Reading the American Past, Volume II: From 1865: Selected Historical Documents

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface for Instructors
Introduction for Students
Contents
16. RECONSTRUCTION, 1863?1877
	16?1 Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South
		Report on the Condition of the South, 1865
	16?2 Black Codes Enacted in the South
		Mississippi Black Code, November 1865
	16?3 Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families
		Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865?1870
	16?4 Planter Louis Manigault Visits His Plantations and Former Slaves
		A Narrative of a Post?Civil War Visit to Gowrie and East Hermitage Plantations, March 22, 1867
	16?5 Klan Violence against Blacks
		Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871
	COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
17. THE CONTESTED WEST, 1865?1900
	17?1 Pun Chi Appeals to Congress in Behalf of Chinese Immigrants in California
		A Remonstrance from the Chinese in California, ca. 1870
	17?2 Mattie Oblinger Describes Life on a Nebraska Homestead
		Mattie V. Oblinger to George W. Thomas, Grizzie B. Thomas, and Wheeler Thomas Family, June 16, 1873
	17?3 Texas Rangers on the Mexican Border
		N. A. Jennings, A Texas Ranger, 1875
	17?4 In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat Describes White Encroachment
		Chief Joseph, Speech to a White Audience, 1879
	17?5 A Plea to ?Citizenize? Indians
		Richard Pratt, ?Kill the Indian . . . and save the man,? 1892
	COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
18. BUSINESS AND POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE, 1870?1895
	18?1 Marshall Kirkman Likens Railroad Corporations to Armies
		The Railway Army, 1894
	18?2 William Graham Sumner on Social Obligations
		What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 1883
	18?3 Henry Demarest Lloyd Attacks Monopolies
		Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894
	18?4 Andrew Carnegie Explains the Gospel of Wealth
		Wealth, 1889
	18?5 Henry George Explains Why Poverty Is a Crime
		An Analysis of the Crime of Poverty, 1885
	COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
19. THE CITY AND ITS WORKERS, 1870?1900
	19?1 A Textile Worker Explains the Labor Market
		Thomas O?Donnell, Testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee, 1885
	19?2 Domestic Servants on Household Work
		Interviews with Journalist Helen Campbell, 1880s
	19?3 Jacob Riis Describes Abandoned Babies in New York City?s Slums
		Waifs of New York City?s Slums, 1890
	19?4 Walter Wyckoff Listens to Revolutionary Workers in Chicago
		Among the Revolutionaries, 1898
	19?5 George Washington Plunkitt Explains Politics
		William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, 1905
	COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
20. DISSENT, DEPRESSION, AND WAR, 1890?1900
	20?1 Mary Elizabeth Lease Reports on Women in the Farmers? Alliance
		Women in the Farmers? Alliance, 1891
	20?2 White Supremacy in Wilmington, North Carolina
		Gunner Jesse Blake, Narrative of the Wilmington ?Rebellion? of 1898
	20?3 Pinkertons Defeated at Homestead
		Pinkerton Guard Testimony, 1893
	20?4 Conflicting Views about Labor Unions
		N. F. Thompson, Testimony before the Industrial Commission on the Relations and Conditions of Capital and Labor, 1900
		Samuel Gompers, Letter to the American Federationist, 1894
	20?5 Emilio Aguinaldo Criticizes American Imperialism in the Philippines
		Case against the United States, 1899
	COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
21. PROGRESSIVISM FROM THE GRASS ROOTS TO THE WHITE HOUSE, 1890?1916
	21?1 Jane Addams on Settlement Houses
		The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements, 1892
	21?2 A Sociologist Studies Working-Class Saloons in Chicago
		Royal Melendy, Ethical Substitutes for the Saloon, 1900
	21?3 Mother Jones on the Futility of Class Harmony
		Letter to Mrs. Potter Palmer, January 12, 1907
	21?4 Marie Jenney Howe Parodies the Opposition to Women?s Suffrage
		An Anti-Suffrage Monologue, 1913
	21?5 Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation
		The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895
	21?6 W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality
		Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903
	COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
22. WORLD WAR I: THE PROGRESSIVE CRUSADE AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1914?1920
	22?1 The North American Review Considers War a Blessing, Not a Curse
		For Freedom and Democracy, April 1917
	22?2 Eugene V. Debs Attacks Capitalist Warmongers
		Speech Delivered in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918
	22?3 A Doughboy?s Letter from the Front
		Anonymous Soldier, Letter to Elmer J. Sutters, 1918
	22?4 Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Defends America from Communists
		The Case against the ?Reds,? 1920
	22?5 An African American Responds to the Chicago Race Riot
		Stanley B. Norvell, Letter to Victor F. Lawson, 1919
	COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
23. FROM NEW ERA TO GREAT DEPRESSION, 1920?1932
	23?1 Edward Earle Purinton Celebrates American Business as the Salvation of the World
		Big Ideas From Big Business: Try Them Out for Yourself, April 16, 1921
	23?2 Reinhold Niebuhr on Christianity in Detroit
		Diary Entries, 1925?1928
	23?3 The Ku Klux Klan Defends Americanism
		Hiram W. Evans, The Klan?s Fight for Americanism, 1926
	23?4 Mothers Seek Freedom from Unwanted Pregnancies
		Margaret Sanger, Motherhood in Bondage, 1928
	23?5 Marcus Garvey Explains the Goals of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
		The Negro?s Greatest Enemy, 1923
	COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
24. THE NEW DEAL EXPERIMENT, 1932?1939
	24?1 Martha Gellhorn Reports on Conditions in North Carolina in 1934
