the Home Front
       26-9 Remembering the War Years on the Home Front (1984)
       26-10 Executive Order 9066 to Prescribe Military Areas (1942)
    Fighting and Winning the War
       26-11 Ernie Pyle, Street Fighting (1944)
       26-12 William McConahey and Dorothy Wahlstrom, Remembering the Holocaust (1945)
       26-13 Cozy Stanley Brown, Navajo Code Talker--Pacific Theater (1941-1945)
       26-14 Albert Einstein's Letter to Roosevelt (1939)
       26-15 Henry L. Stimson, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (1945)

PART 6: AMERICA AND THE WORLD, 1945 TO THE PRESENT

  Chapter 27. Cold War America, 1945â€“1960
    The Cold War Abroad
       27-1 The Novikov Telegram (1946)
       27-2 George F. Kennan, Containment Policy (1947)
       27-3 Arthur Vandenberg, On NATO (1949)
       27-4 NSC-68 (1950)
    The Cold War at Home
       27-5 Civil Rights and the National Party Platforms (1948)
       27-6 Joseph R. McCarthy, Communists in the U.S. Government (1950)
    The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue
       27-7 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
       27-8 The Southern Manifesto (1956)
       27-9 Rosa Parks, Describing My Arrest (1955)
    The Impact of the Cold War
       27-10 Lyndon B. Johnson, The American West: America's Answer to Russia (1950)
       27-11 John Foster Dulles, Cold War Foreign Policy (1958)
       27-12 Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address (1961)

  Chapter 28. The Affluent Society and the Liberal Consensus, 1945â€“1965
    The Affluent Society
       28-1 Advertisement for Green Acres, a Planned Residential Community (1950)
       28-2 Neil Morgan, The Footloose Migration (1961)
       28-3 George M. Humphrey, The Interstate Highway System (1955)
       28-4 Help Wanted--Women (1957)
    The Other America
       28-5 Herbert Gans, Boston's West Enders (1962)
       28-6 Visual Document: What does Chicago's Renewal Program Mean? (1963)
       28-7 Michael Harrington, The Other America (1962)
    John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation
       28-8 Theodore H. White, The Television Debates (1960)
       28-9 John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961)
       28-10 Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)
    Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society
       28-11 Barry Goldwater, Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention (1964)
       28-12 Lyndon Johnson, Address at the University of Michigan (1964)
       28-13 The Wilderness Act (1964)

  Chapter 29. War Abroad and at Home: The Vietnam Era, 1961â€“1975
    Into the Quagmire, 1945--1968
       29-1 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
       29-2 Lyndon Johnson, Peace without Conquest (1965)
       29-3 Philip Caputo, The Splendid Little War (1965)
    The Cold-War Consensus Unravels
       29-4 Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962)
       29-5 Martin Luther King Jr., Joining the Anti-War Movement (1967)
       29-6 Malcolm X and Yusef Iman, Black Nationalism (1964)
       29-7 DRUMS Committee of the Menominee, The Consequences of Termination for the
    Menominee of Wisconsin (1971)
       29-8 National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose (1966)
    The Long Road Home, 1968-1975
       29-9 Richard Nixon, Vietnamization and the Nixon Doctrine (1969)
       29-10 Richard Nixon, The Invasion of Cambodia (1970)
       29-11 Lynda Van Devanter, Coming Home (1983)
       29-12 Eleanor Wimbish, A Mother Remembers Her Son at "The Wall" (1984)

  Chapter 30. The Lean Years, 1969â€“1980
    The Nixon Years
       30-1 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Memorandum on Benign Neglect (1970)
       30-2 Watergate: Taped White House Conversations (1972)
    An Economy of Diminished Expectations
       30-3 Visual Document: Gallup Polls, National Problems, 1950-1999
       30-4 William Serrin, Homestead (1970s)
    Reform and Reaction in the 1970s
       30-5 Rachel Carson, And No Birds Sing (1962)
       30-6 Gloria Steinem, Statement in Support of the Equal Rights Amendment (1970)
       30-7 Phyllis Schlafly, The Power of the Positive Woman (1977)
    Politics in the Wake of Watergate
       30-8 Jimmy Carter, The National Crisis of Confidence (1979)
       30-9 Ronald Reagan, Acceptance Speech, Republican National Convention (1980)

  Chapter 31. A New Domestic and World Order, 1981â€“2001
    The Reagan-Bush Years, 1981â€“1993
       31-1 William Greider, The Education of David Stockman (1981)
       31-2 Donald T. Regan, For the Record (1988)
    Foreign Relations under Reagan and Bush
       31-3 George Bush, Iraqi Aggression in Kuwait (1990)
       31-4 David Maraniss, University Students Reflect on the Gulf War (1991)
    Uncertain Times: Economic and Social Trends 1980-2000
       31-5 George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty (1981)
       31-6 Jonathan Kozol, Rachel and Her Children (1988)
       31-7 Bill Gates, Friction Free Capitalism (1995)
       31-8 Proposition 187 (1994)
    Restructuring the Domestic Order: Public Life 1992-2001
       31-9 The Contract with America (1994)
       31-10 Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address (1996)
       31-11 Bush v. Gore (2000)
       31-12 United States National Security Strategy (2002)

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Documents to Accompany America's History, Volume 2 Since 1865

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