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Table of Contents
Historical Perspectives:
A Reader and Study Guide, Vol. 2
Detailed Table of Contents
| Chapter 1
 Catalog
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Reconstruction: The Turning
Point That Never Turned
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Identification
|
2 |
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Think About
|
4 |
| A Letter "To My Old
Master," c. 1865 |
4 |
| The Black Codes |
6 |
|
The Black Code of St. Landry's Parish,
1865
|
6 |
| The Issue of Land for the
Freed Slaves |
8 |
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From a Speech By Thaddeus Stevens,
1865
|
8 |
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New York Times, July 9, 1867Republican
Rule in the South
|
8 |
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A Conversation between a Freedmen and
a General at Fort Smith, Arkansas
|
8 |
| Educating the Freed People |
10 |
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Dedicated Teachers, Determined Students,
1869
|
10 |
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Sydney Andrews quoted in the Joint
Report on Reconstruction
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10 |
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Captain C. M. Hamilton in a letter
to the Office of Adjutant General
|
10 |
| The Split Between Advocates
of Women's Rights and Black Rights |
11 |
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A Petition Drafted after the Civil
War by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
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11 |
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Letter to Susan B. Anthony from abolitionist
and advocate of suffrage for ex-slaves Gerritt Smith
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11 |
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A Response By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
|
12 |
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"Being Persons, Then, Women are
Citizens"
|
12 |
| Differing Views About Blacks
in Reconstruction in the South |
13 |
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From the Novel, A Fool's Errand By
the carpetbagger, Albion Tourgee (1879)
|
13 |
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From the Novel, The Clansman By Thomas
Dixon, Jr.
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14 |
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From---The Autobiography of John
Roy Lynch, an ex-salve appointed justice-of-the-peace.
|
14 |
| Retreat from Reconstruction |
16 |
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An Excerpt From the Speech of Black
Congressman Richard Harvey Cain of South Carolina
|
16 |
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Political Terrorism by the Ku Klux
Klan Testimony by Harriet Hernandez
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16 |
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Excerpts from the Original Draft of
the South Carolina 1876 Democratic Party Campaign Plan
|
17 |
| After Reconstruction |
18 |
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Address to the Louisville Convention
(1883) by Frederick Douglass
|
18 |
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Self Test
|
21 |
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Essays
|
23 |
|
Optional Activities
|
23 |
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Web Site Listings
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23 |
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| Chapter 2
Catalog
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Industrialization
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Identification
|
25 |
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Think About
|
27 |
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
|
27 |
| Excerpts from Andrew Carnegie,
The Gospel of Wealth |
29 |
| A Selection from the Constitution
of the Knights of Labor |
30 |
| Excerpts from John Morrison's
Testimony Before the United States Senate |
32 |
| Anti-Imperialism: The Views
of Grover Cleveland |
35 |
| The Wizard of Oz: Industrial
Themes in a Child's Story, By Doug Cantrell |
36 |
| Forced Labor in West Virginia
By Gino C. Speranza |
40 |
| The Awakening of the Negro,
By Booker T. Washington |
44 |
| "Of the Training of
Black Men", By W.E.B. DuBois |
48 |
|
Self Test
|
54 |
|
Essays
|
55 |
|
Optional Activities
|
55 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
56 |
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| Chapter 3
Catalog
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The Trans-Missouri West: The
Last Frontier
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Identification
|
59 |
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Think About
|
61 |
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The Homestead Act
|
61 |
| The Pacific Railway Act |
63 |
| Red Cloud's Speech at Cooper
Union, New York |
64 |
| The Dawes Act |
66 |
| D.W.C. Duncan's Testimony |
68 |
| Report
on Wounded Knee Massacre, By Benjamin Harrison |
70 |
| Bryan's
Cross of Gold Speech |
71 |
| The
Page Law |
75 |
| Chinese
Exclusion Act |
76 |
| Republican
Party Platform |
78 |
| Populist
Platform |
82 |
|
Self Test
|
85 |
