WADSWORTH Speaking of America: Readings in U.S. History, Vol. II: Since 1865: 2

Explore a wide array of primary documents, poems, short stories, song lyrics, article excerpts, and news accounts encompassing multicultural and regional perspectives in SPEAKING OF AMERICA: READINGS IN U.S. HISTORY, VOLUME II: SINCE 1865, an interdisciplinary source reader. The selected readings address important episodes in politics, economics, and foreign policy as well as social and cultural changes. Both famous and ordinary Americans are featured. Review 12. RECONSTRUCTION. Elizabeth Hyde Botume, A Northern Teacher's View of the Freedmen (1863-1865). The Louisiana Black Code (1865). African Americans Seek Protection (1865). Thaddeus Stevens Attacks Presidential Reconstruction (1865). President Johnson Opposes Black Suffrage (1867). A White Planter Responds to Emancipation (1866). Howell Cobb, A White Southern Perspective on Reconstruction. Equal Rights Association Proceedings (1869). Susan B. Anthony on Women's Rights (1873). Ku Klux Klan During Reconstruction (1872). 13. THE RISE OF MODERN AMERICA. Selling to the Masses (1870-1900). Frederick Law Olmsted on Urban Life (1870). "Bowery, Saturday Night" (1871). Dr. John B.Whitaker on Factory Worker Health (1871). John D. Rockefeller on the Success of Standard Oil (1899). Henry W. Grady, "The New South" (1886). Jacob Riis Describes Life in the Tenements (1890). John Gast, American Progress (1872). HARPER'S WEEKLY on the Custer Massacre (1876). Chief Joseph's Lament (1879). Rules for Indian Boarding Schools (1890). 14. OLD AMERICANS, NEW AMERICANS. On the "Evils" of Chinese Immigration (1878). Yan Phou Lee, "The Chinese Must Stay" (1889). Grant Hamilton, "Where is the Blame?" (1891). Francis A.Walker Calls for Restriction of Immigration (1896). Sadie Frowne, A Polish Sweatshop Girl (1906). Florida Jim Crow Laws (1895-1913). Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Exposition Address (1895). W.E.B. DuBois, THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK (1903). 15. PROTESTORS AND IMPERIALISTS. Anthony Comstock, "The Suppression of Vice" (1882). Images of Working Class Leisure. Theodore Dreiser, SISTER CARRIE (1900). Terence Powderly on the Knights of Labor (1878, 1889). The CHICAGO TRIBUNE on the Haymarket Affair (1886). The Omaha Platform of the Populist Party (1892). Albert J. Beveridge Calls for an American Empire (1900). Mark Twain, "To the Person Sitting in Darkness" (1901). 16. THE PROGRESSIVE ERA. Charles Monroe Sheldon Asks "What Would Jesus Do?" (1897). Lincoln Steffens on Urban Political Corruption (1904). Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906). Gifford Pinchot, The Fight For Conservation (1910). Jane Addams on the Fight Against Poverty (1910). The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911). Margaret Sanger, "Morality and Birth Control" (1918) 17. WORLD WAR I. Woodrow Wilson, Declaration of War Message (1917). Senator George Norris Opposes U.S. Entry into World War I (1917). On the Western Front (1918). Eugene V. Debs Defends Political Dissent (1918). Alice Paul Inspires Her Fellow Suffragists (1917-1918). The NAACP Calls for Action (1919). Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918). Henry Cabot Lodge Opposes the League of Nations (1919). 18. THE ROARING TWENTIES. Marcus Garvey, "Africa for the Africans" (1922). Langston Hughes, "I, Too" (1925). Consumer Culture in the 1920s. The Scopes Trial (1925). College Students on "Petting" (1925). Hiram Evans, "The Klan's Fight for Americanism" (1926). Fiorello La Guardia on Prohibition (1926). Herbert Hoover, "American Individualism" (1928). 19. THE GREAT DEPRESSION, THE NEW DEAL. The Depression Hits Philadelphia (1931). The Great Depression in Rural America (1931). Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933). Huey Long Explains the "Share Our Wealth" Plan (1934). Frances Perkins on Social Security (1935). The New Deal and the Arts (1935-1939). Songs of American Workers. Grant Wood, American Gothic (1930). John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939). 20. WORLD WAR II. Franklin Roosevelt, "The Four Freedoms" (1941). Charles Lindbe