1 Overview of Instructor Resources
2 How to Read the Textbook
9 Primary Source Images: Reconstruction
10 Primary Source: Charlotte Forten Teaches Freed Children in South Carolina (18
11 Primary Source: Jourdon Anderson Writes his Former Master (1865)
13 Primary Source: General Reynolds Describes Lawlessness in Texas (1868)
16 Primary Source: Souls of Black Folk (1903)
19 The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
24 Primary Source Images: Conquering the West
25 Primary Source: Chief Joseph on Indian Affairs (1877, 1879)
28 Primary Source: Frederick Jackson Turner, “Significance of the Frontier in Am
32 Video: The Industrial Economy
35 Primary Source Images: Capital and Labor
38 Introduction
43 Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
45 Primary Source: Andrew Carnegie on “The Triumph of America” (1885)
48 Primary Source: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law in America” (1900)
49 Primary Source: Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1918)
50 Primary Source: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper”
57 Video: Gilded Age Politics
59 Primary Source: Grover Cleveland’s Veto of the Texas Seed Bill (February 16,
60 Primary Source: The “Omaha Platform” of the People’s Party (1892)
61 Introduction to the Progressive Movement
66 Video: Women’s Suffrage
67 Progressivism in the White House
70 Primary Source: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois on Black Progress (189
72 Primary Source: Eugene Debs, “How I Became a Socialist” (April, 1902)
74 Primary Source: Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis (190
76 Primary Source: Alice Stone Blackwell, Answering Objections to Women’s Suffra
82 Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
83 Video: American Imperialism
86 Primary Source: Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” (1899)
87 Primary Source: White Man’s Burden (1899)
88 Primary Source: James D. Phelan, “Why the Chinese Should Be Excluded” (1901)
89 Primary Source: William James on “The Philippine Question” (1903)
90 Primary Source: Mark Twain, “The War Prayer” (ca.1904-5)
91 Introduction
93 The United States Prepares for War
95 From War to Peace
96 Video: America in World War I
100 Primary Source: Alan Seeger on World War I (1914; 1916)
101 Primary Source: The Sedition Act of 1918 (1918)
102 Primary Source: Emma Goldman on Patriotism (July 9, 1917)
105 Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
112 Primary Source: A Glimpse Behind the Mask of Prohibition (1915)
113 Primary Source: Warren G. Harding and the “Return to Normalcy” (1920)
114 Primary Source: Crystal Eastman, “Now We Can Begin” (1920)
125 Primary Source: Greater Security for the Average Man (1934)
126 Primary Source: Huey P. Long, “Every Man a King” and “Share our Wealth” (193
127 Primary Source: Lester Hunter, “I’d Rather Not Be on Relief” (1938)
132 Video: The New Deal
133 Primary Source: Herbert Hoover on the New Deal (1932)
134 Primary Source: Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1937)
137 Introduction
142 The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
143 Videos: World War II
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145 Primary Source: Nazi Party Platform (1920)
146 Primary Source: Charles A. Lindbergh, “America First” (1941)
147 Primary Source: The Atlantic Charter (1941)
151 Primary Source: Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vi
158 Popular Culture and Mass Media
163 Primary Source: NSC-68 (1950)
165 Primary Source Media: The Affluent Society
166 Primary Source: Woody Guthrie, “This Land” (1940-1945)
167 Primary Source: Migrant Farmers and Immigrant Labor (1952)
168 Primary Source: Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Atoms for Peace” (1953)
169 Primary Source: Hernandez v. Texas (1954)
170 Primary Source: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
171 Primary Source: Richard Nixon on the American Standard of Living (1959)
172 Introduction
176 Challenging the Status Quo
177 Primary Source Images: The 1960s
178 Primary Source: John F. Kennedy on the Separation of Church and State (1960)
181 Primary Source: Lyndon Johnson on Voting Rights and the American Promise (19
182 Primary Source: Lyndon Johnson, Howard University Commencement Address (1965
183 Primary Source: National Organization for Women, “Statement of Purpose” (196
188 Video: The 1960s in America
194 Video: Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise
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197 Primary Source: Statement by John Kerry of Vietnam Veterans Against the War
198 Primary Source: Nixon Announcement of China Visit (1971)
199 Primary Source: Barbara Jordan, 1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote
205 Video: George HW Bush and the End of the Cold War
210 Primary Source: Ronald Reagan “A Time for Choosing” (1964)
213 Primary Source: Statements of AIDS Patients (1983)
214 Primary Source: Statements from The Parents Music Resource Center (1985)
215 Primary Source: Pat Buchanan on the Culture War (1992)
222 Video: Obamanation: Crash Course US History #47
223 Primary Source Images: The Recent Past
224 Primary Source: Bill Clinton on Free Trade and Financial Deregulation (1993-
225 Primary Source: The 9/11 Commission Report, “Reflecting On A Generational Ch
226 Primary Source: George W. Bush on the Post-9/11 World (2002)
228 Primary Source: Barack Obama, Howard University Commencement Address (2016)
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166 Primary Source: Woody Guthrie, “This Land” (1940-1945)
166 Primary Source: Woody Guthrie, “This Land” (1940-1945)
“This Land” was written by Woodie Guthrie in 1940 and first recorded in 1944 at Folkway Records. According to folk singer Pete Seeger, Guthrie printed the songs’ lyrics and music in 1955 with the note, “This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.” Song lyrics were first published in 1945.
As I go walking this ribbon of highway
I see above me this endless skyway
And all around me the wind keeps saying:
This land is made for you and me.
Chorus:
This land is your land. This land is my land.
From the Redwood Forest to the New York Island
The Canadian mountain to the Gulf Stream waters
This land is made for you and me.
I roam and I ramble and I follow my footsteps
Till I come to the sands of her mineral desert
The mist is lifting and the voice is saying:
This land is made for you and me.
Where the wind is blowing I go a strolling
The wheat field waving and the dust a rolling
The fog is lifting and the wind is saying:
This land is made for you and me.
Nobody living can ever stop me
As I go walking my freedom highway
Nobody living can make me turn back
This land is made for you and me.
[Source: Woody Guthrie, “This Land,” 10 of Woody Guthrie’s Songs (1945). Available online via Wikisource (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/10_of_Woody_Guthrie%27s_Songs/This_Land).]