PRE-COLONIAL TO 1600
2
COLONIAL: 1600–1763
2–4
REVOLUTION AND EARLY NATIONAL: 1763–1820
5–7
ANTEBELLUM: 1820–1860
7–12
CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION: 1860–1877
12–14
THE GILDED AGE AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA:
1877–1920
14–18
WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II: 1914–1945
18–21
POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICA:
1945–PRESENT
21–26
DOCUMENT LIBRARY
27-36
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Retrieving the American Past
2
RETRIEVING THE AMERICAN PAST
TOPICAL CHAPTERS
PRE-COLONIAL TO 1600
RTAP92
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Columbus’s Legacy in the Documentary Record
American Prehistory: North America
Before European Contact
* The Journal of Christopher Columbus
* The Letter of Columbus to Ferdinand and Isabel
Martha L. Chaatsmith
The Amerindians and the “Garden of Eden,”
Bartolomé de las Casas
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Scholarly Study of Ancient America
The Sin of the Spanish Invasion, Bartolomé
de las Casas
Timeline for North America
* The Onset of the Epidemics, Fray Bernardino de
Sahagún
Excerpts from Hidden Cities: The Discovery and
Loss of Ancient North American Civilization,
Roger G. Kennedy
Amerindians View the Spanish Invasion, from
The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
Excerpts from The Founders of America:
From the Earliest Migrations to the Present,
Francis Jennings
* Ecological Change, José de Acosta
Excerpts from Prehistory of the Americas,
Stuart J. Fiedel
COLONIAL: 1600–1763
Excerpts from Mysteries of the Hopewell:
Astronomers, Geometers, and Magicians of
the Eastern Woodlands, William F. Romain
RTAP23
Excerpts from Native Americas, Archaeologists,
and The Mounds, Barbara Alice Mann
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Studying Prehistory: The Newark Earthworks
Excerpts from A Description of Antiquities
Discovered in Ohio and Other Western States,
Caleb Atwater
Excerpts from Ancient Monuments of The
Mississippi Valley, Ephraim G. Squier &
Edwin H. Davis
Excerpts from Teaching About Ohio’s
Earthworks: A Native American Perspective,
Jean McCoard
RTAP15
* The Columbian Exchange, José de Acosta
The Historical Legacies of
Christopher Columbus
Kenneth J. Andrien
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Modern Assessments of Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus and the Spread of
Western Civilization, Samuel Eliot Morison
The Indians’ New World: Native
Americans After The European Invasion,
1585 – 1783
Margaret E. Newell
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Warfare, Exchange, and the Meeting of Cultures
Indians, Europeans, and the Environment,
William Cronon & Richard White
Military and Diplomatic Strategies for Survival,
Gary B. Nash
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Cultural Exchanges and Cultural Clashes
* First Encounters, Captain John Smith
* Interdependence and Change in Colonial
Louisiana, John R. Swanton
* The Narragansetts Challenge Massachusetts
Bay’s Authority
Covering the Dead, Sir William Johnson
White Indians, Mary Jemison
Sources of Conflict, Peter Wraxhall
* Petition of the Chickasaw Headmen
* Dreams of Rebellion, Chief Pontiac (Neolin)
Christopher Columbus and the Legacy of
Colonial Brutality, Carl Ortwin Sauer
Columbus and the Ecological “Revolution,”
Alfred W. Crosby, Jr.
Columbus and the Advent of Global
Interdependency, William D. Phillips, Jr. & Carla
Rahn Phillips
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TOPICAL CHAPTERS
RTAP20
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Contemporary Views of the Rebellion
What Did It Mean To Be A Puritan?
Carla Gardina Pestana
Tensions on the Frontier: “A True Narrative of
the Rise, Progresse, and Cessation of the Late
Rebellion in Virginia”
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Religion in Early New England: From Personal
Piety to Social Force
* Berkeley Declares Bacon a Rebel
Lay Puritans Form a Police Force,
Edmund S. Morgan
The Queen of Pamunkey Negotiates for
Her People
Religion as a Source of Safety and Comfort,
Edward D. Hall
* Bacon Justifies Rebellion on Behalf of “the
People”
Puritanism’s Appeal to Women,
Amanda Porterfield
Edward Hill Explains His Opposition to
Nathaniel Bacon
Puritan Attitudes Toward Sex,
Edmund S. Morgan
Indentured Servants and Slaves Resist
Surrender, Anonymous
Puritanism as a Source of Social Stability,
Timothy H. Breen & Stephen Foster
Mrs. Cheisman’s Attempt to Save Her Husband,
Anonymous
Thomas Hansford’s Execution, Anonymous
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Puritan Faith: The Personal and the Political
God’s Judgment as a Lesson, Increase Mather
RTAP01
Carla Gardina Pestana
John Dane Grapples with His Sinfulness,
John Dane
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Who Was Accused of Witchcraft and Why:
Scholars’ Explanations
An Artist Contemplates the Struggle to
Overcome Sin: Anne Bradstreet, “The Flesh and
the Spirit”
Economic and Political Causes, Paul Boyer &
Stephen Nissenbaum
Drawing Upon Faith in the Face of Affliction:
Anne Bradstreet, “In memory of my dear
grand-child…who deceased June 20, 1669,
being three years and seven months old”
Gender Tensions, Carol Karlsen
Character Traits, John Putnam Demos
* The Role of Puritan Congregation, Records of
the First Church in Salem, Massachusetts
Religious Tensions, Christine Heyrman
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Contemporary Ideas About Witches and the
Events at Salem
* A Puritan Justifies Intolerance, Nathaniel Ward
Edward Johnson Exhorts All People to
Follow Christ
RTAP16
The Salem Witchcraft Scare
The Causes Of Bacon’s Rebellion
* The Case Against Bridget Bishop, Official
Court Documents
Carla Gardina Pestana & Charles
Coleman Finlay
* Bringing the Witch Trials to an End,
Increase Mather
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Scholars Debate Motivations
Prelude to the American Revolution, Thomas
Jefferson Wertenbaker
Conflict on the Frontier, Wilcomb E. Washburn
Exploitation of Labor, Edmund S. Morgan
Cotton Mather Assesses the Witch Trials
RTAP57
Violent Crime In Early America
Randolph A. Roth
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Historical Geography of Violent Crime
Puritans and Domestic Violence,
Elizabeth Pleck
Violence in the South, Edward L. Ayers
Violence in the North, Roger Lane
PRE-COLONIAL TO 1600/ COLONIAL: 1600–1763
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RETRIEVING THE AMERICAN PAST
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
State and Society: Theory and Practice
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Domestic Violence in Colonial New England and
New Netherland
The Rulers and the Ruled: John Winthrop’s
Definition of Liberty
Violence in New England, Plymouth Court
Records (1686 – 1859)
Jonathan Mayhew on the Limits of Obedience
Violence in New Netherland, Court
Records (1652 – 1660)
William Livingston on Patriotism and the Duty
of Public Service
Violence in the Mid-Nineteenth Century,
Testimony from Horry County Inquest
Book (1849 – 1874)
Landon Carter Defines Representation
* The Practice of Politics: How To Get
Elected — An Eighteenth-Century Guide,
Robert Mumford
A Murder in Vermont, from The Daily Free Press,
September 14, 1855
* Equality in Eighteenth-Century Politics, J.
Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
Feud in Vermont, from The Daily Free Press,
August 15, 1868
RTAP40
A Vertical Society: Hierarchy in Colonial
Virginia, Devereux Jarratt
Marriage in Colonial America
* Who Could Vote? Statistics from
Massachusetts (Table)
Randolph A. Roth
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Marriage in New England and the Chesapeake
Women As Deputy Husbands, Laurel
Thatcher Ulrich
Marriage and Gender in the Chesapeake, David
Hackett Fischer
A Different View of Marriage, Jack P. Greene
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Fractious Courtships and Marriages
The Diary of Samuel Sewall, Samuel Sewall
(1652 – 1730)
Some Account of the Early Part of the Life of
Elizabeth Ashbridge, Elizabeth Ashbridge
RTAP13
Colonial American Political Culture:
Deference or Democracy?
Margaret E. Newell
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The One, The Few, The Many: Democracy and
Deference in Colonial Politics
Democracy, Robert Brown
Aristocracy, Charles S. Sydnor
Monarchy, Richard Bushman
RTAP80
The First Great Awakening
Frank Lambert
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Debating the Great Awakening
The Great Awakening and Class Conflict,
John Brooke
The Great Awakening as Part of a Transatlantic
Revival, Susan O’Brien
The Geography of Revival, Frank Lambert
The Plural Origins of Eighteenth-Century
Revivalism, Jon Butler
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Contemporary Views of the Great Awakening
* Whitefield Comes to Town!, Nathan Cole
* Suspended Above Hell’s Fire, Jonathan Edwards
* A “Dead Ministry,” Gilbert Tennent
* The Grand Itinerant, George Whitefield
Benjamin Franklin’s Skeptical Appraisal,
Benjamin Franklin
Competing Claims: A “Work of God” or “Errors
and Disorders,” Pastors of the Churches in the
province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New
England, and Assembly of Pastors of Churches
in New-England
Response of the Laymen, A Number of Laymen
Respecting Religion and the
Teachers of It
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TOPICAL CHAPTERS
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Revolutionary Rhetoric and Reality
REVOLUTION AND EARLY NATIONAL:
1763–1820
* Property and the Right to Vote, John Adams
RTAP26
The Role Of Religion in the Coming of
the Revolution
The Problem of Women’s Suffrage, Richard
Henry Lee
* The Problem of Slavery, “The Petition of a Grate
Number of Blackes”
Richard D. Shiels
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Historians Disagree
A Radical Defense of Democracy, Anonymous
* Virginians Assert Their Rights, The Virginia
“Declaration of Rights”
The Clergy, the People, and the Patriot Cause,
Patricia U. Bonomi
Changes in Suffrage and Voting Behavior, Willi
Paul Adams (Tables)
The Secular Nature of the Revolution,
Jon Butler
RTAP24
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
American Colonists Speak for Themselves
Margaret E. Newell
A Biblical View of the Stamp Act, Anonymous
A Clergyman’s Understanding of Liberty,
Jonathan Mayhew
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Women, Family, and Social Change
* An African American Perspective on Liberty,
Phillis Wheatley
An Eighteenth-Century Woman, Anne
Firor Scott
Directions to Massachusetts Voters,
Samuel Langdon
Women and Revolutionary Ideology,
Linda Kerber
Directions to Presbyterians, Synod of New York
and Philadelphia
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Revolutionary Experience of
American Women
* A Loyalist Perspective, John Wolfe Lydekker
Satan’s Role in the Conflict, from “A Dialogue,
Between the Devil and George III, Tyrant of
Britain, 1782”
RTAP02
Women and the American
Revolution: The Formation of
Republican Motherhood
Daughters of Liberty, Newspaper Articles
* Politics at Home — the Republican Wife,
Hannah Fayerweather Winthrop & Mercy
Otis Warren
The Radicalism of the American
Revolution
Molly Pitcher, Joseph Plum Martin
Saul Cornell
Deputy Husbands, Margaret Morris
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Radicalism of the American Revolution
Policing the Community, Abigail Adams &
John Adams
* The Purest Patriotism, Esther de Berdt Reed,
from The Sentiments of an American Woman
Forming New Governments, Donald S. Lutz
Popular Radicalism, Edward Countryman
African Americans and the Revolution,
Sylvia R. Frey
Women and the Revolution, Betty Wood
* Republican Mothers, Benjamin Rush
RTAP08
Why the British Lost the
Revolutionary War
Mark Grimsley
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Hearts and Minds in the War for Independence
Hearts and Minds in the War for Independence,
John Shy
REVOLUTION AND EARLY NATIONAL: 1763–1820
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RETRIEVING THE AMERICAN PAST
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Debate Over the Sedition Act
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Southern Campaign
* Loyalists Besieged: A British Woman Comments
on Affairs in Wilmington, North Carolina, Janet
Schaw
Sir William Blackstone Defines Seditious Libel
Jeffersonian Republican Congressman
Albert Gallatin Attacks the Sedition Act
Instructions of Lord George Germain to
Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell
The Federalists Defend the Sedition Act,
Harrison Gray Otis
Lord George Germain to General Sir
Henry Clinton
The Sedition Act
James Simpson to General Sir Henry Clinton
Thomas Cooper Is Tried for Sedition
Colonel Lord Rawdon to General Sir
Henry Clinton
A Jeffersonian Jurist Rejects Blackstonian
Principles, St. George Tucker
* Thomas Jefferson Defends His Vision of Liberty
and Republicanism, from “Federal and
Republican Principles”
James Simpson to William Knox
* Atrocity and Counter-atrocity on the Carolina
Frontier, William Gipson & Moses Hall
RTAP12
The Struggle Over the Constitution:
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Saul Cornell
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Struggle Over the Constitution
Federalism, Stephen L. Schechter
Anti-Federalism, Ralph Ketcham
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Debating and Ratifying the Constitution
* Federalist No. 1, Alexander Hamilton
* The Virginia Ratification Debates
* Federalist No. 10, James Madison
* An Anti-Federalist Critique of the Constitution,
Samuel Bryan
RTAP03
Jeffersonian Republicans vs.
