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| Preface to the Fifth Edition | |
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| A Guide to Reading and Interpreting Documents and Images | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Reconstruction | |
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| A Northern Teacher's View of the Freedmen (1863-1865) | |
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| Charleston, South Carolina, at the Conclusion of the Civil War (1865) | |
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| African Americans Seek Protection (1865) | |
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| Thaddeus Stevens on Reconstruction and the South (1865) | |
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| A White Southern Perspective on Reconstruction (1868) | |
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| African American Suffrage in the South (1867, 1876) | |
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| An African American Congressman Calls for Civil Rights (1874) | |
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| The Situation for African Americans in the South (1879) | |
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| The West | |
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| A Native American Remembers Life on the Great Plains (1870s) | |
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| Hunting Buffalo on the Great Plains (c. 1875) | |
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| A Century of Dishonor (1881) | |
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| A Western Newspaper Editorial on the Custer Massacre (1876) | |
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| Cultural Exchange on the Arizona Frontier (1874) | |
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| A Native American Remembers the Ghost Dance (1890) | |
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| Populist Party Platform (1892) | |
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| �The Significance of the Frontier in American History� (1893) | |
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| A Woman's Description of Farm Life in Illinois (1905) | |
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| Gilded Age America | |
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| The Cattle Industry (1884) | |
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| The Impact of Mechanization (1889) | |
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| Views of Big Business (1883, 1889, 1900) | |
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| �The Forgotten Man� (1883) | |
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| The Gospel of Wealth (1889) | |
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| Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878) | |
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| Lynching in the South (1895) | |
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| W. E. B. Du Bois on Race Relations (1903) | |
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| The Unwanted Immigrants: The Chinese (1878) | |
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| �The Story of a Sweatshop Girl� (1902) | |
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| An Italian Immigrant's Experience in America (1902) | |
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| A Woman's Perspective on Women and the Economy (1898) | |
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| The Progressive Movement | |
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| An Insider's View of Hull House | |
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| �The American Forests� (1901) | |
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| Boss Government at Work (1903) | |
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| The Jungle (1906) | |
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| The Socialist Alternative (1908) | |
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| �Why Women Should Vote� (1910) | |
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| The New Nationalism of Theodore Roosevelt (1912) | |
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| Women and the Middle-Class Home (1913) | |
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| America on the World Stage | |
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| The Sinking of the Maine (1898) | |
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| Aguinaldo's Call for Philippine Independence (1899) | |
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| An Anti-Imperialist Perspective (1899) | |
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| The New Manifest Destiny (1900) | |
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| Perspectives of Overseas Expansion (1898, 1899, 1900) | |
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| �A Colombian View of the Panama Canal Question� (1903) | |
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| Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904) | |
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| Woodrow Wilson's Declaration of War Message (1917) | |
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| Advertising the War Effort (1920) | |
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| Opposition to the League of Nations (1919) | |
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| The Red Scare (1920) | |
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| The Return to �Normalcy� | |
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| A Speech Against Immigration Restriction (1921) | |
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| The Role of Advertising (1922) | |
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| The Impact of the Automobile (1922) | |
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| The New Negro (1925) | |
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| Religion and the Scopes Trial (1925) | |
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| The Ku Klux Klan's Perspective (1926) | |
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| The New Woman (1927) | |
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| American Individualism (1928) | |
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| FDR and the New Deal | |
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| Urban Families in the Great Depression (1931) | |
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| Women on the Breadlines (1932) | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933) | |
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| A Businessman's View of the New Deal (1934) | |
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| Editorial Cartoons On the New Deal (1934, 1935) | |
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| The �Dust Bowl� (1935) | |
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| Eleanor Roosevelt on Social Welfare (1936) | |
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| The Tennessee Valley Authority (1937) | |
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| An African American Evaluation of the New Deal (1940) | |
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| �The New Deal in Review� (1940) | |
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| Isolationism and World War II | |
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| The Four Freedoms (1941) | |
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| Isolation from the European War (1941) | |
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| Roosevelt's Declaration of War Message (1941) | |
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| Life in a Japanese Internment Camp (1942) | |
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| Women in the Home-Front War Effort (1942) | |
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| The Second World War Homefront (1941-1945) | |
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| African Americans in the Military (1944) | |
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| Truman's Decision to Drop the Bomb (1945) | |
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| Remembering the Hiroshima Atomic Blast (1945) | |
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| Postwar America | |
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| �Containment� (1946) | |
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| NSC-68, A Blueprint for the Cold War (1950) | |
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| Communists in the Government (1950) | |
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| Life in the Suburbs (1953) | |
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| Governor Herman Talmadge's Statement on the Brown Decision (1954) | |
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| Viewpoint on the Emmitt Till Murder Trial (1955) | |
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| The Impact of Television (1955) | |
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961) | |
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| Poverty in the Age of Affluence (1962) | |
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| �The Problem That Has No Name� (1963) | |
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| The Turbulent Sixties | |
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| Silent Spring (1962) | |
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| �Letter from Birmingham Jail� (1963) | |
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| Malcolm X on Race Relations (1964) | |
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| Lyndon Johnson on the Great Society (1964) | |
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| SDS Call for a March on Washington (1965) | |
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| Views of the War in Vietnam (1967) | |
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| �I Made Promises to Dead People� (1967-1968) | |
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| A Report on Racial Violence in the Cities (1968) | |
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| C�sar Ch�vez and La Causa (1975) | |
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| The Rising Conservative Tide | |
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| Perspectives on Soaring Oil Prices (1973, 1974, 1976) | |
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| Sam Ervin on the Watergate Crisis (1974) | |
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| The Differences Between Men and Women (1977) | |
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| The Question of Affirmative Action (1978) | |
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| Iranian Hostage Crisis (1979-1981) | |
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| The Christian Right's Call to Action (1980) | |
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| The Reagan Revolution (1981) | |
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| Reagan's Evil Empire Speech (1983) | |
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| An Editorial on the Removal of the Berlin Wall (1989) | |
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| Society and Culture at Century's End | |
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| Catholic Bishops Call for �Economic Justice� (1986) | |
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| A Perspective on AIDS (1987) | |
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| A View on Hispanic Assimilation (1991) | |
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| Bill Gates and Microsoft (1998) | |
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| The Changing Demographics of America (1999) | |
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| The Issue of Same-Sex Marriage (2001) | |
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| Age of Anxiety | |
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| George W. Bush Responds to the Terrorist Attacks (2001) | |
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| A Response to the USA Patriot Act (2001) | |
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| The United States and the World (2003) | |
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| A Perspective on Limiting Immigration to the United States (2006) | |
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| An Economist on the Financial Crisis (2007) | |
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| Barack Obama's Victory Speech (2008) | |
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| Editorial on the Nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court (2009) | |
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| Immigration in the 21st Century (2010) | |
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| Offshore Oil Drilling and the Environment (2010) | |