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Tables of Contents for For the Record
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Reconstruction: North and South
1
21
New York Times From The Late Convention of Colored Men (1865)
3
1
To the Freed People of Orangeburg (1865)
4
3
Charles Soule
From A New England Woman's Diary in Dixie in 1865
7
1
Mary Ames
Black Codes of Mississippi (1865)
8
3
An Unreconstructed Southerner (1868)
11
2
Howell Cobb
Organization and Principles of The Ku Klux Klan (1868)
13
2
From Lay My Burden Down
15
2
Lee Guidon
Klan Terrorism in South Carolina
17
5
New Frontiers: South and West
22
31
From The New South (1886)
24
2
Henry W. Grady
From The New South Investigated (1888)
26
1
D. Augustus Straker
A Sharecrop Contract (1882)
27
2
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
29
2
The Atlanta Compromise (1895)
31
3
Booker T. Washington
A Critique of the Atlanta Compromise (1896)
34
1
John Hope
From The First Pioneers of the Gila Valley (1880)
35
3
Mrs. C. A. Teeples
From Life in a Mining Camp (1867)
38
3
Rachel Haskell
From Negro Exodus from the Southern States (1880)
41
2
Benjamin Singleton
From Boley: A Negro Town in the West (1908)
43
3
Booker T. Washington
An Indian's Perspective
46
2
Chief Joseph
The Dawes Act (1887)
48
1
From The Frontier in American History (1893)
49
4
Frederick Jackson Turner
Big Business and Organized Labor
53
17
From Wealth (1889)
55
3
Andrew Carnegie
Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878)
58
2
Organizing Women Workers
60
2
Leonora M. Barry
The American Federation of Labor (1883)
62
1
Samuel Gompers
From Women as Bread Winners---The Error of the Age (1887)
63
2
Edward O'Donnell
From Women as Clerks in New York (1891)
65
3
Clara Lanza
From Outlook for Socialism in the United States (1900)
68
2
Eugene V. Debs
The Emergence of Urban America
70
17
From Our Country (1885)
72
2
Josiah Strong
From The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century (1899)
74
2
Adna Ferrin Weber
On the Origin of Species (1860)
76
3
Louis Agassiz
From Darwiniana (1876)
79
3
Asa Gray
From The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over (1883)
82
3
William Graham Sumner
The Athletic Craze (1893)
85
2
Guilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt
87
24
A Defense of Political Graft (1905)
89
1
George W. Plunkitt
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
90
2
From Should the Chinese Be Excluded? (1893)
92
3
Robert G. Ingersoll
A Black Woman's Appeal for Civil Rights (1891)
95
1
Frances Ellen
Watkins Harper
Veto of Pension Legislation (1886)
96
2
Grover Cleveland
Populist Party Platform (1892)
98
3
The Money Question (1892)
101
1
Mary E. Lease
From The Strength and Weakness of the People's Movement (1892)
102
2
Eva McDonald-Valesh
What Farm Problem? (1896)
104
1
J. Sterling Morton
The Republican Party Platform of 1896
105
1
From The ``Cross of Gold'' Speech (1896)
106
5
William Jennings Bryan
An American Empire
111
17
The War Must Be Ended (1897)
113
1
New York World
Declaration of War (1898)
114
2
William McKinley
From Under Fire in Cuba (1898)
116
3
William Ransom Roberts
From The March of the Flag
119
2
Albert J. Beveridge
Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League (1899)
121
2
The Open Door in China (1899-1900)
123
1
John Hay
From China and Russia (1900)
124
2
Josiah Quincy
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904)
126
2
The Progressive Era
128
22
Scientific Management (1912)
129
2
Frederick Winslow Taylor
From The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements (1892)
131
3
Jane Addams
From The Jungle (1906)
134
2
Upton Sinclair
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
136
2
Why Women Should Vote (1915)
138
1
Jane Addams
From Lynch Law in America (1900)
139
2
Ida B. Wells
Declaration of Principles (1905)
141
2
The Niagara Movement
Report of the Industrial Commission (1901)
143
2
From Message to Congress (1901)
145
3
Theodore Roosevelt
From The New Freedom (1913)
148
2
Woodrow Wilson
Interpreting Visual Sources: Photography and Progressive Reform
150
10
Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement: Five Cents a Spot
