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Work like a historian

Going to the Source teaches you the importance of historical sources: what they are and how to use them as historians do. Each chapter familiarizes you with a different type of primary source—including photographs, diaries, oral histories, advertisements, political cartoons, and more—in the context of a significant historical episode.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Preface  

Introduction: Historians and Their Sources

1 Political Terrorism during Reconstruction: Congressional Hearings and Reports on the Ku Klux Klan  

Using the Source: Congressional Hearings and Reports  

What Can Congressional Hearings and Reports Tell Us?  0

checklist: Interrogating Congressional Hearings and Reports  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Testimony and Reports from the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States  

WITNESS TESTIMONY  

1. Testimony of Samuel T. Poinier, Washington, D.C., June 7, 1871  

2. Testimony of D. H. Chamberlain, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1871  

3. Testimony of Elias Thomson, Spartanburg, South Carolina, July 7, 1871  

4. Testimony of Lucy McMillan, Spartanburg, South Carolina, July 10, 1871  

5. Testimony of Mervin Givens, Spartanburg, South Carolina, July 12, 1871  

COMMITTEE REPORTS  

6. Majority Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, February 19, 1872, Submitted by Luke P. Poland  

7. Minority Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, February 19, 1872, Submitted by James B. Beck  

Analyzing Congressional Hearings and Reports  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


2 Picturing a Western Myth: Photography and the Blackfeet Indians  

Using the Source: Photographs  

What Can Photographs Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Photographs  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Photographs of the Blackfeet at Glacier National Park and on the Reservation, 1890–1930  

COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM GLACIER NATIONAL PARK  

1. "Greetings from Glacier National Park," c. 1920  

2. Great Northern Railway Calendar, 1923  

3. "Blackfeet and Park Golfers," c. 1930  

4. "Spearfishing in Glacier National Park," date unknown  

5. "Two Guns White Calf Reading," date unknown  

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON BLACKFEET RESERVATION IN MONTANA  

6. "Old Ration Place," date unknown  

7. "Blackfeet Performance," c. 1930  

8. "Family at Sun Dance Encampment," 1908  

9. "Students with Their Harvest," 1912  

10. "Mad Plume Family Harvest," c. 1920  

11. "Blackfeet Girl at Glacier National Park Switchboard," c. 1920  

12. "Sewing Class at the Cut Bank Boarding School," 1907  

Analyzing Photographs  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


3 Reading the 1894 Pullman Strike: Chicago’s Daily Papers Report the News  

Using the Source: Newspaper Articles  

What Can Newspaper Articles Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Newspaper Articles  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Chicago Newspaper Articles on the Pullman Strike, May 12, 1894–July 15, 1894  

FIRST FULL DAY OF THE LOCAL PULLMAN STRIKE  

1. Chicago Tribune, May 12, 1894, page 1  

2. Chicago Times, May 12, 1894, page 1  

FOURTH DAY OF THE LOCAL PULLMAN STRIKE  

3. Chicago Tribune, May 15, 1894, page 8  

4. Chicago Times, May 15, 1894, page 1  

FIRST DAY OF THE NATIONAL ARU BOYCOTT OF PULLMAN CARS  

5. Chicago Tribune, June 26, 1894, page 8  

6. Chicago Times, June 26, 1894, page 1  

THIRD DAY OF THE NATIONAL RAILWAY BOYCOTT  

7. Chicago Tribune, June 28, 1894, page 1  

8. Chicago Times, June 28, 1894, page 1  

SIXTH DAY OF THE NATIONAL RAILWAY BOYCOTT  

9. Chicago Tribune, July 1, 1894, page 1  

10. Chicago Times, July 1, 1894, page 1  

FEDERAL TROOPS HAD BEEN IN CHICAGO FOR THREE DAYS  

11. Chicago Tribune, July 7, 1894, page 1  

12. Chicago Times, July 7, 1894, page 1  

THE STRIKE DRAWS TO A CLOSE  

13. Chicago Tribune, July 15, 1894, page 1  

14. Chicago Times, July 15, 1894, page 1  

Analyzing Newspaper Articles  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


