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| Reconstruction | |
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| Harsh Versus Lenient Victors | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Reconstruction Must Be Gradual and Careful (1865) | |
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| Andrew Johnson, Amnesty Proclamation (1865) | |
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| Thaddeus Stevens, We Must Have a Radical Reconstruction (1865) | |
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| The White South Responds | |
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| Mississippi Black Code (1865) | |
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| James W. Hunnicutt, Johnson's Policies Criticized (1866) | |
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| White People Must Regain Control of Their States (1868) | |
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| Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan (1874) | |
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| The Black Response | |
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| Frederick Douglass, What the Black Man Wants (1865) | |
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| The Ex-Slaves Should Have Land (1868) | |
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| The Ex-Slaves Crave Education (1866) | |
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| An Appeal for Protection from the KKK (1871) | |
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| Industrial Growth and the Last Frontier | |
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| The Industrial Status Quo Defended | |
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| Andrew Carnegie, Wealth (1889) | |
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| Rutherford B. Hayes on Concentrated Wealth (1886) | |
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| The Industrial Worker | |
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| Report on Illinois Sweatshops (1893) | |
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| Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus (1886) | |
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| Labor Unrest | |
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| Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1889) | |
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| Henry Demarest Lloyd, the Railroad Strike of 1877 (1881) | |
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| The Cities Acclaimed | |
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| Frederic C. Howe,The Hope of Democracy (1905) | |
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| The Cities Deplored | |
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| Charles Loring Brace, The Dangerous Classes of New York (1872) | |
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| Songs of New York | |
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| The Bowery | |
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| Sidewalks of New York | |
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| City Government | |
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| William L. Riordan, Strenuous Life of the Tammany District Leader (1905) | |
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| The Final Frontier | |
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| Settling the Final Frontier | |
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| Hamilton S. Wicks, The Great Race for Land (1889) | |
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| Agrarian Hardship | |
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| Washington Gladden, Embattled Farmers (1890) | |
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| The Preamble of the Platform of the People's Party (1892) | |
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| The Buffalo Destroyed | |
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| W. Skelton Glenn, the Destruction of the Plains Buffalo (1876���1877) | |
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| Native Americans | |
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| Sitting Bull Tells How He Defeated Custer (1877) | |
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| Chester A. Arthur,The Indians Must Be Assimilated (1881) | |
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| Outward Thrust | |
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| Racial Destiny | |
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| Josiah Strong, Why the Anglo-Saxons Will Triumph (1885) | |
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| Race and Power | |
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| W.E.B. Du Bois, the Souls of Black Folk (1903) | |
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| Manhood and Imperialism | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt, Manhood and Foreign Policy(1899) | |
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| Trade and Markets | |
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| Albert Beveridge, Why We Must Keep the Philippines (1900) | |
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| The Anti-Imperialists | |
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| Charles Eliot Norton on American Ideals (1899) | |
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| MorrisonI. Swift views Imperialism as a Threat to Liberty (1899) | |
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| The Progressive Impulse | |
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| The Danger of Concentrated Wealth | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt, Republican Anti-Trust (1912) | |
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| Woodrow Wilson, Democratic Anti-Trust (1913) | |
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| The "Monopolists" Respond: John D. Rockefeller Defends Standard Oil (1899) | |
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| Conservation and Efficiency | |
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| Conservation Statement (1908) | |
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| John Muir, Hetch Hetchy (1912) | |
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| Social Justice Progressivism | |
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| Jane Addams, HullHouse, Chicago: An Effort toward Social Democracy (1892) | |
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| The Social Creed of the Churches Statement Adopted by the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1908) | |
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| Race and Ethnicity | |
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| The Great Migration: the Dark Side | |
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| Ray Stannard Baker, What Is a Lynching? A Study of Mob Justice, South and North (1905) | |
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| Fannie Barrier Williams, Social Bonds in the "Black Belt" of Chicago: Negro Organizations and | |
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| The New Spirit Pervading Them (1919) | |
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| Chicago Commission on Race Relations: Causes of the Race Riot (1919) | |
