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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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57 Video: Gilded Age Politics
57 Video: Gilded Age Politics
This video teaches you about the Gilded Age and its politics. What, you may ask, is the Gilded Age? The term comes from a book by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner titled, “The Gilded Age.” You may see a pattern emerging here. It started in the 1870s and continued on until the turn of the 20th century. The era is called Gilded because of the massive inequality that existed in the United States. Gilded Age politics were marked by a number of phenomenons, most of them having to do with corruption. On the local and state level, political machines wielded enormous power. This video gets into details about the most famous political machine, Tammany Hall. Tammany Hall ran New York City for a long, long time, notably under Boss Tweed. Graft, kickbacks, and voter fraud were rampant, but not just at the local level. Ulysses S. Grant ran one of the most scandalous presidential administrations in U.S. history, and you will hear about two of the best-known scandals, the Credit Mobilier scandal and the Whiskey Ring. There were a few attempts at reform during this time, notably the Civil Service Act of 1883 and the Sherman Anti-trust act of 1890. This video will also get into the Grange Movement of the western farmers, and the Populist Party that arose from that movement. The Populists, who threw in their lot with William Jennings Bryan, never managed to get it together and win a presidency, and they faded after 1896.