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| Preface for Instructors | |
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| Introduction for Students | |
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| Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | |
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| Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South | |
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| Report on the Condition of the South, 1865 | |
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| Black Codes Enacted in the South | |
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| Mississippi Black Code, November 1865 | |
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| Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families | |
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| Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865-1870 | |
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| A Black Convention in Alabama | |
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| Address of the Colored Convention to the People of Alabama, 1867 | |
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| Klan Violence against Blacks | |
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| Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The Contested West, 1870-1900 | |
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| Pun Chi Appeals to Congress in Behalf of Chinese Immigrants in California | |
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| A Remonstrance from the Chinese in California, ca. 1870 | |
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| Swedish Immigrants on the Kansas Prairie | |
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| Ida Lindgren, Letters, 1870-1874 | |
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| Texas Rangers on the Mexican Border | |
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| N. A. Jennings, A Texas Ranger, 1875 | |
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| In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat Describes White Encroachment | |
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| Chief Joseph, Speech to a White Audience, 1879 | |
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| A Plea to "Citizenize" Indians | |
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| Richard Pratt, "Kill the Indian ... and save the man," 1892 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Business and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1895 | |
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| Jay Gould on Capital and Labor | |
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| Testimony before the U.S. Senate, 1883 | |
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| William Graham Sumner on Social Obligations | |
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| What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 1883 | |
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| Henry Demarest Lloyd Attacks Monopolies | |
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| Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894 | |
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| Andrew Carnegie Explains the Gospel of Wealth | |
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| Wealth, 1889 | |
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| Henry George Explains Why Poverty Is a Crime | |
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| An Analysis of the Crime of Poverty, 1885 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The City and its Workers, 1870-1900 | |
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| A Textile Worker Explains the Labor Market | |
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| Thomas O'Donnell, Testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee, 1885 | |
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| Domestic Servants on Household Work | |
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| Interviews with Journalist Helen Campbell, 1880s | |
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| Jacob Riis Describes Abandoned Babies in New York City's Slums | |
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| Waifs of New York City's Slums, 1890 | |
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| Labor Contractors and Italian Immigrants | |
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| S. Merlino, Italian Immigrants and Their Enslavement, 1893 | |
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| George Washington Plunkitt Explains Politics | |
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| William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, 1905 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Dissent, Depression, and War, 1890-1900 | |
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| Addressing the Crisis in Rural America | |
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| Populist Party Platform, July 4, 1892 | |
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| White Supremacy in Wilmington, North Carolina | |
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| Gunner Jesse Blake, Narrative of the Wilmington "Rebellion" of 1898 | |
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| Pinkertons Defeated at Homestead | |
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| Pinkerton Guard Testimony, 1893 | |
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| Conflicting Views about Labor Unions | |
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| N. F. Thompson, Testimony before the Industrial Commission on the Relations and Conditions of Capital and Labor, 1900 | |
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| Samuel Gompers, Letter to the American Federationist, 1894 | |
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| Emilio Aguinaldo Criticizes American Imperialism in the Philippines | |
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| Case against the United States, 1899 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Progressivism from the Grass Roots to the White House, 1890-1916 | |
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| Jane Addams on Settlement Houses | |
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| The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements, 1892 | |
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| A Sociologist Studies Working-Class Saloons in Chicago | |
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| Royal Melendy, Ethical Substitutes for the Saloon, 1900 | |
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| John D. Rockefeller Jr. Explains "The Best Thing for Us All" | |
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| Speech to Colorado Fuel and Iron Officials and Employee Representatives, October 2, 1915 | |
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| Mother Jones on the Futility of Class Harmony | |
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| Letter to Mrs. Potter Palmer, January 12, 1907 | |
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| Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation | |
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| The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895 | |
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| W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality | |
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| Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| World War I: The Progressive Crusade at Home and Abroad, 1914-1920 | |
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| President Woodrow Wilson Asks Congress for a Declaration of War | |
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| Speech to Congress, April 2, 1917 | |
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| Eugene V. Debs Attacks Capitalist Warmongers | |
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| Speech Delivered in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918 | |
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| A Doughboy's Letter from the Front | |
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| Anonymous Soldier, Letter to Elmer J. Sutters, 1918 | |
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| Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Defends America from Communists | |
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| The Case against the "Reds," 1920 | |
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| An African American Responds to the Chicago Race Riot | |
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| Stanley B. Norvell, Letter to Victor F. Lawson, 1919 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| From New Era to Great Depression, 1920-1932 | |
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| President Calvin Coolidge on Government and Business | |
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| Address before the New York Chamber of Commerce, November 19, 1925 | |
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| Reinhold Niebuhr on Christianity in Detroit | |
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| Diary Entries, 1925-1928 | |
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| The Ku Klux Klan Defends Americanism | |
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| Hiram W. Evans, The Klan's Fight for Americanism, 1926 | |
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| Mothers Seek Freedom from Unwanted Pregnancies | |
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| Margaret Sanger, Motherhood in Bondage, 1928 | |
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| Marcus Garvey Explains the Goals of the Universal Negro Improvement Association | |
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| The Negro's Greatest Enemy, 1923 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The New Deal Experiment, 1932-1939 | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt Proposes an Activist Government | |
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| Speech to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, 1932 | |
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| Working People's Letters to New Dealers | |
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| Letter to Frances Perkins, January 27, 1935 | |
