Preface
Chapter 16-Reconstruction and the South
* Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865)
* Mississippi Black Codes (1865)
* A Sharecrop Contract (1882)
* Congressional Testimony on the Actions of the Ku Klux Klan (1872)
* Civil Rights Cases (1883)
Chapter 17-In the Wake of War
* Henry Grady, The New South (1886)
* From Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
* Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address (1895)
* Ida B. Wells-Barnett, from A Red Record (1895)
* Helen Hunt Jackson, from A Century of Dishonor (1881)
* Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Chapter 18-An Industrial Giant
* Andrew Carnegie, from The Gospel of Wealth (1889)
* Russell Conwell, from Acres of Diamonds (1915)
* Edward Bellamy, from Looking Backward (1888)
* Terence V. Powderly, Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878)
Chapter 19-American Society in the Industrial Age
* 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)
* The Secret Oath of the American Protective Association (1893)
* Charles Loring Brace, The Life of the Street Rats (1872)
* George Waring, Sanitary Conditions in New York (1897)
* Richard K. Fox, from Coney Island Frolics (1883)
Chapter 20-Intellectual and Cultural Trends
* The Morrill Act (1862)
* Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893)
* Theodore Dreiser, from Sister Carrie (1900)
Chapter 21-Politics: Local, State, and National
* William L. Riordon, from Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (1905)
* The Omaha Platform of the Populist Party (1892)
* William Allen White, What's the Matter with Kansas? (1896)
Chapter 22-The Age of Reform
* Ida M. Tarbell, from The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904)
* W. E. B. Du Bois, from Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others (1903)
* Theodore Roosevelt, from The New Nationalism (1910)
* Woodrow Wilson, from The New Freedom (1913)
* Jane Addams, from Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)
* National American Woman Suffrage Association, Mother's Day Letter (1912)
Chapter 23-From Isolation to Empire
* 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)
Chapter 24-Woodrow Wilson and the Great War
* Boy Scouts of America, from Boy Scouts Support the War Effort (1917)
* Newton D. Baker, The Treatment of German-Americans (1918)
* Eugene Kennedy, A Doughboy Describes the Fighting Front (1918)
* Eugene V. Debs, Statement to the Court (1918)
* Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918)
* A. Mitchell Palmer, The Case Against the Reds (1920)
Chapter 25-Postwar Society and Culture: Change
and Adjustment
* Comprehensive Immigration Law (1924)
* Calvin Coolidge, Honoring Charles Lindbergh (1927)
* Eleanor Rowland Wembridge, Petting and the Campus (1925)
* Marcus Garvey, Aims and Objectives of the UNIA (1923)
Chapter 26-The New Era: 1921-1933
* Edward Earle Purinton, from Big Ideas from Big Business (1921)
* Herbert Hoover, New York Campaign Speech (1932)
* Socialist Party Platform (1932)
Chapter 27-The New Deal: 1933-1941
* Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933)
* Huey Long, Share Our Wealth (1935)
* Eleanor Roosevelt, from My Day Columns (1939)
* Charles A. Lindbergh, from Des Moines Speech (1941)
Chapter 28-War and Peace
* Albert Einstein, Letter to President Roosevelt (1939)
* Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms (1941)
* A. Philip Randolph, Why Should We March? (1942)
* Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Chapter 29-The American Century
* 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)
* Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
* Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address (1961)
Chapter 30-From Camelot to Watergate
* From John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Address (1962)
* Lyndon Johnson, The War on Poverty (1964)
* Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
* The Tonkin Gulf Incident (1964)
* Kevin MacCauley, Oral History on the 1968 Siege of Khe Sanh
* House Judiciary Committee, Conclusion on Impeachment Resolution (1974)
Chapter 31-Society in Flux
* Students for a Democratic Society, Port Huron Statement (1962)
* National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose (1966)
* Roe v. Wade (1973)
* Curtis Sitcomer, Harvest of Discontent (1967)
Chapter 32-Running on Empty: The Nation Transformed
* Jimmy Carter, The Crisis of Confidence Speech (1979)
* Donald E. Wildmon, The Conscience of a Christian Conservative (1985)
* Ronald Reagan, Speech to the House of Commons (1982)
Chapter 33-Misdemeanors and High Crimes
* George H. W. Bush, Address to the Nation Announcing Allied Military Action in the Persian Gulf (1991)
* Articles of Impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton (1998)
* Barbara Lee, Speech in Opposition to Authorizing the U.S. War in Afghanistan (2001)
* Owen Burdick, Witnessing the 9-11 Terrorist Attack in New York (2001)
* Wayne Allard, Testifying in Favor of the Federal Marriage Amendment (2004)
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