4 Settling into Our Memories: Three Immigrant Women’s Autobiographies  

Using the Source: Autobiographies  

What Can Autobiographies Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Autobiographies  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Immigrant Women’s Autobiographies  

1. I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl by Hilda Satt Polacheck  

2. Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side by Rose Cohen  

3. Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant as recounted by Marie Hall Ets  

Analyzing Autobiographies  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


5 Selling Respectability: Advertisements in the African American Press, 1910–1913  

Using the Source: Magazine Advertisements  

What Can Magazine Advertisements Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Advertisements  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Advertisements from The Crisis, November 1910–March 1913  

HOUSING  

1. Philip A. Payton, Jr., Company  

2. White Rose Working Girls’ Home  

3. Hotel Dale  

ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES  

4. Bussing-Wheaton Kitchen Supplies  

5. Jackson Specialty Company  

6. N.Y. & N.J. Industrial Exchange  

7. International Realty Corporation  

8. Cottman & Cottman Shipping  

9. Nyanza Drug Co. & Pharmacy  

10. Blackdom, New Mexico  

EDUCATION AND RACE PRIDE  

11. Wilberforce University  

12. Daytona Educational and Industrial School for Negro Girls  

13. Knoxville College  

14. Provident Hospital and Training School for Colored Nurses  

15. Self-Published Books on the Race Question  

16. Mary White Ovington on the Race Question  

17. National Negro Doll Company  

BEAUTY AND FASHION  

18. Solomon Garrett, Tonsorial Artist  

19. Madame C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company  

20. The Dunbar Company: Face Powder  

Analyzing Magazine Advertisements  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


6 Living under Fire: World War I Soldiers’ Diaries  

Using the Source: Wartime Diaries  

What Can Wartime Diaries Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Diaries  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: World War I Diaries from the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Battles, September 17, 1918– November 11, 1918  

1. Corporal Eugene Kennedy, Company "E," 303rd Engineers, Seventy-eighth Division, AEF  

2. Captain John M. Trible, Medical Corps, Sanitary Train, Third Infantry Division, AEF  

3. Sergeant Elmer F. Straub, 150th Field Artillery, Forty-second "Rainbow" Division  

Analyzing Wartime Diaries  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


7 Singing of Struggle: Mexican Workers’ Folk Songs from the American Southwest  

Using the Source: Folk Music  

What Can Folk Music Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Song Lyrics  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Mexican Corridos, 1910–1930  

1. "An Emigrant’s Farewell" (Despedida de un norteño)  

2. "Advice to the Northerners" (Consejos a los norteños)  

3. "The Northerners" (Los norteños)  

4. "Defense of the Emigrants" (Defensa de los norteños)  

5. "Ballad of Pennsylvania" (Corrido de Pensilvania)  

6. "Verses of the Beet-Field Workers" ( Versos de los betabeleros)  

7. "Mexicans Who Speak English" (Los Mexicanos que hablan ingles)  

8. "Radios and Chicanos" (Radios y chicanos)  

9. "The Ranch" (El rancho)  

10. "Red Bandannas" (Los paños colorados)  

Analyzing Folk Songs  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


8 Painting a New Deal: U.S. Post Office Murals from the Great Depression  

Using the Source: Public Art  

What Can Public Art Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Public Art  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Post Office Murals Depicting "Work" in Local Communities, 1936–1942  

