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1. Reconstruction, 1865-1877 DOCUMENTS 1. African Americans RecallPersonal Experiences of Newfound Freedom, c. 1865 2. Louisiana Black CodesReinstate Provisions of the Slave Era, 1865 3. President Andrew JohnsonDenounces Changes in His Program of Reconstruction, 1867 4. CongressmanThaddeus Stevens Demands a Radical Reconstruction, 1867 5. RepresentativeBenjamin Butler Argues That President Andrew Johnson Be Impeached, 1868 6.Elizabeth Cady Stanton Questions Abolitionist Support for FemaleEnfranchisement, 1868 7. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments GrantCitizenship and Due Process of Law to African Americans and Suffrage toAfrican American Men, 1868, 1870 8. Elias Hill, an African American Man,Recounts a Nighttime Visit from the Ku Klux Klan, 1871 9. Confederate GeneralJubal Early Memorializes the "Lost Cause," 1894 ESSAYS Steven Hahn,Continuing the War: White and Black Violence During Reconstruction David W.Blight, Ending the War: The Push for National Reconciliation 2. WesternSettlement and the Frontier DOCUMENTS 1. The Governor of Missouri Orders theMilitia to Exterminate Mormons, 1838 2. The Homestead Act Provides Free Landto Settlers, 1862 3. Pioneer Mary Barnard Aguirre Marries into the SpanishWest, 1863 4. The Federal Government Punishes Confederate Indians, 1865 5.Katie Bighead (Cheyenne) Remembers Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn,1876 6. Chief Joseph (Nez Perce) Surrenders, 1877 7. Southern FreedmenResolve to Move West, 1879 8. Wyoming Gunfight: An Attack on Chinatown, 18859. Historian Frederick Jackson Turner Articulates the "Frontier Thesis," 1893ESSAYS Ray Allen Billington, The Frontier as a Cradle of Liberty PatriciaNelson Limerick, The Frontier as a Place of Conquest and Conflict 3.Industrialization, Workers, and the New Immigration DOCUMENTS 1. ChineseImmigrant Lee Chew Denounces Prejudice in America, 1882 2. Poet Emma LazurusPraises The New Colossus, 1883 3. Immigrant Thomas O'Donnell Describes theWorker's Plight, 1883 4. Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie Preaches a Gospel ofWealth, 1889 5. Unionist Samuel Gompers Asks "What Does the Working ManWant?" 1890 6. Jurgis Rudkus Discovers Drink in The Jungle, 1905 7. ASlovenian Boy Recounts Tales of the Golden Country, 1909 8. EngineerFrederick Winslow Taylor Manufactures the Ideal Worker, 1910 ESSAYS OscarHandlin, Uprooted and Trapped: The One-Way Route to Modernity Mark Wyman,Coming and Going: Round Trip to America 4. Imperialism and World PowerDOCUMENTS 1. President William McKinley Asks for War to Liberate Cuba, 18982. Governor Theodore Roosevelt Praises the Manly Virtues of Imperialism, 18993. Filipino Leader Emilio Aguinaldo Rallies His People to Arms, 1899 4. TheAmerican Anti-Imperialist League Denounces U.S. Policy, 1899 5. Mark TwainSatirizes "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," 1900 6. A Soldier CriticizesAmerican Racism in the Philippines, 1902 7. The Roosevelt Corollary Makes theU.S. the Police of Latin America, 1904 8. President Woodrow Wilson DisavowsTerritorial Conquest, 1913 ESSAYS Gail Bederman, Gendering Imperialism:Theodore Roosevelt's Quest for Manhood and Empire Anders Stephanson, GlobalCompetition and Manifest Destiny on the Cusp of the Twentieth Century 5. TheProgressive Movement DOCUMENTS 1. W.C.T.U. Blasts Drinking and Smoking, andDemands the Power to Protect, 1893 2. Philosopher John Dewey AdvocatesDemocracy Through Education, 1899 3. NAACP Founder W.E.B. DuBois DenouncesCompromise on Negro Education and Civil Rights, 1903 4. Journalist LincolnSteffens Exposes the Shame of Corruption, 1904 5. Political Boss GeorgeWashington Plunkitt Defends "Honest" Graft, 1905 6. Social Worker Jane AddamsAdvocates Civic Housekeeping, 1906 7. President Theodore Roosevelt PreachesConservation and Efficiency, 1908 8. Sociologist William Graham SumnerDenounces Reformers' Fanaticism, 1913 9. Rewriting the Constitution:Amendments on Income Tax, Election of Senators, Prohibition, and the Vote forWomen, 1913-1920 ESSAYS Daniel T. Rodgers, American Progressivism in theWider Atlantic World Eric Rauchway, A Distinctive American Progressivism:Women, Immigrants, and Education 6. America in World War I DOCUMENTS 1.President Woodrow Wilson Asks Congress to Declare War, 1917 2. Senator RobertM. LaFollette Passionately Dissents, 1917 3. A Union Organizer Testifies toVigilante Attack, 1917 4. The U.S. Government Punishes War Protestors: TheEspionage Act, 1918 5. Wilson Proposes a New World Order in the "FourteenPoints," 1918 6. Broadway Showman George M. Cohan Sings About Patriotism,1918 7. An Ambulance Surgeon Describes What It Was Like "Over There," 1918 8.Publicist George Creel Recalls Selling the War, 1920 9. Cartoons for andAgainst the League of Nations, 1920 ESSAYS Walter McDougall, Woodrow Wilson:Egocentric Crusader Robert A. Pastor, Woodrow Wilson: Father of the Future 7.Crossing a Cultural Divide: The Twenties DOCUMENTS 1. The Governor ofCalifornia Tells of the Japanese "Problem, "1920 2. Reverend Amzi ClarenceDixon Preaches on the Evils of Darwinism and Evolution, 1922 3. A Survey ofthe Morals of High School Students, 1924 4. Defense Attorney Clarence DarrowInterrogates Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan in the Monkey Trial, 1925 5.Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald Reveals Attitudes About Gender and Race in TheGreat Gatsby, 1925 6. The Ku Klux Klan Defines Americanism, 1926 7. TheAutomobile Comes to Middletown, U.S.A., 1929 8. Langston Hughes: Poet of the1920s Harlem Renaissance ESSAYS Paula S. Fass, Sex and Youth in the Jazz AgeEdward J. Larson, Religious Traditionalists Battle Modernism (and Evolution)in the Roaring Twenties 8. The Depression, the New Deal, and Franklin D.Roosevelt DOCUMENTS 1. President Herbert Hoover Applauds Limited Government,1931 2. The Nation Asks "Is It to Be Murder, Mr. Hoover?" 1932 3. BusinessLeader Henry Ford Advocates Self-Help, 1932 4. President Franklin RooseveltSeeks Justice for "One-Third of a Nation," "1937 5. Nelson RockefellerLectures Standard Oil on Social Responsibility, 1937 6. Social SecurityAdvisers Consider Male and Female Pensioners, 1938 7. A Union Man Gets HisJob Back Under the New Labor Law, 1938 8. John Steinbeck Portrays the OutcastPoor in The Grapes of Wrath, 1939 9. Woody Guthrie Sings "This Land Is YourLand," 1940 ESSAYS David M. Kennedy, FDR: Advocate for the American PeopleRobert Higgs, FDR: Opportunistic Architect of Big Government 9. The Ordeal ofWorld War II DOCUMENTS 1. Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler Links Race andNationality, 1927 2. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Asks Congress to DeclareWar, 1941 3. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill Reacts to Pearl Harbor,1941 4. Roosevelt Identifies the "Four Freedoms" at Stake in the War, 1941 5.A Japanese American Recalls the Effect of Internment on Family Unity, 1942 6.Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin Plan the United Nations, 1943 7. AnAfrican American Soldier Notes the "Strange Paradox" of the War, 1944 8. AnAmerican Officer Worries About His Wife's Loyalty, 1944 9. Dwight EisenhowerReports to General George Marshall on the German Concentration Camps, 1945ESSAYS John Morton Blum, G.I. Joe: Fighting for Home Alan Brinkley, AmericanLiberals: Fighting for a Better World 10. The Cold War and the Nuclear AgeDOCUMENTS 1. Diplomat George Kennan Advocates Containment, 1946 2. Secretaryof Commerce Henry A. Wallace Questions the "Get Tough" Policy, 1946 3. SovietAmbassador Nikolai Novikov Sees a U.S. Bid for World Supremacy, 1946 4. TheTruman Doctrine Calls for the United States to Become World's Police, 1947 5.The Marshall Plan Seeks to Rebuild Europe, 1948 6. Senator Joseph McCarthyDescribes the Internal Communist Menace, 1950 7. The Federal Loyalty-SecurityProgram Expels a Postal Clerk, 1954 8. Life Magazine Reassures Americans "WeWon't All Be Dead" After Nuclear War, 1959 ESSAYS Walter LaFeber, Truman'sHard Line Prompted the Cold War John Lewis Gaddis, Stalin's Hard LinePrompted a Defensive Response in the United States and Europe 