Chapter 17. Reconstruction, 1863 1877

17 1 Charlotte Forten, Life on the Sea Islands, 1864

17 2 Lincoln''s Second Inaugural Address, 1865

17 3 The Freedmen''s Bureau Bill, 1865

17 4 Black Code of Mississippi, 1865

17 5 Frederick Douglass, Speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1865

17 6 The Civil Rights Act of 1866

17 7 President Johnson''s Veto of the Civil Rights Act, 1866

17 8 The First Reconstruction Act, 1867

17 9 Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan, 1868

17 10 Blanche K. Bruce, Speech in the Senate, 1876

17 11 A Sharecrop Contract, 1882

Chapter 18. Conquest and Survival: Communities in the Trans-Mississippi, 1860-1900

18 1 The Oklahoma Land Rush, 1889

18 2 The Homestead Act, 1862

18 3 Helen Hunt Jackson, The Thrill of Western Railroading, 1878

18 4 Bill Haywood, Miners and Cowboys, 1887

18 5 Red Cloud, Speech at Cooper Union, New York, 1870

18 6 Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor, 1881

18 7 The Dawes General Allotment (Severalty) Act, 1887

18 8 D. W. C. Duncan, How Allotment Impoverishes the Indian, 1906

18 9 Charles and Nellie Wooster, Letters from the Frontier, 1872

18 10 John Wesley Powell, Report on the Arid Lands of the West, 1879

Chapter 19. The Incorporation of America, 1860 1900

19 1 Paul Bourget, The Traffic in Meat, 1894

19 2 Andrew Carnegie, Wealth, 1889

19 3 John Morrison, Testimony of a Machinist, 1883

19 4 Terence V. Powderly, The Knights of Labor, 1889

19 5 Samuel Gompers, Testimony on Labor Unions, 1883

19 6 Lee Chew, Experiences of a Chinese Immigrant, 1903

19 7 John Hill, Testimony on Southern Texile Industry, 1883

19 8 Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption, 1899

19 9 M. Carey Thomas, Higher Education for Women, 1901

19 10 B. F. Keith, The Vogue of Vaudeville, 1898

Chapter 20. Commonwealth and Empire, 1870s 1900s

20 1 Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 1888

20 2 E. L. Godkin, A Great National Disgrace, 1877

20 3 Roscoe Conkling, Defense of the Spoils System, 1877

20 4 Populist Party Platform, 1892

20 5 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Solitude of Self, 1890

20 6 Pullman Strikers'' Statement, 1894

20 7 Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power, 1895

20 8 Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893

20 9 Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life, 1899

20 10 George F. Hoar, Against Imperialism, 1902

Chapter 21. Urban America and the Progressive Era, 1900 1920

21 1 Jane Addams, The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements, 1892

21 2 George Washington Plunkitt; Honest Graft, 1905

21 3 Louis Brandeis, The Living Law, 1916

21 4 Margaret Sanger, The Case for Birth Control, 1917

21 5 Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895

21 6 Ida B. Wells, A Red Record, 1895

21 7 The Niagara Movement, Declaration of Principles, 1905

21 8 Declaration of the Conservation Conference, 1908

21 9 Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, 1913

Chapter 22. World War I, 1914 1918

22 1 The President''s Commission at Bisbee, 1917

22 2 Theodore Roosevelt, Corollary to The Monroe Doctrine, 1904

22 3 Woodrow Wilson, War Message to Congress, 1917

22 4 George Norris, Against Entry into War, 1917

22 5 George Creel, How We Advertised America, 1920

22 6 Diary of an Unknown Aviator, 1918

22 7 Anna Howard Shaw, Woman''s Committee of the Council of National Defense, 1917