1. The Riveter by Ben Shahn, Bronx, New York, 1938  

2. Development of the Land by Elsa Jemne, Ladysmith, Wisconsin, 1938  

3. Postman in a Storm by Robert Tabor, Independence, Iowa, 1938  

4. Legend of James Edward Hamilton — Barefoot Mailman by Stevan Dohanos, West Palm Beach, Florida, 1940  

5. Tennessee Valley Authority by Xavier Gonzalez, Huntsville, Alabama, 1937  

6. Plowshare Manufacturing by Edward Millman, Moline, Illinois, 1937  

7. Sorting the Mail by Reginald Marsh, Washington, D.C., 1936  

8. Mining by Michael Lenson, Mount Hope, West Virginia, 1942  

9. Orange Picking by Paul Hull Julian, Fullerton, California, 1942  

10. Tobacco Industry by Lee Gatch, Mullins, South Carolina, 1939  

Analyzing Public Art  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


9 Challenging Wartime Internment: Supreme Court Records from Korematsu v. United States  

Using the Source: Supreme Court Records  

What Can Supreme Court Records Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Court Documents  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Briefs and Supreme Court Opinions in Korematsu v. United States, October Term, 1944  

1. Part Three of the Brief Submitted by the Solicitor General of the United States and the Department of Justice Supporting Korematsu’s Conviction  

2. Brief Submitted by Wayne M. Collins, Counsel for Appellant  

3. Amicus Curiae Briefs Submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union  

4. Amicus Curiae Brief Submitted by the Japanese American Citizens’ League on Behalf of Fred Korematsu  

5. The Opinion of the Supreme Court, Issued December 18, 1944  

6. Justice Owen J. Roberts, Dissenting from the Majority  

7. Justice Frank Murphy, Dissenting from the Majority  

8. Justice Robert Jackson, Dissenting from the Majority  

Analyzing Supreme Court Records  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


10 The Cold War Heats Up: Presidential Recordings from the Cuban Missile Crisis  

Using the Source: Presidential Tapes  

What Can Presidential Tapes Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Presidential Tapes  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Presidential Tape Recordings from the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962  

1. Tuesday, October 16, 6:30 p.m. (Day One of the crisis)  

2. Thursday, October 18, 11:10 a.m. (Day Three of the crisis)  

3. Saturday, October 27, 10:00 a.m. (Day Twelve of the crisis)  

4. Saturday, October 27, 4:00 p.m. (Day Twelve of the crisis)  

Analyzing Presidential Tapes  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


11 Speaking of Equality: The Senate Debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964  

Using the Source: Senate Speeches  

What Can Senate Speeches Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Congressional Speeches  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Speeches from the Senate Debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964  

1. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Montana), February 17, 1964  

2. Senator Richard Russell (D-Georgia), February 25, 1964  

3. Senator John Stennis (D-Mississippi), March 10, 1964  

4. Senator Hubert Humphrey (D-Minnesota), March 30, 1964  

5. Senator Thomas Kuchel (R-California), March 30, 1964  

6. Senator Sam Ervin (D-North Carolina), April 11, 1964  

7. Senator Strom Thurmond (D-South Carolina), April 14, 1964  

8. Senator James O. Eastland (D-Mississippi), April 18, 1964  

9. Senator Everett Dirksen (R-Illinois), June 10, 1964  

10. Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona), June 18, 1964  

Analyzing Senate Speeches  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


12 Red Power in South Dakota: Oral Histories about the Occupation of Wounded Knee  

Using the Source: Oral Histories  

What Can Oral Histories Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Oral Histories  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Oral Histories about the Occupation of Wounded Knee  

1. Interview with Asa Primeaux, June 1, 1973  

2. Interview with Dick Wilson, July 17, 1973  

3. Interview with Bessie Cornelius, July 17, 1973  

4. Interview with Jere Brennan, July 18, 1973  

5. Interview with Mike Her Many Horses, July 18, 1973  

6. Interview with Lewis Bad Wound, September 24, 1974  

7. Interview with Robert McBride, May 26, 1976  

Analyzing Oral Histories  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


13 Drawn to Summits: Political Cartoons on President Reagan and the Arms Race  

Using the Source: Political Cartoons  

What Can Political Cartoons Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Political Cartoons  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Political Cartoons from the Reagan Era, 1981–1988  

1. "He’s got to eat to have the strength to start reducing" by Jim Mazzotta, Fort Myers News Press, 1982  

2. "Surely they’ll not be so stupid as to keep on coming!" by Bob Artley, Worthington Daily Globe, 1982  

