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| Preface | |
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| A Note to the Student | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Reconstruction | |
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| African Americans and the Impact of Freedom | |
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| Letter from Willie Ann Grey | |
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| Testimony of Mingo White | |
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| Testimony of Charles Davenport | |
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| Elizabeth Hyde Botume, A Northern Teacher's View of the Freedmen (1863-1865) | |
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| The Louisiana Black Code (1865) | |
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| African Americans Seek Protection (1865) | |
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| Thaddeus Stevens Attacks Presidential Reconstruction (1865) | |
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| President Johnson Opposes Black Suffrage (1867) | |
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| A White Planter Responds to Emancipation (1866) | |
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| Howell Cobb, A White Southern Perspective on Reconstruction (1868) | |
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| Equal Rights Association Proceedings (1869) | |
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| Susan B. Anthony on Women's Rights (1873) | |
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| Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction (1872) | |
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| The Rise of Modern America | |
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| Selling to the Masses (1870-1900) | |
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| Frederick Law Olmsted on Urban Life (1870) | |
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| "Bowery, Saturday Night" (1871) | |
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| Dr. John B. Whitaker on Factory Worker Health (1871) | |
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| John D. Rockefeller on the Success of Standard Oil (1899) | |
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| Henry W. Grady, "The New South" (1886) | |
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| Jacob Riis Describes Life in the Tenements (1890) | |
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| John Gast, American Progress (1872) | |
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| Harper's Weekly on the Custer Massacre (1876) | |
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| Chief Joseph's Lament (1879) | |
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| Rules for Indian Boarding Schools (1890) | |
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| Old Americans, New Americans | |
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| On the "Evils" of Chinese Immigration (1878) | |
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| Yan Phou Lee, "The Chinese Must Stay" (1889) | |
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| Grant Hamilton, "Where Is the Blame?" (1891) | |
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| Francis A. Walker Calls for Restriction of Immigration (1896) | |
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| Sadie Frowne, A Polish Sweatshop Girl (1906) | |
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| Florida Jim Crow Laws (1881-1913) | |
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| Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Exposition Address (1895) | |
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| W. E. B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903) | |
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| Protestors and Imperialists | |
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| Anthony Comstock, "The Suppression of Vice" (1882) | |
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| Images of Working-Class Leisure | |
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| Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (1900) | |
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| Terence Powderly on the Knights of Labor (1878, 1889) | |
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| The Chicago Tribune on the Haymarket Affair (1886) | |
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| The Omaha Platform of the Populist Party (1892) | |
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| Albert J. Beveridge Calls for an American Empire (1900) | |
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| Mark Twain, "To the Person Sitting in Darkness" (1901) | |
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| The Progressive Era | |
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| Charles Monroe Sheldon Asks "What Would Jesus Do?" (1897) | |
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| Lincoln Steffens on Urban Political Corruption (1904) | |
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| Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906) | |
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| Gifford Pinchot, The Fight for Conservation (1910) | |
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| Jane Addams on the Fight Against Poverty (1910) | |
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| The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911) | |
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| Margaret Sanger, "Morality and Birth Control" (1918) | |
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| World War I | |
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| Woodrow Wilson, Declaration of War Message (1917) | |
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| Senator George Norris Opposes U.S. Entry into World War I (1917) | |
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| Eugene V. Debs Defends Political Dissent (1918) | |
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| Alice Paul Inspires Her Fellow Suffragists (1917-1918) | |
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| The NAACP Calls for Action (1919) | |
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| Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918) | |
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| Henry Cabot Lodge Opposes the League of Nations (1919) | |
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| The Roaring Twenties | |
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| Marcus Garvey, "Africa for the Africans" (1922) | |
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| Langston Hughes, "I, Too" (1925) | |
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| Consumer Culture in the 1920s | |
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| The Scopes Trial (1925) | |
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| College Students on "Petting" (1925) | |
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| Hiram Evans, "The Klan's Fight for Americanism" (1926) | |
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| Fiorello La Guardia on Prohibition (1926) | |
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| Herbert Hoover, "American Individualism" (1928) | |
