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American People, The: Creating a Nation and Society, Volume II, Primary Source Edition (Book Alone)

by: Nash, Gary B.; Jeffrey, Julie Roy; Howe, John R.; Frederick, Peter J.; Davis, Allen F.; Winkler, Allan M.; Mires, Charlene; Pestana, Carla Gardina

American People, The: Creating a Nation and Society, Volume II, Primary Source Edition (Book Alone)

by: Nash, Gary B.; Jeffrey, Julie Roy; Howe, John R.; Frederick, Peter J.; Davis, Allen F.; Winkler, Allan M.; Mires, Charlene; Pestana, Carla Gardina

ISBN 13:
9780321466822
ISBN 10:
0321466829
Edition: 7th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2006
Publisher: Longman
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This Primary Source Edition provides 1 to 2 primary sources per chapter, tied to the chapter's content, with critical thinking questions for each source -- at no additional cost to your students. Providing students with a thought-provoking account of Americars"s past,The American Peopleexamines how American society assumed its present shape and developed its present forms of government.

Features

xiv

Maps

Figures

xvi

Tables

xvi

Preface

xvii

Supplements

xxiii

Acknowledgments

xxvii

About the Authors

xxviii

The Union Reconstructed

520

(32)

American Stories Blacks and Whites Redefine Their Dreams and Relationships

520

(6)

The Bittersweet Aftermath of War

522

(4)

American Voices Calvin Holly, A Black Union Soldier's Letter Protesting Conditions After the War

526

(2)

American Voices James A. Payne, A Southern White Man's Letter Protesting Conditions After the War

528

(14)

National Reconstruction Politics

528

(5)

The Lives of Freedpeople

533

(6)

Reconstruction in the Southern States

539

(3)

Recovering the Past Novels

542

(6)

Conclusion A Mixed Legacy

548

(4)

PART FOUR An Industrializing People, 1865--1900

552

(130)

Rural America: The West and the New South

552

(32)

American Stories Realizing Dreams: Life on the Great Plains

552

(4)

Modernizing Agriculture

554

(2)

How Others See Us A. Egmont Hake and O. E. Wesslau, ``The American Tariff War''

556

(12)

The West

556

(10)

Resolving the Native American Question

566

(2)

Recovering the Past Magazines

568

(2)

American Voices Sister Blandina Segale, From her Diary, November 1882

570

(12)

The New South

573

(6)

Farm Protest

579

(3)

Conclusion Farming in the Industrial Age

582

(2)

The Rise of Smokestack America

584

(40)

American Stories Telling His Story: O'Donnell and the Senators

584

(3)

The Texture of Industrial Progress

586

(1)

Analyzing History Steel: The Engine of Industrial Growth

587

(15)

Urban Expansion in the Industrial Age

592

(4)

The Industrial City, 1880--1900

596

(4)

The Life of the Middle Class

600

(2)

How Others See Us Herbert Spencer, ``The Americans''

602

(8)

Industrial Work and the Laboring Class

603

(7)

Recovering the Past Congressional Hearings

610

(2)

American Voices Helen Campbell, Interview with a Domestic Servant

612

(6)

Capital Versus Labor

612

(6)

American Voices Lee Chew Protests the Treatment of the Chinese in the United States

618

(2)

Conclusion The Complexity of Industrial Capitalism

620

(4)

Politics and Reform

624

(28)

American Stories A Utopian Novelist Warns of Two Americas

624

(14)

Politics in the Gilded Age

626

(5)

Middle-Class Reform

631

(7)

American Voices Elizabeth Cady Stanton, A Woman Speaks Out for a ``Woman's Bible''

638

(4)

Politics in the Pivotal 1890s

638

(4)

American Voices Ignatius Donnelly, A Minnesota Farmer Issues an Angry Call for Reform

642

(4)

Recovering the Past Political Campaign Artifacts: Buttons and Posters

646

(4)

Conclusion Looking Forward

650

(2)

Becoming a World Power

652

(30)

American Stories Private Grayson Kills a Soldier in the Philippines

652

(13)

Steps Toward Empire

654

(3)

Expansionism in the 1890s

657

(3)

War in Cuba and the Philippines

660

(5)

American Voices Jane Addams Speaks Out Against Imperialism, War, and Violence

665

(1)

Recovering the Past Political Cartoons

666

(12)

Theodore Roosevelt's Energetic Diplomacy

670

(8)

Conclusion The Responsibilities of Power

678

(4)

PART FIVE A Modernizing People, 1900--1945

682

(180)

The Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism

682

(38)

American Stories A Professional Woman Joins the Progressive Crusade

682

(4)

The Social Justice Movement

684

(2)

Recovering the Past Documentary Photographs

686

(6)

American Voices Rosa, An Italian Immigrant Learns English at a Settlement House in Chicago

692

(5)

The Worker in the Progressive Era

695

(2)

American Voices Pauline Newman, Conditions in a Garment Factory

697

(19)

Reform in the Cities and States

700

(4)

Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal

704

(8)

Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom

712

(4)

Conclusion The Limits of Progressivism

716

(4)

The Great War

720

(34)

American Stories A Young Man Enlists in the Great Adventure

720

(16)

The Early War Years

722

(8)

The United States Enters the War

730

(4)

The Military Experience

734

(2)

Recovering the Past Government Propaganda

736

(4)

American Voices Private John Figarovsky, American Soldiers Get a Warm Welcome in France

740

(5)

Domestic Impact of the War

742

(3)

American Voices An African American Woman Decides to Move North

745

(6)

Planning for Peace

747

(4)

Conclusion The Divided Legacy of the Great War

751

(3)

Affluence and Anxiety

754

(36)

American Stories A Black Sharecropper and His Family Move North

754

(7)

Postwar Problems

756

(3)

A Prospering Economy

759

(2)

How Others See Us Luigi Barzini, Jr., An Italian Student Falls in Love with the United States

761

(4)

American Voices Babe Ruth Homers in the 1927 World Series

765

(1)

Recovering the Past Advertising

766

(20)

Hopes Raised, Promises Deferred

769

(9)

The Business of Politics

778

(8)

Conclusion A New Era of Prosperity and Problems

786

(4)

The Great Depression and the New Deal

790

(36)

American Stories Coming of Age and Riding the Rails During the Depression

790

(8)

The Great Depression

792

(1)

Economic Decline

793

(3)

Roosevelt and the First New Deal

796

(2)

American Voices Mrs. Ivan G. Martin, ``What Is to Become of Us?'' An Oregon Woman Writes to Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt

798

(21)

One Hundred Days

799

(5)

The Second New Deal

804

(9)

The Last Years of the New Deal

813

(3)

The Other Side of the 1930s

816

(3)

How Others See Us Georges Duhamel, A French Writer Visits the United States and Finds Nothing to Admire

819

(1)

Recovering the Past The Movies

820

(3)

Conclusion The Mixed Legacy of the Great Depression and the New Deal

823

(3)

World War II

826

(36)

American Stories A Native American Boy Plays at War

826

(20)

The Twisting Road to War

828

(6)

The Home Front

834

(7)

Social Impact of the War

841

(5)

American Voices PFC Robert Kotlowitz Faces Battle

846

(8)

A War of Diplomats and Generals

846

(8)

Recovering the Past History, Memory, and Monuments

854

(2)

How Others See Us Yamaoka Michiko, On the Ground at Hiroshima

856

(2)

Conclusion Peace, Prosperity, and International Responsibilities

858

(4)

PART SIX A Resilient People, 1945--2005

862

Postwar America at Home, 1945--1960

862

(40)

American Stories An Entrepreneur Franchises the American Dream

862

(17)

Economic Boom

864

(6)

Demographic and Technological Shifts

870

(7)

