A Holocaust Reader / Edition 1

by Lucy Dawidowicz

Overview

These source documents were the basis for the author's monumental War Against the Jews: 1933-1945. Fully annotated, with an introduction recounting the authentication of the documents. This book gives an insight into the lives of those who experienced the Holocaust. There are sources ranging from personal writings to government documents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874412369
Publisher:	Behrman House, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/01/1976
Series:	Library of Jewish Studies
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	397
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.97(d)

About the Author

Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, where he earned his B.A. and Ph.D. In his teaching and scholarship, Foner focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America. His most recent book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. His Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877, won the Bancroft, Parkman, and Los Angeles Times Book prizes and remains the standard history of the period. In 2006 Foner received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia University. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Society of American Historians.

Table of Contents

	List of Maps, Tables, and Figures	xvii
	About the Author	xix
	Preface	xxi
Part 1	American Colonies to 1763
1.	A New World	4
	The Expansion of Europe	7
	Peoples of the Americas	12
	The Spanish Empire	15
	The First North Americans	23
	England and the New World	30
	The Freeborn Englishman	35
	Voices of Freedom: From Henry Care, English Liberties, or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance (1680)	40
2.	American Beginnings, 1607-1650	44
	The Coming of the English	47
	Settling the Chesapeake	51
	Origins of American Slavery	57
	The New England Way	62
	Voices of Freedom: From John Winthrop, Speech to the Massachusetts General Court (July 3, 1645)	64
	New Englanders Divided	69
	The New England Economy	73
3.	Crisis and Expansion: North American Colonies, 1650-1750	78
	Empires in Conflict	81
	The Expansion of England's Empire	87
	Voices of Freedom: From William Penn, England's Present Interests Discovered (1675)	93
	Colonies in Crisis	94
	The Eighteenth Century: A Growing Society	101
	Social Classes in the Colonies	110
4.	Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763	118
	Slavery and the Empire	121
	Slave Culture and Slave Resistance	130
	An Empire of Freedom	133
	The Public Sphere	138
	The Great Awakening	145
	Imperial Rivalries	148
	Battle for the Continent	151
	Voices of Freedom: From Pontiac, Speeches (1762 and 1763)	156
Part 2	A New Nation, 1763-1840
5.	The American Revolution, 1763-1783	166
	The Crisis Begins	169
	The Road to Revolution	176
	The Coming of Independence	180
	Voices of Freedom: From Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)	185
	Securing Independence	189
6.	The Revolution Within	200
	Democratizing Freedom	203
	Toward Religious Liberty	207
	Defining Economic Freedom	212
	The Limits of Liberty	215
	Slavery and the Revolution	220
	Voices of Freedom: From Petitions of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature (1773 and 1777)	224
	Daughters of Liberty	228
7.	Founding a Nation, 1783-1789	234
	America under the Articles of Confederation	237
	A New Constitution	246
	The Ratification Debate and the Origin of the Bill of Rights	253
	Voices of Freedom: From James Madison, The Federalist no. 51, and Anti-Federalist Essay Signed "Brutus" (1787)	254
	We the People	261
8.	Securing the Republic, 1790-1815	270
	Politics in an Age of Passion	272
	Voices of Freedom: From Address of the Democratic-Republican Society of Pennsylvania (December 18, 1794)	281
	The Adams Presidency	283
	Jefferson in Power	290
	The "Second War of Independence"	298
9.	The Market Revolution	306
	A New Economy	309
	Market Society	319
	Voices of Freedom: From Josephine L. Baker, "A Second Peep at Factory Life," Lowell Offering (1845)	328
	The Free Individual	330
	The Limits of Prosperity	335
10.	Democracy in America, 1815-1840	344
	The Triumph of Democracy	346
	Voices of Freedom: From "The Memorial of the Non-Freeholders of the City of Richmond" (1829)	348
	Nationalism and Its Discontents	353
	Nation, Section, and Party	358
	The Age of Jackson	363
	The Bank War and After	373
Part 3	Slavery, Freedom, and the Crisis of the Union, 1840-1877
11.	The Peculiar Institution	386
	The Old South	389
	Voices of Freedom: From John C. Calhoun, Speech in Congress (1837)	398
	Life under Slavery	400
	Slave Culture	409
	Resistance to Slavery	414
12.	An Age of Reform, 1820-1840	422
	The Reform Impulse	424
	The Crusade against Slavery	434
	Black and White Abolitionism	441
	The Origins of Feminism	445
	Voices of Freedom: From Angelina Grimke, Letter in The Liberator (August 2, 1837)	448
13.	A House Divided, 1840-1861	456
	Fruits of Manifest Destiny	458
	A Dose of Arsenic	470
	The Rise of the Republican Party	477
	Voices of Freedom: From William H. Seward, "The Irrepressible Conflict" (1858)	484
	The Emergence of Lincoln	487
	The Impending Crisis	495
14.	A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865	502
	The First Modern War	504
	The Coming of Emancipation	514
	The Second American Revolution	524
	Voices of Freedom: From Abraham Lincoln, Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore (April 18, 1864)	525
	The Confederate Nation	532
	Turning Points	536
	Rehearsals for Reconstruction and the End of the War	539
15.	"What Is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865-1877	548
	The Meaning of Freedom	551
	Voices of Freedom: From Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865)	558
	The Making of Radical Reconstruction	562
	Radical Reconstruction in the South	572
	The Overthrow of Reconstruction	577
	Appendix
	Documents
	The Declaration of Independence (1776)	2
	The Constitution of the United States (1787)	4
	From George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)	14
	The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)	18
	From Frederick Douglass's "What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?" Speech (1852)	20
	The Gettysburg Address (1863)	23
	Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)	24
	The Populist Platform of 1892	25
	Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933)	28
	Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)	30
	Tables
	Presidential Elections	32
	Admission of States	40
	Population of the United States	41
	Historical Statistics of the United States
	Workforce	42
	Immigration, by Origin	42
	Glossary	43
	Credits	63
	Index	67