Voices of the American Past: Documents in U.S. History, Volume II / Edition 4

15. RECONSTRUCTION. A NORTHERN TEACHER'S VIEW OF THE FREEDMEN (1863-65): Elizabeth Hyde Botume, "First Days Amongst the Contrabands". CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE CIVIL WAR (1865): Sidney Andrews, "The South Since the War". AFRICAN-AMERICANS SEEK PROTECTION (1865): "The Late Convention of Colored Men". THADDEUS STEVENS ON RECONSTRUCTION AND THE SOUTH (1865): "Reconstruction". A WHITE SOUTHERN PERSPECTIVE ON RECONSTRUCTION (1868): Howell Cobb to J.D. Hoover, 4 January 1868. THE KU KLUX KLAN DURING RECONSTRUCTION (1872): U.S. Congress, Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. AN AFRICAN AMERICAN CONGRESSMAN CALLS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS (1874): Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, 1st Session, Volume 2, January 6, 1874. THE SITUATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE SOUTH (1879): "The Flight of the Negroes". 16. THE WEST. THE MINING FRONTIER (1863): Nathaniel P. Langford, "Vigilante Days and Ways: The Pioneers of the Rockies". A NATIVE AMERICAN REMEMBERS LIFE ON THE GREAT PLAINS (1870s): Joseph K. Dixon, "Mountain Chief," The Vanishing Race: The Last Great Indian Council. A CENTURY OF DISHONOR (1881): Helen Hunt Jackson, "A Century of Dishonor". A WESTERN NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL ON THE CUSTER MASSACRE (1876): "Extermination the Only Remedy". CULTURAL EXCHANGE ON THE ARIZONA FRONTIER (1874): Martha Summerhayes, "Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman". A NATIVE AMERICAN REMEMBERS THE GHOST DANCE(1890): Hamlin Garland, "Rising Wolf—Ghost Dancer". LIFE ON THE PRAIRIE FARMS (1893): E. V. Smalley, "The Isolation of Life on Prairie Farms". "THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY" (1893): Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History". THE CATTLE INDUSTRY (1884): G. Pomeroy Keese, "Beef, from the Range to the Shambles". 17. GILDED AGE AMERICA. THE IMPACT OF MECHANIZATION (1889): David A. Wells, "Recent Economic Changes". PROGRESS AND POVERTY (1879): Henry George, "Progress and Poverty". "THE FORGOTTEN MAN" (1883): William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man and Other Essays,". THE GOSPEL OF WEALTH (1889): Andrew Carnegie, "Wealth". PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR (1878): Terrence V. Powderly, "Thirty Years of Labor". LYNCHING IN THE SOUTH (1895): Ida B. Wells-Barnett, "A Red Record". W.E.B. DU BOIS ON RACE RELATIONS (1903): W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Souls of Black Folk". THE UNWANTED IMMIGRANTS: THE CHINESE (1878): California, Senate, Special Committee on Chinese Immigration, "An Address to the American People of the United States upon the Evils of Chinese Immigration". "THE STORY OF A SWEATSHOP GIRL" (1902): "The Story of a Sweatshop Girl". A WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE ON WOMEN AND THE ECONOMY (1898): Charlotte Perkins Stetson, "Women and Economics". 18. THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT. AN INSIDER'S VIEW OF HULL HOUSE: Hilda Satt Polacheck, "I Came A Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl". BOSS GOVERNMENT AT WORK (1903): Lincoln Steffens," Shame of the Cities". "THE AMERICAN FORESTS" (1901): John Muir, "The American Forests". THE JUNGLE (1906): Upton Sinclair, "The Jungle". THE SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE (1908): "The Socialist Spirit". THE NEW NATIONALISM OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT (1912): "Roosevelt Would Give People Right to Recall Judges' Decisions: Favors Initiative and Referendum, Carefully Safeguarded". "A PROGRESSIVE ILLUSION" (1912): "A Progressive Illusion". "WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE" (1910): Jane Addams, "Why Women Should Vote". 