11. The 1950s"Boom": Affluence and Anxiety DOCUMENTS 1. Congress Passes the G.I. Bill ofRights, 1944 2. A Young American Is "Born on the Fourth of July," 1946 3.Science News Letter Reports a Baby Boom, 1954 4. Parental Indulgence IsCriticized in Rebel Without a Cause, 1955 5. Governor Adlai Stevenson TellsCollege Women About Their Place in Life, 1955 6. Author Paul GoodmanDescribes Growing Up Absurd, 1956 7. Life Magazine Identifies the NewTeen-age Market, 1959 8. Feminist Betty Friedan Describes the Problem ThatHas No Name, 1959 9. New Yorker Cartoon, 1963 ESSAYS John Patrick Diggins, ADecade to Make One Proud Stephanie Coontz, Families in the Fifties: The WayWe Never Were 12. Making the Great Society: Civil Rights DOCUMENTS 1. TheUnited Nations Approves a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 2. TheSupreme Court Rules on Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 3. Reverend MartinLuther King, Jr., Defends Seamstress Rosa Parks, 1955 4. Author Henry LouisGates, Jr., Remembers Civil Rights on TV, 1957 5. Congress OutlawsSegregation with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 6. Black Muslim Malcolm XWarns: The Ballot or the Bullet, 1964 7. The National Organization for WomenCalls for Equality, 1966 8. Mexican Americans Form La Raza Unida, 1968 9. AProclamation from the Indians of All Tribes, Alcatraz Island, 1969 10.Congress Guarantees Rights of Americans with Disabilities, 1990 ESSAYS DavidJ. Garrow, Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Emergence of a Grassroots Leader JohnD. Skrentny, The Minority Rights Revolution: Top Down and Bottom Up 13. TheSixties: Left, Right, and the Culture Wars DOCUMENTS 1. Young Americans forFreedom Draft a Conservative Manifesto, 1960 2. President John Kennedy TellsAmericans to Ask "What You Can Do," 1961 3. Bill Moyers Remembers Kennedy'sEffect on His Generation (1961), 1988 4. Students for a Democratic SocietyAdvance a Reform Agenda, 1962 5. Folk Singer Malvina Reynolds Sees YoungPeople in "Little Boxes," 1963 6. Alabama Governor George Wallace DenouncesTop-Down Reform and Pledges "Segregation Forever," 1963 7. President LyndonB. Johnson Declares a Federal War on Poverty, 1964 8. A Protestor at ColumbiaUniversity Defends Long Hair and Revolution, 1969 9. Vice President SpiroAgnew Warns of the Threat to America, 1969 10. Psychologist Carl RogersEmphasizes Being "Real" in Encounter Groups, 1970 ESSAYS Kenneth Cmiel,Triumph of the Left: Sixties Revolution and the Revolution in Manners Dan T.Carter, Triumph of the Right: George Wallace, Richard Nixon, and the Critiqueof Federal Activism 14. Vietnam and the Downfall of Presidents DOCUMENTS 1.Independence Leader Ho Chi Minh Pleads with Harry Truman for Support, 1946 2.President Dwight Eisenhower Warns of Falling Dominoes, 1954 3. DefenseAnalyst John McNaughton Advises Robert McNamara on War Aims, 1965 4.Undersecretary of State George Ball Urges Withdrawal from Vietnam, 1965 5. AMarine Remembers His Idealism of 1965 (1977) 6. Students for a DemocraticSociety Oppose the War, 1965 7. White House Counsel John W. Dean III Presentsthe "Enemies List," 1971 8. Senator Sam J. Ervin on the Watergate Crimes,1974 ESSAYS Robert McNamara, James Blight, and Robert Brigham, Cold WarMindsets and the "Mistake" of Vietnam Robert Buzzanco, Anti-Democratic"Containment," No Mistake 15. End of the Cold War and New InternationalChallenges: Globalization and Terrorism DOCUMENTS 1. President Ronald ReganSees a Revitalized America, 1985 2. A Unionist Blasts the Export of Jobs,1987 3. President George H. W. Bush Declares the Cold War Over, 1990 4.Campaign Adviser Condoleezza Rice Cautions Against HumanitarianInterventions, 2000 5. Two Workers Flee the Inferno in the Twin Towers, 20016. A New York Immigrant Weeps as the Twin Towers Fall, 2001 7. JournalistDavid Brooks Sees Basic Unity Between "Red" and "Blue" Americans, 2001 8.Senator Robert Byrd Condemns Post-9/11 Foreign Policy, 2003 9. PresidentGeorge W. Bush Ranks Freedom Above Stability, 2005 ESSAYS Bernard Lewis,Clash of Civilizations Thomas Friedman, Clash of Economies