Federalists: The Struggle Over the
Sedition Act
Saul Cornell
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Federalists and Jeffersonians: The Problem of
Authority and Liberty in the New Republic
Interpreting the Constitution, Alfred H. Kelly,
Winfred A. Harbison, & Herman Belz
The Debate on the Alien and Sedition Acts,
James Roger Sharp
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Lewis And Clark: The Opening of the
American West
C. Edward Skeen
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Modern Perspectives of the Lewis and
Clark Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition Assessed,
William H. Goetzmann
They Also Traveled with Lewis and Clark:
Sacagawea, Donna J. Kessler
They Also Traveled with Lewis and Clark: York,
Robert B. Betts
Lewis and Clark Among the Indians, James
P. Ronda
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
* Defense of the Expedition, Thomas Jefferson
* The Prospects of the Expedition,
Meriwether Lewis
* The Trek Across the Continent, Meriwether
Lewis and William Clark
Sacagawea Reunites with Her Brother,
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Further Experiences on the Journey, Meriwether
Lewis and William Clark
* Lewis Reports a Successful Conclusion of
the Expedition
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TOPICAL CHAPTERS
RTAP89
The Barbary Wars
RTAP81
The Settlement of the Midwest
David J. Dzurec
R. Douglas Hurt
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Impact of the Barbary Wars
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Midwestern Settlement: Historical Viewpoints
Independence and Trade: Excerpt from The
Barbary Wars: American Independence in the
Atlantic World, Frank Lambert
Social and Economic Development, Frederick
Jackson Turner
Ideology and Slavery: Excerpt from The
Crescent Obscured: The United States and the
Muslim World, 1776-1815, Robert J. Allison
Order Then Liberty, Andrew Clayton
Diversity and Unity, Malcolm J. Rohrbough
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Contemporary Observations
Emerging Military Power, Excerpt from Power,
Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East,
1776 to the Present, Michael B. Owen
Life in Ohio, F. A. Michaux
A Caution To Emigrants, John S. Wright
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
American Slaves in the Islamic World
Hard Times, Sarah Welch Nossaman
* Freedom and Slavery, Eduard Zimmerman
John Jay Reports on the War with Algiers
This Is Canaan, Theodore C. Blegen
* The Debate over a Military Response,
Thomas Jefferson
Captive Americans Petition for Aid
New Homes in 1842, Catherine Stewart
ANTEBELLUM: 1820–1860
Slaves in Algiers: A Play
The American Captive: A Poem
Historicus Argues for Christian Slavery
RTAP06
The War of 1812
Peter L. Hahn & Michael J. Hogan
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Causes and Consequences of the War of 1812
Causal Explanations Evaluated,
Reginald Horsman
Jeffersonian Values and the War of 1812,
Drew R. McCoy
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Contemporary Views on the War of 1812
The Embargo Act, from Public Statutes at Large
of the United States of America, 1848
* American Alarm at Anglo-Indian Warfare,
James Dill
Native American Alarm at U.S. Encroachments,
Sagoyewatha (Red Jacket)
* Felix Grundy Advocates War Against
Great Britain
John Randolph Opposes War
* President Madison Asks Congress to
Declare War
* Final Report of the Hartford Convention
RTAP94
The Market Revolution
Daniel Feller
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Historians’ Debate
Excerpts from Society, Politics, and The Market
Revolution, 1815-1848, Sean Wilentz
Excerpts from The Common Rights of Mankind:
Subsistence, Shad, and Commerce in the Early
Republican South, Harry L. Watson
Excerpts from The Market Revolution:
Jacksonian America, 1815-1846, Charles
Sellers
Excerpts from The Market Revolution and the
Shaping of Identity in Whig-Jacksonian
America, Daniel Walker Howe
Excerpts from A Revolution Too Many?,
John Majewski
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Four Views of Economic Processes
Resolution from Proceedings of The New
England Association of Farmers, Mechanics,
and Other Working Men
Excerpts from The House Carpenter’s
Strike, 1836
* from Orations and Speeches, Edward
Everett, 1895
from “The Division of Parties” and “The Crisis,”
William Leggett
ANTEBELLUM: 1820–1860
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RETRIEVING THE AMERICAN PAST
RTAP18
Andrew Jackson and Cherokee Removal
RTAP25
Paul C. Bowers
Growing Up In Nineteenth-Century
America
Randolph A. Roth
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Judging Jackson: Pragmatic Politician or
Scheming Hypocrite?
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Rebellious Youths
Jackson as a Pragmatic Statesman, F. P. Prucha
Wayward Youths: Raising Adolescents in
Vermont, Randolph A. Roth
Jackson as a Scheming Devil, Edward Pessen
Campus Life, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Contemporary Debate
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Working Children
* Cherokee Removal as Benevolent Policy,
Andrew Jackson
Harriet Hanson Robinson (1825 – 1911)
Cherokee Removal as Divisive Policy,
Wilson Lumpkin
* A Breakdown of National Law? Worcester v. the
State of Georgia
Charles Siringo (1855 – 1928)
RTAP69
Jacksonian Democracy
Daniel Feller
Tragic Decision, Elias Boudinot
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Historians’ Debate
* Vain Protest, from “Memorial and Protest of
the Cherokee Nation”
RTAP74
The Jacksonians as Liberals, Arthur M.
Schlesinger, Jr.
The Development Of American Political
Parties, 1815 – 1840: The Emergence
Of The Whigs And The Democrats
The Jacksonians as Capitalists, Bray Hammond
The Jacksonians as False Democrats, Edward
Pessen
Jean Harvey Baker
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Spirit of Party: How and Why Did Political
Parties Develop in the 1820s and 1830s?
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Contemporary Evidence
* A European View: Alexis de Tocqueville, from
Democracy in America
Changing Views of Party: Challenging
Consensus, Michael Wallace
* First Annual Message, Andrew Jackson
External Influences on Attitudes Toward Parties:
“The Noble Strife of Parties,” Joel Silbey
* The Bank Veto, Andrew Jackson
* Farewell Address, Andrew Jackson
The Role of Leaders in the Formation of Parties,
Jean H. Baker
The Whigs and the Democrats, Daniel
Walker Howe
* The Whig Response, Henry Clay
RTAP17
The First Women’s Rights Movement
Susan M. Hartmann
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Contemporary Views of Parties and
Voting Patterns
* George Washington’s Farewell Address
James Monroe and the Period of No Parties
A French Visitor Evaluates American Political
Parties in 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Abolitionism and the Early Years of
Feminist Activism
Abolitionism and the Early Years of Feminist
Activism, Ellen Carol DuBois
Mobilizing the Vote, Abraham Lincoln
Increasing Turnouts among the Electorate in
the Early Nineteenth Century (Table)
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TOPICAL CHAPTERS
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Women Make the Case for Women’s Rights
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Contemporary Accounts of Texas Independence
and the Alamo
Maria Stewart Claims the Right of Women to
Speak in Public
Letters from David Crockett and D. P. Cummings
* Black Women’s Activism, Maria Stewart
Sterling C. Robertson’s “Nashville Republican”
* Sarah Grimké Challenges the Clergy
1835 Editorials
* Birth of the Women’s Rights Movement: The
Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton & Lucretia Mott
* Letter from S. F. Austin to Mrs. Mary Austin
Holley, August 21, 1835
Letter from William Barret Travis, 1836
* The Stanton – Anthony Partnership, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
RTAP73
Excerpt from Enrique Esparaza’s Story, 1907
A Soldado’s Letter from the Alamo, 1836
* With Santa Anna in Texas, A Personal Narrative
of the Revolution, José Enrique de la Peña
The Mexican-American War: America’s
First Foreign War
Excerpts from The Mexican Side of the Texas
Revolution by the Chief Mexican Participants,
General Antonio López de Santa-Anna
James M. McCaffrey
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Historians Explore the
Mexican-American War
Excerpts from A Revolution Remembered: The
Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Nuan
N. Seguín
Background Causes of the War, K. Jack Bauer
Opposition to the War, John D. P. Fuller
The Soldiers, James M. McCaffrey
The Mexican Army, Charles M. Haecker and
Jeffrey G. Mauck
Life in American Camps, Thomas R. Irey
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Contemporaries Discuss the
Mexican-American War
* The Declaration of War on Mexico,
James K. Polk
Abraham Lincoln Questions Polk
Soldiers’ Letters Home, Lieutenant
Will Wallace
RTAP88 “Remember The Alamo!”: The Struggle
For Texas Independence
Albert Churella
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
What Really Happened at the Alamo?
Excerpts from 13 Days to Glory: The Siege of
the Alamo, Lon Tinkle
Excerpts from How Did Davey Die?,
Dan Kilgore
Refighting the Alamo, David J. Weber
RTAP98
The California Gold Rush
Brian Roberts
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Contested Meanings of the California Gold
Rush Era
Reverberations of the California Gold Rush,
J. S. Holliday
Remembering and Forgetting the California
Gold Rush, Brian Roberts
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Gold Rush in Imagination
and Experience
The Emigrant’s Guide to the Gold Mines, Henry
I. Simpson
Gold Fever Hits Sag Harbor, Long Island:
Excerpt from Prentice Mulford’s Story: Life by
Land and Sea
* Gold Rush Correspondence: Letters of Cornelius
and Margaret LaTourette, Letters of John and
Margaret Beekman, and Letters of Joel and Ann
Brown
Eliza Farnham’s Mission to California, 1849,
Eliza Farnham
Atrocities Against California Indians: Excerpt
from The Destruction of the California Indians
The Flush Times of California: Excerpt from
California Flush Times, Joseph Glover Baldwin
* Recuerdos Historicos y Personales Tocante
a la Alta California (1875): Excerpt from
Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration, Mariano
Guadelupe Vallejo
ANTEBELLUM: 1820–1860
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RTAP07
Manifest Destiny
RTAP61
Steven Conn
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Scholars Assess the Origins of Expansionism
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Historians and Transcendentalism
Manifest Destiny and the Acquisition of Texas,
Norman Graebner
Transcendentalism as a Religious Movement,
Perry Miller
The Myths of Manifest Destiny,
Thomas Hietala
Transcendentalism as a Literary Renaissance,
Lawrence Buell
The Social Aspects of Transcendentalism,
Anne C. Rose
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Contemporary Debate over
Continental Expansion
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Transcendentalist Voices
* John L. O’Sullivan Advocates Manifest Destiny
* W. E. Channing Denounces Expansionism
* Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Polk Asks for War on Mexico
* Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
* Abraham Lincoln Challenges Polk’s Justification
for War
* The Expansion of Slavery Justified, The United
States Magazine
* Woman in the Nineteenth Century,
Margaret Fuller
RTAP85
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Utopian Alternative
Women on the Frontier
Joan E. Cashin
The Communitarian Point of View, Arthur
Eugene Bestor, Jr.
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Scholarly Perspectives
Introduction to The Utopian Point of View,
Carl J. Guarneri
Planters’ Wives Consider the Southwestern
Frontier, Joan E. Cashin
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Utopian Ideals and Practices
White Women and Native Americans,
Glenda Riley
Owenism, from Letter to London Newspapers,
August 7, 1817, Robert Owen
African American Women on the Frontier, Lillian
Schlissel
* Appendices Section II and Section V from the
Shaker Millennial Laws
Chinese Women in the West, Lucie
Cheng Hirata
Excerpt from Plan of the West Roxbury
Community, George Ripley
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Range of Experience
Letter to John Allen, March 15, 1845,
Mary S. Grove
* Journey to the Old Northwest, Harriet Noble
Excerpt from Male Continence, John
Humphrey Noyes
Black Women in the Old Southwest,
Polly Colemet
Runaway Slave Women, Advertisements
Offering Rewards for Capture
Mormon Women, Mestizo Women,
Mexican Women, and Indian Women,
Carrie Adell Strahorn
A Ranch in the Desert, Sadie Martin
“Calamity Jane’s Letters to her Daughter,”
Martha Jane Cannary Hickok
American Utopias, 1830-1860
Robert S. Fogarty
* The Expansion of Slavery Condemned,
Charles Sumner
RTAP14
Transcendentalism
Peter L. Hahn & Michael J. Hogan
RTAP11
From Artisans to Factory Hands: The
Beginnings of an Industrial Society
Warren R. Van Tine
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
From “Libertine Culture” to
“Industrial Morality”
The World of Preindustrial Workers,
Bruce Laurie
The Imposition of Industrial Morality,
Paul Faler
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TOPICAL CHAPTERS
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Transition to Industrial Discipline
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Contemporary Depictions of Slave Religions
* A Ship Carpenter’s Day, Richard Trevellick
* from Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies
Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes, The
Savannah Unit Georgia Writer’s Project
* Railroads and Competition, Letter from
“A Mechanic”
* from Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in
North Carolina, Omar ibn Said
The Days of Old ‘Lection Are Over, Alonzo
Lewis, from “A Poem About the Loss of Election
Day”
* Factory Regulations at the Dawn of
the Industrial Age in America, The
Springfield Armory
* from Fifty Years in Chains, Charles Ball
RTAP90
Gender and Slave Labor
Daina Ramey Berry
* Factory Regulations in Lowell, John Avery
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Defining Slave Labor
Two Foreign Travellers’ Observations: “An
Englishman’s View” and “An Irishman’s View”
RTAP19
Gendered Labor: Excerpt from Ar’n’t I a
Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation
South, Deborah Gray White
The World of the Slaves: The Roots of
Modern African American Culture
Marshall F. Stevenson, Jr. & Warren R.
