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| The Emergence of an Urban, Industrial Society, 1865-1920 | |
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| Reconstruction: Triumphs and Tragedies | |
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| Essay | |
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| Mark Andrew Huddle, "To Educate a Race" | |
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| Documents | |
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| A Letter "To My Old Master," c. 1865 | |
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| The Knights of the White Camelia, 1868 | |
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| "We Are Literally Slaves," 1912 | |
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| The Last Frontier | |
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| Essay | |
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| Jack Chen, "Linking a Continent and a Nation" | |
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| Documents | |
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| California Must Be All American, 1878 | |
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| Homesteading in South | |
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| Dakota in the 1880s, 1930 | |
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| A Montana Cowtown, 1899 | |
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| Indian Schools: "Americanizing" the Native American | |
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| Essay | |
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| Robert A. Trennert, "Educating Indian Girls at Nonreservation Boarding Schools, 1878-1920" | |
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| Documents | |
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| Rules for Indian Schools, 1890 | |
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| A Government Official Describes Indian Race and Culture, 1905 | |
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| The Cutting of My Long Hair, c. 1885 | |
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| Immigrant Life and Labor in an Expanding Economy | |
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| Essay | |
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| Robert Zeidel, "An Immigrant's Anguish: The Americanization of Johanes Johansen" | |
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| Documents | |
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| Struggles of an Irish Immigrant, c. 1913 | |
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| An Italian Bootblack's Story, 1902 | |
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| A Bintel Brief, 1907 | |
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| Women's Sphere: Women's Work | |
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| Essay | |
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| Daniel Sidorick, "The "Girl Army" and the Philadelphia Shirtwaist Strike, 1909-1910 (2004)" | |
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| Documents | |
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| Only Heroic Women Were Doctors Then (1865), 1916 | |
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| Women's Separate Sphere, 1872 | |
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| Employments Unsuitable for Women, 1901 | |
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| The Triumph of Racism | |
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| Essay | |
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| Keith Weldon Medley, "The Birth of "Separate but Equal"" | |
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| Documents | |
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| Senator Benjamin Tillman Defends Disfranchisement and Lynching of African Americans, 1900 | |
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| George H. White's Farewell Speech to Congress, 1901 | |
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| A Call for Equality, 1905 | |
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| America Goes to War | |
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| Essay | |
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| Meirion and Susie Harries, "Building a National Army" | |
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| Documents | |
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| German-American Loyalty, 1917 | |
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| Letters from Mennonite Draftees, 1918 | |
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| Racism and the Army, 1918, | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Modern American Society 1920-Present | |
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| Intolerance: A Bitter Legacy of Social Change | |
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| Essay | |
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| Kevin A. Boyle, "Prosperity and Prejudice in Postwar America" | |
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| Documents | |
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| The Klan's Fight for Americanism, 1926 | |
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| Intelligence and Prejudice: One Professor's View, 1923 | |
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| Congress Debates Immigration Restriction, 1921 | |
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| Morals and Manners in the 1920s | |
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| Essay | |
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| Daniel Okrent, "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" | |
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| Documents | |
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| Moving Pictures Evoke Concern, 1922 | |
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| "Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation?" 1921 | |
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| The Depression Years | |
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| Essay | |
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| Timothy Egan, "The Worst Hard Time" | |
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| Documents | |
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| The Okies in California, 1939 | |
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| Homeless Women Sleep in Chicago Parks, 1931 | |
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| A Vagrant Civil Engineer, 1932 | |
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| World War II | |
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| Essay | |
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| William O'Neill, "The People Are Willing" | |
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| Documents | |
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| The Woman Worker, 1942 | |
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| Conditions in the Camps (1942-1945), 1948 | |
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| Japanese American Servicemen (1942-1945), 2011 | |
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| Americans on the Move: Suburbs and the Sunbelt | |
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| Essay | |
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| Kenneth Jackson, "The Baby Boom and the Age of the Subdivision" | |
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| Documents | |
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| The Melting Pot Goes Suburban, 2002 | |
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| Big Apple, Southern Cities Tops in Growth, 2011 | |
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| Minorities' Struggles for Equality | |
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| Essay | |
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| William Doyle, "Crisis in Little Rock" | |
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| Documents | |
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| Growing Up Black in the South: A Remembrance, 1977 | |
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| The Southern Manifesto, 1956 | |
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| Wealth and Income Inequality, 2005 | |
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| A Native American Protest, 1969 | |
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| The Sixties and Beyond: Times of Protest | |
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| Essay | |
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| Terry Anderson, "The Movement and the Sixties Generation" | |
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| Documents | |
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| Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1971 | |
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| Gays in the Military: President Barack Obama Notes the New Policy, 2010 | |
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| The Revival of Feminism | |
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| Essay | |
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| Flora Davis, "Feminism's Second Wave: The Opening Salvos" | |
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| Documents | |
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| A Woman's Eight to Abortion, 1973 | |
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| President George W. Bush Opposes Abortion, 2002 | |
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| Working It Out, 2006 | |
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| The New Immigration | |
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| Essay | |
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| Robert Joe Stout, "Why Immigrants Come to America" | |
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| Documents | |
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| Struggling to Get Ahead: The Life of a Vietnamese Fisherman, 2010 | |
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| Story of an Immigrant from the Philippines, 2008 | |
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| Suggestions For Further Reading | |