Cengage Learning Voices of the American Past, Volume II

VOICES OF THE AMERICAN PAST is a two-volume reader that presents a variety of diverse perspectives through more than 240 primary sources. Excerpts from speeches, letters, journals, magazine articles, hearings and government documents raise issues from both public and private aspects of American life throughout history. A “Guide to Reading and Interpreting Documents” in the front matter explains how and why historians use primary source evidence, and outlines basic points to help readers learn to analyze sources. Brief headnotes set each source into context. “Questions to Consider” precede each document, offering prompts for critical thinking and reflection. The volumes are organized chronologically into 27 chapters, with the Reconstruction chapter overlapping in both volumes. Review 15. RECONSTRUCTION. 124. A Northern Teacher's View of the Freedmen (1863-65). 125. Charleston, South Carolina at the Conclusion of the Civil War (1865). 126. African-Americans Seek Protection (1865). 127. Thaddeus Stevens on Reconstruction and the South (1865). 128. A White Southern Perspective on Reconstruction (1868). 129. African American Suffrage in the South (1867, 1876). 130. An African American Congressman Calls for Civil Rights (1874). 131. The Situation for African Americans in the South (1879). 16. THE WEST. 132. A Native American Remembers Life on the Great Plains (1870s). 133. Hunting Buffalo on the Great Plains (c. 1875). 134. A Century of Dishonor (1881). 135. A Western Newspaper Editorial on the Custer Massacre (1876). 136. Cultural Exchange on the Arizona Frontier (1874). 137. A Native American Remembers the Ghost Dance (1890). 138. Populist Party Platform (1892). 139. "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893). 140. A Woman's Description of Farm Life in Illinois (1905). 17. GILDED AGE AMERICA. 141. The Cattle Industry (1884). 142. The Impact of Mechanization (1889). 143. Views of Big Business (1883, 1889, 1900). 144. "The Forgotten Man" (1883). 145. The Gospel of Wealth (1889). 146. Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878). 147. Lynching in the South (1895). 148. W.E.B. Du Bois on Race Relations (1903). 149. The Unwanted Immigrants: The Chinese (1878). 150. "The Story of a Sweatshop Girl" (1902). 151. An Italian Immigrant's Experience in America (1902). 152. A Woman's Perspective on Women and the Economy (1898). 18. THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT. 153. An Insider's View of Hull House. 154. "The American Forests" (1901). 155. Boss Government at Work (1903). 156. The Jungle (1906). 157. The Socialist Alternative (1908). 158. "Why Women Should Vote" (1910). 159. The New Nationalism of Theodore Roosevelt (1912). 160. Women and the Middle-Class Home (1913). 19. AMERICA ON THE WORLD STAGE. 161. The Sinking of the Maine (1898). 162. Aquinaldo's Call for Philippine Independence (1899). 163. An Anti-Imperialist Perspective (1899). 164. The New Manifest Destiny (1900). 165. Perspectives of Overseas Expansion (1898, 1899, 1900). 166. "A Colombian View of the Panama Canal Question" (1903). 167. Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904). 168. Woodrow Wilson's Declaration of War Message (1917). 169. Advertising the War Effort (1920). 170. Opposition to the League of Nations (1919). 171. The Red Scare (1920). 20. THE RETURN TO "NORMALCY." 172. A Speech against Immigration Restriction (1921). 173. The Role of Advertising (1922). 174. The Impact of the Automobile (1922). 175. The New Negro (1925). 176. Religion and the Scopes Trial (1925). 177. The Ku Klux Klan's Perspective (1926). 178. The New Woman (1927). 179. American Individualism (1928). 21. FDR AND THE NEW DEAL. 180. Urban Families in the Great Depression (1931). 181. Women on the Breadlines (1932). 182. Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933). 183. A Businessman's View of the New Deal (1934). 184. Editorial Cartoons Opposing the New Deal (1934, 1935). 185. The "Dust Bowl" (1935). 186. Eleanor Roose