Van Tine
African Origins of Skilled Agricultural Labor:
Excerpt from Black Rice: The Origins of Rice
Cultivation in the Americas, Judith A. Carney
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Origins of Black Culture
Skilled Non-Agricultural Labor: Excerpt from
Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on
Southern Slave Plantations, Sharla M. Fett
Africa, Slavery, and the Roots of
Contemporary Black Culture, Mary F. Berry
& John W. Blassingame
Reproductive Labor: Excerpt from Laboring
Women: Reproduction and Gender in New
World Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Culture of the Enslaved
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Examining Enslaved Exploitation and Labor
The Voices of the Enslaved, from
“Slave Narratives”
Girlhood and Its Sorrows: Excerpt from Behind
the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years
in the White House, Elizabeth Keckley
Culture and Resistance to Slavery,
Frederick Douglass
* The Trials of Girlhood: Excerpts from Incidents
in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
RTAP100 Culture and Religion in the
Slave Community
* Women in Slavery: Excerpt from Journal of a
Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 18381839, Frances Ann Kemble
Walter C. Rucker
Labor from Adolescence to Adulthood: Excerpt
from The American Slave: A Composite
Biography
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Origins and Transformation of Slave Culture:
Scholar’s Explanations
Informal Economy and Family Labor: Excerpt
from Fifty Years in Chains: Or, The Life of an
American Slave, Charles Ball
Excerpt from Awash in a Sea of Faith:
Christianizing the American People, Jon Butler
Excerpts from Slave Counterpoint: Black
Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake
and Lowcountry, Philip D. Morgan
Excerpts from Slave Culture: Nationalist
Theory and the Foundations of Black America,
Sterling Stuckey
RTAP09
Nat Turner and Slave Resistance
Merton L. Dillon
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Placing Nat Turner’s Revolt in Context
Nat Turner’s Revolt, August 1831, R. Jackson
Wilson et al.
An Historian Explains the Scarcity of Slave
Revolts, John B. Boles
ANTEBELLUM: 1820–1860
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PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Documenting the Political Crisis of the 1850s
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Slave Revolt and Slave Violence: Their Causes
and Consequence
Nativism and Slavery, from the Harrisburg
Telegraph and Journal
* A Virginia State Official Explains Nat Turner’s
Revolt, John Floyd
* The Crime Against Sumner and the Emergence
of the Republican Party, the New York Tribune
* Religion as a Bulwark of Slavery,
Lunsford Lane
* The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Popular Reaction to Nat Turner’s Revolt, The
Constitutional Whig
* Conflicting Northern Opinion on the Eve of
Conflict, the New York Herald and the New
York Tribune
* Popular Reaction to a Rumored Revolt in
Louisiana, Solomon Northup
* A Northern Editor Reacts to Nat
Turner’s Revolt
* An Abolitionist Reacts to Nat Turner’s Revolt
(“The Insurrection”), William Lloyd Garrison
CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION:
1860–1877
RTAP21
Slave Violence Directed Against Individual
Owners, Mary Chesnut
RTAP54
Joan E. Cashin
Abolitionism
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Scholarly Debate
Merton L. Dillon
On the Battlefield, Ann Douglas Wood
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Aspects of the Movement for Abolition
On the Home Front, Joan Cashin
In the Crossfire, Michael Fellman
The African American Contribution, C.
Peter Ripley
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Into the Vortex
The Failure of the Abolitionists,
Merton L. Dillon
A Secessionist in Carolina, Mary
Boykin Chesnut
Abolitionism as Revolution, Herbert Aptheker
African American Women in the South,
Charlotte Ann Jackson et al.
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Abolitionism: Action and Response
Hard Lessons, Kate Stone
* The American Anti-Slavery Society Declares its
Sentiments, William Lloyd Garrison
White Women in the North (“Relief Song”),
J. H. Foxworthy
* The Influence of Slavery, William
Lloyd Garrison
* A Call for Women to Become Abolitionists,
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler
* A Northern Woman Condemns Prejudice, Lydia
Maria Child
An Abolitionist Lecturer’s Instructions,
Theodore Dwight Weld
The Attorney General of Illinois Defends a Mob,
Usher Linder
RTAP71
The Political Crisis of the 1850s
Tyler Anbinder
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
What Destroyed the Second Party System?
Women At War: The Role of Women in
the Crisis of the Union
RTAP04
Why Union Soldiers Fought
Mark Grimsley
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Motivations of Union Soldiers During the
Civil War
“The Best Government on God’s Footstool,”
James McPherson
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
“The Union Must Stand:” The Diary of a
Union Soldier
* The Diary of a Union Soldier, John Quincy
Adams Campbell
The Ethnocultural Origins of the Republican
Party, William E. Gienapp
Anti-Slavery the Key to Know Nothing Success,
Tyler Anbinder
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PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
“Slavery Has Forfeited Its Right to the Life of
Any Man”
Why Confederate Soldiers Fought
Earl J. Hess
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
“We Are Fighting For Existence”
The Journey to Emancipation
Letter to Winfield Scott, May 27, 1861,
Benjamin Butler
All That We Hold Dear, Randall C. Jimerson
Civil War Soldiers, Reid Mitchell
Letter to Orwell H. Bowing, September 22,
1861, Abraham Lincoln
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Soldiers Speak For Themselves
Government Commission Testimony,
Samuel Elliott
Letter to His Wife, August 10, 1862,
Hugh B. Ewing
Fighting for the Confederacy, General Edward
Porter Alexander
* Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862,
Abraham Lincoln
* Letter from a Confederate Soldier, William
Thomas Poague
* Reply to Emancipation Memorial, September
13, 1862, Abraham Lincoln
Native Americans and the War, George
Washington Grayson
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation,
September 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln
After Gettysburg, I. Norval Baker
Purchase Liberty for My Country, Henry
Lea Graves
RTAP97
Why the Confederacy Lost the Civil War
Letter to Ulysses S. Grant, March 31, 1863
RTAP32
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Steven E. Woodworth
Michael Les Benedict
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Historians and the Causes of
Confederate Defeat
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Historians’ Opinions of the Johnson Impeachment
Excerpt from Why the South Lost the Civil War,
Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer
Jones, & William N. Still Jr.
Impeachment: Response to Presidential
Aggression, Michael Les Benedict
An Effort to Establish Congressional
Omnipotence, Raoul Berger
from The Confederate War, Gary W. Gallagher
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
What the Confederates Said about the Causes of
Their Defeat
* Lee’s Announcement to His Troops, Robert
E. Lee
Except from The Lost Cause; A New Southern
History of the War of the Confederates, Edward
A. Pollard
* from Chapter XIV “Criticisms and Reflections,”
in Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal
Experiences of the Late War, Richard Taylor
RTAP05
Free At Last: Emancipation During the
Civil War
Mark Grimsley & Douglas M. Paul
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Who Freed the Slaves? Historians Debate
Emancipation
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson:
Selections from the Documentary Record
Impeachment Resolution of 7 January 1867,
James M. Ashley
Testimony Taken by the House Judiciary
Committee
* The Debate over Impeachment in the House,
George S. Boutwell & James F. Wilson
The Tenure of Office Act
A Conservative Republican Endorses
Impeachment, James F. Wilson
The Articles of Impeachment
The President’s Response
Testimony Before the Senate, Gideon Wells
The Final Arguments, William M. Evarts & John
A. Bingham
The Verdict
Opinion of Senator William Pitt Fessenden
Who Freed the Slaves?, James M. McPherson
“Who Freed the Slaves?” Emancipation and Its
Meaning, Ira Berlin
CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION: 1860–1877
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PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
People on Frontiers in the
Trans-Mississippi West
The Struggle for Black Rights During
Reconstruction
Michael Les Benedict
* Excerpts from Roughing It, Mark Twain
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Republican Reconstruction: Scholars’ Views
* Excerpts from A Bride Goes West, Nannie T.
Alderson & Helena Huntington Smith
The Republican Program Was Limited by
Republicans’ Commitment to Federalism,
Michael Les Benedict
The Republican Program Was Revolutionary,
Robert J. Kaczorowski
Excerpts from Black Elk Speaks: Being a Life
Story of a Holy Man of the Sioux, Black Elk, as
told through John G. Neihardt
RTAP52
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Securing Equal Rights: The
Documentary Record
Jeanette Davis & Warren Van Tine
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
This Land Is My Land! Or Is It Yours?: The United
States and Its “Indian Problem”
* The Documentary Record, from “The Thirteenth
Amendment,” “The Black Codes,” “Mississippi
Black Code,” “Mississippi Vagrancy Law,”
“Debate over African
The “Indian Problem”: Crazy Horse, Sioux
Warrior, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
American Rights: The Civil Rights Act,”
“Senator Trumbull’s Response,” and “The
Fourteenth Amendment”
The “Indian Problem”: Chief Joseph, Nez Perce
Peacemaker, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
* Frederick Douglass Argues in Favor of
Black Suffrage
Attempts to Tidy Up After the “Indian Problem,”
Vine Deloria, Jr. & Clifford M. Lytle
* The Nation Supports Black Suffrage
* Opposition to Black Suffrage, Petition to the
U. S. House of Representatives
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Vision Quest: Assimilation or Tradition
The Fifteenth Amendment
Letters Home, The Morning Star
* Violent Resistance to Equal Rights in the South,
Amzi Rainey, James Chestnut, & Simpson Bobo
Wounded Knee, Eyewitness Accounts
* Senator Dawes Reviews the “Indian Problem”
The Supreme Court Limits the Ability of
the Federal Government to Protect Rights: “The
Slaughter House Cases” and “The
Civil Rights Cases”
Vietnam Vet Issues Modern Battle Cry for Treaty
Rights, Sidney Mills
Indian Invasion, Adam Fortunate Eagle
The Effect of “Redemption” on Black
Southerners, Wilson H. Williams
THE GILDED AGE AND THE
PROGRESSIVE ERA: 1877–1920
RTAP72
Men and Women in the TransMississippi West: Expectations
and Realities
Transformation, Endurance, and
Rejuvenation of American Indian
Societies, 1870 – 1995
American Report Card, Sherman Alexie
RTAP87
Native Americans and the Closing of
the Frontier
Emily Greenwald
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Frontier Narrative:
Historians’ Perspectives
Mansel G. Blackford
The Significance of the Frontier in American
History, Frederick Jackson Turner
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Historians and the West
The Defeat of the Nez Perces, Alvin M.
Josephy, Jr.
Excerpts from The Significance of the Frontier in
American History, Frederick Jackson Turner
The Significance of Native Americans in the
Twentieth Century, David Rich Lewis
Excerpts from The Legacy of Conquest, Patricia
Nelson Limerick
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TOPICAL CHAPTERS
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The End of Indianness?
Contemporary Observations
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Struggle for Order, The Struggle to Survive
Railroads Change Their Management Methods,
Daniel C. McCallum
* The Vanishing Indian, Henry L. Dawes
* Civilizing the Indian, Carl Schurz
* Carnegie Steel, Andrew Carnegie
* When the Buffalo Went Away, Pretty-Shield as
Told to Frank B. Linderman
* Opposition to Standard Oil, George Rice
A Smaller Manufacturer: The Buckeye Steel
Castings Company, Financial Report
A People’s Dream Died, John G. Neihardt
There is Nothing More to Tell, Peter Nabokov
* A Native American Boy at Boarding School Ota
Kte (Plenty Kill), Luther Standing Bear
RTAP31
Warren R. Van Tine
* An Assimilated Indian Questions Civilization,
Charles Eastman
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Causes and Character of Industrial Violence
Why I Can’t Read Wallace Stegner, Elizabeth
Cook-Lynn
RTAP84
An Overview of Industrial Strife, 1877 – 1910,
Phillip Taft & Phillip Ross
Westward Expansion and
the Environment
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Pullman Boycott of 1894: A Case Study of
Industrial Strife
Hal K. Rothman
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Disappearance of the Buffalo and the Demise
of Plains Indian Life
Cost and Crimes Associated with the
Pullman Boycott,
The United States Strike Commission Report on
the Chicago Strike of June – July 1894
Animals, Elliott West
Lessons of the Pullman Boycott from a Union
Perspective, Samuel Gompers
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Settling the West
The Land System Needed for the Arid Region,
John Wesley Powell
Nature’s Noblemen, James H. Cook
Homestead and Hard Times, William
D. Haywood
Archaeological Camping in Arizona,
Sylvester Baxter
Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in
Northern New Mexico, Stanley Crawford
The Age of Industrial Violence
Lessons of the Pullman Boycott from a
Business Perspective, Wade Hampton
RTAP48
Irony and Paradox: Farmer Discontent in
Late-Nineteenth-Century America
William R. Childs
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Historians and the Farmers’ Movements
The Folklore of Populism, Richard Hofstadter
A Democratic Movement, Lawrence Goodwyn
RTAP49
The Rise of Big Business and the
Persistence of Small Business in
American Industry, 1850 – 1920
Mansel G. Blackford
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Railroads: Pioneers in Big Business
Railroads: The First Big Businesses, Mansel G.
Blackford & K. Austin Kerr
Small Business Persists: Specialty Products
and Niche Markets, Mansel G. Blackford
An Essay Review of Lawrence Goodwyn’s
Democratic Promise, William F. Holmes
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
From the Grange to the Alliance, from Education
to the Sub-Treasury: The Radicalization of
Farmers in the Late Nineteenth Century
* Outline of the Order, O. H. Kelley
* Achievements of the Grange, J. Wallace Darrow
The Farmers Alliance Sub-Treasury,
C. W. Macune
THE GILDED AGE AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA: 1877–1920
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RTAP99
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Three Approaches to Unionism
The Populist Party and
American Politics
James L. Hunt
* Different Visions: The “Rule of Perfect Equality
Among Men,” The Knights of Labor, Terence V.
Powderly
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Historians and Populist Politics: How Does a New
Party Succeed (or Fail?)