153
1
Jacob Riis
A Black-and-Tan Dive
154
1
Jacob Riis
Dens of Death
155
1
Jacob Riis
Police Station Lodger
156
1
Jacob Riis
Tenement Yard
157
1
Jacob Riis
In a Sweat Shop
158
2
Jacob Riis
America and the Great War
160
20
The Zimmermann Note (1917)
162
1
Declaration of War against Germany (1917)
163
2
Woodrow Wilson
The Profits of War (1917)
165
2
George Norris
Why Not a Dollar Draft? (1919)
167
2
Hiram Johnson
From I Remember the Last War
169
3
Robert C. Hoffman
The Fourteen Points (1918)
172
3
Woodrow Wilson
The League of Nations (1919)
175
2
Woodrow Wilson
The League of Nations Must Be Revised (1919)
177
3
Henry Cabot Lodge
The Modern Temper
180
17
From The Case against the Reds (1920)
182
1
A. Mitchell Palmer
The Red Scare is Un-American (1920)
183
1
William Allen White
The Sacco-Vanzetti Case (1927)
184
1
From The Klan's Fight for Americanism (1926)
185
2
Hiram W. Evans
The Need for Immigration Restriction (1923)
187
2
From Petting and the Campus (1925)
189
1
Eleanor Rowland Wembridge
Testimony about Drinking on Campus (1926)
190
1
The Great Black Migration (1917)
191
2
The Scopes Trial (1925)
193
1
From The Man Nobody Knows (1924)
194
3
Bruce Barton
Republican Resurgence and Decline
197
16
Big Ideas from Big Business (1921)
199
2
Edward Purinton
The La Follette Platform of 1924
201
3
From The ``New York City'' Speech (1928)
204
2
Herbert Hoover
From I'll Take My Stand (1930)
206
3
Twelve Southerners
From Women on the Breadlines (1932)
209
1
Meridel Le Sueur
Two Views of the Great Depression (1932)
210
3
New Deal America
213
21
First Inaugural Address (1933)
215
2
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Letters to the Roosevelts during the Depression
217
1
After Capitalism---What? (1933)
218
4
Reinhold Niebuhr
Communist Efforts to Organize a Steel Union (1936)
222
2
From Let us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
224
2
James Agee
Walker Evans
Share Our Wealth (1935)
226
2
Huey Long
Republican Party Platform (1936)
228
4
From Civil Liberties---The Individual and the Community (1940)
232
2
Eleanor Roosevelt
From Isolation to Global War
234
13
From The Meaning of the Kellogg-Briand Treaty (1928)
235
2
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
From War Is an Illegal Thing (1932)
237
1
Henry L. Stimson
A More Forceful Response to Japan Is Needed (1937)
238
1
Joseph Grew
Quarantine the Aggressors (1937)
239
3
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Four Freedoms (1941)
242
2
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Address to America First Rally (1941)
244
1
Charles A. Lindbergh
War Message to Congress (1941)
245
2
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Second World War
247
21
The Atlantic Charter (1941)
249
2
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
From The Casablanca Conference Radio Address (1943)
251
1
Franklin D. Roosevelt
From Call to Negro America to March on Washington (1941)
252
2
A. Philip Randolph
Women in War Industries
254
3
From Korematsu v. United States (1944)
257
4
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (1945)
261
1
Harry S. Truman
The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima---The Public Explanation (1945)
262
2
Harry S. Truman
If the Atomic Bomb Had Not Been Used (1946)
264
4
Karl T. Compton
The Fair Deal and Containment
268
18
From The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947)
271
2
Mr. X [George F. Kennan]
A Critique of Containment (1947)
273
1
Walter Lippmann
The Truman Doctrine (1947)
274
3
The Marshall Plan (1947)
277
2
Democrats and Communists (1950)
279
1
Joseph McCarthy
A Declaration of Conscience (1950)
280
1
Margaret Chase Smith
Statement on the Korean War (1950)
281
2
Harry S. Truman
Address to Congress (1951)
283
3
Douglas MacArthur
Through the Picture Window: Society and Culture, 1945-1960
286
30
From Up from the Potato Fields (1950)
288
2
From What TV Is Doing to America (1955)
290
4
From Modern Woman: The Lost Sex (1947)
294
2
Marynia F. Farnham
Ferdinand Lundberg
From A Purpose for Modern Woman (1955)
296
3
Adlai E. Stevenson
From The Feminine Mystique
299
2
Betty Friedan
From The Organization Man (1956)
301
5
William H. Whyte, Jr.
