Preface
Chapter 16-The Union Reconstructed
* Mississippi Black Codes (1865)
* A Sharecrop Contract (1882)
* Congressional Testimony on the Actions of the Ku Klux Klan (1872)
* Civil Rights Cases (1883)
AE Part Four: An Industrializing People, 1865-1900
Chapter 17-Rural America: The West and the New South
* Helen Hunt Jackson, from A Century of Dishonor (1881)
* Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893)
* Henry Grady, "The New South" (1886)
* From Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
* Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address (1895)
* W. E. B. Du Bois, from "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others" (1903)
* Ida B. Wells-Barnett, from A Red Record (1895)
Chapter 18-The Rise of Smokestack America
* John Spargo, from The Bitter Cry of Children (1906)
* Letters to the Jewish Daily Forward (1906-1907)
* Lee Chew, from Life of a Chinese Immigrant (1903)
* Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
* The Secret Oath of the American Protective Association (1893)
* Terence V. Powderly, Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878)
* Charles Loring Brace, "The Life of the Street Rats" (1872)
* George Waring, Sanitary Conditions in New York (1897)
Chapter 19-Politics and Reform
* Andrew Carnegie, from "The Gospel of Wealth" (1889)
* Russell Conwell, from "Acres of Diamonds" (1915)
* Edward Bellamy, from Looking Backward (1888)
* The Omaha Platform of the Populist Party (1892)
* William Allen White, "What's the Matter with Kansas?" (1896)
* William L. Riordon, from Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (1905)
Chapter 20-Becoming a World Power
* Josiah Strong, from Our Country (1885)
* Albert Beveridge, "The March of the Flag" (1898)
* William Graham Sumner, from "On Empire and the Philippines" (1898)
* William McKinley, "Decision on the Philippines" (1900)
* The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904)
AE Part Five: A Modernizing People, 1900-1945
Chapter 21-The Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism
* Ida M. Tarbell, from The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904)
* Theodore Dreiser, from Sister Carrie (1900)
* Theodore Roosevelt, from The New Nationalism (1910)
* Woodrow Wilson, from The New Freedom (1913)
* National American Woman Suffrage Association, Mother's Day Letter (1912)
* Jane Addams, from Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)
Chapter 22-The Great War
* Boy Scouts of America, from "Boy Scouts Support the War Effort" (1917)
* Eugene V. Debs, Statement to the Court (1918)
* Newton D. Baker, "The Treatment of German-Americans" (1918)
* Eugene Kennedy, A "Doughboy" Describes the Fighting Front (1918)
* Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918)
Chapter 23-Affluence and Anxiety
* A. Mitchell Palmer, "The Case Against the Reds" (1920)
* Comprehensive Immigration Law (1924)
* Calvin Coolidge, Honoring Charles Lindbergh (1927)
* Marcus Garvey, Aims and Objectives of the UNIA (1923)
Chapter 24-The Great Depression and the New Deal
* Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933)
* Huey Long, "Share Our Wealth" (1935)
* Eleanor Roosevelt, from "My Day" Columns (1939)
Chapter 25-World War II
* Albert Einstein, Letter to President Roosevelt (1939)
* Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms (1941)
* Charles A. Lindbergh, from Des Moines Speech (1941)
* A. Philip Randolph, "Why Should We March?" (1942)
* Korematsu v. United States (1944)
AE Part Six: A Resilient People, 1945-2005
Chapter 26-Postwar America at Home, 1945-1960
* Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
* The Southern Manifesto (1956)
* Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Chapter 27-Chills and Fever During the Cold War, 1945-1960
* Harry S Truman, The Truman Doctrine (1947)
* George Marshall, The Marshall Plan (1947)
* Joseph R. McCarthy, from Speech Delivered to the Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia (1950)
* Margaret Chase Smith, from "Declaration of Conscience" (1950)
* Whittaker Chambers, from Foreword to Witness (1952)
* Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address (1961)
Chapter 28-Reform and Rebellion in the Turbulent Sixties, 1960-1969
* John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Address (1962)
* The Tonkin Gulf Incident (1964)
* Kevin MacCauley, Oral History on the 1968 Siege of Khe Sanh
* The Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Lyndon Johnson, The War on Poverty (1964)
* Students for a Democratic Society, Port Huron Statement (1962)
Chapter 29-Disorder and Discontent, 1969-1980
* Curtis Sitcomer, "Harvest of Discontent" (1967)
* National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose (1966)
* Roe v. Wade (1973)
* House Judiciary Committee, Conclusion on Impeachment Resolution (1974)
Chapter 30-The Revival of Conservatism, 1980-1992
* Ronald Reagan, Speech to the House of Commons (1982)
* Donald E. Wildmon, The Conscience of a Christian Conservative (1985)
* George H. W. Bush, Address to the Nation Announcing Allied Military Action in the Persian Gulf (1991)
Chapter 31-The Post-Cold War World, 1992-2005
* Articles of Impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton (1998)
* Owen Burdick, Witnessing the 9-11 Terrorist Attack in New York (2001)
* Barbara Lee, Speech in Opposition to Authorizing the U.S. War in Afghanistan (2001)
* Wayne Allard, Testifying in Favor of the Federal Marriage Amendment (2004)
Credits
