Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, Volume 2: Since 1865

About this Book
	Cover Page
	Title Page
	Copyright Page
	Preface for Instructors
	Introduction for Students
	Contents
Chapter 16: Reconstruction: 1863–1877
	Document 16–1: Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South
		Report on the Condition of the South, 1865
	Document 16–2: Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families
		Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865–1870
	Document 16–3: 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
	Document 16–4: Klan Violence against Blacks
		Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871
	Document 16–5: The Ignorant Vote and the Election of 1876
		Thomas Nast, “The Ignorant Vote,” 1876
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 17: The Contested West: 1865–1900
	Document 17–1: Transcontinental Railroad Completed, 1870
		“Through to the Pacific,” ca. 1870
	Document 17–2: Pun Chi Appeals to Congress in Behalf of Chinese Immigrants in California
		A Remonstrance from the Chinese in California, ca. 1870
	Document 17–3: 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
	Document 17–4: Texas Rangers on the Mexican Border
		N. A. Jennings, A Texas Ranger, 1875
	Document 17–5: In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat Describes White Encroachment
		Chief Joseph, Speech to a White Audience, 1879
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 18: The Gilded Age: 1865–1900
	Document 18–1: William Graham Sumner on Social Obligations
		What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 1883
	Document 18–2: Henry Demarest Lloyd Attacks Monopolies
		Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894
	Document 18–3: The Bosses of the Senate
		Joseph Keppler, “The Bosses of the Senate,” 1889
	Document 18–4: Andrew Carnegie Explains the Gospel of Wealth
		Wealth, 1889
	Document 18–5: Henry George Explains Why Poverty Is a Crime
		An Analysis of the Crime of Poverty, 1885
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 19: The City and Its Workers: 1870–1900
	Document 19–1: A Textile Worker Explains the Labor Market
		Thomas O’Donnell, Testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee, 1885
	Document 19–2: Domestic Servants on Household Work
		Interviews with Journalist Helen Campbell, 1880s
	Document 19–3: Jacob Riis Photographs a Jewish Cobbler in New York City
		Jacob Riis, “Hebrew Making Ready for Sabbath Eve in his Coal Cellar,” ca. 1890
	Document 19–4: Walter Wyckoff Listens to Revolutionary Workers in Chicago
		Among the Revolutionaries, 1898
	Document 19–5: George Washington Plunkitt Explains Politics
		William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, 1905
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 20: Dissent, Depression, and War: 1890–1900
	Document 20–1: Mary Elizabeth Lease Reports on Women in the Farmers’ Alliance
		Women in the Farmers’ Alliance, 1891
	Document 20–2: Cherokee Strip Land Rush, 1893
		The Cherokee Strip Land Rush, 1893
	Document 20–3: White Supremacy in Wilmington, North Carolina
		Gunner Jesse Blake, Narrative of the Wilmington “Rebellion” of 1898
	Document 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
	Document 20–5: Emilio Aguinaldo Criticizes American Imperialism in the Philippines
		Case against the United States, 1899
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 21: Progressive Reform: 1890–1916
	Document 21–1: Jane Addams on Settlement Houses
		The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements, 1892
	Document 21–2: Pietro Learning to Write
		Jacob Riis, Pietro Learning to Write, 1892
	Document 21–3: A Sociologist Studies Working-Class Saloons in Chicago
		Royal Melendy, Ethical Substitutes for the Saloon, 1900
	Document 21–4: Marie Jenney Howe Parodies the Opposition to Women’s Suffrage
		An Anti-Suffrage Monologue, 1913
	Document 21–5: Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation
		The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895
	Document 21–6: W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality
		Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 22: World War I: The Progressive Crusade: 1914–1920
	Document 22–1: “The Human American Eagle,” 1918
		John D. Thomas and Arthur S. Mole, “The Human American Eagle,” Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Georgia, 1918
	Document 22–2: Eugene V. Debs Attacks Capitalist Warmongers
		Speech Delivered in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918
	Document 22–3: A Doughboy’s Letter from the Front
		Anonymous Soldier, Letter to Elmer J. Sutters, 1918
	Document 22–4: Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Defends America from Communists
		The Case against the “Reds,” 1920
	Document 22–5: An African American Responds to the Chicago Race Riot
		Stanley B. Norvell, Letter to Victor F. Lawson, 1919
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 23: From New Era to Great Depression: 1920–1932
	Document 23–1: Demonstrating the Need for a Federal Highway System
		Army Convoy Truck Stuck on the Road, 1919
	Document 23–2: Reinhold Niebuhr on Christianity in Detroit
		Diary Entries, 1925–1928
	Document 23–3: The Ku Klux Klan Defends Americanism
		Hiram W. Evans, The Klan’s Fight for Americanism, 1926
	Document 23–4: Mothers Seek Freedom from Unwanted Pregnancies
		Margaret Sanger, Motherhood in Bondage, 1928
	Document 23–5: Marcus Garvey Explains the Goals of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
		The Negro’s Greatest Enemy, 1923
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 24: The New Deal Experiment: 1932–1939
