Major Problems in American History, 1920-1945 : Documents and Essays
ISBN: 9780547149059 | 0547149050
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 8/16/2010
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This collection of primary source documents and essays provides in-depth coverage of the cultural, social, political, economic, and intellectual events of the 1920-1945 era. In keeping with the proven strengths of the Major Problems series, the compelling documents are grouped with important secondary sources, accompanied by chapter introductions, selection headnotes, and suggested readings.
| American Politics and Society Between the Wars | |
| Essays | |
| The Modern Temper | |
| American Liberalism and the Struggle for Justice between the Wars | |
| Reform and Reaction: Public Policy In The Republican Era | |
| Documents | |
| Attorney General Palmer's Case Against the "Reds," 1920 | |
| Cartoon, "We Can't Digest the Scum" 1919 | |
| Herbert Hoover on America... MORE | |
| Trade Association in the Auto Industry, 1924 | |
| A Business Analyst Explains Why Trade Associations Don't Work, 1933. 6 | |
| "Babbitt" Sketches "Our Ideal Citizen," 1922 | |
| Alva Belmont Urges Women Not to Vote, 1920 | |
| Debate Equal Right for Women, 1922 | |
| A Mother's Plea to the Children's Bureau, 1916 | |
| Essays | |
| Ellis Hawley, Herbert Hoover and the "Associational" State | |
| Molly Ladd-Taylor, Maternalism, Feminism, and the Politics of Reform in the 1920s | |
| Labor and Welfare Capitalism In the 1920S | |
| Documents | |
| The Interchurch World Movement Investigates the Steel Strike, 1920 | |
| Ralph Chaplin Recalls the "Clamp Down" of the Red Scare of the 1920s | |
| Black Workers ask "What Do Unions Do?", 1923 | |
| The Employer's Case for Welfare Capitalism, 1925 | |
| Labor's Case Against Welfare Capitalism, 1927 | |
| The National Association of Manufacturers Defends the "Open Shop," 1922 | |
| The American Federation of Labor Condemns the "Open Shop," 1921 | |
| The AFL Ignores Women, 1927 | |
| The Women's Bureau Exposes the Myths about Women's Work, 1924 | |
| Essays | |
| Welfare Capitalism in the Packinghouses | |
| The Uneasy Relationship between Labor and Women | |
| The Politics and Culture Of Consumption | |
| Documents | |
| A Critic Sees Advertising as a Narcotic, 1934 | |
| An Enthusiast Applauds Advertising, 1928 | |
| Two Magazine Advertisements, 1929 and 1930 | |
| Radio--A Blessing or a Curse? 1929 | |
| Doubts about Auto Financing, 1926 | |
| The Automobile Comes to Middletown, 1929 | |
| The American Federation of Labor on the "Living Wage," 1919 | |
| Bruce Barton Sees Jesus as an Advertising Man, 1925 | |
| Essays | |
| The Politics of Consumption in the 1920s | |
| The Culture of Advertising | |
| Intellectual and Cultural Currents | |
| Documents | |
| "If I Must Die," 1919 | |
| Two Poems of the 1920s | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald on the Jazz Age, 1931 | |
| The Educational Promise of Radio, 1930 | |
| Granville Hicks on Writers in the 1930s | |
| Two WPA Posters, 1935, 1938 | |
| A Magazine Cover Comments on Public Art, 1941 | |
| An Artist Remembers the WPA, 1935-9 | |
| Essays | |
| The Battle For the Airwaves | |
| A New Deal for Art | |
| "100 Percent Americanism": Race and Ethnicity Between the Wars | |
| Documents | |
| W.E.B. Du Bois on the Meaning of the War for African-Americans, 1919 | |
| The Governor of California on the Asian Problem, 1920 | |
| Congress Debates Immigration Restriction, 1921 | |
| Cartoon, "Seeking More Freedom," 1921 | |
| The Ku Klux Klan Defines Americanism, 1926 | |
| Walter White Documents a Lynching, 1925 | |
| st. Louis Realtors and Homeowners Bar Negro Occupancy, 1923 | |
| Marcus Garvey Makes the Case for Black Nationalism, 1925 | |
| Carey McWilliams Accuses California of "Getting Rid of the Mexicans," 1933 | |
| Essays | |
| Nationalism and Immigration in the 1920s | |
| The Class Anxieties of the Ku Klux Klan | |
| The Mexican Problem | |
| Responding to the Crash | |
| Documents | |
| Herbert Hoover Reassures the Nation, 1931 | |
| A Business Leader Responds (Hopefully) to the Crash, 1929 | |
| Henry Ford on Unemployment and Self-Help, 1932 | |
| A Part icipant Recalls The Ford Hunger March of 1932 | |
| A Part icipant Recalls the Bonus Army March of 1932 | |
| Leading Retailers Propose a Solution, 1934 | |
| Essays | |
| Understanding the Depression | |
| Organizing the Unemployed | |
| The Dilemmas of Liberal Internationalism: Foreign Policy Between the Wars | |
| Documents | |
| President Woodrow Wilson Defends the League of Nations, 1919 | |
| President Calvin Coolidge on the Business of Foreign Policy, 1927 | |
| A Citizen's Committee Warns of a Foreign Policy "Dangerous to our own Democracy," 1926 | |
