Reading American Horizons: Primary Sources for U.S. History in a Global Context, Volume II: Since 1865
Designed to accompany American Horizons: U.S. History in a Global Context, Fourth Edition, this two-volume sourcebook provides a diverse set of documents that situate U.S. History within a global context. Covering political, social, and cultural history, the nearly 200 selections—including many visual documents—will spark discussion in the classroom and give students a deeper understanding of America's history. Robust pedagogy—including a general introduction on how to read primary sources and a headnote and reading questions for each document—makes the sources more accessible to students. The fourth edition features twenty-five new primary sources (ten visual, fifteen textual) that offer a more expansive and inclusive picture of the global influences that affected the U.S., and vice versa.

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Reading American Horizons: Primary Sources for U.S. History in a Global Context, Volume II: Since 1865
Designed to accompany American Horizons: U.S. History in a Global Context, Fourth Edition, this two-volume sourcebook provides a diverse set of documents that situate U.S. History within a global context. Covering political, social, and cultural history, the nearly 200 selections—including many visual documents—will spark discussion in the classroom and give students a deeper understanding of America's history. Robust pedagogy—including a general introduction on how to read primary sources and a headnote and reading questions for each document—makes the sources more accessible to students. The fourth edition features twenty-five new primary sources (ten visual, fifteen textual) that offer a more expansive and inclusive picture of the global influences that affected the U.S., and vice versa.

DIGITAL RESOURCES
Visit www.oup.com/he/schaller4e for a wealth of digital resources for students and instructors, including an enhanced eBook with embedded learning tools and the Oxford Insight Study Guide, which delivers custom-built adaptive practice sessions based on students' performance.

PACKAGE and SAVE
Package this volume with American Horizons, Fourth Edition, Volume I, at a discount for use in your course. Contact your Oxford Sales Representative at 800.280.0280 to order a package.
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Reading American Horizons: Primary Sources for U.S. History in a Global Context, Volume II: Since 1865

Reading American Horizons: Primary Sources for U.S. History in a Global Context, Volume II: Since 1865

Reading American Horizons: Primary Sources for U.S. History in a Global Context, Volume II: Since 1865

Reading American Horizons: Primary Sources for U.S. History in a Global Context, Volume II: Since 1865

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Designed to accompany American Horizons: U.S. History in a Global Context, Fourth Edition, this two-volume sourcebook provides a diverse set of documents that situate U.S. History within a global context. Covering political, social, and cultural history, the nearly 200 selections—including many visual documents—will spark discussion in the classroom and give students a deeper understanding of America's history. Robust pedagogy—including a general introduction on how to read primary sources and a headnote and reading questions for each document—makes the sources more accessible to students. The fourth edition features twenty-five new primary sources (ten visual, fifteen textual) that offer a more expansive and inclusive picture of the global influences that affected the U.S., and vice versa.

DIGITAL RESOURCES
Visit www.oup.com/he/schaller4e for a wealth of digital resources for students and instructors, including an enhanced eBook with embedded learning tools and the Oxford Insight Study Guide, which delivers custom-built adaptive practice sessions based on students' performance.

PACKAGE and SAVE
Package this volume with American Horizons, Fourth Edition, Volume I, at a discount for use in your course. Contact your Oxford Sales Representative at 800.280.0280 to order a package.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780197530894
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 09/15/2020
Edition description: 4th ed.
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 9.10(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Michael Schaller is Regents Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he has taught since 1974. His areas of specialization include U.S. international and East Asian relations and the resurgence of conservatism in late 20th-century America.

Janette Thomas Greenwood is Professor of History at Clark University. She specializes in African American history and history of the U.S. South.

Andrew Kirk is Professor and Chair of History at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He specializes in the history of the U.S. West and environmental history.

Sarah J. Purcell is L. F. Parker Professor of History at Grinnell College. She specializes in the early national period, antebellum United States, popular culture, politics, gender, and military history.

Aaron Sheehan-Dean is the Fred C. Frey Professor at Louisiana State University. He specializes in the antebellum United States and the U.S. Civil War.

