Synopses & Reviews
This reader provides a wealth of political and diplomatic primary source documents, many selections illustrated with photographs. Influential and famous readings include the Gettysburg Address, Earl Warren's opinion in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, and the writings of Upton Sinclair. Headnotes place the document in historical context and Questions to Consider get students thinking. The Seventh Edition includes new readings from social, economic, and cultural history; a greater diversity of voices; and nine new chapters.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Agony of Reconstruction 1. A Hunger for Literacy: Congressional Report on the Freedmen's Bureau (1868) 2. The Politics of Intimidation: Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction (1872) 3.Aftermath: Address to the Louisville Convention (1883), Frederick Douglass Chapter 2. Minorities 4. A Sister on the Frontier: Letter from Colorado (1876), Blandina Segale 5. Indian Autumn: Chief Joseph's Story (1879), Young Joseph 6. Newcomers: How the Other Half Lives (1890), Jacob Riis 7. From Another Shore: Congressional Report on Chinese Immigration (1892) 8. New South, Old South: A Red Record (1895), Ida B. Wells 9. Bearing Gifts: Russian Jews (1916), Mary Antin 10. Closing the Door: Senate Speeches on Immigration Restriction (1924) Chapter 3. Economics Growth and Social Reform 11. Production and Wealth: Triumphant Democracy (1886), Andrew Carnegie 12. Labor's Vision: What Does the Working Man Want? (1890), Samuel Gompers 13. Prohibition and Reform: The Women's Christian Temperance Union (1889), Frances Willard 14. Women's Suffrage: Address to the Woman Suffrage Association (1902), Carrie Chapman Catt 15. The Socialist Attack: The Jungle (1906), Upton Sinclair 16. The Reorganization of Work: The Ford Assembly Line (1915), Horace Arnold and Fay Faurote Chapter 4. Expansion and War 17. The Lure of the East: America's Destiny (1900), Albert Beveridge 18. The Big Stick: The Monroe Doctrine Corollary (1904), Theodore Roosevelt 19. The Return to Europe: War Address to Congress (1917), Woodrow Wilson 20. The Diplomacy of Isolation: Speech to the Senate (1919), Henry Cabot Lodge Chapter 5. Interlude 21. Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro (1925), Alain Locke 22. Fundamentalism at Bay: The Trial of John T. Scopes (1925), Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan 23. The Business of America: Address to New York Businessmen (1925), Calvin Coolidge; An Evangelical's Notebook (1925-28), Reinhold Niebuhr Chapter 6. Crisis and Hope 24. American Earthquake: Women on the Breadlines (1932), Meridel LeSueur 25. The Politics of Upheaval: First Inaugural Address (1933), Franklin D. Roosevelt 26. A New Deal: The Works Progress Administration (1935), Harry Hopkins 27. The Rights of Labor: National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel (1937), Charles Evans Hughes 28. War Aims: The Four Freedoms (1941), Franklin D. Roosevelt 29. Envisioning Post-War America: What Kind of World Do We Want? (1943), Frances Perkins Chapter 7. Protracted Conflict 30. Containment: The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947), George F. Kennan 31. Seeing Reds: Lincoln Day Address (1950), Joseph R. McCarthy 32. A Question of Command: Farewell Address to Congress (1951), Douglas MacArthur 33. The Defense of Freedom: Inaugural Address (1961), John F. Kennedy 34. Blank Check: Message on the Gulf of Tonkin (1964), Lyndon B. Johnson 35. The Collapse of Consensus: An Indefensible War (1967), Eugene McCarthy 36. A Cold War Breakthrough: The United States-China Communiqur of 1972 Chapter 8. The Liberal Hour 37. Breaking the Color Line: Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka (1954), Earl Warren 38. Women's Liberation: The Feminine Mystique (1963), Betty Friedan 39. The Struggle for Political Rights: Testimony at the Democratic Convention (1964), Fannie Lou Hamer 40. Health and Dignity: The Signing of the Medicare Bill (1965), Lyndon B. Johnson 41. Saving the Environment: President's Advisory Council Memorandum (1970) 42. Life and Choice: Roe v. Wade (1973), Harry Blackmun 43. Spirit and Culture: Pastoral Message of the Hispanic Bishops (1982) Chapter 9. Conservative Resurgence 44. The Conservative South: Governor's Inaugural Address (1963), George Wallace 45. The New Republicans: Speech in Jackson, Mississippi (1969), Spiro Agnew; Labor Day Radio Address (1973), Richard M. Nixon 46. Stopping the Equal Rights Amendment: Interview with the Washington Star (1976), Phyllis Schlafly 47. Business Unleashed: First Inaugural Address (1981), Ronald Reagan 48. The Evil Empire: Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals (1983), Ronald Reagan 49. Masculinity and War: On Homosexuality, Military Service and Civil Rights (1993), On Women in Combat (1998) 50. Response to Terror: The Bush Strategic Doctrine (2002), George W. Bush