Reconstruction |
| Abraham Lincoln |
"The Gettysburg Address" (1863) |
| Jourdan Anderson |
"Letter from Jourdan Anderson to His Former Master" (1865) |
| Jessie Butler and Augustus Ladson |
Two Interviews with Ex-Slaves |
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Excerpts from the Mississippi Black Codes (1865) |
| Sojourner Truth |
Excerpt from "When Woman Gets Her Rights Man Will Be Right" (1867) |
| Thomas Nast |
Political Cartoons on Reconstruction |
The New South |
| Albion Tourgee |
Letter on Lynching in North Carolina (1870) |
| Frederick Douglass |
"The Color Line" (1881) |
| Henry Grady |
"The New South" (1886) |
| Robert Penn Warren |
Excerpts from The Legacy of the Civil War (1961) |
| United States Supreme Court |
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) |
The Old West |
| Chief Joseph |
"An Indian's View of Indian Affairs" (1879) |
| Charles A. Eastman |
"The Great Mystery" and "The Family Altar" (1911) |
| Frederick Jackson Turner |
"The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1894) |
Business and Politics during the Gilded Age |
| Abram S. Hewitt |
"The Mutual Relations of Capital and Labor" (1878) |
| Andrew Carnegie |
"The Gospel of Wealth" (1889) |
| Henry Demarest Lloyd |
"Wealth against Commonwealth" (1894) |
Labor during the Nineteenth Century |
| Knights of Labor |
Preamble of the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878) |
| Leonora Barry |
Letters on Union Organizing for the Knights of Labor (1887-1889) |
| Samuel Gompers |
"Letter on Labor in Industrial Society" (1894) |
| Samuel Gompers |
"Why Strikes Are Necessary" (ca. 1890s) |
| Thomas Nast |
Cartoons Related to Labor and Capital (1870s) |
| Morris Rosenfeld |
"The Sweatshop" (1898) |
Immigration |
| Erna Oleson Xan |
Excerpts from Wisconsin My Home (1866) |
| Thomas Nast |
Cartoons Related to Irish and Chinese Immigration (1870s) |
| Emma Lazarus |
"The New Colossus" (1883) |
| Josiah Strong |
"Perils: The City" from Our Country (1890) |
| Rose Gollup Cohen |
From Russia to the Lower East Side in the 1890s |
| Michael Gold |
Jews Without Money |
| Samuel Gompers and Herman Gutstadt |
Manhood Gives Titles to Rights (1901) |
| Upton Sinclair |
The Jungle (1906) |
| Henry Cabot Lodge |
"The Restriction of Immigration" (1909) |
| Emma Goldman |
Excerpts from Anarchism and Other Essays (1911) |
| Randolph Bourne |
Excerpt from "Trans-National America" (1916) |
Rural Life and Populism |
| Hamlin Garland |
"Under the Lion's Paw" (1891) |
| Populist Party |
The Omaha Platform (1892) |
| Frances Garside |
Populist Women's Perspective (1891, 1893) |
| Mary Elizabeth Lease |
"The Populist Uprising" (1929) |
| William Jennings Bryan |
"Cross of Gold Speech" (1896) |
Progressivism, Women |
| Jacob Riis |
"The Bend," from How the Other Half Lives (1890) |
| Robert Hunter |
Excerpt from Poverty: Social Conscience in the Progressive Era (1904) |
| Robert M. La Follette, Sr. |
Excerpts from A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences (1912) |
| Jane Addams |
"Why the Ward Boss Rules" (1898) |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
Excerpt from Women and Economics (1898) |
| Margaret Sanger |
"The Right to One's Body" (1920) |
| Florence Kelley |
Excerpt from "I Go to Work" (1927) |
African-Americans, Great Migration |
| Rev. S. P. Roundtree |
Advertisement for All-Black Town (1877) |
| Booker T. Washington |
"The Atlanta Exposition Address" (1895) |
| W. E. B. Du Bois |
"Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others" (1903) |
| R. R. Wright and Arthur Shaw |
Two Letters from the Great Migration (1916) |
| Marcus Garvey |
"An Appeal to the Conscience of the Black Race to See Itself" (1923) |
| Langston Hughes |
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and Other Poems (1929) |
| Alain Locke |