3. "I’m surprised at how the president dealt with the Russians . . . " by Walt Handelsman, Catonsville Times, 1983  

4. "Go on, Yuri, make my day . . . " by Mike Peters, Dayton Daily News, 1984  

5. "The U.S. bargaining chip! The Soviet bargaining chip, chip, chip, chip!" by Chuck Asay, Colorado Springs Sun, 1985  

6. "Gentlemen, start your engines!" by Jeff MacNelly, Chicago Tribune, 1985

7. "The Soviets are a bunch of rabid, murdering . . . " by Mike Graston, Windsor Star, 1985  

8. "Hey, maybe we should do this more often" by Hy Rosen, Albany Times-Union, 1985  

9. Reykjavik summit destroyed by Star Wars by Jerry Fearing, St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press, 1986  

10. "Little Ronnie Reagan and his imaginary friend" by Mike Keefe, Denver Post, 1987  

11. Evolution by Joe Majeski, Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, 1988  

Analyzing Political Cartoons  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  

CAPSTONE Organizing Their Lives: Women, Work, and Family, 1950–2000  

Using Multiple Sources on Women, Work, and Family, 1950–2000  

What Can Multiple Source Types Tell Us?  

Source Analysis Table  

The Sources: Documents on Women, Work, and Family, 1950–2000  

1. Meeting of Union of Auto, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW-CIO), Public debate. March 27–April 1, 1955  

2. "Modern American Housewife," Letter to the editor. Ladies’ Home Journal, March 1956  

3. "Women Know They Are Not Men: When Will Business Learn This Valuable Secret and Arrange Women’s Working Conditions Accordingly?" Survey report. Florida Scott-Maxwell, Ladies’ Home Journal, November 1958  

4. American Women: Report of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, Government report. October 1963  

5. "Should Mothers Work?" Advice column. Dr. Benjamin Spock, Ladies’ Home Journal, January–February 1963  

6. "Why Feminists Want Child Care," Position paper. National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), 1969  

7. Veto of the Comprehensive Child Development Act, Presidential message. President Richard M. Nixon, December 9, 1971  

8. "What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women?" Political newsletter. The Phyllis Schlafly Report, February 1972  

9. "Parents Are People," Children’s song. Carol Hall for Free to Be You and Me, 1972  

10. Ms. Magazine Cover, Illustration. Miriam Wosk, Spring 1972  

11. The Second Stage, Book. Betty Friedan, 1981  

12. "Should We Expect Black Women to Be Supermothers?" Magazine article. Claudia Tate, Ebony, September 1984  

13. For Better or For Worse, Cartoon strip. Lynn Johnston, 1984  

14. National Opinion Research Center Poll: Women, Work, and Family, Survey data. 1972–1998  

Analyzing Sources on Women, Work, and Family  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  

APPENDIX I: Avoiding Plagiarism: Acknowledging the Source  

APPENDIX II: Documenting the Source  

INDEX  

Authors

Victoria Bissell Brown

Victoria Bissell Brown (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego) is a Professor Emeritus, Grinnell College. In addition to editing Jane Addams's autobiography, Twenty Years at Hull-House for Bedford/St. Martin's, she is the author of The Education of Jane Addams and articles on Addams, on Woodrow Wilson and gender, and on female adolescents in the Progressive era. She has appeared on NPR documentaries about Chicago and on Woodrow Wilson. Brown is currently working on a social history of the American grandmother, 1920-2020


Timothy J. Shannon

Timothy J. Shannon (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is professor of history at Gettysburg College, where he teaches Early American, Native American, and British history. His books include Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier, Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America, and Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754, which received the Dixon Ryan Fox Prize from the New York State Historical Association and the Distinguished Book Award from the Society of Colonial Wars. He is also coauthor with Victoria Bissell Brown of Going to the Source: The Bedford Reader in American History. His articles have appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly, the New England Quarterly, and Ethnohistory.