* Different Visions: “A Permanent Constructive
and Conserving Force,” The American
Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers
Excerpts from Chapter 10 “The Fate of
Populism,” in The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism
in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892,
Jeffrey Ostler
* Different Visions: “Abolition of the Wage
System,” The Industrial Workers of the World
* Union Inclusiveness—Attitudes toward Women:
Paternalism, Samuel Gompers
Excerpts from Taubeneck’s Laws: Third Parties
in American Politics in the Late Nineteenth
Century, Peter H. Argersinger
Union Inclusiveness—Attitudes toward Women:
Romanticization, The Industrial Workers of the
World, Preamble and Song
Excerpts from Marion Butler and American
Populism, James L. Hunt
* Union Inclusiveness—Attitudes toward
Women: Separatism, The Knights of Labor,
Leonora Barry
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Populism Before Its Historians
Excerpts from Convention Sidelights: Incidents
of Interest and Observations Concerning the
Populist Meeting, Josephus Daniels
* Excerpts from The Populist National Platform,
Raleigh Caucasian
Letters between Marion Butler and Thomas E.
Watson, 1896
Populism in Cartoons:
RTAP42
The Debate Over Annexing the
Philippines, 1898 – 1900
Peter L. Hahn, Michael J. Hogan, & Rowland
Brucken
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Historians Assess the Motives Behind Acquisition
of the Philippines
* “Western Republican Wolf” and “Southern
Democrat Tiger”
Strategic Factors Behind Annexation, Robert
L. Beisner
* “In Which Box Will the Voter of ’96 Put
His Ballot?”
Economic and Intellectual Factors Behind
Annexation, Walter LaFeber
* “What It Means”
* “All Must Pull Together”
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Contemporary Debate on Expansionism
* “Chicago Nomination”
* “Candidate Billy’s Busy Day”
RTAP47
The Emergence of the Modern
Labor Movement
Pamela J. Mills & Warren R. Van Tine
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Establishing a Philosophy for
American Labor
Establishing a Philosophy for American Labor,
John H. M. Laslett
* In Support of American Expansion,
Albert Beveridge
* Denunciation of American Imperialism,
William Graham Sumner
The Decision to Annex the Philippines, John Hay
* Declaration of Philippines Independence,
Emilio Aguinaldo
* Argument for Retention of the Philippine
Islands, Albert Beveridge
The Anti-Imperialist League Denounces
U.S. Policy
Opposition to Annexation on Racist Grounds,
John Warwick Daniel
* The Secretary of War Defends McKinley’s
Policy, Elihu Root
* William Jennings Bryan Rejects
Imperialists’ Arguments
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PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Definitions of Progressive Era Activists
Race Relations, 1890 – 1915: Booker T.
Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois
Christopher Waldrep
* The “Confession” of a Progressive Activist,
Frederick C. Howe
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Modern Assessments of Washington and Du Bois
* The Revolt of the “Ultimate Consumer,”
Walter E. Weyl
Boss of Black America, David Howard-Pitney
The Essence of the Progressive Movement,
Benjamin Parke DeWitt
Clashing Temperaments, David Levering Lewis
* The “Woman Mind” Transforms Society, Rheta
Childe Dorr
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Debate Between Washington and Du Bois
* The Subjective Necessity for Social
Settlements, from Twenty Years at Hull House,
Jane Addams
* Speech at the Atlanta Exposition, Booker T.
Washington from The Souls of Black Folk,
W. E. B. Du Bois
* Preaching the “Social Gospel,” Walter
Rauschenbusch
* Declaration of Principles of the NAACP,
W. E. B. Du Bois
RTAP60
* Professionalism and Social Activism, Richard
T. Ely
* Professionalism in City Government, Harry
Aubrey Toulmin
The Industrial City
Steven Conn
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
American Urbanism
American Urbanism, Steven Conn
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Voices from the Cities
* Urban Conditions and Reform, Josiah Strong, B.
O. Flower, & Jane Addams
* Urban Politics and Reform, Lincoln Steffens, &
George Washington Plunkitt & William Riordon
RTAP70
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The Temperance and Prohibition
Movement
K. Austin Kerr
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Historians View Prohibition
Prohibition and the American Progressive
Reform Tradition, Richard Hofstadter
The Popularity of Prohibition in the Progressive
Tradition, Jack S. Blocker, Jr.
* The Cultural Allure of Cities, Lewis Mumford
The Saloon and Drinking, Mark Edward Lender
& James Kirby Martin
* The City for African Americans, from American
Hunger, Richard Wright
The Success and Failure of Prohibition, Samuel
Eliot Morison
What Was Progressivism?
John D. Buenker
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
What Was “Progressivism”?: Scholars’
Interpretations
A Babel of “Progressive” Tongues, John
D. Buenker
Religion and Science Seek to Ameliorate
Industrialism, Arthur S. Link & Richard L.
McCormick
Three Distinct Social Languages of Discontent
and Vision, Daniel T. Rodgers
Assessing Prohibition, Norman H. Clark
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Long, Grueling Dispute Over The Liquor Traffic
and Prohibition
* The Woman’s Crusade of 1873–74, Eliza
Daniel Stewart
* The Saloon Observed, George Kibbe Turner
Some Brewers Seek Saloon Reform, Report and
Hearings of the Subcommittee on the Judiciary
* Arguments for and Against Prohibition,
Richmond P. Hobson, Richard Bartholdt, Percy
Andrea, & Jack London
The Success and Failure of Prohibition, Senator
James Reed & Russell Lee Post, Fiorella H.
LaGuardia, & Martha Bensley Bruere
THE GILDED AGE AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA: 1877–1920
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PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Arguments and Actions
Progressives at Play: Recreation and
Leisure During the Progressive Era
Brad Austin
* The Threat to the Home, Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge
* Essential Differences Between the Sexes,
Lyman Abbott
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Contested Meanings of Athletic Contests,
1880–1910
Suffrage Strategies in Ohio, Mrs. Harriet
Taylor Upton
The Fight of the Century: Excerpt from
Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the White Hopes,
Randy Roberts
The New Woman Athlete: Excerpt from Coming
on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in TwentiethCentury Women’s Sports, Susan K. Cahn
* Suffrage Tactics in New York, Mrs. Oreola
Williams Haskell
RTAP35
The Meaning of Baseball in the Progressive Era:
Excerpt from Touching Base: Professional
Baseball and American Culture in the
Progressive Era, Steven A. Reiss
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Dating and Petting
Sexuality on Campus in the 1920s,
Paula S. Fass
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Playing for Keeps—The Significance of Sports
During the Progressive Era
“Charity Girls” and City Pleasures, Kathy Peiss
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Perspectives on Sexuality in the Early
Twentieth-Century United States
Eight Killed in Fight Riots: New York Times
Bar Fight Pictures to Avoid Race Riots: New York
Times
* “Sex O’Clock” in America, Anonymous
Imperial and Foreign Intelligence: The Reno
Prize-Fight: The Times (London)
* “The Flapper,” H. L. Mencken
Emma Goldman Lectures on Sex, Harry Kemp
* The Race Question: New York Times
* Same-Sex Subcultures, Havelock Ellis
* No Man In It: Smith College Gym Held 1000
Excited Girls, Boston Sunday Globe
Photo: 1909 Women’s Basketball Team in
Chicago, Chicago Daily News
Photo: Hull House Women’s Basketball Team,
1909, Chicago Daily News
* The Harvard-Yale Game, 1905: Excerpt from
Big-Time Football at Harvard, 1905: The Diary
of Coach Bill Reid
* Faculty Responsibility for College Athletics,
Henry Beech Needham
RTAP33
The First Sexual Revolution
Leila J. Rupp
“Prove It On Me Blues,” Ma Rainey
WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR
II: 1914–1945
RTAP83
Mexican Americans in the United States
1900 – 1940
Valerie Mendoza
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Mexican Migration: Gender, Work, Culture
The Grueling Battle for Woman Suffrage
Women and the Border Journey, Vicki Ruiz
Susan M. Hartmann
Mexican Laborers in the Midwest, Zaragosa
Vargas
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Why Did it Take So Long for Women to
Win the Vote?
Becoming Mexican American, George Sanchez
Who Opposed Woman’s Suffrage?,
Eleanor Flexner
Ladies Against Gentlemen, Carl N. Degler
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Mexican Migration: Adaptations and Attitudes
A Long Hard Journey, Lucia Martinez
First Contacts, Manuel Gamio
Anglo Attitudes Toward Mexicans, Paul S. Taylor
How to Handle Mexican Labor, James P. Craig
Mexican Disillusionment, Paul S. Taylor
Mexicans Fight Back, José M. Garcia
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The Homefront During World War I
RTAP65
Jennifer D. Keene
Albert J. Churella
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Making America Safe for Democracy
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Role of Advertising in American Society
Excerpt from Over Here, David M. Kennedy
Excerpt from Land of Hope, James R. Grossman
The Crisco Story, Susan Strasser
The Home Front, Christopher M. Sterba
Does Advertising Reflect Society or Distort It?,
Roland Marchand
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Great War at Home
The Concerns of American Consumers,
Juliann Sivulka
Unease Over the Effects of Advertising,
Michael Schudson
* No Fifty-Fifty Allegiance, Theodore Roosevelt
National Service for Every Man, Woman, Boy
and Girl, Theodore Roosevelt
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Words and Images: Ads and Advertisers During
the 1920s and 1930s
“I Didn’t Raise My Boy,” Abbie Farwell Brown
“Close Ranks” July 1918 Editorial,
W. E. B. Du Bois
An Advertising Executive in Action, Fairfax
M. Cone
Letter from Walter White to John Shillday,
October 26, 1918
* Advertising as Religion, Bruce Barton
* Excerpt from American Woman and the World
War, Ida Clyde Clarke
* Advertising Images from the 1890s to the
1930s
* The Fourteen Points, Woodrow Wilson
* Speech delivered in Canton, Ohio, June 16,
1918, Eugene V. Debs
Sermon on 2 Samuel 24:15-16, Francis
J. Grimke
RTAP44
Advertising and Marketing in American
Society During the 1920s and 1930s
Clash of Cultures in the 1910s
and 1920s
RTAP27
Hoover, The “Associative State” and
The Great Depression
David L. Stebenne
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Rise and Fall of the Hooverian System
William R. Childs
Hoover, the Commerce Department and the
“Associative State,” Ellis W. Hawley
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Prohibition and Immigration Restriction
Hoover, the Presidency and the Great
Depression, Joan Hoff Wilson
New Perspectives on the Prohibition
“Experiment” of the 1920s, John C. Burnham
Out of Many, One: Immigration Restriction, Carl
N. Degler
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Contemporary Analyses of the KKK and the
“Monkey Trial”
The Second KKK, Frederick Lewis Allen
Rescued Self-Esteem, John Moffatt Mecklin
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Hooverian System in Crisis, 1930 – 1932
A Leading Pundit’s Early Assessment,
Walter Lippmann
* Letters to the Hoover Administration,
Anonymous
* The Rout of the Bonus Marchers, from Hard
Times, Studs Terkel
* The Administration’s Record, Herbert Hoover
* The Monkey Trial and The New York Times
WORLD WAR I THROUGH WORLD WAR II: 1914–1945
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RTAP93
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Strikes, Workers, and Employers in the
Late 1930’s
Americans Experience The Great
Depression
Gregory S. Wilson
* An Eyewitness Account of the Flint Sit-Down
Strike, 1937
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
American Values and the Great Depression
* Women Workers and Industrial Unionism, Stella
Nowicki
Introduction to The Great Depression: America,
1929 – 1941, Robert S. McElvaine
The Memorial Day Massacre, Chicago, 1937,
George Patterson
Excerpts from Anxious Decades: America in
Prosperity and Depression, 1920 – 1941,
Michael E. Parrish
Excerpts from The Twentieth Century: A People’s
History, Howard Zinn
* The Human Legacy of the Union Movement,
John Barbero
RTAP28
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Concept Defined
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Americans Recount Life During the
Great Depression
A New Departure, Richard Hofstadter
The Role of the State, Alan Brinkley
* Slumbering Fires in Harlem, Oswald
Garrison Villard
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Debate over Definitions
* Letter by an 18-year-old Girl to First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1938
* Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Acceptance Address at
the Democratic National Convention
Excerpts from Hard Times, Studs Terkel
* Photographs of the Dust Bowl
RTAP75
New Deal Liberalism
David L. Stebenne
Introduction to Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains
in the 1930s, Donald Worster
Working with Roosevelt, Samuel I. Rosenman
* The Roosevelt I Knew, Frances Perkins
Industrial Unionism: A Chapter in
American Democracy
* The Legacy of the New Deal, Henry Wallace
This I Remember, Eleanor Roosevelt
Patrick D. Reagan
* Herbert Hoover Criticizes the New Deal
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Rise of Industrial Unions: The Wagner Act,
Rank and File Militancy, and Labor Leadership
* Socialist Leader Norman Thomas Criticizes the
New Deal
* Communist Leader Earl Browder on the
New Deal
The Significance of Industrial Unionism,
David Brody
* The Case Against the New Deal,
Thomas Dewey
Changes in Labor Law: The Wagner Act of 1935,
Melvyn Dubofsky
John L. Lewis and Rank and File Militancy,
Melvyn Dubofsky
CIO, CIO, CIO!: Workers and Union Activism,
Robert H. Zieger
The Achievements of Industrial Unionism,
Robert S. McElvaine
The Limits of Industrial Unionism,
David Montgomery
RTAP41
United States Entry into World War II
Peter L. Hahn, Michael J. Hogan, & Amy
L. S. Staples
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Historians Debate FDR’s Leadership
The Isolationist Argument, Charles
Callan Tansill
The Internationalist Argument, Robert
A. Divine
A Composite View, Robert Dalleck
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PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Contemporary Debate about American Entry
into World War II
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Japanese Relocation: Documents and FirstHand Accounts
* An Historian Favors Neutrality, Charles
A. Beard
Executive Order 9066
* An Evacuation Order
* “Fireside Chat” after the Nazi Invasion of
Poland, Franklin D. Roosevelt
* The Uchida Family is Evacuated, Yoshiko Uchida
* The “Arsenal of Democracy” Address, Franklin
D. Roosevelt
* The Loyalty Questionnaire, Frank Chuman
* A Description of a Camp, Minoru Yasui
* The Supreme Court Upholds Japanese
Relocation: Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)
* The “Shoot on Sight” Address, Franklin
D. Roosevelt
The Government Reinvestigates, from Personal
Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on
Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
* America First Committee Charges Roosevelt
with Fighting a One-Man War
* Declaration of War, Franklin D. Roosevelt
RTAP79
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988
Truman’s Decision to Drop the
Atomic Bomb
RTAP29
J. Samuel Walker
Leila J. Rupp
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Debate over Truman’s Decision
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Impact of Mobilization
A “Middle-Ground” Interpretation of Truman’s
Decision, J. Samuel Walker
A Revolution in Women’s Lives, William
Henry Chafe
Woman’s Place Is in the War, Leila J. Rupp
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Road to Hiroshima: Documents
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Propaganda and Women’s Wartime Experiences
* Casualty Estimates for the Invasion of Japan,
Harry Truman
* The U. S. Government Campaign
on Manpower
* The Joint Chiefs of Staffs’ Casualty Estimates
* The Emperor’s Desire for Peace,
Shigenori Togo
“Womanpower,” Anonymous
* Wartime Public Opinion, Norma Yeger Queen
Doubts about the Emperor’s Sincerity, General
John Weckerling
RTAP34
Mobilizing Women for War,
1941 – 1945
* An African American Woman War Worker, Fanny
Christina Hill
The Expulsion and Relocation of
Japanese Americans in World War II
* A Mexican American Woman War Worker,
Beatrice Morales Clifton
Michael Les Benedict
POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY
AMERICA: 1945–PRESENT
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Japanese Relocation: Events
and Attitudes
RTAP43
The Origins of the Cold War
A Daughter of an Evacuee Describes the History
of the Expulsion and Relocation, Donna K.
Nagata
Peter L. Hahn, Michael J. Hogan, &
Bruce Karhoff
A Defense of the Relocation Policy, Dwight
D. Murphey
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Scholars Debate the Origins of the Cold War
The Soviet Union Blamed for the Cold War,
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
The United States Blamed for the Cold War,
Thomas G. Paterson
POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICA: 1945–PRESENT
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RETRIEVING THE AMERICAN PAST
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Charting the Rise of the U.S. National
Security State
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Contemporary Debate over the Cold War
* Josef Stalin Suggests that Conflict Is Inevitable
Selling Mobilization through NSC-68, U.S.
Department of State
* George F. Kennan Warns of Russian Expansion
Henry A. Wallace Questions Containment
RTAP46
* The Truman Doctrine, Harry S. Truman
* Containment through Nonmilitary Means,
George F. Kennan
* The Soviets Denounce the Truman
Doctrine, Izvestia
* The Evil of the Communist Idea,” Reinhold
Neibuhr
* NSC-68 and the Enduring Cold War
Using National Resources Wisely, Senator
Robert H. Taft
Anti-Communism at Home: The Second
Red Scare and the Problems of Internal
Security in a Democracy
William R. Childs
The Actual Size and Cost of National Defense,
Ben J. Wattenberg
RTAP37
American Life in the 1950s
David L. Stebenne
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Two Views of HUAC and the Origins of the Second
Red Scare
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Affluent Society
Scoundrel Time, Garry Wills
An Expanding Middle Class, John
Patrick Diggins
HUAC and Its Critics, William F. Buckley, Jr.
Workers on the Defensive, Mary Jezer
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Internal Security: Truman, Politics, and
Individual Rights
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Some Aspects of the ’50s’ System
Directive on the Need for Maintaining the
Confidential Status of Employee Loyalty
Records, Harry S. Truman
Anti-Radical Hysteria Hits Hollywood,
Lillian Ross
* The New Suburbia, Ralph G. Martin
* Harry Truman Speaks on Internal Security
The Military Experience in Korea, Ed Simmons
Letter to the Chairman, Civil Service
Commission, on the Administration of the
Federal Employee Security Programs, Harry
S. Truman
* Segregation’s Human Cost, Kenneth B. Clark
* Women and Work, Daniel Bell
An Endangered Environment, Rachel Carson
* The Case of John Carter Vincent
RTAP67
The Korean War and the Rise of the
National Security State
Mary Ann Heiss
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
NSC-68 Blueprints the Cold War
The Korean War Saves NSC-68, Walter LaFeber
George Kennan and NSC-68, John Lewis Gaddis
RTAP68
The CIA in the World in the 1950s
Mary Ann Heiss
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
CIA Operations in Iran and Guatemala
Iran, 1953: Making It Safe for the King of Kings,
William Blum
Guatemala, 1953–1954: While the World
Watched, William Blum
Lauding the CIA’s Work in Iran, Richard &
Gladys Harkness
Downplaying the CIA, Emphasizing
Communism, Frederick W. Marks III
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TOPICAL CHAPTERS
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Justifying, Overseeing, and Revealing
Covert Actions
RTAP56
David B. Sicilia
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Did Television Reshape American Culture?
The Doolittle Report: Early Justification for
Covert Action, Lt. General James Doolittle
The Americans: The Democratic Experience,
Daniel J. Boorstin
* Authorizing Covert Action, NSC-5412/2
* Unmasking a Rogue Elephant, Select
Committee on Intelligence
Women’s Work, Lynn Spigel
The Republic of Mass Culture, James
L. Baughman
Stop Falsifying U.S. History, Warren I. Cohen
RTAP36
The Feminine Mystique and the
Organization Man
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Who Shaped American Television?
Leila J. Rupp
Television Writing and Selling, Edward
Barry Roberts
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Rethinking the Feminine Mystique and the
Organization Man
* Television Broadcasting, Newton Minow
Two’s a Crowd, Phil Sharp
Beyond the Feminine Mystique: A
Reassessment of Postwar Mass Culture, 1946–
1958, Joanne Meyerowitz
Playboy Joins the Battle of the Sexes,
Barbara Ehrenreich
RTAP63
History, Conspiracy, and the
Kennedy Assassination
Nicholas Cullather
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Conspiracy Theories and the Search for Meaning
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Happy Housewife and the Man in the Gray
Flannel Suit
The Danger of Conspiracy Theories, Anthony
Lewis
* “The Sexual Sell,” Betty Friedan
A Battle of Myths, Christopher Lasch
* A Generation of Bureaucrats, William H.
Whyte, Jr.
RTAP78
Television as a Social Force
The Movie Version, Gary Crowdus & Oliver
Stone
The Sputnik Crisis and the Space Race
JFK as Anti-War Hero, Noam Chomsky
James R. Hansen
The Assassination as History, James T.
Patterson
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Assessing the Impact of Sputnik
“A New Era of History” and a Media Riot, Walter
McDougall
“Eisenhower was correct, but to little avail,”
Howard E. McCurdy
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Decision to Go to the Moon: How
Was It Made?
The Red Conquest, from Newsweek
Rocket Boys, Homer H. Hickam
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Warren Commission and Its Critics
The Warren Report, the President’s Commission
on the Assassination of President John F.
Kennedy
Disagreement Within the Commission, Lyndon
Johnson & Richard Russell
Spinning Conspiracy Theories in the Sixties,
Warren Hinckle
The House Investigation, U.S. House Select
Committee on Assassinations
* The Race to the Moon, John F. Kennedy
* The Race to Space, Lyndon Johnson
The Webb-McNamara Report, James E. Webb &
Robert S. McNamara
“Before this decade is out…,” John F. Kennedy
POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICA: 1945–PRESENT
23
24
RETRIEVING THE AMERICAN PAST
RTAP58
Nonviolence and the Civil Rights
Movement
RTAP50
Penny A. Russell
Mark Grimsley
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Was It More Than a Civil Rights Movement?
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
American Defeat: Two Explanations
When Did the Civil Rights Movement Begin?
Adam Fairclough
A Faltering and Confused Resolve, Phillip
B. Davidson
Rethinking African American Politics and
Activism, Clayborne Carson
The People in the Middle, Ronald H. Spector
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Turning Point: Tet 1968
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Strategies of Nonviolence and the Dangers
of Activism
The Attack on the U.S. Embassy, Don
Oberdorfer
* A. Philip Randolph Calls for a March on
Washington
* The Tet Offensive: U.S. Public Learns of
Attack, Chet Huntley
* Rosa L. Parks is Arrested in
Montgomery, Alabama
* General William C. Westmoreland Reacts
* Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Statement of Purpose, Reverend James Lawson
* Questions in the Wake of Tet, Clark M. Clifford
* “Bigger than A Hamburger,” Ella J. Baker
In Jail in Greenwood, Mississippi,
James Forman
* A Reporter’s View of Vietnam, Peter Braestrup
RTAP62
The Vietnam Era Antiwar Movement
David H. Steigerwald
* “Letter from the Birmingham City Jail,” Martin
Luther King, Jr.
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Was the Antiwar Movement Successful?
* “To Mississippi Youth,” Malcolm X
RTAP22
Why Did the United States Lose the
Vietnam War?
The Media and the Movement, Todd Gitlin
The Movement’s Effect on Policy, Melvin Small
Dissent in the 1960s: Definitions
and Context
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Voices of Dissent
Steven Conn
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Lasting Impact of the 1960s
* LBJ Launches the Quiet War, I. F. Stone
* Establishment Critics’ Dissent, Hans
Morgenthau
The Lasting Impact of the 1960s, Maurice
Isserman & Michael Kazin
Name the System, Massimo Teodori
* From Protest to Resistance, George Dennison
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Voices from the 1960s
* “Black Power!” Stokely Carmichael
Black Power and Black Culture (“Adulthood (For
Claudia)”), Nikki Giovanni
* The Port Huron Statement, Students for a
Democratic Society
The Yippies! In Chicago, Abbie Hoffman
Counter Culture, Jerry Rubin
* Communes and Alternative Living,
Raymond Mungo
RTAP39
The Environmental Movement
K. Austin Kerr & Terence Kehoe
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Emergence and Evolution of the
Environmental Movement
Environmentalism and the Affluent Society,
Samuel P. Hays
New Strands of Environmentalism,
Kirkpatrick Sale
* The “Silent Majority” Responds, Spiro T. Agnew
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PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Environmentalists as Critics
RTAP77
* The Chemical Threat, Rachel Carson, from
Silent Spring
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Revolt of Middle America
Questioning the Affluent Society, Stewart Udall
Excerpts from “The Rise of the ‘Silent
Majority,’” Jonathan Rieder
* Attacking Corporate America: The United Auto
Workers and the Environment, Robert Johnston
* Love Canal and Three Mile Island: Protecting
Working-Class Communities, Lois Gibbs
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Conservatives Argue for Their Cause
* Basic Principles of Deep Ecology, George
Sessions & Bill Devall
RTAP45
The Rise of the New Right
Michael Kazin
* The Creed of the Young Right, Young Americans
for Freedom
The Resurgence Of Feminism
* George Wallace and the “Average Man on the
Street,” George C. Wallace
Susan M. Hartmann
* “The Legacy of Barry Goldwater,” Phyllis
Schlafly
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Origins of Feminist Activism
“The Vision of Ronald Reagan,” Ronald Reagan
Origins of Feminist Activism, Steven M. Buechler
RTAP66
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Deindustrialization: Present and Future
* The Founding of NOW, Betty Friedan
* A Bill of Rights for Women, National
Organization for Women
The Historical Roots of Deindustrialization,
Barry Bluestone
* “No More Miss America! Ten Points of Protest,”
Robin Morgan
Deindustrialization Never Happened,
Paul Krugman
* Lesbian Feminism, Martha Shelly
Hard Times in Barberton, Gregory Pappas
* Black Feminism, The National Black
Feminist Organization
The Mon Valley Unemployed Committee,
Dale A. Hathaway
Working-Class Feminism, Barbara Mikulski
* Anti-Feminism, Phyllis Schlafly
RTAP30
Deindustrialization
Daniel Nelson
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
A Multitude of Voices
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Contemporary Analysis of Deindustrialization
The Rise of the Gay and
Lesbian Movement
* Corporate Flight, Barry Bluestone
* U. S. Industry in Trouble, American
Enterprise Institute
Leila J. Rupp
The New Manufacturing, Gene Bylinsky
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
The Case of San Francisco
* Government Is the Problem, Ronald Reagan
Gay Politics and Community in San Francisco
since World War II, John D’Emilio
RTAP53
Did the United States Cease to be a
Middle-Class Nation in the 1980s?
John C. Burnham
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
The Homophile Movement
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Raising the Alarm
* Interviews with Harry Hay, Jonathan Katz
The Daughters of Bilitis “Statement of Purpose”
* Letter from Lorraine Hansberry
What Happened in the 1980s?, Barbara
Ehrenreich
* Interview with Audre Lorde and Maua
Adele Ajanaku
The Shrinking Middle Class, Robert Kuttner
Del Martin’s Feminist Protest
* Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square,
Lucian Truscott IV
POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICA: 1945–PRESENT
25
26
RETRIEVING THE AMERICAN PAST
PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS
Just What Was Threatened and What
Was Changing?