"The New Negro" (1925) |
| William B. Wheeler and Susan D. Becker |
Estimated Net Intercensal Migration of Negro Population by Regions 1870-1920 |
Foreign Relations and U.S. Imperialism |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan |
Excerpts from The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 (1890) |
| Josiah Strong |
"The Anglo-Saxon and the World's Future" (1890) |
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"Outward Thrust" (1885-1900) |
| Jose Marti |
Cautions against Cuban Annexation to the United States (1895) |
| Albert Beveridge |
"The March of the Flag" (1898) |
| William Jennings Bryan |
"America's Mission" (1899) |
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Cartoons on the "Civilizing Mission" (1890s) |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
"The Roosevelt Corollary" (1904) |
World War I |
| Woodrow Wilson |
"Address to Congress, April 2, 1917" |
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"Opponents of Intervention" (1917) |
| Eugene V. Debs |
Excerpt from a Speech at Canton, Ohio (1918) |
| Louis Felix Ranlett |
"Life in the Trenches - France, 1918" |
| Woodrow Wilson |
"The Fourteen Points" (1918) |
| Henry Cabot Lodge |
Excerpts from "The Lodge Reservations" (1919) |
The Culture of the 1920s |
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Advertisements of the 1920s |
| Bartlesville, Oklahoma, City Directory |
KKK Listing (1924) |
| Hoagy Carmichael |
Excerpts from The Stardust Road (1946) |
| Clarence Darrow |
Excerpt from "Defense of John Scopes" (1924) |
| H. W. Evans |
"The Klan of Tomorrow" (1924) |
| Henry Ford |
Excerpt from My Life and Work (1922) |
| U.S. Supreme Court |
Excerpt from Buck v. Bell (1927) |
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Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) |
| Herbert Hoover |
"Rugged Individualism" (1920s) |
The Great Depression |
| Oscar Ameringer |
"Testimony on Unemployment" (1932) |
| Dorothea Lange |
Photographs from the Great Depression (1930s) |
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Letters: "Down and Out in the Great Depression" (1930s) |
| Woody Guthrie |
"This Land Is Your Land" (1944) |
The New Deal |
| Huey Long |
Excerpts from "Every Man a King" (1934) |
| Frances Perkins |
Excerpts from "Radio Address on Social Security" (1935) |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
"Second Inaugural Address" (1937) |
| John L. Lewis |
"Rights of Labor" (1937) |
| William Allen White |
"For the Consumer" (1937) |
World War II |
| Albert Einstein |
Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt (1939) |
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"The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan" (1991) |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
"The Four Freedoms" (1941) |
| Art Spiegelman |
From Maus |
| U.S. Supreme Court |
Korematsu v. United States, Dissents (1944) |
| Lowry G. Wright, et al. |
Letters from African-American Soldiers during World War II |
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"The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan" (1991) |
| Michihiko Hachiya |
Excerpt from Hiroshima Diary (1945) |
The Cold War |
| Paul Boyer |
Photos, Advertisements, and Cartoons Related to Atomic Power (1940s, 50s) |
| Mr. X [George Kennan] |
"The Sources of Soviet Conduct" (1947) |
| National Security Council |
NSC-68 (1950) |
| Joseph McCarthy |
"Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia" (1950) |
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"The Red Scare" (1950s) |
| Norman Thomas |
"McCarthy and Liberty" (1954) |
| Richard Nixon |
The "Kitchen Debate" in Moscow (1959) |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
"Farewell Address" (1961) |
| John F. Kennedy |
"Speech at the Berlin Wall" (1963) |