Work like a historian

Work like a historian

Going to the Source teaches you the importance of historical sources: what they are and how to use them as historians do. Each chapter familiarizes you with a different type of primary source—including photographs, diaries, oral histories, advertisements, political cartoons, and more—in the context of a significant historical episode.

E-book

Read online (or offline) with all the highlighting and notetaking tools you need to be successful in this course.

Learn More

Table of Contents

Preface  

Introduction: Historians and Their Sources

1 Political Terrorism during Reconstruction: Congressional Hearings and Reports on the Ku Klux Klan  

Using the Source: Congressional Hearings and Reports  

What Can Congressional Hearings and Reports Tell Us?  0

checklist: Interrogating Congressional Hearings and Reports  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Testimony and Reports from the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States  

WITNESS TESTIMONY  

1. Testimony of Samuel T. Poinier, Washington, D.C., June 7, 1871  

2. Testimony of D. H. Chamberlain, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1871  

3. Testimony of Elias Thomson, Spartanburg, South Carolina, July 7, 1871  

4. Testimony of Lucy McMillan, Spartanburg, South Carolina, July 10, 1871  

5. Testimony of Mervin Givens, Spartanburg, South Carolina, July 12, 1871  

COMMITTEE REPORTS  

6. Majority Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, February 19, 1872, Submitted by Luke P. Poland  

7. Minority Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, February 19, 1872, Submitted by James B. Beck  

Analyzing Congressional Hearings and Reports  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


2 Picturing a Western Myth: Photography and the Blackfeet Indians  

Using the Source: Photographs  

What Can Photographs Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Photographs  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Photographs of the Blackfeet at Glacier National Park and on the Reservation, 1890–1930  

COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM GLACIER NATIONAL PARK  

1. "Greetings from Glacier National Park," c. 1920  

2. Great Northern Railway Calendar, 1923  

3. "Blackfeet and Park Golfers," c. 1930  

4. "Spearfishing in Glacier National Park," date unknown  

5. "Two Guns White Calf Reading," date unknown  

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON BLACKFEET RESERVATION IN MONTANA  

6. "Old Ration Place," date unknown  

7. "Blackfeet Performance," c. 1930  

8. "Family at Sun Dance Encampment," 1908  

9. "Students with Their Harvest," 1912  

10. "Mad Plume Family Harvest," c. 1920  

11. "Blackfeet Girl at Glacier National Park Switchboard," c. 1920  

12. "Sewing Class at the Cut Bank Boarding School," 1907  

Analyzing Photographs  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


3 Reading the 1894 Pullman Strike: Chicago’s Daily Papers Report the News  

Using the Source: Newspaper Articles  

What Can Newspaper Articles Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Newspaper Articles  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Chicago Newspaper Articles on the Pullman Strike, May 12, 1894–July 15, 1894  

FIRST FULL DAY OF THE LOCAL PULLMAN STRIKE  

1. Chicago Tribune, May 12, 1894, page 1  

2. Chicago Times, May 12, 1894, page 1  

FOURTH DAY OF THE LOCAL PULLMAN STRIKE  

3. Chicago Tribune, May 15, 1894, page 8  

4. Chicago Times, May 15, 1894, page 1  

FIRST DAY OF THE NATIONAL ARU BOYCOTT OF PULLMAN CARS  

5. Chicago Tribune, June 26, 1894, page 8  

6. Chicago Times, June 26, 1894, page 1  

THIRD DAY OF THE NATIONAL RAILWAY BOYCOTT  

7. Chicago Tribune, June 28, 1894, page 1  

8. Chicago Times, June 28, 1894, page 1  

SIXTH DAY OF THE NATIONAL RAILWAY BOYCOTT  

9. Chicago Tribune, July 1, 1894, page 1  

10. Chicago Times, July 1, 1894, page 1  

FEDERAL TROOPS HAD BEEN IN CHICAGO FOR THREE DAYS  

11. Chicago Tribune, July 7, 1894, page 1  

12. Chicago Times, July 7, 1894, page 1  

THE STRIKE DRAWS TO A CLOSE  

13. Chicago Tribune, July 15, 1894, page 1  

14. Chicago Times, July 15, 1894, page 1  

Analyzing Newspaper Articles  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


