COURSE READINGS

(in chronological order)

1."The Life Story of a Negro Peon," in The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by
Themselves. (New York, 1906), pp. 183-199.
2.Du Bois, "The Freedman's Bureau"
3.Documents: 14th Amendment to the Constitution, 1868; 15th Amendment to the Constitution, 1870; Civil Rights Act of 1875

1.Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"
2.Document: Dawes Severalty Act of 1887

1.Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
2.From the Pluralism and Unity Project, "The Ideal of Pluralism" and "Race and Pluralism"
http://www.expo98.msu.edu
3.Document: Chinese Exclusion Act, 1890

1.Plunkitt, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall.
2.Andrew Carnegie "Wealth" 1889
3.A Coal Miner's Story, http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/coal/MinersStory/MinersStory.htm
4.Documents: Ocala Platform, 1890; and William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold Speech.

1.Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century.
2."Internationalism" from the Pluralism and Unity Project: http://www.expo98.msu.edu
3.Documents: McKinley's War Message, 1898; and Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life Speech.

1.Link and McCormick, Progressivism
2.Jane Addams, The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements
3.Documents: Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896; and Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

1.The Scopes Trial: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/inherit/1925home.html
2.Documents: Woodrown Wilson's 14 Points; Congressional Debate on Immigration Restriction (1921)

1.Warren Susman, "Cultural Heroes: Ford, Barton and Ruth;" and "Personality and the Making of 20th Century Culture."
2.John William Ward, "The Meaning of Lindbergh's Flight" (1958).
3.McElvaine, Down and Out in the Great Depression, 1-32.

1.McElvaine, Down and Out in the Great Depression, p. 33-end.
2.Documents: Herbert Hoover, Rugged Individualism Speech (1928), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address (1932).
3.William E. Leuchtenburg, "The Roosevelt Reconstruction: Retrospect" (1963).

1.Martin J. Sherwin, "The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War" (1975).
2.Robert L. Messer, "New Evidence on Truman's Decision" (1985).
3.Gar Alperovitz, "More on Atomic Diplomacy (1985).
4.Documents: Roosevelt's Infamy Speech (1941); Executive Order No. 9066; The Yalta Protocol of Proceedings (1945); Harry S. Truman, Announcement of Atomic Bombing (1945); Harry S. Truman, The Truman Doctrine (1947); and Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Eisenhower Doctrine (1957).

1.Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye.
2.Betty Friedan, Chapters One and Two, The Feminine Mystique (1963).
3.Elaine Tyler May, "Explosive Issues: Sex, Women and the Bomb"
4.Documents: Truman's Loyalty Oath (1947); Joseph McCarthy, Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia (1950);
Raymond B. Allen, "Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges" (1949); Walt Disney's Testimony
before HUAC (1947); Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Military-Industrial Complex" (1961); and Adlai Stevenson
Describes a Women's Place (1955).

1.Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights.
2.Documents: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954); Martin Luther King, "Letter from a
Birmingham Jail (1963); The Civil Rights Act of 1964; John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address; Students for a
Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement; Lyndon B. Johnson, Great Society Speech (1964).

1.Levy, The Debate Over Vietnam
2.Documents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Domino Theory (1954); Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964); Lyndon
Johnson, "Why We Are in Vietnam (1965); J. William Fulbright, "The Arrogance of Power" (1966); Martin
Luther King, Jr. "Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam" (1967); "A Call to Resist Illegitimate
Authority" (1966); War Powers Act of 1973.

1.Documents: N.O.W. Statement of Purpose (1966); N.O.W. Bill of Rights, 1968; "What Are We
Complaining About?" (1970)
2.Rebecca Klatch, "Women Against Feminism"

1.Richard Rogin, "Joe Kelly Has Reached His Boiling Point."
2.Susan Faludi, "Blame it on Feminism," Introduction to Backlash (1991).
3.Documents: Ronald Reagan, Address on Behalf of Senator Barry Goldwater (1964); Jimmy Carter, The
Crisis of American Spirit (1979); Executive Summary, Independent Council's Report on Iran-Contra.

created: February 10, 2000
last updated: February 23, 2000

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