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"The Red Scare" (1950s) |
Culture of the 1950s |
| Ray Bradbury |
"There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950) |
| Phyllis McGinley |
"Suburbia: Of Thee I Sing" (1950) |
| Allen Ginsberg |
"America" (1959) |
| J. Edgar Hoover |
"Television Violence" (1958) |
| Jack Kerouac |
"Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" (1959) |
| Louis Simpson |
"The Silent Generation" (1959) |
Civil Rights Movements |
| U.S. Supreme Court |
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) |
| Southern Congressional Members |
"Southern Manifesto" (1956) |
| Robert F. Williams |
"Negroes With Guns" (1962) |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
"Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (1963) |
| Lyndon B. Johnson |
"Commencement Address at Howard University" (1965) |
| Stokely Carmichael |
"Black Power" (1967) |
| Huey P. Newton |
Black Panther Party's "Ten Point Program" (1960s) |
| Ella Baker |
"Developing Community Leadership" (1970) |
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| Betty Friedan |
Excerpts from The Feminine Mystique (1963) |
| National Organization for Women |
Statement of Purpose (1960s) |
| Johnnie Tillmon |
"Welfare as a Women's Issue" (1972) |
| U.S. Supreme Court |
Roe v. Wade (1973) |
| Rodolfo Gonzales |
Excerpt from "I Am Joaqu’n" (1967) |
| Cesar Chavez |
"Letter from Delano" (1969) |
| Indians of All Tribes |
"Proclamation to the Great White Father and All His People" (1969) |
| Vine Deloria, Jr. |
"The Red and the Black" (1969) |
Culture of the 1960s and the Great Society |
| Newton Minow |
"Address to the Broadcasting Industry" (1961) |
| Joseph Heller |
"Major Major Major Major" from Catch-22 (1961) |
| Students for a Democratic Society |
"The Port Huron Statement" (1962) |
| Rachel Carson |
Excerpts from Silent Spring (1962) |
| Lyndon B. Johnson |
Excerpt from "The Great Society" (1964) |
| Lyndon B. Johnson |
"Inaugural Address" (1965) |
| Ralph Nader |
Excerpt from Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) |
Vietnam |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
"The Domino Theory" (1954) |
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The Tonkin Gulf Incident (1964) |
| Country Joe McDonald |
"I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" (1965) |
| Barry Sadler and Robin Moore |
"The Ballad of the Green Berets" (1966) |
| J. William Fulbright |
Excerpts from "A Sick Society" (1967) |
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Letters from Wisconsin Soldiers in Vietnam (1966-1971) |
| Tim O'Brien |
Excerpts from The Things They Carried (American GIs in Vietnam) |
| Tim O'Brien |
"How to Tell a True War Story" |
| Richard Nixon |
"Address on Vietnamizing the War" (1969) |
| United States Congress |
War Powers Act (1973) |
Nixon, Watergate, and the 1970s |
| Sam J. Ervin |
"Senator Sam J. Ervin on Watergate" (1974) |
| Stanley I. Kutler, ed. |
Excerpts from Abuse of Power |
| Tom Wolfe |
"The 'Me' Decade and the Third Great Awakening" (1976) |
| Jimmy Carter |
"A New American Foreign Policy" (1977) |
| Jimmy Carter |
"America's Crisis of Confidence" -- The "Malaise" Speech (1979) |
Ronald Reagan and the 1980s |
| Phyllis Schlafly |
"Understanding the Difference" (1977) |
| Milton and Rose Friedman |
Excerpt from Free to Choose (1980) |
| Ronald Reagan |
Inaugural Address (1981) |
| St. Louis Globe-Democrat |
"The 1983 Budget: A Courageous Document" (1982) |
| Sidney Weintraub |
Excerpts from "The [1983] Budget: Guns Up, People Down" (1982) |
| Ronald Reagan |
"Evil Empire" Speech (1983) |
| Paul Conrad |
Political Cartoons, including "The Man in the Teflon Suit" |
| Gerald Parshall |
"The Times They Are a-Changin'" (1986) |
| G. B. Trudeau |
Excerpts from Doonesbury Dossier: The Reagan Years |