4 Settling into Our Memories: Three Immigrant Women’s Autobiographies  

Using the Source: Autobiographies  

What Can Autobiographies Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Autobiographies  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Immigrant Women’s Autobiographies  

1. I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl by Hilda Satt Polacheck  

2. Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side by Rose Cohen  

3. Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant as recounted by Marie Hall Ets  

Analyzing Autobiographies  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


5 Selling Respectability: Advertisements in the African American Press, 1910–1913  

Using the Source: Magazine Advertisements  

What Can Magazine Advertisements Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Advertisements  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Advertisements from The Crisis, November 1910–March 1913  

HOUSING  

1. Philip A. Payton, Jr., Company  

2. White Rose Working Girls’ Home  

3. Hotel Dale  

ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES  

4. Bussing-Wheaton Kitchen Supplies  

5. Jackson Specialty Company  

6. N.Y. & N.J. Industrial Exchange  

7. International Realty Corporation  

8. Cottman & Cottman Shipping  

9. Nyanza Drug Co. & Pharmacy  

10. Blackdom, New Mexico  

EDUCATION AND RACE PRIDE  

11. Wilberforce University  

12. Daytona Educational and Industrial School for Negro Girls  

13. Knoxville College  

14. Provident Hospital and Training School for Colored Nurses  

15. Self-Published Books on the Race Question  

16. Mary White Ovington on the Race Question  

17. National Negro Doll Company  

BEAUTY AND FASHION  

18. Solomon Garrett, Tonsorial Artist  

19. Madame C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company  

20. The Dunbar Company: Face Powder  

Analyzing Magazine Advertisements  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


6 Living under Fire: World War I Soldiers’ Diaries  

Using the Source: Wartime Diaries  

What Can Wartime Diaries Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Diaries  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: World War I Diaries from the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Battles, September 17, 1918– November 11, 1918  

1. Corporal Eugene Kennedy, Company "E," 303rd Engineers, Seventy-eighth Division, AEF  

2. Captain John M. Trible, Medical Corps, Sanitary Train, Third Infantry Division, AEF  

3. Sergeant Elmer F. Straub, 150th Field Artillery, Forty-second "Rainbow" Division  

Analyzing Wartime Diaries  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


7 Singing of Struggle: Mexican Workers’ Folk Songs from the American Southwest  

Using the Source: Folk Music  

What Can Folk Music Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Song Lyrics  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Mexican Corridos, 1910–1930  

1. "An Emigrant’s Farewell" (Despedida de un norteño)  

2. "Advice to the Northerners" (Consejos a los norteños)  

3. "The Northerners" (Los norteños)  

4. "Defense of the Emigrants" (Defensa de los norteños)  

5. "Ballad of Pennsylvania" (Corrido de Pensilvania)  

6. "Verses of the Beet-Field Workers" ( Versos de los betabeleros)  

7. "Mexicans Who Speak English" (Los Mexicanos que hablan ingles)  

8. "Radios and Chicanos" (Radios y chicanos)  

9. "The Ranch" (El rancho)  

10. "Red Bandannas" (Los paños colorados)  

Analyzing Folk Songs  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


8 Painting a New Deal: U.S. Post Office Murals from the Great Depression  

Using the Source: Public Art  

What Can Public Art Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Public Art  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Post Office Murals Depicting "Work" in Local Communities, 1936–1942  