		Martha Gellhorn to Harry Hopkins, November 11, 1934
	24?2 Working People?s Letters to New Dealers
		Letter to Frances Perkins, January 27, 1935
		Letter to Frances Perkins, March 29, 1935
		Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 23, 1936
		Letter to Frances Perkins, July 27, 1937
		Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 27, 1939
	24?3 Huey Long Proposes Redistribution of Wealth
		Speech to Members of the Share Our Wealth Society, 1935
	24?4 A Mexican American Farmworker Describes the Importance of Sticking Together
		Jose Flores, Interview, Farm Security Administration Migrant Labor Camp, El Rio, California, 1941
	24?5 Conservatives Criticize the New Deal
		Herbert Hoover, Anti?New Deal Campaign Speech, 1936
		Minnie Hardin, Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, December 14, 1937
	COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
25. THE UNITED STATES AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939?1945
	25?1 President Franklin D. Roosevelt Requests Declaration of War on Japan
		Speech to Congress, December 8, 1941
	25?2 A Japanese American War Hero Recalls Pearl Harbor
		Grant Hirabayashi, Oral History, 1999
	25?3 The Holocaust: A Journalist Reports on Nazi Massacres of Jews
		Varian Fry, The Massacre of the Jews, December 21, 1942
	25?4 Soldiers Send Messages Home
		Sergeant Irving Strobing, Radio Address from Corregidor, Philippines, May 5 or 6, 1942
		John Conroy, Letter, December 24, 1942
		Allen Spach, Letter, February 1943
		James McMahon, Letter, March 10, 1944
		David Mark Olds, Letter, July 12, 1945
	25?5 Rosies the Riveter Recall Working in War Industries
		Rosie the Riveter Memoirs, ca. 2004
	COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
26. COLD WAR POLITICS IN THE TRUMAN YEARS, 1945?1953
	26?1 General Marshall Summarizes the Lessons of World War II
		For the Common Defense, 1945
	26?2 George F. Kennan Outlines Containment
		The Long Telegram, February 22, 1946
	26?3 Cold War Blueprint
		NSC-68: U.S. Objectives and Programs for National Security, 1950
	26?4 Senator Joseph McCarthy Hunts Communists
		Speech Delivered in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950
	26?5 A Veteran Recalls Combat in the Korean War
		Donald M. Griffith Interview, 2003
	COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
27. THE POLITICS AND CULTURE OF ABUNDANCE, 1952?1960
	27?1 Edith M. Stern Attacks the Domestic Bondage of Women
		Women Are Household Slaves, 1949
	27?2 Vance Packard Analyzes the Age of Affl uence
		The Status Seekers, 1959
	27?3 George E. McMillan Reports on Racial Conditions in the South in 1960
		Sit-Downs: The South?s New Time Bomb, 1960
	27?4 Civil Defense in the Nuclear Shadow
		North Dakota Civil Defense Agency, How You Will Survive, 1960
	27?5 President Dwight D. Eisenhower Warns about the Military-Industrial Complex
		Farewell Address, January 1961
	COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
28. REFORM, REBELLION, AND REACTION, 1960?1974
	28?1 New Left Students Seek Democratic Social Change
		Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement, 1962
	28?2 Martin Luther King Jr. Explains Nonviolent Resistance
		Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963
	28?3 George C. Wallace Denounces the Civil Rights Movement
		The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax, July 4, 1964
	28?4 Black Power
		Chicago Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Leafl et, 1967
	28?5 Equal Rights for Women
		National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose, October 29, 1966
	COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
29. VIETNAM AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR CONSENSUS, 1961?1975
	29?1 President Kennedy Explains Why We Are in Vietnam
		Bobbie Lou Pendergrass, Letter to President John F. Kennedy, February 18, 1963
		President John F. Kennedy, Letter to Bobbie Lou Pendergrass, March 6, 1963
	29?2 A Secret Government Assessment of the Vietnam War
		Robert S. McNamara, Actions Recommended for Vietnam, October 14, 1966
	29?3 Military Discipline in an Unpopular War
		Robert D. Heinl Jr., The Collapse of the Armed Forces, June 7, 1971
	29?4 An American Soldier in Vietnam
		Arthur E. Woodley Jr., Oral History of a Special Forces Ranger
	29?5 John Kerry Denounces the Vietnam War
		Testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 1971
	COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
30. AMERICA MOVES TO THE RIGHT, 1969?1989
	30?1 The Watergate Tapes: Nixon, Dean, and Haldeman Discuss the Cancer within the Presidency
		Transcript from Tape-Recorded Meeting, March 21, 1973
	30?2 Roe v. Wade and Abortion Rights
		Supreme Court Decision, 1973
	30?3 Norma McCorvey Explains How She Became ?Roe? of Roe v. Wade
		Affidavit, United States District Court, District of New Jersey, 2000
	30?4 President Ronald Reagan Defends American Morality
		Address to the National Association of American Evangelicals, 1983
	30?5 A Vietnamese Immigrant on the West Coast
		Anonymous Man, Oral History, 1983
	COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
31. THE PROMISES AND CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION, SINCE 1989
	31?1 National Security of the United States Requires Preemptive War
		The National Security Strategy of the United States, September 2002
	31?2 A Captured 9/11 Terrorist Confesses
		Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Confession, 2007
	31?3 A Christian Leader Argues That Evangelical Christianity Has Been Hijacked
		Tony Campolo, Interview, 2004
	31?4 Joseph Stiglitz Describes Capitalist Fools? Responsibility for the Economic Crisis
		Capitalist Fools, December 11, 2008
	31?5 President Barack Obama Declares a New Beginning in U.S. Relations with the Muslim World
		On a New Beginning, June 4, 2009
	COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS