Exploring American Histories, Volume 2

The Combined Volume includes all chapters.　
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-14.　
Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-29.

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Preface
Versions and Supplements
Maps, Figures, and Tables
How to Use This Book

　

Chapter 14

Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1863–1877 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Jefferson Long and Andrew Johnson 

Emancipation 

African Americans Embrace Freedom 

Reuniting Families Torn Apart by Slavery 

GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Source 14.1 Freedpeople Petition for Land, 1865 

Freedom to Learn 

Freedom to Worship and the Leadership Role of Black Churches 

National Reconstruction 

Abraham Lincoln Plans for Reunification 

Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction 

Johnson and Congressional Resistance 

Congressional Reconstruction 

COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Debating the Freedmen’s Bureau

Source 14.2 Colonel Eliphalet Whittlesey, Report on the Freedman’s Bureau, 1865

Source 14.3 Democratic Flier Opposing the Freedman’s Bureau Bill, 1866 

The Struggle for Universal Suffrage 

Remaking the South 

Whites Reconstruct the South 

Black Political Participation and Economic Opportunities 

COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Race and Reconstruction　 　 　 　 　 　

　　　　Source 14.4 William A. Dunning, Radical Reconstruction (1907)

　　　　Source 14.5 John Hope Franklin, The South’s New Leaders (1961)

White Resistance to Congressional Reconstruction 

The Unraveling of Reconstruction 

The Republican Retreat 

Congressional and Judicial Retreat 

The Presidential Compromise of 1876 

Conclusion: The Legacies of Reconstruction 

Chapter Review 

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 14

Testing and Contesting Freedom 

Source 14.6 Mississippi Black Code, 1865 | Source 14.7 Richard H. Cain, Federal Aid for Land Purchase, 1868 | Source 14.8  Willis B. Bocock and Black Laborers, Sharecropping Agreement, 1870　 | Source 14.9 Ellen Parton, Testimony on Klan Violence, 1871 | Source 14.10 Thomas Nast, Colored Rule in a Reconstructed (?) State, 1874　

 

Chapter 15

The West, 1865–1896 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Annie Oakley and Geronimo 

Opening the West 

The Great Plains 

Federal Policy and Foreign Investment 

Indians and Resistance to Expansion 

Indian Civilizations 

Federal Policy toward Indians before 1870

GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Source 15.1 Buffalo Hunting, c. 1875 

Reconstruction and Indians

Indian Defeat 

Reforming Indian Policy 

Indian Assimilation and Resistance 

The Mining and Lumber Industries 

The Business of Mining 

Life in the Mining Towns 

The Lumber Boom 

The Cattle Industry and Commercial Farming 

The Life of the Cowboy 

The Rise of Commercial Ranching 

Commercial Farming 

COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Cowboy Myths and Realities

Source 15.2 Poster Advertising Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 1893

Source 15.3 George C. Duffield, Diary of a Real Cowboy, 1866 

Women Homesteaders 

Farming on the Great Plains 

Diversity in the Far West 

Mormons 

Californios and Mexican Americans 

The Chinese 

COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The Significance of the Frontier

Source 15.4 Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893　

Source 15.5 Patricia Nelson Limerick, Deemphasizing the Concept of the Frontier, 1987

Conclusion: The Ambiguous Legacy of the West 

Chapter Review 

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 15

American Indians and Whites in the West 

Source 15.6 James Michael Cavanaugh, Support for Indian Extermination, 1868 | Source 15.7 Helen Hunt Jackson, Challenges to Indian Policy, 1881 | Source 15.8 Thomas Nast, "Patience until the Indian Is Civilized—So to Speak," 1878 | Source 15.9 Zitkala-Ša, Life at an Indian Boarding School, 1921 | Source 15.10 Chief Joseph, Views on Indian Affairs, 1879

 

Chapter 16

Industrial America, 1877–1900 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Andrew Carnegie and John Sherman 

America Industrializes 

The New Industrial Economy 

Innovation and Inventions 

Building a New South 

Industrial Consolidation

The Growth of Corporations 

GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Source 16.1 Horace Taylor, What a Funny Little Government, 1900 

Laissez-Faire, Social Darwinism, and Their Critics 

The Doctrines of Success 

Challenges to Laissez-Faire

Society and Culture in the Gilded Age 

Wealthy and Middle-Class Leisure-Time Pursuits 

COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Leisure-Class Women

Source 16.2 The Delineator, 1900

Source 16.3 Alice Austen and Trude Eccleston, 1891 

Changing Gender Roles 

Black America and Jim Crow 

National Politics in the Era of Industrialization 

The Weak Presidency 

Congressional Inefficiency 

The Business of Politics 

An Energized and Entertained Electorate 

COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Robber Baron or Captain of Industry?

