Synopses & Reviews
This supplement offers a wide range of primary-source documents in sets built around a historical "problem." Each set comprises several documents, including excerpts from letters, diaries, speeches, and petitions, as well as song lyrics, political cartoons, and advertisements. Introductions and questions guide students in understanding and interpreting the documents.
Synopsis
This supplement offers a wide range of primary-source documents in sets built around a historical "problem." Each set comprises several documents, including excerpts from letters, diaries, speeches, and petitions, as well as song lyrics, political cartoons, and advertisements. Introductions and questions guide students in understanding and interpreting the documents.
About the Author
Paul S. Boyer was the Merle Curti Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was also a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles; Northwestern University; and the College of William and Mary. An editor of NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN, 1607-1950 (1971), he also co-authored SALEM POSSESSED: THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF WITCHCRAFT (1974), for which, with Stephen Nissenbaum, he received the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association. His other works include URBAN MASSES AND MORAL ORDER IN AMERICA, 1820-1920 (1978), BY THE BOMB'S EARLY LIGHT: AMERICAN THOUGHT AND CULTURE AT THE DAWN OF THE ATOMIC AGE (1985), WHEN TIME SHALL BE NO MORE: PROPHECY BELIEF IN MODERN AMERICAN CULTURE (1992), and PROMISES TO KEEP: THE UNITED STATES SINCE WORLD WAR II (third edition, 2005). He was also editor-in-chief of the OXFORD COMPANION TO UNITED STATES HISTORY (2001). His articles and essays appeared in the AMERICAN QUARTERLY, NEW REPUBLIC, and other journals. Clifford E. Clark, Jr., M.A. and A.D. Hulings Professor of American Studies and professor of history at Carleton College, earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has served as both the chair of the History Department and director of the American Studies program at Carleton. Clark is the author of HENRY WARD BEECHER: SPOKESMAN FOR A MIDDLE-CLASS AMERICA (1978), THE AMERICAN FAMILY HOME, 1800-1960 (1986), THE INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF ANGLO-AMERICA SINCE 1789 in the GENERAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS SERIES, and, with Carol Zellie, NORTHFIELD: THE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE OF A COMMUNITY (1997). He also has edited and contributed to MINNESOTA IN A CENTURY OF CHANGE: THE STATE AND ITS PEOPLE SINCE 1900 (1989). A past member of the Council of the American Studies Association, Clark is active in the fields of material culture studies and historic preservation, and he serves on the Northfield, Minnesota, Historical Preservation Commission. Joseph F. Kett, James Madison Professor of History at the University of Virginia, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His works include THE FORMATION OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL PROFESSION: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS, 1780-1860 (1968), RITES OF PASSAGE: ADOLESCENCE IN AMERICA, 1790-PRESENT (1977), THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES: FROM SELF-IMPROVEMENT TO ADULT EDUCATION IN AMERICA, 1750-1990 (1994), and THE NEW DICTIONARY OF CULTURAL LITERACY (2002), of which he is co-author. A forthcoming book, MERIT AND ITS DISCONTENTS SINCE THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, will be released in late 2012. As the former History Department chair at Virginia, he also has participated on the Panel on Youth of the President's Science Advisory Committee, has served on the Board of Editors of the HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY, and is a past member of the Council of the American Studies Association. Neal Salisbury, Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor Emeritus in the Social Sciences (History), at Smith College, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of MANITOU AND PROVIDENCE: INDIANS, EUROPEANS, AND THE MAKING OF NEW ENGLAND, 1500-1643 (1982), editor of THE SOVEREIGNTY AND GOODNESS OF GOD, by Mary Rowlandson (1997), and co-editor, with Philip J. Deloria, of THE COMPANION TO AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY (2002). With R. David Edmunds and Frederick E. Hoxie, he has written THE PEOPLE: A HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICA (2007). He has contributed numerous articles to journals and edited collections and co-edits a book series, CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY. He is active in the fields of colonial and Native American history and has served as president of the American Society for Ethnohistory and on the Council of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Harvard Sitkoff, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is the author of A NEW DEAL FOR BLACKS (Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, 2009), THE STRUGGLE FOR BLACK EQUALITY (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, 2008), KING: PILGRIMAGE TO THE MOUNTAINTOP (2008), TOWARD FREEDOM LAND, THE LONG STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL EQUALITY IN AMERICA (2010), and POSTWAR AMERICA: A STUDENT COMPANION (2000); co-author of the National Park Service's RACIAL DESEGREGATION IN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES (2000), and THE WORLD WAR II HOMEFRONT (2003); and editor of FIFTY YEARS LATER: THE NEW DEAL REEVALUATED (1984), A HISTORY OF OUR TIME (2012), and PERSPECTIVES ON MODERN AMERICA: MAKING SENSE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (2001). His articles have appeared in the AMERICAN QUARTERLY, JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY, and JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY, among others. A frequent lecturer at universities abroad, he has been awarded the Fulbright Commission's John Adams Professorship of American Civilization in the Netherlands and the Mary Ball Washington Professorship of American History in Ireland.