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| The Ku Klux Klan | |
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| Statements from the Ku Klux Klan (1924) | |
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| Black Americans Respond | |
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| W.E.B. Du Bois, What Black Americans Want (1905) | |
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| Marcus Garvey, Black Pride (1923) | |
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| The New Immigration and American Toleration | |
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| Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race (1916) | |
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| Mary Antin, The Promised Land (1912) | |
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| World War I | |
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| The Submarine Dimension | |
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| William Jennings Bryan, Protesting Unrestricted U-Boat Warfare (1915) | |
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| Gottlieb Von Jagow, The Germans Defend Their Submarine Policy (1915) | |
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| Voices for Intervention | |
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| Ambassador James Bryce, British Report on German Atrocities in Belgium (1915) | |
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| Robert Lansing, GermanyMust Not Be Allowed to Win the War (1915) | |
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| Robert Lansing, Lending the Allies Money (1915) | |
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| Opponents of Intervention | |
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| Socialist Party Convention: the Socialists Protest the War (1917) | |
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| Robert La Follette, A Progressive Opposes the Declaration of War (1917) | |
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| Making the World Safe for Democracy | |
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| Wilson's War Address (1917) | |
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| Nativist Hysteria Challenges Democracy at Home (1925) | |
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| Idealism and Disillusionment | |
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| The Fourteen Points: Wilson's Address to Congress (1918) | |
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| The Defeat of the League of Nations (1920) | |
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| Women's Issues, 1900���1940 | |
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| Voting Rights | |
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| Carrie Chapman Catt, Address to National American Women Suffrage Association (1902) | |
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| The Right to Work | |
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| Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898) | |
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| Reproductive Rights | |
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| Margaret Sanger, My Fight for Birth Control (1931) | |
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| Let Us All Speak Our Minds (c. 1926) | |
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| The New Deal | |
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| Roosevelt Explains His Policies | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself (1933) | |
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| Harry Hopkins and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (1934) | |
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| John Maynard Keyes Makes Public Recommendations (1934) | |
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| The New Deal and the "Common Man" | |
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| "Saint Roosevelt" (1934, 1936) | |
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| Attack from the Right | |
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| Herbert Hoover, Government Must Not Limit Free Enterprise (1928) | |
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| Thunder from the Left | |
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| The Communist Party: the New Deal Means Fascism and War (1934) | |
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| World War II | |
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| Isolationism | |
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| Bennett Champ Clark, The Experience of the Last War Should Guide Us Today (1935) | |
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| Robert Taft, Let Us Retain the Neutrality Acts (1939) | |
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| Interventionists | |
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| Henry L. Stimson, Repeal the Arms Embargo (1936) | |
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| America First Versus Aid to Britain | |
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| James B. Conant, We Must Aid the Allies (1940) | |
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| Burton K. Wheeler, Lend-Lease Will Lead to War(1941) | |
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| Undeclared War | |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The German Menace (1941) | |
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| A New American Internationalism | |
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| Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" Speech (1941) | |
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| Franklin Roosevelt, The Atlantic Charter (1941) | |
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| Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) | |
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| The Cold War | |
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| The Soviet Menace, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and Massive Retaliation | |
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| Winston Churchill, The Iron Curtain (1946) | |
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| X" [George Kennan],The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947) | |
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| Harry S Truman,Aid to Greece and Turkey (1947) | |
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| George Marshall,We Must Help Europe Recover (1947) | |
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| Secretary Dulles' Strategy of Massive Retaliation (1954) | |
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| A Military-Industrial Complex? Economic Aspects of the Cold War | |
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| Paul M. Sweezy, The Marshall Plan, An Instrument of Peace? (1949) | |
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| Richard M. Nixon, What Freedom Means to Us: American People Are Peace-Loving People (1959) | |
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| The Red Scare | |
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| Joseph R. McCarthy, Why Communism Is Gaining (1950) | |
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| McCarran Internal Security Act (1950) | |