Source 16.4 Matthew Josephson, The Robber Barons, 1934  

Source 16.5 Ron Chernow, John D. Rockefeller, Industrial Statesman, 1998　　

Conclusion: Industrial America 

Chapter Review 

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 16

Debates about Laissez-Faire 

Source 16.6 William Graham Sumner, A Defense of Laissez-Faire, 1883 | Source 16.7 Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 2000–1887, 1888 | Source 16.8 Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth, 1889 | Source 16.9 Henry Demarest Lloyd, Critique of Wealth, 1894

 

Chapter 17

Workers and Farmers in the Age of Organization, 1877–1900 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

John McLuckie and Mary Elizabeth Lease 

Working People Organize 

The Industrialization of Labor

GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Source 17.1 John Morrison, Testimony on the Impact of Mechanization, 1883 

Organizing Unions 

Clashes between Workers and Owners 

Working-Class Leisure in Industrial America 

Farmers Organize 

Farmers Unite 

Populists Rise Up 

COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Farmers and Workers Organize: Two Views

Source 17.2 Walter Huston, Here Lies Prosperity, 1895

Source 17.3 Populist Party Platform, 1892 

The Depression of the 1890s 

Depression Politics 

Political Realignment in the Election of 1896 

The Decline of the Populists 

COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The Agrarian Myth and Populism

Source 17.4  Richard Hofstadter, The Agrarian Myth, 1955　

Source 17.5 Charles Postel, The Populist Vision, 2007 

Conclusion: A Passion for Organization 

Chapter Review 

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 17

The Pullman Strike of 1894 

Source 17.6 George Pullman, Testimony before the U.S. Strike Commission, 1894 | Source 17.7 Eugene V. Debs, On Radicalism, 1902 | Source 17.8 Jennie Curtis, Testimony before the U.S. Strike Commission, 1894 | Source 17.9 Report from the Commission to Investigate the Chicago Strike, 1895

 

Chapter 18

Cities, Immigrants, and the Nation, 1880–1914 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Beryl Lassin and Maria Vik Takacs 

A New Wave of Immigrants 

Immigrants Arrive from Many Lands 

Creating Immigrant Communities 

Hostility toward Recent Immigrants 

GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Source 18.1 Anzia Yerzierska, Immigrant Fathers and Daughters, 1925 

The Assimilation Dilemma 

COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The Chinese in America

Source 18.2 Saum Song Bo, "A Chinese View of the Statue of Liberty" 1885

Source 18.3 Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 1886 

Becoming an Urban Nation 

The New Industrial City 

Expand Upward and Outward 

How the Other Half Lived 

Urban Politics at the Turn of the Century 

Political Machines and City Bosses 

Urban Reformers 

COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Immigration, Nativism, and Whiteness

Source 18.4 John Higham, Nativism and Race, 1955

Source 18.5 Katherine Benton-Cohen, Nativism, Mexicans, and Whiteness, 2009　

Conclusion: A Nation of Cities 

Chapter Review 

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 18　

"Melting Pot" or "Vegetable Soup"?

Source 18.6 Israel Zangwill, The Melting-Pot, 1908 | Source 18.7 "The Mortar of Assimilation—And the One Element That Won’t Mix," 1889 | Source 18.8 "Be Just—Even to John Chinaman," 1893 | Source 18.9 Alfred P. Schultz, The Mongrelization of America, 1908 | Source 18.10 Randolph S. Bourne, Trans-national America, 1916

 

Chapter 19

Progressivism and the Search for Order, 1900–1917 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Gifford Pinchot and Gene Stratton-Porter 

The Roots of Progressivism 

Progressive Origins 

GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Source 19.1 Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis, 1907 

Muckrakers 

Humanitarian and Social Justice Reform 

Female Progressives and the Poor 

Fighting for Women’s Suffrage 

Progressivism and African Americans 

COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Addressing Racial Inequality

Source 19.2 Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Compromise, 1895