Table of Contents
16. Document Set 1: Enduring Suffrage: Equal Rights for Whom? Document Set 2: "Free at Last": The African American Responses to Emancipation. Document Set 3: Redemption and Salvation: The Reconstruction Experiment Abandoned. 17. Document Set 1: The Native American Presence: The Massacre at Sand Creek. Document Set 2: The Farmer's Frontier: Life on the Great Plains. Document Set 3: The Western Landscape: Nature's Gifts and their Exploitation. 18. Document Set 1: The Impact of Industrial Change: The Work Process and the Work Force. Document Set 2: The Worker Response to Industrialism: Unionism and Labor Violence. Document Set 3: The Rise of the New South: New Opportunities in a Changing Economy. 19. Document Set 1: Life in the City: Coping with the New Urban Environment. Document Set 2: Responses to the Urban Challenge: Social Innovation. 20. Document Set 1: The Cult of Domesticity and the Reaction: True Women and New Women. Document Set 2: The Trend Toward a Consumer Society: Advertising and Popular Taste. Document Set 3: Ethnicity in the Graphic Arts: Middle-Class Notions of Immigrant Life. 21. Document Set 1: Civil Service Reform: A Curse of a Blessing? Document Set 2: Expansionism and its Consequences: Developing a Strategy for Empire. Document Set 3: The Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party: Populism as a Product of a Movement Culture. 22. Document Set 1: Muckraking: The Novel as a Force for Social Change. Document Set 2: The Rise of Women's Activism: New Responsibilities. Document Set 3: A Commitment to the Environment: Conservation as a Political Issue. 23. Document Set 1: Total War and the Boundaries of Dissent: The Response from the Heartland. Document Set 2: The Social Impact of Total War: World War I as a Catalyst for Change. Document Set 3: War and Peace: Justification and Outcomes. 24. Document Set 1: The Business Values of the 1920's: Promise and Reality. Document Set 2: Sources of Social Conflict: Reactions to Changing Moral Values. Document Set 3: Labor Under Stress: Southern Workers in the "New Era". 25. Document Set 1: Crisis in Dearborn: The Ford Hunger March. Document Set 2: Assessing the New Deal: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Limits of Liberalism. Document Set 3: Environmental Disaster: Images of Human Error and Hope for the Future. 26. Document Set 1: Coping with Anxiety: The Great Depression as a Memory Trip. Document Set 2: Trouble on the Land: Images of the Dispossessed. Document Set 3: Mass Culture and Social Crisis: Music, Film, and the Mood of Depression America. 27. Document Set 1: Hollywood's Foreign Policy: Interventionism in American Films, 1939-1940. Document Set 2: War and Society: Outsiders on the Inside. Document Set 3: Coalition Warfare: New Friends in a Grand Alliance. 28. Document Set 1: The Greek Crisis and the Truman Doctrine: Origins of Containment. Document Set 2: The Great Fear Unleashed: The Cold War Comes Home. Document Set 3: Korea: The Forgotten War. 29. Document Set 1: Changing Times: The Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1956. Document Set 2: Eisenhower, Dulles, and Hemispheric Security: Intervention in Guatemala. 30. Document Set 1: Critical Decisions: "Waist-Deep in the Big Muddy". Document Set 2: Black Nationalism and Black Power: When the Singing Stopped. Document Set 3: Huelga: Religion, Nonviolence, and the Rise of the UFW. 31. Document Set 1: Vietnam and the Young: "Wild in the Streets". Document Set 2: Subversion of the Political Process: The Watergate Crisis and the Constitutional System. Document Set 3: A Changed Army for a Changed War: A View of Vietnam from the Participants. 32. Document Set 1: The Modern Women's Movement: The Equal Rights Amendment and Uncertain Equality. Document Set 2: Confronting the Evil Empire by Proxy: Central America as a Battleground. Document Set 3: Decision for War: An End to the "Vietnam Syndrome." 33. Document Set 1: Health Security for All Americans: Great Expectations. Document Set 2: The "Revolution" of 1994; Realignment or Readjustment.