From The Church in Suburban Captivity (1955)
306
3
Gibson Winter
From Varieties of Religious Revival (1955)
309
3
Reinhold Niebuhr
From Nothing More to Declare (1958)
312
4
John Clellon Holmes
Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years
316
16
Massive Retaliation (1954)
318
2
John Foster Dulles
A Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem (1954)
320
1
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Eisenhower Doctrine (1957)
321
1
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
322
3
Southern Declaration on Integration (1956)
325
1
The Situation in Little Rock (1957)
326
3
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Farewell Address (1961)
329
3
Dwight D. Eisenhower
New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s
332
27
Inaugural Address (1961)
334
2
John F. Kennedy
From The Other America (1962)
336
2
Michael Harrington
From Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)
338
4
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax (1964)
342
4
George C. Wallace
Why We Need the Vote (1964)
346
2
Fannie Lou Hamer
From ``The Black Revolution'' Speeches (1964)
348
1
Malcolm X
From Black Power (1966)
349
4
Stokely Carmichael
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968)
353
2
Feminism and the Civil Rights Movement (1965)
355
4
Casey Hayden
Mary King
The Vietnam Conflict
359
21
From The Rusk-McNamara Report (1961)
361
2
From Peace without Conquest (1965)
363
2
Lyndon B. Johnson
From A Compromise Solution in South Vietnam (1965)
365
1
George Ball
A North Vietnamese View of American Intervention (1965)
366
2
Le Duan
From A Vietnam Reappraisal (1968)
368
2
Clark M. Clifford
The Nurse with Round Eyes (1971)
370
3
Gayle Smith
Vietnamizing the War (1969)
373
3
Richard M. Nixon
Dishonoring the Vietnam Tragedy
376
2
Thomas J. Vallely
The War Powers Act (1973)
378
2
Interpreting Visual Sources: Vietnam War Photographs
380
7
A Buddhist Ablaze
382
1
Corbis-Bettmann
Execution of a Viet Cong Suspect
383
1
Eddie Adams
Napalm Attack
384
1
Nick Ut
A God-Awful Scream
385
2
John Paul Filo
Rebellion and Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s
387
19
From The Port Huron Statement (1962)
389
5
Tom Hayden
Women's Liberation (1970)
394
3
Gloria Steinem
The Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest (1970)
397
1
The Shooting at Kent State (1970)
398
4
Tom Grace
From Sharing Smaller Pies (1975)
402
4
Tom Bender
Conservative Insurgency
406
26
From Energy and National Goals (1979)
408
2
Jimmy Carter
From Listen America (1980)
410
3
Jerry Falwell
Speech to the House of Commons (1982)
413
2
Ronald Reagan
From Common Ground and Common Sense (1988)
415
4
Jesse Jackson
The ``Evil Empire'' (1983)
419
3
Ronald Reagan
New York Times The Cold War Is Over (1989)
422
2
From The End of History (1989)
424
2
Francis Fukuyama
A New World Order (1991)
426
2
George Bush
Who Won the Cold War? (1993)
428
4
Wade Huntley
Cultural Politics
432
2
Contract with America (1994)
434
2
The New Covenant (1995)
436
4
William J. Clinton
The New Segregation (1992)
440
4
Shelby Steele
From Beyond Gender (1995)
444
2
Betty Friedan
From The New Generation Gap (1992)
446
4
Neil Howe
William Strauss
From Bowling Alone (1995)
450
5
Robert D. Putnam
Couch-Potato Democracy? (1996)
455
Richard M. Valelly