	Document 24–1: Martha Gellhorn Reports on Conditions in North Carolina in 1934
		Martha Gellhorn to Harry Hopkins, November 11, 1934
	Document 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
	Document 24–3: Oklahoma Tenant Farmer Leads His Family Down the Road, 1938
		Dorothea Lange, “Family Walking on Highway, five children,” 1938
	Document 24–4: Huey Long Proposes Redistribution of Wealth
		Speech to Members of the Share Our Wealth Society, 1935
	Document 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
Chapter 25: The United States and the Second World War: 1939–1945
	Document 25–1: A Japanese American War Hero Recalls Pearl Harbor
		Grant Hirabayashi, Oral History, 1999
	Document 25–2: American Jewish Leaders Notify FDR about the Holocaust
		Memorandum Submitted to the President of the United States at the White House on Tuesday, December 8, 1942
	Document 25–3: Rosies the Riveter Recall Working in War Industries
		Rosie the Riveter Memoirs, ca. 2004, Susan E. Page, Journeyman Welder
	Document 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
	Document 25–5: U.S. Generals Inspect Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, 1945
		U.S. Generals Inspect Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, April 12, 1945
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 26: The New World of the Cold War: 1945–1960
	Document 26–1: General Marshall Summarizes the Lessons of World War II
		For the Common Defense, 1945
	Document 26–2: George F. Kennan Outlines Containment
		The Long Telegram, February 22, 1946
	Document 26–3: Cold War Blueprint
		NSC-68: U.S. Objectives and Programs for National Security, 1950
	Document 26–4: Civilians Prepare for Nuclear Attack
		Miami Couple Honeymoons in Fallout Shelter, 1959
	Document 26–5: A Veteran Recalls Combat in the Korean War
		Donald M. Griffith Interview, 2003
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 27: Postwar Culture and Politics: 1945–1960
	Document 27–1: Edith M. Stern Attacks the Domestic Bondage of Women
		Women Are Household Slaves, 1949
	Document 27–2: Vance Packard Analyzes the Age of Affluence
		The Status Seekers, 1959
	Document 27–3: George E. McMillan Reports on Racial Conditions in the South in 1960
		Sit-Downs: The South’s New Time Bomb, 1960
	Document 27–4: Youth Culture and the Draft
		Elvis Presley Joins the Army, 1958
	Document 27–5: President Dwight D. Eisenhower Warns about the Military-Industrial Complex
		Farewell Address, January 1961
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 28: Rights, Rebellion, and Reaction: 1960–1974
	Document 28–1: Martin Luther King Jr. Explains Nonviolent Resistance
		Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963
	Document 28–2: George C. Wallace Denounces the Civil Rights Movement
		The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax, July 4, 1964
	Document 28–3: Equal Rights for Women
		National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose, October 29, 1966
	Document 28–4: Black Power
		Chicago Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Leaflet, 1967
	Document 28–5: Students Protest the Vietnam War
		National Guard Soldiers Shoot Kent State University Students, 1970
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 29: Confronting Limits: 1961–1979
	Document 29–1: A Secret Government Assessment of the Vietnam War
		Robert S. McNamara, Actions Recommended for Vietnam, October 14, 1966
	Document 29–2: Military Discipline in an Unpopular War
		Robert D. Heinl Jr., The Collapse of the Armed Forces, June 7, 1971
	Document 29–3: The Evacuation of Saigon Exposes the Limits of U.S. Military Power
		Evacuation of Saigon, April 30, 1975
	Document 29–4: The Watergate Tapes: Nixon, Dean, and Haldeman Discuss the Cancer within the Presidency
		Transcript from Tape-Recorded Meeting, March 21, 1973
	Document 29–5: President Carter Declares Energy Conservation the Moral Equivalent of War, 1977
		Address to the Nation on Proposed National Energy Policy, April 18, 1977
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 30: Divisions at Home and Abroad in a Conservative Era: 1980–2000
	Document 30–1: President Ronald Reagan Defends American Morality
		Address to the National Association of American Evangelicals, 1983
	Document 30–2: Norma McCorvey Explains How She Became “Roe” of Roe v. Wade
		Affidavit, United States District Court, District of New Jersey, 2000
	Document 30–3: A Vietnamese Immigrant on the West Coast
		Anonymous Man, Oral History, 1983
	Document 30–4: President Bush Announces a New World Order, September 11, 1990
		Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress, September 11, 1990
	Document 30–5: Police Brutality and Los Angeles Riots, 1992
		Pat Oliphant, “Free at Last,” 1992
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 31: America in a New Century: Since 2000
	Document 31–1: National Security of the United States Requires Preemptive War
		The National Security Strategy of the United States, September 2002
	Document 31–2: A Captured 9/11 Terrorist Confesses
		Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Confession, 2007
	Document 31–3: A Christian Leader Argues That Evangelical Christianity Has Been Hijacked
		Tony Campolo, Interview, 2004
	Document 31–4: President Barack Obama Declares a New Beginning in U.S. Relations with the Muslim World
		On a New Beginning, June 4, 2009
	Document 31–5: President Trump Addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference
		President Donald J. Trump Hugs the Flag, 2019
	Comparative Questions
Acknowledgments
Notes
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