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Retracing the Past is an engaging collection of both primary and secondary sources that emphasize social history. The text leads students to consider the role of women, ethnic groups, and laboring Americans in the weaving of the nation's social fabric, and allows them to explore life at the individual and community levels. It also introduces students to individuals and groups who made a critical difference in the shaping of American history.

Chapter 1.
Past Traces: Jourdon Anderson, “To My Old Master” (1865).
Reading: Eric Foner, “African Americans in Public Office During the Era of Reconstruction.”

Chapter 2.
Past Traces: *Lee Chew, “Life of a Chinese Immigrant” (1903).
Reading: Jack Chen, “The Chinese Link a Continent and a Nation.”

Chapter 3.
Past Traces: *Lydia Allen Rudd, “Diary of a Westward Travel” (1852).
Reading: Christine Stansell,“Women on the Great Plains, 1865-1890.”

Chapter 4.
Past Traces: *The Omaha Platform of the People's Party” (1892).
Reading: *Bruce Palmer, “The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism.”

Chapter 5.
Past Traces: *Horatio Alger, Jr., “Bound to Rise, Or, Up the Ladder” (1900).
Reading: Carol Nackenoff, “Of Factories and Failures: Exploring the Invisible Factory Gates of Horatio Alger, Jr.”

Chapter 6.
Past Traces: *Red Cloud (1890) and Flying Hawk (1936) on Wounded Knee.
Reading: *Laura Jane Moore, “Lozen: An Apache Woman Warrior.”

PART II.

Chapter 1.
Past Traces: *James T. Rapier, “The Agricultural Labor Force in the South” (1880).
Reading: Jacqueline Jones, “A Bridge of Bent Backs and Laboring Muscles: The Rural South, 1880-1915.”

Chapter 2.
Past Traces: *John Muir, “Mount Ritter” (1911).
Reading: Peter Wild, “John Muir: The Mysteries of Mountains.”

Chapter 3.
Past Traces: *Herbert Croly, “Progressive Democracy” (1914).
Reading: Jeffrey P. Moran, “Modernism Gone Mad: Sex Education Comes to Chicago, 1913.”

Chapter 4.
Past Traces: *Advertisements (1925/1927).
Reading: Mary Murphy, “Messenger of the New Age: Station KGIR in Butte.”

Chapter 5.
Past Traces: *Meridel LeSueur, “The Despair of Unemployed Women” (1932).
Reading: Edward R. Ellis, “What the Depression Did to People.”

Chapter 6.
Past Traces: *A. Philip Randolph, “Why Should We March?” (1942).
Reading: Mark H. Leff,“The Politics of Sacrifice on the Home Front in World War II.”

PART III.

Chapter 1.
Past Traces: *Students for a Democratic Society, Port Huron Statement (1962).
Reading: Nils Kristian Bogen, “Rebels Without a Cause: Toward an Understanding of Anxious Youth in Postwar America.”

Chapter 2.
Past Traces: *Ladies' Home Journal, “The Young Mothers of the 1950s” (1956).
Reading: Lynn Y. Weiner, “Reconstructing Motherhood: The La Leche League in Postwar America.”

Chapter 3.
Past Traces: *Restrictions at Levittown (Late 1940s)
Reading: Kenneth T. Jackson, “The Drive-In Culture of Contemporary America.”

Chapter 4.
Past Traces: *Lyndon B. Johnson, “Commencement Address at Howard University” (1965).
Reading: Allan J. Matusow, “The Vietnam War, the Liberals, and the Overthrow of LBJ.”

Chapter 5.
Past Traces: *Ione Malloy, “Southie Won't Go” (1975).
Reading: *Robin D. G. Kelley, “After Civil Rights: The African American Working and Middle Classes.”

Chapter 6.
Past Traces: *Patricia Morrisroe, “Yuppies-the New Class” (1985).
Reading: *Juliet B. Schor, “The Insidious Cycle of Work and Spend.”

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