1. American Politics and Society Between the Wars ESSAYS Robert McElvaine, The Great Depression in Historical Perspective Lynn Dumenil, The Modern Temper Alan Dawley, American Liberalism and the Struggle for Justice Between the Wars 2. Reform and Reaction: Public Policy in the Republican Era DOCUMENTS Attorney General Palmer's Case Against the Reds, 1920 Herbert Hoover on American Individualism, 1922 A Business Analyst Explains Why Trade Associations Don't Work, 1933 Babbitt Sketches Our Ideal Citizen, q922 Alva Belmont Urges Women Not to Vote, 1920 Florence Kelley and Elsie Hill Debate Equal Rights for Women, 1922 A Mothers' Letter to the Children's Bureau, 1916 ESSAYS Ellis Hawley, Herbert Hoover and the Associational State Molly Ladd-Taylor, Maternalism, Feminism, and the Politics of Reform in the 1920s 3. Labor and Welfare Capitalism in the 1920s DOCUMENTS The Interchurch World Movement Investigates the Steel Strike, 1920 Ralph Chaplin Recalls the Clampdown of the Red Scare of the 1920s The Employer's Case for Welfare Capitalism, 1925 Labor's Case Against Welfare Capitalism, 1927 The National Association of Manufacturers Defends the Open Shop, 1922 The AFL Condemns the Open Shop, 1921 Employers Consider teh Regulation of Womens's Work, 1920 The Women's Bureau Exposes the Myths About Women's Work, 1924 ESSAYS Rick Halpern, Welfare Capitalism in the Packinghouses Alice Kessler-Harris, The Uneasy Relationship Between Labor and Women 4. The Politics and Culture of Consumption DOCUMENTS A Critic Sees Advertising as a Narcotic, 1934 An Enthusiast Applauds Advertising, 1928 Three Magazine Advertisements, 1928 and 1930 The Automobile Comes to Middletown, 1929 The AFL on the Living Wage, 1919 Bruce Barton Sees Jesus as an Advertising Man, 1925 ESSAYS Roland Marchand, The Culture of Advertising Dana Frank, Workers as Consumers in Seattle 5. Intellectual and Cultural Currents DOCUMENTS Langston Hughes, Two Poems of the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald on the Jazz Age, 1931 The Educational Promise of Radio, 1930 Granville Hicks on Writers in the 1930s Two WPA Posters, 1935 and 1938 A Magazine Cover Comments on Public Art, 1941 An Artist Remembers the WPA, 1935-1939 ESSAYS David Levering Lewis, When Harlem Was in Vogue Robert McChesney, The Battle for the Airwaves Jane S. De Hart, A New Deal for Art 6. 100 Percent Americanism: Race and Ethnicity Between the Wars DOCUMENTS W.E.B. DuBois on the Meaning of the War for African Americans, 1919 The Governor of California on the Oriental Problem, 1920 Congress Debates Immigration Restriction, 1921 A Jewish Leader Laments the Rise of Nativism, 1922 The Ku Klux Klan Defines Americanism, 1926 Walter White Documents a Lynching, 1925 Marcus Garvey Makes the Case for Black Nationalism, 1925 Richard Wright Recalls Living Jim Crow, 1937 Carey McWilliams Accuses California of Getting Rid of the Mexicans, 1933 ESSAYS Nancy MacLean, The Class Anxieties of the Ku Klux Klan David Montejano, The Mexican Problem 7. Responding to the Crash DOCUMENTS Herbert Hoover Reassures the Nation, 1931 A Business Leader Responds (Hopefully) to the Crash, 1929 Henry Ford on Unemployment and Self-Help, 1932 A Participant Recalls the Ford Hunger March of 1932 A Participant Recalls the Bonus Army March of 1932 Leading Retailers Propose a Solution, 1934 ESSAYS Theodore Rosenof, Understanding the Crash Roy Rosenzweig, Organizing the Unemployed 8. The Dilemmas of Liberal Internationalism: Foreign Policy Between the Wars DOCUMENTS President Woodrow Wilson Defends the League of Nations, 1919 A State Department Official on the Benefits of Disarmament, 1931 Leading Economists Argue for Lower Tariffs, 1930 President Hoover Argues for High Tariffs, 1932 Secretary of State Cordell Hull Promotes Reciprocal Trade, 1936 ESSAYS Frank Costigliola, Foreign Policy and