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| Millard Tydings Committee, McCarthy's Charges Are False (1950) | |
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| The Civil Rights Revolution | |
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| School Desegregation | |
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| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) | |
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| John F. Kennedy, A Moral Imperative: Equality of Treatment (1963) | |
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| White Citizens' Councils, How Can We Educate Our Children? (1965) | |
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| Christian Love versus Racial Anger | |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference, This is SCLC (1964) | |
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| Songs of the Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Keep Your Eyes on the Prize | |
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| Woke Up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom | |
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| Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around | |
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| This Little Light of Mine | |
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| Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, We Want Black Power (1967) | |
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| The Great Society | |
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| Defenders | |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson, The Great Society (1964) | |
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| The Attack from the Right | |
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| Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) | |
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| The Attack from the Left | |
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| Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962) | |
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| Pamphlet of Columbia University Students (1968) | |
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| The New Feminism | |
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| The National Organization for Women's Bill of Rights | |
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| National Organization for Women, Bill of Rights (1967) | |
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| Radical Feminism | |
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| Anne Koedt, Politics of the Ego: A Manifesto for New York Radical Feminists (1969) | |
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| Radical Women (Organization), No More Miss America! (1968) | |
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| The Counterattack | |
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| Alice Skelsey, Mrs. Homemaker���Mrs. Wonderful: the New Myths from Women's Lib (1972) | |
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| The Vietnam War | |
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| The Hawk Position | |
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Domino Theory (1954) | |
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| The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) | |
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| The "White Paper" (1965) | |
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| The North Vietnamese Analyze American Intervention | |
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| Le Duan, The North Vietnamese Analyze American Intervention (1965) | |
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| The Antiwar Movement Strikes Back | |
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| Vietnam Day Committee, Attention All Military Personnel (1965) | |
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| Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee,The U.S. Government Has Deceived Us (1966) | |
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| Declaration of Conscience against the War in Vietnam (1965) | |
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| American Deserters' Committee, Deserters' Proclamation (1968) | |
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| Watergate | |
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| The Tapes | |
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| Richard Nixon, The Smoking Gun (1972) | |
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| Nixon Defends Himself | |
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| Richard M. Nixon, I Did Not Know About Watergate (1973) | |
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| The Vote for Impeachment | |
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| House Judiciary Committee, Impeachment Articles (1974) | |
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| Jimmy Carter: Energy and the Crisis of Confidence | |
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| Jimmy Carter and the Crisis of Confidence (1979) | |
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| Dick Cheney, We Must Increase Domestic Production from Known Sources of Oil (2001) | |
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| The Reagan Revolution and Conservative Ascendancy | |
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| Ronald Reagan's Boundless Optimism | |
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| Ronald Reagan's Vision of Freedom (1988) | |
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| The New Right | |
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| Richard Viguerie, The New Right: We're Ready to Lead (1980) | |
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| Jude Wanniski, Taxes, Revenues, and the "Laffer Curve" (1978) | |
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| The Liberals Hit Back | |
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| Robert L. Heilbroner, The Demand for the Supply-Side (1982) | |
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| Robert McAfee Brown, The Need for a Moral Minority (1982) | |
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| The War on Terror | |
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| America's Response to Terror | |
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| Address by George W. Bush, President of the United States (2001) | |
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| Senate Joint Resolution 23 (2001) | |
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| President George W. Bush, Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended: THOSE IN DARKNESS MAY BE FREE (2003) | |
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| Donald Rumsfeld, What We Learned from the War: TRANSFORMATION TAKES MONEY (2003) | |
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| The 9/11 Commission Report: Planning for War (2004) | |
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| The Torture of Prisoners | |
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| General Protection of Prisoners of War (1949) | |
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| Alberto Gonzales, Memorandum to President Bush on Treatment of Prisoners (2002) | |