|
Essays
|
87 |
|
Optional Activities
|
87 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
87 |
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| Chapter 4
Catalog
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Progressivism
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Identification
|
91 |
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Think About
|
93 |
| How the Other Half Lives:
Studies Among the Tenements of New York, By Jacob Riis,
1890 |
93 |
| History of the American
People, By Woodrow Wilson, 1902 |
97 |
| James Montgomery Flagg Cartoon |
98 |
| Monroe Trotter Protests
President Wilson's Segregation of Federal Employees |
99 |
| "Of Our Spiritual Strivings,"
The Souls of Black Folk, By W.E.B. DuBois,
1903 |
100 |
| The Jungle, By Upton Sinclair |
104 |
| Triangle Memorial Speech,
By Rose Schneiderman, 1911 |
105 |
| A New Conscience and an
Ancient Evil, By Jane Addams |
106 |
| NAWSA Convention Speech,
Remarks on Emotionalism in Politics, By
Anna Howard Shaw, 1913 |
109 |
| Senators Vs. Working Women:
A Reply to New York Senators on Delicacy
and Charm of Women, By Rose Schneiderman, 1912 |
110 |
|
Self Test
|
112 |
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Essays
|
114 |
|
Optional Activities
|
114 |
|
Web Site Listings
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114 |
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| Chapter 5
Catalog
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The "Great" War:
World War I
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Identification
|
117 |
|
Think About
|
119 |
| President Woodrow Wilson's
War Message to the U.S. Congress, April 2, 1917 |
120 |
| At the French Front |
122 |
| The Backwash of War:
The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by
an American Hospital Nurse, 1916, By Ellen N. LaMott |
124 |
| Secret Information Concerning
Black Troops, French Military Mission,
Stationed with the American Army, August 7, 1918 |
127 |
| Mobilizing Support for the
War Effort |
129 |
| Conscription |
130 |
| Schenck V. United States,
1919 |
132 |
| The Lynching of Robert Prager
and the Acquittal of His Murderer |
133 |
|
German Enemy of U.S. Hanged by Mob
St. Louise Collinsville Man Killed for Abusing Wilson
|
133 |
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Jury Finds Prager Defendants Not
Guilty and Others Are Free
|
134 |
| Petition from the Women
Voters Anti-Suffrage Party, 1917 |
136 |
| The Negro in Chicago: A
Study in Race Relations and a Race Riot, 1922 |
137 |
| The New Menace, 1918 |
139 |
|
Self Test
|
140 |
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Essays
|
141 |
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Optional Activities
|
142 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
142 |
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| Chapter 6
Catalog
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The Roaring Twenties
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Identification
|
144 |
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Think About
|
147 |
| The Rising Tide of Color
Against White World Supremacy, By Lothrop Stoddard, 1920 |
147 |
| Address in the Senate, By
David I. Walsh, 1924 |
150 |
| "The Klan's Fight for
Americanism," By Hiram W. Evans, 1926 |
152 |
| "Big Ideas from Big
Business," By Edward Earle Purinton, 1921 |
155 |
| "In His Discreet Way
He Told Her," Listerine Ad, 1923 |
157 |
| "Petting and the Campus,:
Eleanor Rowland Wembridger, 1925 |
158 |
| Debate on Birth Control,
Margaret Sanger and Winter Russell, c.
1921 |
160 |
| Babbit, By Sinclair Lewis |
163 |
| The Negro Speaks of Rivers,
Langston Hughes, 1921 |
166 |
| Black Separatism and the
Back to Africa Movement of Marcus Garvey |
167 |
|
Marcus Garvey, Editorial, 1925
|
167 |
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Marcus Garvey, An Appeal to the Soul
of White America: The Solution to the Problem of Competition
Between Two Opposite Races: Negro Leader Appeals to
the Conscience of White Race to Save His Own, 1923
|
167 |
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Self Test
|
169 |
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Essay
|
170 |
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Optional Activities
|
170 |
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Web Site Listings:
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171 |
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| Chapter 7
Catalog
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The Depression
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Identification
|
173 |
|
Think About
|
175 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt's
First Inaugural Address |
175 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt's
Second Inaugural Address |
178 |
| Share Our Wealth Plan,
By Huey Long |
181 |
| National Labor Relations
Act |
183 |
| Okies: Testimony of Carey
McWilliams in Congress |
185 |
| Roosevelt's Fireside Char,
June 28, 1934 |
187 |
| Republican Party Platform,
Election of 1936 |
190 |
| Folk Songs from the Great
Depression |
194 |
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Every Man a King
|
194 |
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Some More Greenback Dollar
|
195 |
|
Sunny Cal
|
195 |