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| Letter to Frances Perkins, March 29, 1935 | |
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| Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 23, 1936 | |
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| Letter to Frances Perkins, July 27, 1937 | |
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| Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 27, 1939 | |
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| Huey Long Proposes Redistribution of Wealth | |
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| Speech to Members of the Share Our Wealth Society, 1935 | |
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| A Mexican American Farmworker Describes the Importance of Sticking Together | |
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| Jose Flores, Interview, Farm Security Administration Migrant Labor Camp, El Rio, California, 1941 | |
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| Conservatives Criticize the New Deal | |
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| Herbert Hoover, Anti-New Deal Campaign Speech, 1936 | |
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| Minnie Hardin, Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, December 14, 1937 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The United States and the Second World War, 1939-1945 | |
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| President Franklin D. Roosevelt Requests Declaration of War on Japan | |
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| Speech to Congress, December 8, 1941 | |
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| A Japanese American War Hero Recalls Pearl Harbor | |
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| Grant Hirabayashi, Oral History, 1999 | |
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| The Holocaust: A Journalist Reports on Nazi Massacres of Jews | |
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| Varian Fry, The Massacre of the Jews, December 21, 1942 | |
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| Soldiers Send Messages Home | |
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| Sergeant Irving Strobing, Radio Address from Corregidor, Philippines, May 5 or 6, 1942 | |
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| John Conroy, Letter, December 24, 1942 | |
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| Allen Spach, Letter, February 1943 | |
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| James McMahon, Letter, March 10, 1944 | |
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| David Mark Olds, Letter, July 12, 1945 | |
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| The War between the Sexes | |
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| Willard Waller, The Coming War on Women, 1945 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Cold War Politics in the Truman Years, 1945-1953 | |
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| General Marshall Summarizes the Lessons of World War II | |
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| For the Common Defense, 1945 | |
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| George F. Kennan Outlines Containment | |
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| The Long Telegram, February 22, 1946 | |
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| Cold War Blueprint | |
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| NSC-68: U.S. Objectives and Programs for National Security, 1950 | |
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| Senator Joseph McCarthy Hunts Communists | |
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| Speech Delivered in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950 | |
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| A South Korean Soldier Remembers the Korean War | |
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| Hong An, Interview, 1997 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The Politics and Culture of Abundance, 1952-1960 | |
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| Edith M. Stern Attacks the Domestic Bondage of Women | |
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| Women Are Household Slaves, 1949 | |
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| Vance Packard Analyzes the Age of Affluence | |
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| The Status Seekers, 1959 | |
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| Rosa Parks Says "No": A Memoir | |
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| My Story, 1992 | |
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| Civil Defense in the Nuclear Shadow | |
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| North Dakota Civil Defense Agency, How You Will Survive, 1960 | |
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| President Dwight D. Eisenhower Warns about the Military-Industrial Complex | |
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| Farewell Address, January 1961 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Reform, Rebellion, and Reaction, 1960-1974 | |
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| President Lyndon B. Johnson Describes the Great Society | |
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| Address at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1964 | |
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| New Left Students Seek Democratic Social Change | |
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| Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement, 1962 | |
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| Martin Luther King Jr. Explains Nonviolent Resistance | |
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| Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963 | |
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| Black Power | |
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| Chicago Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Leaflet, 1967 | |
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| Equal Rights for Women | |
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| National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose, October 29, 1966 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Vietnam and the Limits of Power, 1961-1975 | |
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| President Kennedy Explains Why We Are in Vietnam | |
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| Bobbie Lou Pendergrass, Letter to President John F. Kennedy, February 18, 1963 | |
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| President John F. Kennedy, Letter to Bobbie Lou Pendergrass, March 6, 1963 | |
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| A Secret Government Assessment of the Vietnam War | |
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| Robert S. McNamara, Actions Recommended for Vietnam, October 14, 1966 | |
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| Military Discipline in an Unpopular War | |
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| Robert D. Heinl Jr., The Collapse of the Armed Forces, June 7, 1971 | |
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| An American Soldier in Vietnam | |
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| Arthur E. Woodley Jr., Oral History of a Special Forces Ranger | |
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| A Vietcong Guerrilla Describes Tunnel Warfare | |
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| Tran Thi Gung, Interview, ca. 1998 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| America Moves to the Right, 1969-1989 | |
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| George Wallace Campaigns for President | |
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| American Independent Party Platform, 1968 | |
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| The Watergate Tapes: Nixon, Dean, and Haldeman Discuss the Cancer within the Presidency | |
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| Transcript from Tape-Recorded Meeting, March 21, 1973 | |
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| Roe v. Wade and Abortion Rights | |
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| Supreme Court Decision, 1973 | |
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| President Ronald Reagan Defends American Morality | |
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| Address to the National Association of American Evangelicals, 1983 | |
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| A Vietnamese Immigrant on the West Coast | |
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| Anonymous Man, Oral History, 1983 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The End of the Cold War and the Challenges of Globalization, Since 1989 | |
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| Supreme Court Dissents from Deciding 2000 Presidential Election | |
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| Supreme Court Dissents in George W. Bush v. Albert Gore Jr., December 12, 2000 | |
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| President George W. Bush Receives CIA Warning about Al Qaeda and Addresses Congress after 9/11 Terrorist Attacks | |
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| President's Daily Brief, Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S., August 6, 2001 | |
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| President George W. Bush, Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, September 20, 2001 | |
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| National Security of the United States Requires Preemptive War | |
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| The National Security Strategy of the United States, September 2002 | |
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| A Captured 9/11 Terrorist Confesses | |
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| Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Confession, 2007 | |
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| A Christian Leader Argues That Evangelical Christianity Has Been Hijacked | |
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| Tony Campolo, Interview, 2004 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |