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Voices of America Past and Present, Volume II

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Voices of America Past and Present, Volume II

by: Longman

ISBN 13:
9780321396013
ISBN 10:
0321396014
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2005
Publisher: Longman
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This collection of primary sources includes both classic and lesser-known documents describing the rich mosaic of American life from the pre-contact era to the present day. The sources, both public and private documents-ranging from letters, diary excerpts, stories, novels, to speeches, court cases, and government reports-tell the story of American history in the words of those who lived it.

Preface

vii

The Agony of Reconstruction

(22)

Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865)

(2)

Mississippi Black Codes (1865)

(3)

A Sharecrop Contract (1882)

(3)

Civil Rights Cases (1883)

(3)

Congressional Testimony on the Actions of the Ku Klux Klan (1872)

(4)

Henry Grady, ``The New South'' (1886)

(5)

The West: Exploiting an Empire

(10)

Helen Hunt Jackson, from A Century of Dishonor (1881)

(4)

Frederick Jackson Turner, ``The Significance of the Frontier in American History'' (1893)

(5)

The Industrial Society

(14)

Andrew Carnegie, from ``The Gospel of Wealth'' (1889)

(3)

Russell Conwell, from ``Acres of Diamonds'' (1915)

(3)

Terence V. Powderly, Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878)

(2)

Chinese Exclusion Act (1881)

(4)

Toward an Urban Society, 1877-1900

(20)

Edward Bellamy, from Looking Backward (1888)

(3)

From Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

(2)

Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address (1895)

(2)

W.E.B. Du Bois, from ``Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others'' (1903)

(2)

Lee Chew, from Life of a Chinese Immigrant (1903)

(3)

The Secret Oath of the American Protective Association (1893)

(2)

George Waring, Sanitary Conditions in New York (1897)

(4)

Political Realignments in the 1890s

(12)

The Omaha Platform of the Populist Party (1892)

(3)

William Allen White, What's the Matter with Kansas? (1896)

(3)

Theodore Dreiser, from Sister Carrie (1900)

(5)

Toward Empire

(12)

Josiah Strong, from Our Country (1885)

(3)

Albert Beveridge, ``The March of the Flag'' (1898)

(2)

William Graham Sumner, from ``On Empire and the Philippines'' (1898)

(2)

William McKinley, ``Decision on the Philippines'' (1900)

(3)

The Progressive Era

(16)

Ida M. Tarbell, from The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904)

(4)

William L. Riordon, from Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (1905)

(2)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, from A Red Record (1895)

(3)

Jane Addams, from Twenty Years at Hull House (1909)

102

(5)

From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism

107

(10)

Theodore Roosevelt, from The New Nationalism (1910)

109

(2)

Woodrow Wilson, from The New Freedom (1913)

111

(2)

National American Woman Suffrage Association, Mother's Day Letter (1912)

113

(4)

The Nation at War

117

(20)

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904)

119

(2)

Boy Scouts of America, from ``Boy Scouts Support the War Effort'' (1917)

121

(3)

Newton D. Baker, ``The Treatment of German-Americans'' (1918)

124

(2)

Eugene Kennedy, A ``Doughboy'' Describes the Fighting Front (1918)

126

(3)

Eugene V. Debs, Statement to the Court (1918)

129

(3)

Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918)

132

(5)

Transition to Modern America

137

(16)

A. Mitchell Palmer, ``The Case Against the Reds'' (1920)

139

(2)

Comprehensive Immigration Law (1924)

141

(3)

Calvin Coolidge, Honoring Charles Lindbergh (1927)

144

(3)

Marcus Garvey, Aims and Objectives of the UNIA (1923)

147

(6)

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal

153

(12)

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933)

155

(4)

Huey Long, ``Share Our Wealth'' (1935)

159

(2)

Eleanor Roosevelt, from ``My Day'' Columns (1939)

161

(4)

America and the World, 1921--1945

165

(20)

Albert Einstein, Letter to President Roosevelt (1939)

167

(3)

Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms (1941)

170

(3)

Charles A. Lindbergh, from Des Moines Speech (1941)

173

(4)

A. Philip Randolph, ``Why Should We March?'' (1942)

177

(3)

Korematsu v. United States (1944)

180

(5)

The Onset of the Cold War

185

(16)

Harry S Truman, The Truman Doctrine (1947)

187

(2)

George Marshall, The Marshall Plan (1947)

189

(2)

Joseph R. McCarthy, from Speech Delivered to the Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia (1950)

191

(2)

Margaret Chase Smith, from ``Declaration of Conscience'' (1950)

193

(3)

Whittaker Chambers, from Foreword to Witness (1952)

196

(5)

Affluence and Anxiety

201

(12)

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

203

(3)

The Southern Manifesto (1956)

206

(3)

Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)

209

(4)

The Turbulent Sixties

213

(20)

From John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Address (1962)

216

(2)

The Tonkin Gulf Incident (1964)

218

(3)

Lyndon Johnson, The War on Poverty (1964)

221

(2)

Students for a Democratic Society, Port Huron Statement (1962)

223

(2)

Curtis Sitcomer, ``Harvest of Discontent'' (1967)

225

(3)

National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose (1966)

228

(5)

A Crisis in Confidence, 1969--1980

233

(16)

Kevin MacCauley, Oral History on the 1968 Siege of Khe Sanh

235

(3)

Richard M. Nixon, Speech on Vietnamization Policy (1969)

238

(4)

House Judiciary Committee, Conclusion on Impeachment Resolutions (1974)

242

(3)

Roe v. Wade (1973)

245

(4)

The Republican Resurgence, 1980--1992

249

(12)

Ronald Reagan, Speech to the House of Commons (1982)

250

(2)

Donald E. Wildmon, The Conscience of a Christian Conservative (1985)

252

(3)

George H.W. Bush, Address to the Nation Announcing Allied Military Action in the Persian Gulf (1991)

255

(6)

America in Flux

261

(15)

Articles of Impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton (1998)

263

(4)

Barbara Lee, Speech in Opposition to Authorizing the U.S. War in Afghanistan (2001)

267

(2)

Owen Burdick, Witnessing the 9-11 Terrorist Attack in New York (2001)

269

(3)

Wayne Allard, Testifying in Favor of the Federal Marriage Amendment (2004)

272

(4)

Credits

276

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