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Three Crows
|
196 |
| Two Manuscripts from the
Federal Writers Project of the WPA |
197 |
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Begging By Anne Winn Stevens
|
197 |
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Afternoon in a Pushcart Peddlers'
Colony By Frank Byrd
|
199 |
| The
Townsend Plan |
202 |
| Cartoons
That Appeared in the Townsend Weekly on May 25, 1940 |
205 |
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Self Test
|
207 |
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Essays
|
208 |
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Optional Activities
|
208 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
208 |
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| Chapter 8
Catalog
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The "Good" War: World
War II
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Identification
|
211 |
|
Think About
|
213 |
| Roosevelt's New Internationalism |
213 |
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Roosevelt's "Four Freedom"
Speech, January 8, 1941
|
214 |
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The Atlantic Charter, August 14,
1941
|
214 |
| Day of Infamy |
216 |
|
Address to Congress (1941) Franklin
D. Roosevelt
|
216 |
| Internment of Japanese
Americans |
217 |
|
Conditions in the Camps (1942-1945)
|
217 |
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Korematsu v. U.S.: The Majority Opinion
|
219 |
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Dissent by Justice Frank Murphy
|
219 |
| A Loyal Negro Soldier |
220 |
| Shipyard
Diary of a Woman Welder, 1944 |
223 |
| Iwo Jima, Edgar L. Jones,
Atlantic Monthly, February 1945 |
225 |
| U.S. Government Acquiescence
in the Murder of Jews |
226 |
| The Death of Roosevelt |
228 |
| Dropping the Atomic Bomb |
229 |
|
Self Test
|
230 |
|
Essays
|
232 |
|
Optional Activities
|
232 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
232 |
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| Chapter 9
Catalog
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The Cold War: The Truman-Eisenhower
Years
|
Identification
|
234 |
|
Think About
|
236 |
| The Truman Doctrine |
237 |
| HUAC VS. Hollywood |
239 |
| Address on Korea |
243 |
| Brown V. Topeka, Board
of Education |
245 |
| President Eisenhower Enforces
the Brown Decision in Little Rock, 1957 |
247 |
| Memorandum of Conference
with the President |
248 |
| Farwell Address,
President Dwight D. Eisenhower |
250 |
|
Self Test
|
252 |
|
Essays
|
253 |
|
Optional Activities
|
254 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
254 |
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| Chapter 10
Catalog
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Hope to Despair:
Kennedy-Johnson Years
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Identification
|
256 |
|
Think About
|
258 |
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Senator J. William Fullbright's Remarks on the Concept
of Total Victory
|
258 |
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Cuban Missile Crisis, President John
F. Kennedy
|
261 |
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The United States and the War in Vietnam
|
265 |
|
September 2, 1963, CBS Television
Interview with Walter Cronkite, Washington, D.C., President
John F. Kennedy
|
265 |
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U.S. Policy on Vietnam
|
265 |
| Our Duty in Southeast Asia |
267 |
|
An Invitation to Action, President's Commission
on the Status of Women
|
271 |
| Jones v. Alfred Mayer Co. |
274 |
| Social Unrest:
The Kerner Commission Report on the Causes of Civil Disorders |
275 |
|
Self Test
|
277 |
|
Essays
|
278 |
|
Optional Activities
|
279 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
279 |
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| Chapter 11
Catalog
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The Seventies: The Crisis of
Confidence
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Identification
|
281 |
|
Think About
|
284 |
| John Kerry "Statement |
284 |
|
Peace with Honor President Richard
M. Nixon
|
289 |
| White House Conversations
(1972-1973) |
282 |
|
Presidential Television Address
President Richard M. Nixon
|
293 |
| Watergate Special Prosecution
Force |
2962 |
| Gloria Steinem on Constitutional
Change, 1970 |
298 |
|
Self Test
|
305 |
|
Essays
|
307 |
|
Optional Activities
|
307 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
307 |
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| Chapter 12
Catalog
|
In Our Times: Reagan to Clinton-
|
Identification
|
309 |
|
Think About
|
311 |
| The Second American Revolution
By Ronald Reagan |
312 |
| The Plight of the Homeless |
315 |
| Living with Aids, By Ryan
White |
319 |
| President George Bush Opposes
Abortion, 1989 |
320 |
| Causes of the L.A. Riot
By Maxine Waters |
321 |
| "Don't Ask, Don't
Tell" |
322 |
|
Policy Concerning Homosexuality in
the Armed Forces
|
322 |
|
Pentagon Issues New Guidelines for
Gays in the Military
|
323 |
| Let Us Strengthen Our Nation
for the 21st Century Bu Bill Clinton |
324 |
|
Self Test
|
327 |
|
Essays
|
328 |
|
Optional Activities
|
329 |
|
Web Site Listings
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329 |
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