1. The Riveter by Ben Shahn, Bronx, New York, 1938  

2. Development of the Land by Elsa Jemne, Ladysmith, Wisconsin, 1938  

3. Postman in a Storm by Robert Tabor, Independence, Iowa, 1938  

4. Legend of James Edward Hamilton — Barefoot Mailman by Stevan Dohanos, West Palm Beach, Florida, 1940  

5. Tennessee Valley Authority by Xavier Gonzalez, Huntsville, Alabama, 1937  

6. Plowshare Manufacturing by Edward Millman, Moline, Illinois, 1937  

7. Sorting the Mail by Reginald Marsh, Washington, D.C., 1936  

8. Mining by Michael Lenson, Mount Hope, West Virginia, 1942  

9. Orange Picking by Paul Hull Julian, Fullerton, California, 1942  

10. Tobacco Industry by Lee Gatch, Mullins, South Carolina, 1939  

Analyzing Public Art  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


9 Challenging Wartime Internment: Supreme Court Records from Korematsu v. United States  

Using the Source: Supreme Court Records  

What Can Supreme Court Records Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Court Documents  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Briefs and Supreme Court Opinions in Korematsu v. United States, October Term, 1944  

1. Part Three of the Brief Submitted by the Solicitor General of the United States and the Department of Justice Supporting Korematsu’s Conviction  

2. Brief Submitted by Wayne M. Collins, Counsel for Appellant  

3. Amicus Curiae Briefs Submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union  

4. Amicus Curiae Brief Submitted by the Japanese American Citizens’ League on Behalf of Fred Korematsu  

5. The Opinion of the Supreme Court, Issued December 18, 1944  

6. Justice Owen J. Roberts, Dissenting from the Majority  

7. Justice Frank Murphy, Dissenting from the Majority  

8. Justice Robert Jackson, Dissenting from the Majority  

Analyzing Supreme Court Records  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


10 The Cold War Heats Up: Presidential Recordings from the Cuban Missile Crisis  

Using the Source: Presidential Tapes  

What Can Presidential Tapes Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Presidential Tapes  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Presidential Tape Recordings from the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962  

1. Tuesday, October 16, 6:30 p.m. (Day One of the crisis)  

2. Thursday, October 18, 11:10 a.m. (Day Three of the crisis)  

3. Saturday, October 27, 10:00 a.m. (Day Twelve of the crisis)  

4. Saturday, October 27, 4:00 p.m. (Day Twelve of the crisis)  

Analyzing Presidential Tapes  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


11 Speaking of Equality: The Senate Debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964  

Using the Source: Senate Speeches  

What Can Senate Speeches Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Congressional Speeches  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Speeches from the Senate Debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964  

1. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Montana), February 17, 1964  

2. Senator Richard Russell (D-Georgia), February 25, 1964  

3. Senator John Stennis (D-Mississippi), March 10, 1964  

4. Senator Hubert Humphrey (D-Minnesota), March 30, 1964  

5. Senator Thomas Kuchel (R-California), March 30, 1964  

6. Senator Sam Ervin (D-North Carolina), April 11, 1964  

7. Senator Strom Thurmond (D-South Carolina), April 14, 1964  

8. Senator James O. Eastland (D-Mississippi), April 18, 1964  

9. Senator Everett Dirksen (R-Illinois), June 10, 1964  

10. Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona), June 18, 1964  

Analyzing Senate Speeches  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


12 Red Power in South Dakota: Oral Histories about the Occupation of Wounded Knee  

Using the Source: Oral Histories  

What Can Oral Histories Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Oral Histories  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Oral Histories about the Occupation of Wounded Knee  

1. Interview with Asa Primeaux, June 1, 1973  

2. Interview with Dick Wilson, July 17, 1973  

3. Interview with Bessie Cornelius, July 17, 1973  

4. Interview with Jere Brennan, July 18, 1973  

5. Interview with Mike Her Many Horses, July 18, 1973  

6. Interview with Lewis Bad Wound, September 24, 1974  

7. Interview with Robert McBride, May 26, 1976  

Analyzing Oral Histories  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  


13 Drawn to Summits: Political Cartoons on President Reagan and the Arms Race  

Using the Source: Political Cartoons  

What Can Political Cartoons Tell Us?  

checklist: Interrogating Political Cartoons  

Source Analysis Table  

The Source: Political Cartoons from the Reagan Era, 1981–1988  

1. "He’s got to eat to have the strength to start reducing" by Jim Mazzotta, Fort Myers News Press, 1982  