Economic Changes Brought Disillusionment
and Meanness, Jack Beatty
Concern About Middle-Class Civility,
David Rankin
Cultural and Economic Changes in the 1980s,
Stephanie Coontz
* Excerpt from “America’s Purpose in the World”
Speech, Ronald Reagan
* “Evil Empire” Speech, Ronald Reagan
Change of Heart?: Excerpt from Reagan: An
American Life, Ronald Reagan
* “Tear Down This Wall!” Speech,
Ronald Reagan
Recession Intensifies the Debate, Constance
L. Hays
The Santa Fe Commission: Renewing the Cold
War in Latin America, 1980, Ronald Reagan
Do Americans Rebel When They Move Down
and Not Up? Peter T. Kilborn
Reagan Authorizes Secret Dealings with Iran:
Excerpt from The Iran-Contra Scandal: The
Declassified History
What About Those at the Top? Ed Rubenstein
The Problem Was Not General Deskilling,
Robert I. Lerman & Harold Salzman
Winners and Losers in the Eighties and
Nineties, Katherine S. Newman
RTAP96
PRIMARY SOURCE SECTION
The Reagan Record
Reagan on Iran-Contra (Speech)
Covert Operations: Poisoning Ourselves: New
York Times article, Anthony Lewis
* Iran-Contra: The Final Report, Lawrence Walsh
Reagan’s Foreign Policy
John Day Tully
SECONDARY SOURCE READINGS
Historians and the Reagan Legacy
Reagan and the Cold War: Excerpt from The
Cold War: A New History, John Lewis Gaddis
The Reagan Reversal: Excerpt from Toeing the
Hardline? The Reagan Administration and the
Ending of the Cold War, Beth A. Fischer
Reagan in Latin America: Excerpt from Intimate
Ties, Bitter Struggles, Alan McPherson
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PRE-COLONIAL TO 1600
SSAH101602p
Nathaniel Bacon Is Declared a Rebel,
Governor William Berkeley, 1676 / 3pp
(In RTAP16)
SSAH101604p
Nathaniel Bacon Justifies Rebellion on
Behalf of “The People,” 1676 / 2pp
(In RTAP16)
SSAH100101p
The Salem Witch Trials: The Case of
Bridget Bishop, 1692 / 5pp (In RTAP01)
SSAH100103p
Bringing the Salem Witch Trials to an End,
Increase Mather, 1693 / 3pp (In RTAP01)
The Onset of the Epidemics, Fray
Bernardino de Sahagún, 1570 – 1582 /
5pp (In RTAP15)
SSAH108001p
“George Whitefield Comes to
Middletown,” Nathan Cole, 1739 – 1740 /
3pp (In RTAP80)
First Encounters with Native Americans,
Captain John Smith, 1585 / 2pp
(In RTAP23)
SSAH108004p
The Grand Itinerant, George Whitefield,
1739 – 1741 / 3pp (In RTAP80)
SSAH108002p
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry
God, Jonathan Edwards, 1741 / 3pp
(In RTAP80)
SSAH108003p
The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry,
Gilbert Tennent, 1742 / 3pp (In RTAP80)
SSAH102302p
Interdependence and Exchange in
Colonial Louisiana, John R. Swanton, early
1700s / 2pp (In RTAP23)
SSAH102306p
Petition of the Chickasaw Headmen,
Colonial Records of South Carolina,
1750 – 1754 / 3pp (In RTAP23)
SSAH102307p
Chief Pontiac and Dreams of Rebellion,
Neolin, 1763 / 2pp (In RTAP23)
SSAH101305p
The Practice of Eighteenth Century
Politics, Robert Mumford, 1770 / 4pp
(In RTAP13)
SSAH101501p
The Journal of Christopher Columbus,
1492 / 6pp (In RTAP15)
SSAH101502p
A Letter to Ferdinand and Isabel,
Christopher Columbus, 1492 / 5pp
(In RTAP15)
SSAH101508p
The Columbian Exchange and Ecological
Change, Jose de Acosta, 1492 / 3pp
(In RTAP15)
SSAH101505p
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SSAHD01
“Brief and True Report of the New Found
Land of Virginia,” Thomas Harriot, 1588 /
2pp
COLONIAL: 1600–1763
SSAHD53
The Virginia Charter, 1606 / 5pp
SSAHD55
Chief Powhatan’s Speech to Captain John
Smith, 1609 / 3pp
SSAHD54
The Mayflower Compact, 1620 / 2pp
SSAH102005p
The Role of the Puritan Congregation,
Records of the First Church in Salem,
1629 / 3pp (In RTAP20)
SSAHD02
The Trial of Puritan Dissenter Anne
Hutchinson, 1637 / 6pp
083
The Bloody Tenant of Persecution, Roger
Williams, 1644 / 9pp
SSAH101308p
Native Americans Challenge
Massachusetts Bay’s Authority, 1644 /
2pp (In RTAP23)
Who Could Vote in Colonial American
Society? Statistics, 1691 – 1780 / 4pp
(In RTAP13)
101302s
Drawings of Colonial Architecture / 1p
SSAHD03
The Narrative of a Slave, Olaudah
Equiano, 1789 / 3pp
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A Puritan Justifies Intolerance, Nathaniel
Ward, 1647 / 2pp (In RTAP20)
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RETRIEVING THE AMERICAN PAST
SSAHD73
The Articles of Confederation, 1781 / 5pp
SSAHD64
Conflicting Responses to Shays’ Rebellion,
Governor James Bowdoin & Daniel Gray,
1786 – 1787 / 5pp
SSAH101204p
An Anti-Federalist Critique of the
Constitution, Samuel Bryan, 1787 – 1788
/ 2pp (In RTAP12)
SSAH101201p
Federalist #1, Alexander Hamilton, 1787 /
4pp (In RTAP12)
SSAHD07
Federalist #9 and #14, Alexander
Hamilton & James Madison, 1787 / 7pp
SSAH101203p
Common Sense, Thomas Paine, 1776 /
5pp
Federalist #10, James Madison, 1787 /
4pp (In RTAP12)
SSAHD08
The Declaration of Independence, 1776 /
3pp (In RTAP02)
Federalist #51, Alexander Hamilton &
James Madison, 1788 / 6pp
SSAHD48
The Virginia “Declaration of Rights,” 1776
/ 3pp (In RTAP02)
Federalist #84, Alexander Hamilton,
1788 / 11pp
SSAH101202p
Property and the Right to Vote, John
Adams, 1776 / 3pp (In RTAP02)
The Virginia Ratification Debates, 1788 /
4pp (In RTAP12)
SSAHD59
The Bill of Rights, 1789 / 3pp
SSAHD51
Differing Perspectives on the Whiskey
Rebellion, Pennsylvania Farmers and
George Washington, 1791 / 5pp
SSAH107401p
George Washington’s Farewell Address,
1796 / 2pp (In RTAP74)
SSAHD05
Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas
Jefferson, 1782 / 2pp
SSAHD72
Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural
Address, 1801 / 5pp
SSAH89P2
The Debate Over a Military Response,
Thomas Jefferson / 3pp (In RTAP89)
SSAHD09
Marbury v. Madison, 1803 / 5pp
SSAH105101p
The Republican Wife, Hannah
Fayerweather Winthrop & Mercy Otis
Warren, 1774 – 1776 / 4pp (In RTAP24)
Defense of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition, Thomas Jefferson, 1801 / 4pp
(In RTAP82)
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The Sentiments of an American Woman,
Esther de Berdt Reed, late 1770s / 4pp
(In RTAP24)
The Prospects of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition, Meriwether Lewis, 1804 / 3pp
(In RTAP82)
SSAH105103p
The Trek Across the Continent, Meriwether
Lewis & William Clark, 1805 / 3pp
(In RTAP82)
SSAH105106p
Report of the Expedition’s Successful
Conclusion, Meriwether Lewis, 1806 / 2pp
(In RTAP82)
REVOLUTION AND EARLY NATIONAL:
1763–1829
SSAHD52
The Albany Plan of Union, Benjamin
Franklin & Thomas Hutchinson, 1754 /
3pp
SSAHD50
The Stamp Act Resolves, 1766 / 3pp
SSAH102603p
An African American Perspective on
Liberty, Phillis Wheatley, 1774 / 2pp
(In RTAP26)
SSAH100203p
“The Petition of a Grate Number of
Blackes,” to the Governor of
Massachusetts, 1774 / 2pp (In RTAP02)
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SSAHD74
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, 1776 / 5pp
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Loyalists Besieged During the
Revolutionary War, Janet Schaw, 1775 /
2pp (In RTAP08)
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A Loyalist Perspective on the American
Revolution, John Wolfe Lydekker, 1776 /
2pp (In RTAP26)
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Atrocity and Counter-atrocity on the
Carolina Frontier, The Revolution
Remembered, 1778 / 3pp (In RTAP08)
SSAHD06
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Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector
St. John de Crévecoeur, 1782 / 3pp
(In RTAP13)
SSAH102407Bp
Republican Mothers, Benjamin Rush,
1787 / 2pp (In RTAP24)
SSAH102407Ap
Women’s Education, Judith Sargent
Murray, 1798 / 2pp
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Map: The Louisiana Purchase and the
Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803 – 6 / 1p
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Cherokee Removal as Benevolent Policy,
Andrew Jackson, 1830 / 5pp (In RTAP18)
SSAH100604p
Felix Grundy Advocates War Against Great
Britain, 1811 / 3pp (In RTAP06)
SSAH101802p
Worcester v. the State of Georgia, 1832 /
4pp (In RTAP18)
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President Madison Asks Congress to
Declare War, 1812 / 4pp (In RTAP06)
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Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee
Nation, 1836 / 5pp (In RTAP18)
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American Alarm at Anglo-Indian Warfare
During the War of 1812, James Dill, 1812
/ 2pp (In RTAP06)
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The Whig Response to Jackson, Henry
Clay, 1833, 1837 / 3pp (In RTAP69)
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Final Report of the Hartford Convention,
1815 / 3pp (In RTAP06)
from Fifty Years in Chains, Charles Ball,
1837 / 5pp (In RTAP100)
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SSAHD10
McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819 / 4pp
Farewell Address, Andrew Jackson, 1837 /
4pp (In RTAP69)
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The Monroe Doctrine, 1823 / 3pp
SSAH100901p
108502p
The Shaker Millennial Laws, 1823 / 4pp
(In RTAP85)
A Virginia State Official Explains Nat
Turner’s Revolt, John Floyd, 1831 / 3pp
(In RTAP09)
SSAH100905p
“The Insurrection” (Nat Turner’s Revolt),
William Lloyd Garrison, 1831 / 3pp
(In RTAP09)
SSAH100904p
A Northern Editor Reacts to Nat Turner’s
Revolt, 1831 / 2pp (In RTAP09)
SSAH101702p
Black Women’s Activism, Maria Stewart,
1831 / 2pp (In RTAP17)
SSAH105404p
A Northern Woman Condemns Prejudice,
Lydia Maria Child, 1833 / 3pp (In RTAP54)
SSAH105401p
The American Anti-Slavery Society
Declares Its Sentiments, William Lloyd
Garrison, 1833 / 5pp (In RTAP54)
105402p
The Influence of Slavery, William Lloyd
Garrison, 1830s / 2pp (In RTAP54)
SSAH105403p
A Call for Women to Become Abolitionists,
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, 1836 / 2pp
(In RTAP54)
108803p
Excerpt from a letter from S.F. Austin to
Mrs. Mary Austin, August 21, 1835 / 2pp
(In RTAP88)
ANTEBELLUM: 1820–1860
SSAH101401p
Women on the Frontier: Journey to the
Old Northwest, Harriet Noble / 3pp
(In RTAP14)
SSAH101105p
Factory Regulations in Lowell, John Avery,
1815 – 1833 / 2pp (In RTAP11)
SSAH101104p
Factory Regulations at the Dawn of the
Industrial Age in America, 1816 / 2pp
(In RTAP11)
SSAH101102p
Railroads and Competition, Letter from “A
Mechanic,” 1830s / 2pp (In RTAP11)
SSAH101101p
A Ship Carpenter’s Day, Richard Trevellick,
1830s / 3pp (In RTAP11)
SSAH107405p
Increasing Turnouts Among the Electorate
in the Early Nineteenth Century, 1800 –
1840 / 2pp (In RTAP74)
106901s
Cartoon of the Democratic view of
President Jackson, 1828 / 1p
SSAH106902p
First Annual Message, Andrew Jackson,
1829 / 2pp (In RTAP69)
D084
Texas Declaration of Independence,
1836 / 5pp
SSAH100P2
from Autobiography of Omar ibn Said,
Slave in North Carolina, Omar ibn Said,
1831 / 4pp (In RTAP100)
108807p
SSAH106901p
Democracy in America, Alexis De
Tocqueville, 1831 / 2pp (In RTAP69)
Excerpts from “With Santa Anna in Texas,
A Personal Narrative of the Revolution,”
Jose Enrique de la Peña, late 1830s / 4pp
(In RTAP88)
SSAH101703p
SSAH106903p
The Bank Veto, Andrew Jackson, 1832 /
3pp (In RTAP69)
Sarah Grimké Challenges the Clergy,
1837 / 4pp (In RTAP17)
DOCUMENT LIBRARY
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RETRIEVING THE AMERICAN PAST
SSAH106101p
Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836 /
7pp (In RTAP61)
SSAHD14
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet
Jacobs, 1861 / 3pp
SSAH100702p
A Denunciation of Expansionism, W. E.