Cultural Expansion Emily Rosenberg, The Dilemmas of Interwar Foreign Policy 9. Hard Times and Harder Times: Agriculture Between the Wars DOCUMENTS Conditions in Rural America, 1932 Tenant Farmers Recall the Conditions of Sharecropping in the 1930s From a Dust Bowl Diary, 1934 A Farmer Recalls a Penny Sale of the 1930s Milo Reno Suggests What the Farmer Wants, 1934 The Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1933 Depression and New Deal Both Hit Black Farmers, 1937 John Steinbeck on Migrant Labor in California, 1938 ESSAYS Robin D.G. Kelley, The Sharecroppers' Union Theodore Saloutos, Evaluating New Deal Agricultural Policy 10. Private Lives in Hard Times DOCUMENTS A Working Class Woman on Making Do in the 1930s Dr. Hilda Standish Recalls Efforts to Control Reproduction in the 1930s Children Recall the 1930s The Plight of the Unemployed in the 1930s An Ordinary American Appeals to Her Government, 1935 ESSAYS Ruth Milkman, Women's Work in Hard Times Leslie Reagan, Reproductive Practices and Politics George Chauncey, The Campaign Against Homosexuality 11. Shaping the New Deal: Recovery and Reform Politics DOCUMENTS A Business Cynic on the NRA Codes, 1934 The National Urban League Documents Discrimination under the NRA, 1934 The New Deal Is No Revolution, 1934 President Roosevelt Outlines Social Security for Congress, 1935 The Committee on Economic Security Argues for Contributory Social Insurance, 1935 An Architect of Social Security Recalls the Southern Concession, 1935 Social Security Advisers Consider Male and Female Pensioners, 1938 ESSAYS Colin Gordon, From the National Industrial Recovery Act to the Wagner Act Patricia Sullivan, The Southern Politics of New Deal Reform Linda Gordon, Men, Women, and the Assumptions of American Social Provision 12. Race, Gender, and the Rise of the CIO DOCUMENTS The National Labor Relations Act, 1935 A Recollection of the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936 Stella Nowicki Recalls Organizing the Packinghouses in the 1930s A Congressional Committee Documents Violence Against Labor, 1937 The Chicago Defender Sees the CIO as a Civil Rights Organization, 1939 A Southerner Recalls the Limits of Labor's Rights, ca. 1938 ESSAYS Roger Horowitz, Organizing the Packinghouses Elizabeth Faue, Gender and Community in the Minneapolis Labor Movement Michael Honey, Race and Unionism: The CIO in the South 13. Contesting the New Deal DOCUMENTS Communists Lament the Futility of the New Deal, 1934 The Communist Party Argues for a Popular Front, 1938 Upton Sinclair's Twelve Principles to End Poverty in California, 1936 Huey Long and the Share Our Wealth Society, 1935 Father Coughlin Lectures on Social Justice, 1935 W.P. Kiplinger Argues Why Businessmen Fear Washington, 1934 Herbert Hoover Comments on the New Deal, 1936 Southern Democrats Erode the New Deal Coalition, 1938 ESSAYS Alan Brinkley, Dissidents and Demagogues Colin Gorham, Business vs. the New Deal 14. The Social Impact of World War II DOCUMENTS President Franklin Roosevelt Identifies the Four Freedoms at Stake in the War, 1941 A Woman Worker Reflects on the Good War at Home During the 1940s Ethel Gorman Advises How to Write a Letter to Your Man Overseas, 1942 An Anxious Letter Home from the Western Front, 1944 A. Philip Randolph Argues for a March on Washington, 1942 An African American Soldier Notes the Strange Paradox of the War, 1944 ESSAYS Robert Westbrook, Fighting for the Family Ruth Milkman, Redefining Women's Work 15. The Political Economy of World War II DOCUMENTS The Atlantic Charter, 1941 Debating the Bretton Woods Agreement, 1945 The Yalta Conference, 1945 Postwar Hopes for Full Employment, 1942 I.F. Stone on Washington's Anxieties About the Peace, 1945 ESSAYS Michael Sherry, Mobilization and Militarization Alan Brinkley, World War II and American Liberalism