2. "Surely they’ll not be so stupid as to keep on coming!" by Bob Artley, Worthington Daily Globe, 1982  

3. "I’m surprised at how the president dealt with the Russians . . . " by Walt Handelsman, Catonsville Times, 1983  

4. "Go on, Yuri, make my day . . . " by Mike Peters, Dayton Daily News, 1984  

5. "The U.S. bargaining chip! The Soviet bargaining chip, chip, chip, chip!" by Chuck Asay, Colorado Springs Sun, 1985  

6. "Gentlemen, start your engines!" by Jeff MacNelly, Chicago Tribune, 1985

7. "The Soviets are a bunch of rabid, murdering . . . " by Mike Graston, Windsor Star, 1985  

8. "Hey, maybe we should do this more often" by Hy Rosen, Albany Times-Union, 1985  

9. Reykjavik summit destroyed by Star Wars by Jerry Fearing, St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press, 1986  

10. "Little Ronnie Reagan and his imaginary friend" by Mike Keefe, Denver Post, 1987  

11. Evolution by Joe Majeski, Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, 1988  

Analyzing Political Cartoons  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  

CAPSTONE Organizing Their Lives: Women, Work, and Family, 1950–2000  

Using Multiple Sources on Women, Work, and Family, 1950–2000  

What Can Multiple Source Types Tell Us?  

Source Analysis Table  

The Sources: Documents on Women, Work, and Family, 1950–2000  

1. Meeting of Union of Auto, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW-CIO), Public debate. March 27–April 1, 1955  

2. "Modern American Housewife," Letter to the editor. Ladies’ Home Journal, March 1956  

3. "Women Know They Are Not Men: When Will Business Learn This Valuable Secret and Arrange Women’s Working Conditions Accordingly?" Survey report. Florida Scott-Maxwell, Ladies’ Home Journal, November 1958  

4. American Women: Report of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, Government report. October 1963  

5. "Should Mothers Work?" Advice column. Dr. Benjamin Spock, Ladies’ Home Journal, January–February 1963  

6. "Why Feminists Want Child Care," Position paper. National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), 1969  

7. Veto of the Comprehensive Child Development Act, Presidential message. President Richard M. Nixon, December 9, 1971  

8. "What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women?" Political newsletter. The Phyllis Schlafly Report, February 1972  

9. "Parents Are People," Children’s song. Carol Hall for Free to Be You and Me, 1972  

10. Ms. Magazine Cover, Illustration. Miriam Wosk, Spring 1972  

11. The Second Stage, Book. Betty Friedan, 1981  

12. "Should We Expect Black Women to Be Supermothers?" Magazine article. Claudia Tate, Ebony, September 1984  

13. For Better or For Worse, Cartoon strip. Lynn Johnston, 1984  

14. National Opinion Research Center Poll: Women, Work, and Family, Survey data. 1972–1998  

Analyzing Sources on Women, Work, and Family  

The Rest of the Story  

To Find Out More  

APPENDIX I: Avoiding Plagiarism: Acknowledging the Source  

APPENDIX II: Documenting the Source  

INDEX  

Victoria Bissell Brown

Victoria Bissell Brown (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego) is a Professor Emeritus, Grinnell College. In addition to editing Jane Addams's autobiography, Twenty Years at Hull-House for Bedford/St. Martin's, she is the author of The Education of Jane Addams and articles on Addams, on Woodrow Wilson and gender, and on female adolescents in the Progressive era. She has appeared on NPR documentaries about Chicago and on Woodrow Wilson. Brown is currently working on a social history of the American grandmother, 1920-2020


Timothy J. Shannon

Timothy J. Shannon (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is professor of history at Gettysburg College, where he teaches Early American, Native American, and British history. His books include Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier, Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America, and Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754, which received the Dixon Ryan Fox Prize from the New York State Historical Association and the Distinguished Book Award from the Society of Colonial Wars. He is also coauthor with Victoria Bissell Brown of Going to the Source: The Bedford Reader in American History. His articles have appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly, the New England Quarterly, and Ethnohistory.


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