Channing, 1837 / 4pp (In RTAP07)
SSAH100903p
SSAH108105p
The Frontier as the Promised Land, Gjert
C. Hoveland, 1838 / 2pp
Popular Reaction to a Rumored Revolt in
Louisiana, Solomon Northrup, 1853 / 3pp
(In RTAP09)
SSAH106103p
Woman in the Nineteenth Century,
Margaret Fuller, 1848 / 6pp (In RTAP61)
SSAH101704p
Birth of the Women’s Rights Movement:
The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848/ 5pp
(In RTAP17)
SSAH101705p
The Stanton-Anthony Partnership,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B.
Anthony, 1852 – 1857 / 4pp (In RTAP17)
SSAHD75
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, 1850 /
6pp
SSAHD76
Opposition to the Compromise of 1850,
John C. Calhoun, 1850 / 5pp
SSAH107102p
The Crime Against Sumner, the New York
Tribune, 1856 / 4pp (In RTAP71)
SSAHD16
The Dred Scott Decision, 1857 / 5pp
SSAH107103p
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 / 6pp
(In RTAP71)
SSAH107104p
Northern Opinion on the Eve of Conflict,
the New York Herald and the New York
Tribune, 1860 / 5pp (In RTAP71)
SSAH108104p
SSAHD15
SSAH90P3
SSAH100P1
Freedom and Slavery in the 1830s
Midwest, Eduard Zimmermann, 1838 /
2pp (In RTAP81)
American Slavery as It Is, Theodore Weld,
1839 / 3pp
Women in Slavery: Excerpt from Journal of
a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in
1838-1839, Frances Ann Kemble / 3pp
(In RTAP90)
from Drums and Shadows: Survival
Studies Among the Georgia Coastal
Negroes, The Savannah Unit Georgia
Writer’s Project, 1940 / 11pp (In RTAP100)
SSAH100902p
Religion as a Bulwark of Slavery, Lunsford
Lane, 1842 / 2pp (In RTAP09)
108503p
Excerpt from “Plan of the West Roxbury
Community,” George Ripley, 1842 / 5pp
(In RTAP85)
SSAH100701p
Manifest Destiny, John L. O’Sullivan,
1839, 1845 / 4pp (In RTAP07)
SSAH107301p
The Declaration of War on Mexico, James
K. Polk, 1845 / 3pp
SSAHD13
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass, Frederick Douglass, 1845 /
3pp (In RTAP19)
SSAH100706p
The Expansion of Slavery Condemned,
Charles Sumner, 1847 / 3pp (In RTAP07)
SSAH100705p
The Expansion of Slavery Justified, The
United States Magazine, 1847 / 2pp
(In RTAP07)
SSAH100703p
A Challenge to Polk’s Justification for
War, Abraham Lincoln, 1848 / 2pp
(In RTAP07)
SSAH106102p
Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau,
1849 / 6pp (In RTAP61)
SSAH98P3
Gold Rush Correspondence (1849-1852) /
4pp (In RTAP98)
SSAH90P2
The Trials of Girlhood, Harriet Jacobs,
1861 / 2pp (In RTAP90)
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CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION:
1860–1877
SSAHD58
The Confederate Constitution, 1861 / 3pp
SSAHD69
Fighting for the Confederacy, General
Edward Porter Alexander, 1861 / 3pp
(In RTAP76)
SSAH107602p
Letter from a Confederate Soldier, William
Thomas Poague, 1903 / 3pp (In RTAP76)
SSAHD65
The Diary of a Union Soldier, John Quincy
Adams Campbell, 1861 – 1863 / 4pp
(In RTAP04)
100401s
Photograph of Union soldiers in Trenches
before Petersburg, 1864 / 1p
SSAH100506p
Abraham Lincoln Responds to Horace
Greeley on Emancipation, 1862 / 2pp
(In RTAP05)
SSAH100507p
Abraham Lincoln Responds to Requests
for Emancipation, 1862 / 3pp (In RTAP05)
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DOCUMENT LIBRARY
SSAHD17
The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 /
3pp
THE GILDED AGE AND THE
PROGRESSIVE ERA: 1877–1920
SSAHD18
The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln,
1863 / 2pp
107201p
Excerpts from Roughing It, Mark Twain,
1872 / 4pp (In RTAP72)
SSAHD19
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural
Address, 1864 / 3pp
107202p
Excerpts from A Bride Goes West, late
1870s / 6pp (In RTAP72)
SSAH97P1
Lee’s Announcement to His Troops, Robert
E. Lee, 1865 / 2pp (In RTAP97)
SSAH104801p
Outline of the Grange, O. H. Kelley,
1870s / 6pp (In RTAP48)
SSAH105901Ap
The Thirteenth Amendment, 1865 / 2pp
(In RTAP59)
SSAH104802p
Achievements of the Grange, J. Wallace
Darrow, 1887 / 3pp (In RTAP48)
SSAHD77
Plan for Reconstruction, Andrew Johnson,
1865 / 6pp
SSAH105501p
SSAHD22
The Freedmen’s Bureau, Federal Writer’s
Project of the WPA, 1865 / 2pp
The Woman’s Crusade of 1873–74, Eliza
Daniel Stewart, 1873 – 1874 / 2pp
(In RTAP55)
107002s
SSAH105901Cp
The Black Codes and Reconstruction,
1866 / 1p (In RTAP59)
Illustration of the Temperance Movement,
1870s / 1p
SSAHD23
SSAH105901Bp
Debate over the Civil Rights Act of 1866,
President Andrew Johnson and Senator
Lyman Trumbull, 1866 / 3pp
“The Gospel of Wealth,” Andrew Carnegie,
1889 / 3pp
SSAHD66
Carnegie Steel, Andrew Carnegie, 1880s
and early 1890s / 2pp (In RTAP49)
SSAHD67
Opposition to Standard Oil, George Rice,
1899 / 2pp (In RTAP49)
SSAH104701p
The Knights of Labor, Terence Powderly,
1880s and early 1890s / 4pp (In RTAP47)
SSAH104702p
The American Federation of Labor as “A
Permanent Constructive and Conserving
Force,” Samuel Gompers, 1886 / 3pp
(In RTAP47)
SSAH104706p
Women and Separatism: The Knights
of Labor, Leonora Barry, 1888 / 3pp
(In RTAP47)
SSAH94P3
from Orations and Speeches, Edward
Everett, 1895 / 19pp (In RTAP94)
SSAH99P2
Excerpts from The Populist National
Platform, 1896 / 4pp (In RTAP99)
SSAH99P4b
“In Which Box Will the Voter of ‘96 Put His
Ballot?”: Populism in Political Cartoons,
1894 / 1p (In RTAP99)
SSAH99P4a
“Western Republican Wolf” and “Southern
Democrat Tiger”: Populism in Political
Cartoons, 1896 / 1p (In RTAP99)
SSAH99P4c
“What It Means”: Populism in Political
Cartoons, 1896 / 1p (In RTAP99)
SSAH99P4d
“All Must Pull Together”: Populism in
Political Cartoons, 1896 / 1p (In RTAP99)
SSAH105903p
The Nation Supports Black Suffrage,
1866 / 2pp (In RTAP59)
SSAH105904p
Opposition to Black Suffrage During
Reconstruction, Petition to the U.S.
House of Representatives, 1867 / 2pp
(In RTAP59)
SSAH103203p
Debate over Impeachment in the House,
George S. Boutwell and James F. Wilson,
1867 / 3pp (In RTAP32)
SSAH105902p
Frederick Douglass Argues in Favor of
Black Suffrage, 1869 / 3pp (In RTAP59)
SSAH105905p
The Fifteenth Amendment, 1869 / 1p
(In RTAP59)
SSAH97P3
from “Criticisms and Reflections,” in
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal
Experiences and the Late War, Richard
Taylor, 1870s / 4pp (In RTAP97)
SSAH105906p
Violent Resistance to Equal Rights During
Reconstruction, 1871 / 3pp (In RTAP59)
SSAH98P9
Recuerdos Historicos y Personales Tocante
a la Alta California, Mariano Guadelupe
Vallejo, 1875 / 3pp (In RTAP98)
DOCUMENT LIBRARY
31
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SSAH104205p
“Candidate Billy’s Busy Day”: Populism in
Political Cartoons, 1896 / 1p (In RTAP99)
Argument for Retention of the Philippine
Islands, Albert Beveridge, 1900 / 3pp
(In RTAP42)
SSAH104209p
Women and Paternalism: The American
Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers /
2pp (In RTAP47)
William Jennings Bryan Rejects
Imperialists’ Arguments, 1900 / 3pp
(In RTAP42)
SSAH104208p
The Secretary of War Defends McKinley’s
Policy, Elihu Root, 1900 / 3pp (In RTAP42)
SSAHD28
Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine,
Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 / 2pp
SSAH99P4e
“Chicago Nomination”: Populism in
Political Cartoons, 1896 / 1p (In RTAP99)
SSAH99P4f
SSAH104704p
SSAH104703p
The Industrial Workers of the World:
Preamble and Song, 1908 / 5pp
(In RTAP47)
SSAH108702p
“Civilizing the Indian,” Carl Schurz, 1881 /
3pp (In RTAP87)
SSAHD20
The Souls of Black Folk, W. E .B. Du Bois,
1903 / 6pp (In RTAP64)
SSAH105203p
Senator Dawes Reviews the “Indian
Problem,” 1886 / 3pp (In RTAP52)
SSAH106403p
Declaration of Principles of the NAACP,
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1905 / 6pp (In RTAP64)
SSAH108701p
“The Vanishing Indian” Henry Dawes,
1887 / 2pp (In RTAP87)
SSAHD12
Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy,
1888 / 3pp
SSAH108707p
An Assimilated Indian Questions
Civilization, Charles Eastman, 1887 –
1890 / 3pp (In RTAP87)
SSAH106002p
Urban Politics and Reform, Lincoln
Steffens, 1904 / 7pp (In RTAP60)
SSAH106003p
SSAH108703p
“When the Buffalo Went Away,” PrettyShield as Told to Frank Linderman,
1890s / 3pp (In RTAP87)
The Cultural Allure of Cities, Lewis
Mumford / 6pp (In RTAP60)
SSAH107006p
Preaching the “Social Gospel,” Walter
Rauschenbusch, 1907 / 3pp (In RTAP70)
SSAHD25
The Character of American Citizens,
Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 / 3pp
SSAH95P4
“The Race Question,” 1910 / 2pp
(In RTAP95)
SSAHD68
Twenty Years at Hull House, Jane Addams,
1910 / 5pp (In RTAP70)
SSAH107004p
The “Woman Mind” Transforms Society,
Rheta Child Dorr, 1910 / 3pp (In RTAP70)
SSAH95P8
Speech at the Atlanta Exposition, Booker
T. Washington, 1895 / 5pp (In RTAP64)
The Harvard-Yale Game, 1905 / 2pp
(In RTAP95)
SSAH95P5
The Cross of Gold Speech, William
Jennings Bryan, 1896 / 8pp
Faculty Responsibility for Athletics, 1905 /
3pp (In RTAP95)
SSAHD26
“New Nationalism,” Theodore Roosevelt,
1910 / 6pp
SSAHD27
“Standing at Armageddon,”Theodore
Roosevelt, 1912 / 3pp
SSAHD29
“The New Freedom,” Woodrow Wilson,
1912 / 4pp
SSAHD46
The Socialist Party Platform of 1912 / 4pp
SSAHD24
Taylorism, Frederick W. Taylor, 1911 / 8pp
SSAH108706p
A Native American Boy at a Boarding
School, Luther Standing Bear, 1928 / 3pp
(In RTAP87)
SSAH106001p
Urban Conditions and Reform, Josiah
Strong, 1885 / 9pp (In RTAP60)
SSAH105502p
The Saloon Observed, George Kibbe
Turner, 1893 / 3pp (In RTAP55)
SSAH95P5
“No Man In It: Smith College Gym
Held 1000 Excited Girls,” 1894 / 5pp
(In RTAP95)
SSAH106401p
D080
SSAH104201p
In Support of American Expansionism in
the Philippines, Albert Beveridge, 1898 /
3pp (In RTAP42)
SSAH104202p
Denunciation of American Imperialism,
William Graham Sumner, 1898 / 3pp
(In RTAP42)
SSAH104204p
Declaration of Philippines Independence,
Emilio Aguinaldo, 1899 / 3pp (In RTAP42)
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SSAH107002p
The Revolt of the “Ultimate Consumer,”
Walter E. Weyl, 1912 / 3pp (In RTAP70)
109102p
No Fifty-Fifty Allegiance, Theodore
Roosevelt, 1918 / 1p (In RTAP91)
SSAH107008p
Professionalism in City Government, Harry
Aubrey Toulmin, 1915 / 2pp (In RTAP70)
109106p
American Women and the World War, Ida
Clyde Clarke, 1918 / 3pp (In RTAP91)
SSAH107001p
The “Confession” of a Progressive Activist,
Frederick C. Howe, 1925 / 3pp (In RTAP70)
109108p
SSAH107007p
Professionalism and Social Activism,
Richard T. Ely, 1938 / 3pp (In RTAP70)
Speech Delivered in Canton, Ohio,
June 16, 1918, Eugene V. Debs / 3pp
(In RTAP91)
SSAH106502p
The City for African Americans, Richard
Wright, 1920s / 3pp (In RTAP60)
Advertising as Religion, Bruce Barton,
1924 / 4pp (In RTAP65)
SSAH106503p
Advertising Images from the 1890s to the
1930s, 1890s-1930s / 16pp (In RTAP65)
SSAH104403p
The Monkey Trial and the New York Times,
1925 / 17pp (In RTAP44)
SSAH102702p
Letters to the Hoover Administration,
Anonymous, 1930 – 1931 / 9pp
(In RTAP27)
SSAH106004p
SSAH105504p
Arguments for and against Prohibition,
Richmond P. Hobson and Richard
Bartholdt, 1914 / 6pp (In RTAP55)
SSAH103504p
Same-Sex Subcultures, Havelock Ellis,
1901 / 2pp (In RTAP35)
SSAH103302p
Essential Differences Between the Sexes,
Lyman Abbott, 1903 / 3pp (In RTAP33)
SSAH102703p
“Sex O’Clock” in America, Anonymous,
1913 / 6pp (In RTAP35)
The Rout of the Bonus Marchers, Hard
Times, 1932 / 4pp (In RTAP27)
102704p
The Administration’s Record, Herbert
Hoover, 1932 / 3pp (In RTAP27)
SSAHD38
The Scottsboro Boys, Clarence Norris,
1931 / 3pp
SSAH102801p
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Acceptance
Address at the Democratic National
Convention, 1932 / 3pp (In RTAP28)
SSAH103501p
SSAH103301p
Woman’s Suffrage a Threat to the Home,
Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, 1913 / 3pp
(In RTAP33)
SSAH103304p
Suffrage Tactics in New York, Mrs. Oreola
Williams Haskell, 1915 / 4pp (In RTAP33)
D085
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA),
1923 / 1p
SSAHD35
“The Flapper,” H.L. Mencken, 1915 / 3pp
(In RTAP35)
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural
Address, 1933 / 4pp
SSAH102804p
The Roosevelt I Knew, Frances Perkins,
1930s / 2pp (In RTAP28)
SSAHD33
“Share Our Wealth,” Huey Long,
1934 / 5pp
109305P
Photograph of Oklahoma Dust Bowl
Refugees in San Fernando, California,
1935 / 1p (In RTAP93)
SSAHD36
The Social Security Act, 1935 / 8pp
SSAH109306p
Photograph of a Migrant Agricultural
Workers’ Family in Nipomo, California,
March 1936 / 1p
SSAH103502p
WORLD WAR I, THE INTERWAR
PERIOD, AND WORLD WAR II:
1914–1945
SSAHD32
A Critique of 100% Americanism,
Randolph S. Bourne, 1914 / 3pp
SSAHD62
Note to Germany on Submarine Warfare,
Woodrow Wilson, 1915 / 3pp
SSAHD30
The Zimmermann Telegram, 1917 / 2pp
SSAHD57
Declaration of War, Woodrow Wilson,
1917 / 3pp
109301p
Slumbering Fires in Harlem, 1936 / 3pp
(In RTAP93)
SSAHD31
Fourteen Points for Peace, Woodrow
Wilson, 1918 / 6pp (In RTAP91)
SSAH102810p
Communist Leader Earl Browder on the
New Deal, 1936 / 2pp (In RTAP28)
SSAHD63
In Defense of the Treaty of Versailles,
Woodrow Wilson, 1919 / 3pp
SSAH102807p
Herbert Hoover Criticizes the New Deal,
1936 / 3pp (In RTAP28)
DOCUMENT LIBRARY
33
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RETRIEVING THE AMERICAN PAST
SSAH102809p
Socialist Leader Norman Thomas Criticizes
the New Deal, 1936 / 3pp (In RTAP28)
SSAHD37
Packing the Supreme Court, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, 1937 / 3pp
SSAH102805p
The Legacy of the New Deal, Henry
Wallace, 1944 / 2pp (In RTAP28)
SSAH107502p
Women Workers and Industrial Unionism,
Stella Nowicki, 1930s / 3pp (In RTAP75)
107501p
An Eyewitness Account of the Flint SitDown Strike, 1937 / 4pp (In RTAP75)
109303p
Photograph of an Abandoned Farm in the
Dust Bowl, Coldwater District, Texas,
1938 / 1p
109302p
Letter by an 18-year old Girl to First
Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, 1938 / 3pp
(In RTAP93)
SSAH107504p
The Human Legacy of the Union
Movement, John Barbero, 1930s / 2pp
(In RTAP75)
SSAH104101p
An Historian Favors American Neutrality in
World War II, Charles A. Beard, 1939 / 4pp
(In RTAP41)
SSAH104102p
“Fireside Chat” after the Nazi Invasion of
Poland, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939 / 2pp
(In RTAP41)
SSAH104105p
America First Committee Charges
Roosevelt with Fighting a One-Man War,
1941 / 3pp (In RTAP41)
SSAH104103p
The “Arsenal of Democracy” Address,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941 / 5pp
(In RTAP41)
SSAH104104p
The “Shoot on Sight” Address, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, 1941 / 5pp (In RTAP41)
SSAH104106p
Declaration of War, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
1941 / 3pp (In RTAP41)
SSAH105801p
A. Philip Randolph Calls for a March on
Washington, 1941 / 2pp (In RTAP58)
SSAH103402p
Japanese Internment: An Evacuation
Order, 1942 / 2pp (In RTAP34)
SSAH103403p
Japanese Internment: The Uchida Family Is
Evacuated, Yoshiko Uchida, 1942 / 3pp
(In RTAP34)
SSAH103404p
A Description of a Japanese Detention
Camp, Minoru Yasui, 1942 / 2pp
(In RTAP34)
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SSAH103405p
Japanese Internment: The Loyalty
Questionnaire, Frank Chuman, 1943 / 3pp
(In RTAP34)
SSAH103406p
The Supreme Court Upholds Japanese
Relocation: Korematsu v. U.S., 1944 / 3pp
(In RTAP34)
SSAH102901p
The U.S. Government Campaign on
Manpower, 1943 / 3pp (In RTAP29)
SSAH102904p
An African American Woman War Worker,
Fanny Christina Hill, 1943 / 4pp
(In RTAP29)
SSAH102905p
A Mexican American Woman War Worker,
Beatrice Morales Clifton, 1940s / 5pp
(In RTAP29)
SSAH102903p
Wartime Public Opinion on Women’s
Employment, Norma Yeger Queen, 1944 /
4pp (In RTAP29)
SSAH107903p
The Emperor’s Desire for Peace, Shigenori
Togo, 1945 / 2pp (In RTAP79)
SSAH107902p
The Atomic Bomb: Joint Chiefs of Staffs’
Casualty Estimates, 1945 / 4pp
(In RTAP79)
SSAH107901p
Casualty Estimates for the Invasion of
Japan, Harry Truman, 1953 / 2pp
(In RTAP79)
POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY
AMERICA: 1945–PRESENT
SSAH104302p
George F. Kennan Warns of Russian
Expansion, 1946 / 7pp (In RTAP43)
SSAH104301p
Josef Stalin Suggests that Conflict Is
Inevitable, 1946 / 3pp (In RTAP43)
SSAH104602p
Harry Truman Speaks on Internal Security,
1946 / 6pp (In RTAP46)
SSAH106702p
Containment through Nonmilitary Means,
George Kennan, 1947 / 3pp (In RTAP67)
SSAH104304p
The Truman Doctrine, Harry S. Truman,
1947 / 3pp (In RTAP43)
SSAH104305p
The Soviets Denounce the Truman
Doctrine, Izvestia, 1947 / 5pp (In RTAP43)
SSAH104306p
NSC-68 and the Enduring Cold War,
1950 / 5pp (In RTAP43)
SSAH106703p
“The Evil of the Communist Idea,”
Reinhold Neibuhr, 1953 / 4pp (In RTAP67)
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DOCUMENT LIBRARY
SSAH104604p
McCarthyism: The Case of John Carter
Vincent, 1953 / 4pp (In RTAP46)
SSAH106802p
The CIA: Authorizing Covert Action, NSC5412/2, 1955 / 3pp (In RTAP68)
SSAH106803p
The CIA: Unmasking a Rogue Elephant,
Select Committee on Intelligence, 1950s1960s / 7pp (In RTAP68)
SSAH107807p
The Race to the Moon, John F. Kennedy,
1961 / 3pp (In RTAP78)
SSAH107805p
The Race to Space, Vice President Lyndon
Johnson, 1961 / 5pp (In RTAP78)
SSAHD70
Fear of the Soviets and the Early Space
Race, Newsweek, 1961 / 4pp
SSAH103702p
The New Suburbia, Ralph G. Martin,
1950 / 3pp (In RTAP37)
SSAH103705p
Women and Work, Daniel Bell, 1956 / 4pp
(In RTAP37)
SSAH103602p
A Generation of Bureaucrats, William H.
Whyte, Jr., 1956 / 5pp (In RTAP36)
105601s
1951 Motorola Television
Advertisement / 1p
SSAH105602p
Television Broadcasting, Newton Minow,
1961 / 6pp (In RTAP56)
SSAHD40
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 / 4pp
SSAH103704p
Segregation’s Human Cost, Kenneth B.
Clark, 1955 / 3pp (In RTAP37)
SSAH105802p
Rosa L. Parks is Arrested in Montgomery,
Alabama, 1955 / 3pp (In RTAP58)
SSAH105804p
“Bigger than a Hamburger,” Ella J. Baker,
1960 / 3pp (In RTAP58)
SSAH105803p
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee Statement of Purpose,
Reverend James Lawson, 1960 / 2pp
(In RTAP58)
D081
Civil Rights Act of 1964 / 3pp
SSAHD41
The Voting Rights Act, Lyndon Johnson,
1965 / 4pp
SSAH102201p
“Black Power!”, Stokely Carmichael,
1966 / 4pp (In RTAP22)
SSAH103901p
“Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson, 1962 /
6pp (In RTAP39)
SSAH102204p
The Port Huron Statement, Students
for a Democratic Society, 1962 / 7pp
(In RTAP22)
SSAH107701p
The Creed of the Young Right, Young
Americans for Freedom, 1964 / 2pp
(In RTAP77)
SSAHD42
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964 / 2pp
SSAHD45
In Retrospect, Robert MacNamara, 1961 –
1968 / 4pp
SSAH106202p
Establishment Critics’ Dissent from the
Vietnam War, Hans J. Morgenthau, 1965 /
3pp (In RTAP62)
SSAH106204p
The Vietnam Antiwar Movement: From
Protest to Resistance, George Dennison,
1967 / 5pp (In RTAP62)
SSAH106201p
LBJ Launches the Quiet War, I. F. Stone,
1967 / 3pp (In RTAP62)
SSAH105002p
The Tet Offensive, Chet Huntley, 1968 /
2pp (In RTAP50)
SSAH105003p
General William C. Westmoreland
Reacts to the Tet Offensive, 1968 / 2pp
(In RTAP50)
SSAH105004p
A Reporter’s View of Vietnam, Peter
Braestrup, 1985 / 3pp (In RTAP50)
SSAH105005p
Questions in the Wake of Tet, Clark M.
Clifford, 1969 / 4pp (In RTAP50)
SSAHD43
The War Powers Act, 1973 / 4pp
105801s
Photograph of Police Armed with Dogs
Attacking Protestors, 1961 / 1p
SSAH102207p
Communes and Alternative Living,
Raymond Mungo, 1968 / 4pp (In RTAP22)
SSAHD39
“I Have a Dream,” Martin Luther King, Jr.,
1963 / 4pp
SSAH103903p
SSAH105806p
“Letter from the Birmingham City Jail,”
Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963 / 4pp
(In RTAP58)
The United Auto Workers and the
Environment, Robert Johnston, 1968 /
3pp (In RTAP39)
SSAH103004p
Audre Lorde and Maua Adele Ajanaku on
the Gay and Lesbian Movement, 1950s /
3pp (In RTAP30)
SSAH05807p
“To Mississippi Youth,” Malcolm X,
1964 / 2pp (In RTAP58)
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SAH103003p
Lorraine Hansberry on the Gay and
Lesbian Movement, 1957 / 3pp
(In RTAP30)
SAH103001p
The Gay and Lesbian Movement:
Interviews with Harry Hay, Jonathan Katz,
1974 / 5pp (In RTAP30)
SAH103601p
“The Sexual Sell,” Betty Friedan, 1963 /
6pp (In RTAP36)
SSAH107702p
The Average Man on the Street, George
Wallace, 1968 / 5pp (In RTAP77)
SAH104501p
The Founding of NOW, Betty Friedan,
1966 / 5pp (In RTAP45)
SSAH102208p
The “Silent Majority” Responds, Spiro T.
Agnew, 1969 / 3pp (In RTAP22)
SAH104502p
A Bill of Rights for Women, National
Organization for Women, 1968 / 2pp
(In RTAP45)
SSAHD078
Articles of Impeachment Against Richard
M. Nixon, 1974 / 5pp
SSAHD61
SAH104503p
“No More Miss America! Ten Points of
Protest,” Robin Morgan, 1968 / 4pp
(In RTAP45)
Farewell Address, Richard M. Nixon,
1974 / 2pp
SSAH96P1
from “America’s Purpose in the World,”
Ronald Reagan, 1978 / 4pp (In RTAP96)
SSAH96P2
Reagan’s “Evil Empire” Speech, Ronald
Reagan, 1982 / 4pp (In RTAP96)
SSAH96P4
Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall!” Speech,
Ronald Reagan, 1987 / 2pp (In RTAP96)
SAH103006p
Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square,
Lucian Truscott IV, 1969 / 5pp
(In RTAP30)
SAH104505p
Black Feminism, The National Black
Feminist Organization, 1973 / 2pp
(In RTAP45)
SSAHD44
Roe v. Wade, 1973 / 7pp
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