Christina Snyder is the McCabe Greer Professor of History at The Pennsylvania State University. She researches colonialism, race, and slavery, with a focus on Native North America from the pre-contact era through the nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

How to Read a Primary Source xi

Preface xiii

Chapter 15 Reconstructing America, 1865 to 1877 129

15.1 Jourdon Anderson, Letter to P. H. Anderson (August 7, 1865) 129

15.2 Visual Document: And Not This Man? 130

15.3 Mississippi Black Codes (1865) 132

15.4 Georges Clemenceau, Excerpt from American Reconstruction, 1865-1870, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (1867) 133

15.5 Testimony of Elias Hill, Ku Klux Klan Hearings (1871) 134

15.6 North Carolina Sharecropping Contract (July 21, 1882) 136

Chapter 16 Forging a Transcontinental Nation, 1877 to 1900 138

16.1 Frank H. Mayer with Charles B. Roth, The Buffalo Harvest 138

16.2 John Wesley Powell, Excerpts from Report on the Lands of the Arid Region (1879) 140

16.3 Southern Workman and Hampton School Record and Edna Dean Proctor, "Columbia's Roll Call" (June 1892) and "The Indians' Appeal" (January 1892) 142

16.4 Visual Document: Reading the Images of Chinese Labor 143

Chapter 17 A New Industrial and Labor Order, 1877 to 1900 145

17.1 Emma E. Brown, Excerpts from "Children's Labor: A Problem" (December 1880) 145

17.2 Andrew Carnegie, "Gospel of Wealth" (June 1889) 147

17.3 Visual Documents: The Pullman Strike: Two Political Cartoons (1894) 149

17.4 Two Views of the Homestead Lockout: Excerpts from The Manufacturer and Builder (August 1892) and New England Magazine (September 1892) 152

Chapter 18 Cities, Immigrants, Culture, and Politics, 1877 to 1900 154

18.1 Competing Visions of the United States and Immigration through Poetry 154

18.2 Visual Document: "The Only One Barred Out," from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (April 1, 1882) 156

18.3 Wiktorya and Antoni Osinski, Excerpts from Letters from Poland to Children Who Migrated to the United States (1902-8) 157

18.4 "Tenement Life in New York" (1879) 159

Chapter 19 The United States Expands Its Reach, 1892 to 1912 161

19.1 Visual Document: "The Rough Riders" (Puck, July 27, 1898) 161

19.2 Excerpts from Andrew Carnegie, "Distant Possessions" (August 1898), and Albert Beveridge, "The March of the Flag" (September 16, 1898) 162

19.3 Visual Document: Untitled Clifford Berryman Cartoon (1899) 166

19.4 Richmond Planet and Wisconsin Weekly Advocate, Excerpts from Letters from African American Soldiers in the Philippines (1899-1900) 167

Chapter 20 An Age of Progressive Reform, 1890 to 1920 170

20.1 Congressman George H. White, Excerpts from Farewell Address to Congress (January 29, 1901) 170

20.2 Visual Documents: Suffrage and Antisuffrage Posters (c. 1915) 173

20.3 Emily P. Bissell, "[A] Talk to Women on the Suffrage Question" (1909) 175

20.4 Eugene V. Debs, Speech in Canton, Ohio (1918) 176

Chapter 21 America and the Great War, 1914 to 1920 179

21.1 Visual Documents: Propaganda Posters (1914-18) 179

21.2 Committee on Public Information, "General Suggestions to Speakers" (May 22, 1917) and "Speech by a Four Minute Man" (October 8, 1917) 180

21.3 Theodore Roosevelt, "The Hun within Our Gates" (1917) 182

21.4 Ho Chi Minn (Nguyen Ai Quoc), Petition to Woodrow Wilson (1919) 183

21.5 W. E. B. DuBois, "Returning Soldiers" (1919) 184

21.6 U.S. Army, Intelligence Test, Alpha (1921) 186

Chapter 22 A New Era, 1920 to 1930 188

22.1 Visual Document: Automobile Advertisement (1920) 188

22.2 Ellison DuRant Smith, Excerpts from "'Shut the Door': A Senator Speaks for Immigration Restriction" (April 9, 1924) 189

22.3 Ku Klux Klan, Excerpts from the Klan Manual (1925) 190

22.4 Charles Merz, "When the Movies Go Abroad," Excerpt (January 1926) 193

Chapter 23 A New Deal for Americans, 1931 to 1939 195

23.1 Visual Document: "Handbill of Veterans March to Washington" (1932) 195

23.2 E. J. Sullivan, "The 1932nd Psalm" (1932) 197

23.3 U.S. Congress, Excerpts from the National Labor Relations Act (1935) 198

23.4 Visual Document: Social Security Board, "Join the March … to Old Age Security" Poster (1936) 199

23.5 Visual Documents: Dorothea Lange, Photographs of Migratory Workers in California (1936-39) 201

23.6 Two Letters (1936) 203

Chapter 24 Arsenal of Democracy: The World at War, 1931 to 1945 205

24.1 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, the Atlantic Charter (1941) 205

