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Tables of Contents for American History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowlegments
9
1
To the Instructor
10
2
To the Student
12
2
Timeline
14
7
Unit 1 Reconstruction and the Gilded Age
Reconstruction
21
17
A New View of Reconstruction
Eric Foner
The Failure of Southern Self-Reconstruction
Dan T. Carter
Letter from Edward S. Philbrick to Mrs. Philbrick
Letter from Harriet Ware
South Carolina Debates Racially Mixed Public Schools
The West
38
18
The Cattle Drive
Dee Brown
The War for the Great Plains
Thomas W. Dunlay
A Bride Goes West
Warfare Between the Hidatsa and the Sioux
The Winning of the West
Industrialization
56
18
The Rise of Big Business
Glenn Porter
Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America
Herbert G. Gutman
Wealth
Looking Backward
A Hazard of New Fortunes
Immigration
74
18
Why Southern Italians and Eastern European Jews Came to America
Alan M. Kraut
Culture and Economic Mobility
Alan M. Kraut
Letters to the Jewish Daily Forward
How the Other Half Lives
An Immigrant Child Encounters America
Women in the Gilded Age
92
23
Women and Domestic Service
David M. Katzman
Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, Kathryn Allamong Jacob
Bradwell v. Illinois
Minor v. Happersett
The Mosher Survey of Women's Sexuality
Unit 2 The Age of Reform and the New Era
Progressivism
115
18
Progressivism and the State
Eric Foner
The Progressive Response to Prostitution
Mark Thomas Connelly
The New Nationalism
The New Freedom
Muller v. Oregon
Women in the Age of Reform
133
15
Margaret Sanger and Birth Control
David M. Kennedy
The Ideal of Slenderness
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
The Case for Birth Control
The New England Model Kitchen
Why Women Need the Vote
African Americans in the Age of Segregation
148
17
Booker T. Washington's Economic Program
Louis R. Harlan
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Talented Tenth
Richard Kluger
Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
The Club Work of Colored Women
World War I
165
16
Military Training
David M. Kennedy
Henry Cabot Lodge and the Fight for the League
William C. Widenor
Reverend F.J. Grimke on Liberty Bonds
Address of Welcome to the Men Who Have Returned From the Battlefront
Abrams v. United States
The Twenties
181
20
Dating and Petting
Paula S. Fass
Technology and Housework
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
H.L. Mencken's Obituary of William Jennings Bryan
A Farewell to Arms
There is Nothing Beautiful About Modern War
Unit 3 The Great Depression and World War II
Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
201
14
The Trials of Herbert Hoover
Michael E. Parrish
The Invisible Scar
Caroline Bird
``I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister''
An Advertising Executive Makes His Fortune
A Psychiatrist Maintains a Comfortable Lifestyle
The New Deal
215
19
The Third American Revolution
Carl N. Degler
The Conservative Achievements of Liberal Reform
Barton J. Bernstein
A Campaign Speech
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address to the New York State Democratic Convention, 1936
The Challenge to Liberty
African Americans and Women During the Great Depression
234
16
African Americans and the New Deal
John B. Kirby
Women and the New Deal
Susan Ware
The Negro Family is Still in Darkness
The Negro was Born in Depression
A Working-Class Woman Makes Do
American Culture During the Great Depression
250
15
Hollywood Movies of the Great Depression
Robert Sklar
Building the World of Tomorrow
Susan Ware
Waiting for Lefty
The Grapes of Wrath
To Have and Have Not
World War II
265
20
War Without Mercy
John W. Dower
Abandonment of the Jews
David S. Wyman
``He ... was One of These Men That Never Wanted His Wife to Work''
``I Wanted to Get My Family Back Together''
``Hitler was the One That Got Us Out of the White Folks' Kitchen''
Unit 4 Postwar America
The Cold War
285
18
The Origins of the Cold War
Thomas G. Peterson
George F. Kennan and Containment
John Lewis Gaddis
Kennan's Long Telegram
The Truman Doctrine
The North Atlantic Treaty
The Civil Rights Movement
303
15
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
James T. Patterson
The Greensboro Sit-Ins
William H. Chafe
Brown v. Board of Education
Diary of a Sit-In
SNCC's Statement of Purpose
Postwar American Culture
318
16
The Culture of Contingency
William S. Graebner
Modern Mass Culture
James T. Patterson
The Organization Man
Rabbit, Run
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
The Sixties
334
17
Who Owns the Sixties?
Rick Perlstein
The Press and the Tet Offensive
Peter Braestrup
The Greening of America
We are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against
The Feminine Mystique
America in Our Time
351
19
Ronald Reagan's Cold War Victory
John Lewis Gaddis
Father Superior
Jonathan Rauch
The Culture of Complaint
Bobos in Paradise
What Conservatives Should Learn from 9/11
Index
370