| A State Department Official on the Benefits of Disarmament, 1931 | |
| President Herbert Hoover on the World Depression, 1932 | |
| Former Secretary of State Frank Kellogg on Avoiding War, 1935 | |
| Secretary of State Hull Promotes Reciprocal Trade, 1936 | |
| Standard Oil v. Mexico, 1938-1940 | |
| Essays | |
| Frank Costigliola, Foreign Policy and Cultural Expansion | |
| Emily Rosenberg, The Dilemmas of Interwar Foreign Policy | |
| Hard Times and Harder Times: Agriculture Between the Wars | |
| Documents | |
| Conditions in Rural America, 1932 | |
| Tenant Farmers Recall the Conditions of Sharecropping in the 1930s | |
| From a Dust Bowl Diary, 1934 | |
| A Farmer Recalls a "Penny Sale" of the 1930s | |
| Milo Reno Suggests "What the Farmer Wants," 1934 | |
| The Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1933 | |
| Depression and New Deal Both Hit Black Farmers, 1937 | |
| John Steinbeck on Migrant Labor in California, 1938 | |
| Essays | |
| A New Deal for Agriculture | |
| The Sharecroppers' Union | |
| Private Lives In Hard Times Documents | |
| I Was a Burden, 1933 | |
| A Working Class Women on "Making Do" in the 1930s | |
| Dr. Hilda Standish Recalls Efforts to Control Reproduction in the 1930s | |
| Children Recall the 1930s | |
| The Plight of the Unemployed in the 1930s | |
| An Ordinary American Appeals to Her Government, 1935 | |
| Essays | |
| Women's Work in Hard Times | |
| Reproductive Practices and Politics | |
| The Campaign Against Homosexuality | |
| Shaping The New Deal: Recovery and Reform Politics | |
| Documents | |
| Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address, 1934 | |
| A Business Cynic on the NRA Codes, 1934 | |
| The National Urban League Documents Discrimination Under the NRA, 1934 | |
| The Negro and the New Deal, 1936 | |
| President Roosevelt Outlines Social Security for Congress, 1935 | |
| The Committee On Economic Security Argues for "Contributory" Social Insurance, 1935 | |
| An Architect of Social Security Recalls the Southern Concession, 1935 | |
| Social Security Advisers Consider Male and Female Pensioners, 1938 | |
| Essays | |
| What the New Deal Did | |
| When Affirmative Action Was White | |
| Men, Women, and the Assumptions of American Social Provision | |
| Race, Gender, And the Rise of the CIO | |
| Documents | |
| The National Labor Relations Act, 1935 | |
| A Recollection of the Flint Sit Down Strike of 1936 | |
| Stella Nowicki Recalls Organizing the Packinghouses in the 1930s | |
| A Congressional Committee Documents Violence Against Labor, 1937 | |
| The Chicago Defender Sees the CIO as a Civil Rights Organization. 1939 | |
| The Negro--Friend or Foe of Organized Labor? (1935) | |
| A Southerner Recalls the Limits of Labor's Rights, ca. 1938 | |
| Essays | |
| Organizing the Packinghouses | |
| Gender and Community in the Minneapolis Labor Movement | |
| Race and Unionism: The CIO in the South | |
| Contesting the New Deal | |
| Documents | |
| Communists Lament the Futility of the New Deal, 1934 | |
| The Communist Part y Argues for a "Popular Front, 1938 | |
| Upton Sinclair's Twelve Principles to "End Poverty in California," 1936 | |
| Huey Long and the Share Our Wealth Society, 1935 | |
| Father Coughlin Lectures on Social Justice, 1935 | |
| W.P. Kiplinger Argues "Why Businessmen Fear Washington," 1934 | |
| What the Liberty League Believes, 1935-6 | |
| Herbert Hoover Comments on the New Deal, 1936 | |
| Southern Democrats Erode the New Deal Coalition, 1938 | |
| Essays | |
| Dissidents and Demagogues | |
| Business vs. the New Deal | |
| The Social Impact of World War II | |
| Documents | |
| President Franklin Roosevelt Identifies the "Four Freedoms" at Stake in the War, 1941 | |
| A Woman Worker Reflects on the "Good War" at Home in the 1940s | |
| Ethel Gorman Advises: "How to Write a Letter to Your Man Overseas," 1942 | |
| An Anxious Letter Home from the Western Front, 1944 | |
| A. Philip Randolph Argues for a March on Washington, 1942 | |
| An African-American Soldier Notes the "Strange Paradox" of the War, 1944 | |
| A Japanese-American Questions the Four Freedoms, 1942 | |
| Essays | |
| Fighting for the Family | |
| Redefining Women's Work | |
| The Political Economy of World War II | |
| Documents | |
| Charles Lindbergh on the Perils of War, 1939 | |
| Dr. Seuss on the Perils of Neutrality, 1941 | |
| The Atlantic Charter, 1941 | |
| Debating The Bretton Woods Agreement, 1945 | |
| Postwar Hopes for Full Employment, 1942 | |
| Vice President Henry Wallace on Postwar Prospects, 1944 | |
| War Bond Ad, 1944 | |
| I.F. Stone on Washington's Anxieties about the Peace, 1945 | |
| Essays | |
| Mobilization and Militarization | |
| World War II and American Liberalism | |
| A New Deal for the World | |
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