24.2 Visual Document: Japanese Attack on Shanghai (1937) 206

24.3 Eleanor Roosevelt, Excerpt from "Race, Religion, and Prejudice" (May 11, 1942) 207

24.4 Visual Document: Women Workers Groom Lines of Transparent Noses for Deadly A-20 Attack Bombers (1942) 209

24.5 A. Philip Randolph, "Why Should We March?" (1943) 210

24.6 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Excerpt from "An Economic Bill of Rights" (January 11, 1944) 212

Chapter 25 Prosperity and Liberty under the Shadow of the Bomb, 1945 to 1952 214

25.1 Exhibiting the Enola Gay 214

25.2 Visual Document: Braceros Entering the U.S. (1942) 217

25.3 Frieda S. Miller, "What's Become of Rosie the Riveter?" (May 5, 1946) 218

25.4 W. E. B. DuBois, Excerpts from "An Appeal to the World" (1947) 221

Chapter 26 The Dynamic 1950s, 1950 to 1959 224

26.1 Billy Graham, Excerpts from a Re-envisioning of Jonathan Edwards's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" for the Cold War Generation (1949) 224

26.2 Visual Documents: March of Dimes Fundraising Poster and Image of Iron Lungs in Gym (1950s) 227

26.3 Dwight D. Eisenhower, Address to Congress on the Interstate Highway System (February 22, 1955) 229

26.4 Kwame Nkrumah, Excerpt from a Speech Delivered to the Council on Foreign Relations (1958) 232

Chapter 27 The Optimism and the Anguish of the 1960s, 1960 to 1969 234

27.1 Ho Chi Minh, Excerpts from Declaration of Independence (1945) 234

27.2 Visual Document: David Levine, "Vietnam: The Turning Point" (May 12, 1966) 236

27.3 Senator Sam Ervin, Comments on Watergate (1973) 237

27.4 Visual Document: Herblock, Nixon Hanging between the Tapes in The Washington Post (May 24, 1974) 238

Chapter 28 The Vietnam Era, 1961 to 1975 239

28.1 Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962) and an Appeal to Students (1964) 239

28.2 Sargent Shriver, "Job Corps Costs" (1965) 241

28.3 Playboy Magazine, "Playboy Interview: Timothy Leary-a Casual Conversation" (1966) 242

28.4 Visual Document: Timothy Leary and Eldridge Cleaver in Algerian Exile (1970) 244

28.5 Visual Document: Associated Press, Black Power Protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics (1968) 245

28.6 Cesar Chavez, Speech at Harvard University (1970) 246

Chapter 29 Conservatism Resurgent, 1973 to 1988 248

29.1 Phyllis Schlafly, "The Power of Positive Women" (1977) 248

29.2 Jimmy Carter, "A Crisis of the American Spirit" (1979) 250

29.3 Jerry Falwell, "Listen, America" (1981) 253

29.4 Ronald Reagan, "Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals" (1983) 256

29.5 Visual Document: Ronbo 258

Chapter 30 After the Cold War, 1988 to 2001 259

30.1 Robert Reich, The Work of Nations (1991) 259

30.2 Joseph Perkins, "Op-ed" (October 21, 1994), and The New York Times, "Why Proposition 187 Won't Work" (November 20, 1994) 264

30.3 Daniel S. Morrow, Interview with Steve Jobs (1995) 266

30.4 President Clinton, Excerpts from "The Era of Big Government Is Over" (January 23, 1996) 268

30.5 The Economist, "The End?" (February 11, 1999) 270

Chapter 31 Twenty-First-Century Dangers and Promises, 2001 to Present 272

31.1 Al-Qaeda, Fatwa against the United States (February 23, 1998) 272

31.2 Kenneth Adelman, "Cakewalk in Iraq" (February 13, 2002) 273

31.3 Justice John Paul Stevens, Excerpts from Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (June 29, 2006) 275

31.4 Pope John Paul II, Robert and Mary Schindler, Judge George Greer, and the Florida Court of Appeals: Opinions on Terri Schiavo and the Right to Die (2000s) 276

31.5 Text of President Obama's Speech in Hiroshima, Japan, May 2016 277

31.6 Excerpts from Donald J. Trump's Inaugural Address (January 20, 2017) 280

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