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| The Great Depression, The New Deal | |
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| The Depression Hits Philadelphia (1931) | |
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| The Great Depression in Rural America (1932) | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933) | |
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| Huey Long Explains the "Share Our Wealth" Plan (1934) | |
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| Frances Perkins on Social Security (1935) | |
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| The New Deal and the Arts (1935-1939) | |
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| Songs of American Workers | |
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| Grant Wood, American Gothic (1930) | |
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| John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) | |
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| World War II | |
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| Franklin Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms (1941) | |
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| Charles Lindbergh Opposes Intervention (1941) | |
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| Propaganda on the Homefront (1942-1944) | |
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| Sybil Lewis and Adele Erenberg on Defense Work (1942-1945) | |
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| Charles Kikuchi on Life in a Japanese Internment Camp (1942) | |
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| An African-American Soldier Attacks the Paradox of American Democracy (1944) | |
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| Infantryman Bob Slaughter Remembers D-Day (1944) | |
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| Harry S. Truman on Deciding to Use the Atomic Bomb (1955) | |
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| The Early Cold War | |
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| George F. Kennan, "The Long Telegram" (1946) | |
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| Secretary of State George C. Marshall Offers Aid to Europe (1947) | |
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| Walter Lippmann Questions Containment (1947) | |
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| John Howard Lawson Testifies before HUAC (1947) | |
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| Joseph McCarthy on Communists in the U.S. Government (1950) | |
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| The Lavender Scare (1950) | |
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| A Guide for Surviving Nuclear War (1950) | |
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| Postwar America | |
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| A Journalist Describes Levittown (1948) | |
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| Malvina Reynolds, "Little Boxes" (1962) | |
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| The U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down School Segregation (1954) | |
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| The Southern Manifesto (1956) | |
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| Anne Moody Recalls the Lynching of Emmett Till (1968) | |
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| John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958) | |
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| Jackson Pollock, Lavendar Mist: Number 1, 1950 (1950) | |
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| Allen Ginsberg, "Howl" (1956) | |
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| The Tumultuous Sixties | |
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| John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961) | |
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| Young Americans for Freedom, The Sharon Statement (1960) | |
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| Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962) | |
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| Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963) | |
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| No More Miss America (1968) | |
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| Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) | |
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| Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet" (1964) | |
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| Lyndon Johnson Proposes the "Great Society" (1964) | |
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| George Ball and Robert McNamara on U.S. Policy in Vietnam (1965) | |
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| Paul Potter, "The Incredible War" (1965) | |
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| Soldiers Write Home from Vietnam (1967-1970) | |
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| Guy Strait, "What Is a Hippie?" | |
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| Richard Nixon Accepts the Republican Nomination for President (1968) | |
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| The 1970s and 1980s | |
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| Mary Crow Dog Recalls the Siege of Wounded Knee (1973) | |
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| Roe v. Wade (1973) | |
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| Richard Nixon, Resignation Speech (1974) | |
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| Phyllis Schlafly Attacks the Equal Rights Amendment (1977) | |
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| Jerry Falwell on the Moral Majority (1981) | |
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| Lois Gibbs Recalls Life in Love Canal (1978) | |
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| Jimmy Carter on the Nation's "Crisis of Confidence" (1979) | |
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| Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address (1981) | |
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| Larry Kramer, "1,112 and Counting" (1983) | |
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| Mario Cuomo, "A Tale of Two Cities" (1984) | |
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| Ronald Reagan, The "Evil Empire" Speech (1983) | |
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| The Iran-Contra Affair (1987) | |
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| George H. W. Bush Calls for "A New World of Freedom" (1989) | |
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| State of the Union | |
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| Major Rhonda Cornum on the Persian Gulf War (1991) | |
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| Asian Refugees Describe Life in America (1991) | |
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| Bill Clinton Outlines His Agenda (1993) | |
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| The Starr Report (1998) | |
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| The High-Tech Boom (1999) | |
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| The Battle in Seattle (1999) | |
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| George W. Bush Addresses the Nation (2001) | |