Consensus and Conformity

877

(2)

American Voices Betty Friedan, From The Feminine Mystique

879

(1)

Recovering the Past Clothing

880

(4)

American Voices Allen Ginsberg, ``Howl''

884

(15)

Origins of the Welfare State

885

(5)

The Other America

890

(9)

Conclusion Qualms amid Affluence

899

(3)

Chills and Fever During the Cold War, 1945--1960

902

(34)

American Stories A Government Employee Confronts the Anti-Communist Crusade

902

(8)

Origins of the Cold War

904

(3)

Containing the Soviet Union

907

(3)

How Others See Us A West German Poster on the Marshall Plan

910

(4)

Recovering the Past Public Opinion Polls

914

(4)

Containment in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America

916

(2)

American Voices Colonel Lewis Puller, Speech to the Toops

918

(10)

Atomic Weapons and the Cold War

923

(4)

The Cold War at Home

927

(1)

American Voices HUAC Interrogation of Ring Lardner, Jr.

928

(6)

Conclusion The Cold War in Perspective

934

(2)

Reform and Rebellion in the Turbulent Sixties, 1960--1969

936

(36)

American Stories A Young Liberal Questions the Welfare State

936

(4)

John F. Kennedy: The Camelot Years

938

(2)

Recovering the Past Television

940

(12)

Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society

946

(6)

American Voices Anne Moody, From Coming of Age in Mississippi

952

(8)

Continuing Confrontations with Communists

954

(4)

War in Vietnam and Turmoil at Home

958

(2)

Analyzing History The Vietnam War

960

(3)

American Voices Tom Hayden, Port Huron Statement

963

(6)

Conclusion Political and Social Upheaval

969

(3)

Disorder and Discontent, 1969--1980

972

(34)

American Stories An Older Woman Returns to School

972

(10)

The Decline of Liberalism

974

(7)

The Ongoing Effort in Vietnam

981

(1)

Recovering the Past Popular Music

982

(2)

American Voices Interview with Paul Meadlo on the My Lai Massacre

984

(1)

How Others See Us French and German Posters on the American War in Vietnam

985

(11)

Constitutional Conflict and Its Consequences

986

(5)

The Continuing Quest for Social Reform

991

(5)

American Voices Helen Chavez, Reflections on the Family's Struggle

996

(8)

Conclusion Sorting Out the Pieces

1004

(2)

The Revival of Conservatism, 1980--1992

1006

(36)

American Stories A Young Woman Embraces Republican Values

1006

(12)

The Conservative Transformation

1008

(8)

An End to Social Reform

1016

(2)

American Voices Jesse Jackson, Address to the 1984 Democratic National Committee

1018

(3)

American Voices Sherman Alexie, Four Related Poems

1021

(3)

Economic and Demographic Change

1023

(1)

Recovering the Past The Internet and the World Wide Web

1024

(2)

Analyzing History The Computer

1026

(12)

Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War

1031

(7)

Conclusion Conservatism in Context

1038

(4)

The Post--Cold War World, 1992--2005

1042

American Stories An Immigrant Family Struggles as the Economy Improves

1042

(10)

The Changing Face of the American People

1044

(5)

Economic and Social Change

1049

(3)

American Voices Michelle Kennedy, ``Mothering Without a Net''

1052

(8)

American Voices Marilyn Chin, ``How I Got That Name''

1060

(2)

Democratic Revival

1061

(1)

Recovering the Past Autobiography

1062

(13)

The Second Bush Presidency

1067

(3)

Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World

1070

(5)

How Others See Us Elfriede Jelinek, ``No New Wars''

1075

(1)

Conclusion The Recent Past in Perspective

1076

Appendix

(1)

The Declaration of Independence

(2)

The Constitution of the United States of America

(5)

Amendments to the Constitution

(4)

Presidential Elections

(3)

States of the United States

(1)

Population of the United States

Credits

(1)

Index

(40)

Primary Source Documents

(2)

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