22 8 Eugene v. Debs, Statement to the Court, 1918

22 9 Letters from the Great Migration, 1916 1917

22 10 Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points, 1918

Chapter 23. The Twenties, 1921 1929

23 1 Motion Picture Diaries

23 2 Herbert Hoover, American Individualism, 1922

23 3 Bruce Barton, Jesus Christ as Businessman, 1925

23 4 Eleanor Wembridge, Petting and Necking, 1925

23 5 Paul Morand, Speakeasies in New York, 1929

23 6 U.S. Congress, Debating Immigration Restriction, 1921

23 7 Hiram Evans, The Klan''s Fight for Americanism, 1926

23 8 Charles S. Johnson, The City Negro, 1925

23 9 Sinclair Lewis, Our Ideal Citizen, 1922

Chapter 24. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929 1939

24 1 Bob Stinson, Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936

24 2 Meridel Le Sueur, Women on the Breadlines, 1932

24 3 Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933

24 4 Huey Long, Share Our Wealth, 1935

24 5 National Labor Relations Act, 1935

24 6 U.S. Senate, Investigation of Strikebreaking, 1939

24 7 Republican Party Platform, 1936

24 8 Carey Mc Williams, Okies in California, 1939

24 9 Hiram Sherman, The Federal Theater Project, 1936

Chapter 25. World War II, 1930s 1945

25 1 Bernice Brode, Tales of Los Alamos, 1943

25 2 Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms, 1941

25 3 Burton K. Wheeler, Radio Address on Lend-Lease, 1941

25 4 Ernie Pyle, The Toughest Beachhead in the World, 1944

25 5 R. L. Duffus, A City that Forges Thunderbolts, 1943

25 6 Virginia Snow Wilkinson, From Housewife to Shipfitter, 1943

25 7 Earl B. Dickerson, The Fair Employment Practices Committee, 1941 43

25 8 Barbara Wooddall and Charles Taylor, Letters to and from the Front, 1941 1944

25 9 Korematsu v. United States, 1944

Chapter 26. The Cold War, 1945 1952

26 1 Clark Clifford, Memorandum to President Truman, 1946

26 2 Henry Wallace, Letter to President Truman, 1946

26 3 The Truman Doctrine, 1947

26 4 The Truman Loyalty Order, 1947

26 5 American Medical Association, Campaign against Compulsory Health Insurance, 1949

26 6 Ronald Reagan and Albert Maltz, Testimony before HUAC, 1947

26 7 Joseph McCarthy, Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, 1950

26 8 The Advertising Council, The Miracle of America, 1948

26 9 NSC 68, 1950

Chapter 27. America at Midcentury, 1952 1963

27 1 The Teenage Comumer, 1959

27 2 Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, 1961

27 3 John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961

27 4 Newton Minow, Address to the NationalAssociation of Broadcasters, 1961

27 5 John K. Galbreath, The Affluent Society, 1958

27 6 Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962

27 7 Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957

27 8 Betty Friedan, The Problem That Has No Name, 1963

27 9 Jerry Lee Lewis and Sam Phillips Discuss "Great Balls of Fire," 1957

27 10 John F. Kennedy, Speech at American University, 1963

Chapter 28. Civil Rights and the Great Society, 1945 1966

28 1 Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955

28 2 Brown v. Board of Education, 1954

28 3 Southern Manifesto on Integration, 1956

28 4 Julian Bond, Sit-ins and the Origins of SNCC, 1960

28 5 Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963

28 6 Fannie Lou Hamer, Voting Rights in Mississippi 1962 1964

28 7 Letters from Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964

28 8 Casey Hadon and Mary King, Sex and Caste, 1965

28 9 The Civil Rights Act, 1964

28 10 Michael Harrington, The Other America, 1962

Chapter 29. War Abroad, War at Home, 1965 1974

29 1 Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement, 1962

29 2 Lyndon B. Johnson, The Great Society, 1964

29 3 Lyndon B. Johnson, Why We Are in Vietnam, 1965

29 4 Stokely Carmichael, Black Power, 1966

29 5 Martin Luther King, Jr., Conscience and the Vietnam War, 1967

29 6 Report of the National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders, 1968

29 7 Robin Morgan, Radical Feminism, 1975

29 8 Spiro Agnew, The Dangers of Constant Carnival, 1969

29 9 John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1971

29 10 Roe v. Wade, 1973

29 11 Articles of Impeachment against Richard M. Nixon, 1974

Chapter 30. The Over-Extended Society, 1974 1980

30 1 Town Meeting, Middletown, Pennsylvania, 1979

30 2 William Julius Wilson, The Urban Underclass, 1980

30 3 Affirmative Action in Atlanta, 1974

30 4 Lois Gibbs, Love Canal 1978

30 5 Jimmy Carter, The Crisis of Conscience, 1979

30 6 Presidential Press Conference, 1979

30 7 Richard Viguerie, Why the New Right Is Winning 1981

Chapter 31. The Conservative Ascendancy, 1980 1992

31 1 Jesse Jackson, Common Ground, 1988

31 2 Cecelia Rosa Avila, Third Generation Mexican American, 1988

31 3 Howard Rheingold, Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, 1993

31 4 America Enters a New Century with Terror, 2001