Source 19.3 Ida B. Wells, A Critique of Booker T. Washington, 1904 

Progressivism and Indians 

Morality and Social Control 

Prohibition 

Prostitution, Narcotics, and Juvenile Delinquency 

Birth Control 

Immigration Restriction 

Good Government Progressivism  　 　

Municipal and State Reform 

Conservation and Preservation of the Environment 

COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Progressivism in White and Black

Source 19.4 C. Van Woodward, Progressivism for Whites Only, 1951　　

Source 19.5 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Southern Black Women and Progressivism, 1996  

Presidential Progressivism 

Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal 

Taft Retreats from Progressivism 

The Election of 1912 

Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom Agenda 

Conclusion: The Progressive Legacy 

Chapter Review 

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 19

Women’s Suffrage and Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment

Source 19.6 Jane Addams, "Why Women Should Vote," 1910 | Source 19.7 Adella Hunt Logan, "Colored Women as Voters," 1912 | Source 19.8 Belle Kearney, "The South and Women’s Suffrage," 1903 | Source 19.9 Rose Winslow, Prison Notes, 1917 | Source 19.10 America When Feminized, c. 1919-1920

 

Chapter 20

Empire, Wars, and Pandemic, 1898–1919 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Alfred Thayer Mahan and José Martí 

The Awakening of Imperialism 

The Economics of Expansion 

Cultural Justifications for Imperialism 

Gender and Empire 

GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Source 20.1 Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man’s Burden," 1899 

The War with Spain 

Revolution in Cuba 

The War of 1898 

The Pacification of Cuba 

The Philippine War 

Extending U.S. Imperialism, 1899–1913 

Theodore Roosevelt and "Big Stick" Diplomacy 

Opening the Door in China 

COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Fighting in the Philippines

Source 20.2 President McKinley Defends His Decision

Source 20.3 William Carson, "A Bigger Job Than He Thought For," 1899 

Wilson and American Foreign Policy, 1912–1917 

Diplomacy and War 

COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The U.S. Chooses to Enter World War I

Source 20.4 Arthur S. Link, Woodrow Wilson and Neutrality, 1963　  

Source 20.5 John Whiteclay Chambers II, Woodrow Wilson’s Unneutral Neutrality, 2000　

Making the World Safe for Democracy 

Fighting the War at Home 

Government by Commission 

Winning Hearts and Minds 

1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

Waging Peace 

The Failure of Ratification 

Conclusion: A U.S. Empire

Chapter Review 

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 20

The Challenges of the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

Source 20.6 Philadelphia Inquirer Describes the Crisis, 1918 | Source 20.7 A Letter from a Native American, Volunteer Nurse, 1918 | Source 20.8 Advertisement to Stop Influenza, 1918 | Source 20.9 Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams on Fake Influenza Remedies, 1918 | Source 20.10 U.S. Public Health Service Information on Influenza, 1919

 

Chapter 21　

The Twenties, 1919–1929 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

D. C. Stephenson and Ossian Sweet 

Social Turmoil 

The Red Scare, 1919–1920　

GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Source 21.1 A. Mitchell Palmer, The Case against the Reds, 1920 

Racial Violence in the Postwar Era 

Prosperity, Consumption, and Growth 

Government Promotion of the Economy 

Americans Become Consumers 

Urbanization 

Perilous Prosperity 

Challenges to Social Conventions 

Breaking with the Old Morality 

The Harlem Renaissance 

Marcus Garvey and Black Nationalism 

Culture Wars 

Prohibition 

Nativists versus Immigrants 

Resurrection of the Ku Klux Klan 

Fundamentalism versus Modernism 

COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Men and Women of the KKK

Source 21.2 Gerald W. Johnson, The Ku Kluxer, 1924

Source 21.3 Women of the Ku Klux Klan, 1927 

Politics and the Fading of Prosperity 

The Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party 

Lingering Progressivism 

Financial Crash 

COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The Impact of Prohibition

Source 21.4 Andrew Sinclair, The Excesses of Prohibition, 1962

Source 21.5 Lisa McGirr, The National State and Crime Control, 2016　　　　　　　

Conclusion: The Transitional Twenties 

Chapter Review 

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 21

The New Negro and the Harlem Renaissance 

Source 21.6 A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen, "The New Negro—What Is He?" 1919 | Source 21.7 Claude McKay, "If We Must Die," 1919 | Source 21.8 Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," 1921 | Source 21.9 Aaron Douglas, Illustration, The New Negro, 1925 | Source 21.10 Bessie Smith, "Down-Hearted Blues," 1923

 