19. AMERICA ON THE WORLD STAGE. THE SINKING OF THE MAINE (1898): "Enforce Peace in Cuba". AQUINALDO'S CALL FOR PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE (1899): "Pleas for Independence". AN ANTI-IMPERIALIST PERSPECTIVE (1899): "Acquisition of Territory". THE NEW MANIFEST DESTINY (1900): "Policy Regarding the Philippines," Congressional Record, 56th Congress, 1st Session, (9 January 1900). "A COLOMBIAN VIEW OF THE PANAMA CANAL QUESTION" (1903): Raul Perez, "A Colombian View of the Panama Canal Question," The North American Review 177 (July 1903). ROOSEVELT COROLLARY TO THE MONROE DOCTRINE (1904): "Theodore Roosevelt, Fourth Annual Message". WOODROW WILSON'S DECLARATION OF WAR MESSAGE (1917): "Address by the President of the United States," Congressional Record, 65th Congress, 1st session, (2 April 1917). A SOLDIER'S VIEW OF THE WAR (1918): Captain Arthur P. Terry, Diary, August-September 1918. OPPOSITION TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS (1919): "League of Nations," Congressional Record, 66th Congress, 1st session, part 4, (12 August 1919). THE RED SCARE (1920): Frederick R. Barkley, "Jailing Radicals in Detroit," The Nation 110 (31 January 1920). 20. THE RETURN TO "NORMALCY". A SPEECH AGAINST IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION (1921): Congressional Record, 67h Congress, 1st Session, (21 April 1921). THE ROLE OF ADVERTISING (1922): Roger C. Hoyt, "A Plain Talk on Advertising," The Outlook 132 (20 September 1922). THE IMPACT OF THE AUTOMOBILE (1922): Allen D. Albert, "The Social Influence of the Automobile," Scribner's Magazine 71 (1922). THE NEW NEGRO (1925): Alain Locke, ed., The New Negro: An Interpretation (New York,1925). RELIGION AND THE SCOPES TRIAL (1925): William Jennings Bryan and Mary Baird Bryan, The Memoirs of Williams Jennings Bryan (Chicago, 1925). THE KU KLUX KLAN'S PERSPECTIVE (1926): Hiram Wesley Evans, "The Klan's Fight for Americanism," North American Review 223 (March-April-May, 1926). THE NEW WOMAN (1927): Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, "Feminist — New Style," Harper's Monthly Magazine 155 (October 1927). AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM (1928): "Text of Hoover's Speech on Relation of Government to Industry," The New York Times, 23 October 1928. 21. FDR AND THE NEW DEAL. URBAN FAMILIES IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION (1931): "Statement of Miss Dorothy Kahn". FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS (1933): Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933". THE "SHARE OUR WEALTH" PLAN (1933): Huey P. Long, "Everyman A King: The Autobiography of Huey P. Long". A BUSINESSMAN'S VIEW OF THE NEW DEAL (1934): William Lloyd Garrison, Jr., "The Hand of Providence". THE "DUST BOWL" (1935): "Dust and the Nation's 'Bread-Basket'". THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (1937): Odette Keun, "A Foreigner Looks at the TVA". FRANCES PERKINS ENDORSES THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT (1935): Frances Perkins, "The Social Security Act". AN AFRICAN AMERICAN EVALUATION OF THE NEW DEAL (1940): "The Roosevelt Record". THE NEW DEAL IN REVIEW (1940): "The New Deal in Review". 22. ISOLATIONISM AND WORLD WAR II. THE FOUR FREEDOMS (1941): Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 1941. ISOLATION FROM THE EUROPEAN WAR (1941): Charles Lindbergh, "We Cannot Win This War for England". ROOSEVELT'S DECLARATION OF WAR MESSAGE (1941): "The President's Message". LIFE IN A JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMP (1942): Ted Nakashima, "Concentration Camp: U. S. Style". WOMEN IN THE HOMEFRONT WAR EFFORT (1942): Ruth Matthews and Betty Hannah, "This Changing World for Women". AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE MILITARY (1944): Lucille B. Milner, "Jim Crow in the Army". TRUMAN'S DECISION TO DROP THE BOMB (1945): Harry S Truman, "Memoirs: Years of Decisions". REMEMBERING THE HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BLAST (1945): Hiroko Nakamoto, as told to Mildred Mastin Pace, "My Japan". 23. POST-WAR AMERICA. "CONTAINMENT" (1946): Department of State, "Foreign Relations of the United States". NSC-68, A BLUEPRINT FOR THE COLD WAR (1950): "Foreign Relations of the United States". COMMUNISTS IN THE GOVERNMENT (1950): "Communists in Government Service". GOVERNOR HERMAN TALMADGE'S STATEMENT ON THE BROWN DECISION (1954): "Talmadge Text". AFRICAN AMERICAN EDITORIAL ON LITTLE ROCK INTEGRATION (1957): "Salute to the President". SUBURBANIZATION; LEVITTOWN, NEW YORK (1950): "Up From the Potato Fields". DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER'S FAREWELL ADDRESS (1961): "Farewell Radio and Television Address to the American People". POVERTY IN THE AGE OF AFFULENCE (1962): Michael Harrington, "The Other America". "THE PROBLEM THAT HAS NO NAME" (1963): Betty Friedan, "The Feminine Mystique". 24. THE TURBULENT SIXTIES. SILENT SPRING (1962): Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring". "LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL" (1963): Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait (New York, 1964), 77-100. MALCOLM X ON RACE RELATIONS (1965): "Speech to New York Meeting". BARRY GOLDWATER'S SPEECH AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION (1964): The Republican National Convention: Acceptance Address by Barry Goldwater, Senator. LYNDON JOHNSON ON THE GREAT SOCIETY (1965): Remarks at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1964. SDS CALL FOR A MARCH ON WASHINGTON (1965): "SDS Call for a March on Washington". "I MADE PROMISES TO DEAD PEOPLE" (1967-68): Jack McCloskey, "I Made Promises to Dead People". A REPORT ON RACIAL VIOLENCE IN THE CITIES (1968): National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. CESAR CHAVEZ AND LA CAUSA: Cesar Chavez, "Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa". 25. THE RISING CONSERVATIVE TIDE. SOARING ENERGY COSTS (1974): "Energy: How High is Up?". A MIGRATION TO THE "SUNBELT" (1976): "Americans on the Move". SAM ERVIN ON THE WATERGATE CRISIS (1974): The Final Report of the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN (1977): Phyllis Schlafly, "The Power of the Positive Woman". THE QUESTION OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION (1978): "A Well Balanced Bakke Decision". IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS (1979-81): "Iran's Seizure of the United States Embassy". THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT'S CALL TO ACTION (1980): Jerry Falwell, "Listen America!". THE REAGAN REVOLUTION (1981): Ronald Reagan, "Inaugural Address". REAGAN'S EVIL EMPIRE SPEECH (1983): Ronald Reagan, "Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida". "A NEW WORLD ORDER" (1991): George Bush, "The Challenge of Building Peace". 26. SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN RECENT TIMES. A PERSPECTIVE ON AIDS (1987): David C. Jones, "Perspective on AIDS: Ethical, Socioeconomic and Political Aspects". A VIEW ON HISPANIC ASSIMILATION (1991): Linda Chavez, Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation". "DR. WEN HO LEE AS THE MODEL MINORITY FOR THE 21st CENTURY" (2002): Ling-Chi Wang, "Dr. Wen Ho Lee as the Model Minority of the 21st Century". BILL GATES AND MICROSOFT (1998): Competition, Innovation, and Public Policy in the Digital Age: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, "Prepared Statement of Bill Gates". THE CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS OF AMERICA (1999): Thomas G. Dolan, "Demographics and Destiny: A New Chapter in the Story of the Generations". CONSUMER CHOICE IN AUTOMOBILES AND ITS IMPACT (2000): Keith Bradsher, "High and Mighty: SUVs — The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way". THE ISSUE OF GAY MARRIAGE (2003): Ramesh Ponnuru, "Coming Out Ahead: Why Gay Marriage is on the Way". 27. OUR TIMES. BILL CLINTON ON WELFARE REFORM (1999): Bill Clinton, "Remarks by the President at the National Forum on Welfare to Work". GEORGE W. BUSH RESPONDS TO THE TERRORIST ATTACKS (2001): "Address of George W. Bush, President of the United States, Delivered to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, Washington, D.C., September 20, 2001". A RESPONSE TO THE USA-PATRIOT ACT (2001): Anthony D. Romero, "In Defense of Liberty". THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD (2003): Fareed Zakaria, "The Arrogant Empire". A PERSPECTIVE ON LIMITING IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES (2006): Congressional Record. STEM CELL RESEARCH (2006): Nancy Gibbs, "Stem Cells: The Hope and the Hype". THE WAR IN IRAQ (2006): Aparisim Ghosh, "Life in Hell".