Chapter 22　

Depression, Dissent, and the New Deal, 1929–1940 

AMERICAN HISTORIES

Eleanor Roosevelt and Luisa Moreno 

The Great Depression 

Hoover Faces the Depression 

Hoovervilles and Dust Storms 

Challenges for Racial Minorities 

GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Source 22.1 Plea from the Scottsboro Prisoners, 1932 

Families under Strain 

Organized Protest 

The New Deal 

Roosevelt Restores Confidence 

Steps toward Recovery 

Direct Assistance and Relief 

New Deal Critics 

COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt

Source 22.2 Mildred Isbell to Mrs. Roosevelt, January 1, 1936

Source 22.3 Minnie Harden to Mrs. Roosevelt, December 14, 1937 

The New Deal Moves to the Left 

Expanding Relief Measures 

Establishing Social Security 

Organized Labor Strikes Back

A Half Deal for Racial Minorities　

Decline of the New Deal 

COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

New Deal or Raw Deal

Source 22.4  William E. Leuchtenburg, The Roosevelt Reconstruction, 1963　

Source 22.5 Barton J. Bernstein, The Conservative Achievements of Liberal Reform, 1969　

Conclusion: New Deal Liberalism 

Chapter Review 

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 22

The Depression in Rural America 

Source 22.6 Ann Marie Low, Dust Bowl Diary, 1934 | Source 22.7 John P. Davis, A Black Inventory of the New Deal, 1935 | Source 22.8 A Sharecropper’s Family in Washington County, Arkansas, 1935 | Source 22.9 Martin Torres, Protest Against Maltreatment of Mexican Laborers in California, 1934 | Source 22.10 Otis Nation, Testimony to the Great Plains Committee, 1937

 

Chapter 23

World War II, 1933–1945 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

J. Robert Oppenheimer and Fred Korematsu 

The Road toward War 

The Growing Crisis in Europe 

The Challenge to Isolationism 

The United States Enters the War

GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Source 23.1 Monica Sone, Memories of Pearl Harbor 

The Home-Front Economy 

Managing the Wartime Economy

New Opportunities for Women 

Everyday Life on the Home Front 

Fighting for Equality at Home 

The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement 

Struggles for Mexican Americans 

American Indians 

The Ordeal of Japanese Americans 

COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Japanese American Internment

Source 23.2 Charles Kikuchi, Internment Diary, 1942

Source 23.3 Justice Hugo Black, Korematsu v. United States, 1944 

Global War 

War in Europe 

War in the Pacific 

Ending the War 

Evidence of the Holocaust 

COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust

Source 23.4  David S. Wyman, FDR Abandoned the Jews, 1984

Source 23.5 Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman, FDR Did Not Abandon the Jews, 2013

Conclusion: The Impact of World War II 

Chapter Review 

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 23

The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb 

Source 23.6 Petition to the President of the United States, July 17, 1945 | Source 23.7 President Harry S. Truman, Press Release on the Atomic Bomb, August 6, 1945 | Source 23.8 Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 | Source 23.9 U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, 1946 | Source 23.10 Father Johannes Siemes, Eyewitness Account of the Hiroshima Bombing, 1945

 

Chapter 24

The Opening of the Cold War, 1945–1961 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

George Kennan and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg 

The Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1947 

Mutual Misunderstandings 

The Truman Doctrine 

GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Source 24.1 Henry Wallace, The Way to Peace, 1946 

The Marshall Plan and Economic Containment 

The Cold War Hardens, 1948–1953 

Military Containment 

COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The Marshall Plan and the Soviet Union

Source 24.2 George C. Marshall, The Marshall Plan, 1947

Source 24.3 Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Objections to the Marshall Plan, 1947 

The Korean War 

The Korean War and the Imperial Presidency 

Combating Communism at Home, 1945–1954 

Loyalty and the Second Red Scare 

McCarthyism 

The Cold War Expands, 1953 –1961 

Nuclear Weapons and Containment 

Decolonization

Interventions in the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa 

Early Intervention in Vietnam, 1954–1960 

COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Causes of the Cold War

Source 24.4 William Appleman Williams, Expanding the Economic Open Door, 1959

Source 24.5 John Lewis Gaddis, Competing Ideologies, 1972

Conclusion: The Cold War and Anticommunism 

Chapter Review 

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 24

McCarthyism and the Hollywood Ten 

Source 24.6 Ronald Reagan, Testimony before HUAC, 1947 | Source 24.7 John Howard Lawson, Testimony before HUAC, 1947 | Source 24.8 The Waldorf Statement and the Introduction of the Blacklist, 1947 | Source 24.9 Herblock, "You Mean I’m Supposed to Stand on That," 1950 | Source 24.10 Lillian Hellman, Letter to HUAC, 1952

 

Chapter 25

Troubled Innocence, 1945–1961 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Alan Freed and Grace Metalious 

Peacetime Transition and the Boom Years 

Peacetime Challenges, 1945–1948 

Economic Conversion and Labor Discontent 

Truman, the New Deal Coalition, and the Election of 1948 

Economic Boom 

Baby Boom 

GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Source 25.1 Adlai E. Stevenson, "A Purpose for Modern Woman,"1955 

Changes in Living Patterns 

The Culture of the 1950s 

The Rise of Television 

Wild Ones on the Big Screen 

The Influence of Teenage Culture

The Lives of Women 

Religious Revival 

Beats and Other Nonconformists 

The Growth of the Civil Rights Movement 

The Rise of the Southern Civil Rights Movement 

School Segregation and the Supreme Court 

The Montgomery Bus Boycott 

White Resistance to Desegregation 

The Sit-Ins 

Civil Rights Struggles in the North

Civil Rights Struggles in the West 

COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The Civil Rights Movement and Its Opponents

Source 25.2 The Southern Manifesto, 1956

Source 25.3 Ella Baker, "Bigger Than a Hamburger," 1960 

Domestic Politics in the Eisenhower Era 

Modern Republicanism 

The Election of 1960 

COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

When Did the Civil Rights Movement Begin?

Source 25.4  Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, The Long Civil Rights Movement, 2005

Source 25.5 Steven F. Lawson, The Short Civil Rights Movement, 2011

Conclusion: Postwar Politics and Culture 

Chapter Review 

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 25

Teenagers in Postwar America 

Source 25.6 Dick Clark, Your Happiest Years, 1959 | Source 25.7 Charlotte Jones, Letter on Elvis, 1957 | Source 25.8 The Desegregation of Central High School, 1957 | Source 25.9 Gloria Lopez-Stafford, A Mexican American Childhood in El Paso, Texas, 1949 | Source 25.10 "Why No Chinese American Delinquents?" 1955　

 

Chapter 26

Liberalism and Its Challengers, 1960–1973 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Earl Warren and Bayard Rustin 

The Politics of Liberalism 

Kennedy’s New Frontier 

Kennedy, the Cold War, and Cuba 

GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Source 26.1 Edmund Valtman, The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 

The Civil Rights Movement Intensifies, 1961–1968 

Freedom Rides 

Kennedy Supports Civil Rights 

Freedom Summer and Voting Rights 

Civil Rights and Black Power 

Federal Efforts toward Social Reform, 1964–1968 

The Great Society 

The Warren Court 　

The Vietnam War, 1961–1969 

Kennedy’s Intervention in South Vietnam 

Johnson Escalates the War in Vietnam 　

Challenges to the Liberal Establishment 

The New Left 

The Counterculture 

Liberation Movements 

COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Chicano and Native American Freedom Movements

Source 26.2 Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán, 1969

Source 26.3 The Alcatraz Proclamation, 1969 

The Revival of Conservatism

COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Race and Class in Second Wave Feminism

Source 26.4  Anne Valk, Feminist Interactions, 2008

Source 26.5   Linda Gordon, Race, Class, and Feminism, 2014　

Conclusion: Liberalism and Its Discontents 

Chapter Review 　

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 26

Freedom Summer 

Source 26.6 Prospectus for Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964

Source 26.7 Nancy Ellin, Letter Describing Freedom Summer, 1964 | Source 26.8 White Southerners Respond to Freedom Summer, 1964 | Source 26.9 Fannie Lou Hamer, Address to the Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee, 1964 | Source 26.10 Lyndon B. Johnson, Monitoring the MFDP Challenge, 1964　

 

Chapter 27

The Swing toward Conservatism, 1968–1980 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Pauli Murray and Louise Day Hicks 　 　

Nixon: War and Diplomacy, 1969–1974 

The Election of 1968 

The Failure of Vietnamization 

GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Source 27.1 Richard Nixon, Speech Accepting the Republican Nomination for President, August 8, 1968 

The Cold War Thaws　 　

Crisis in the Middle East and at Home　

Nixon and Politics, 1969–1974

Pragmatic Conservatism 

The Nixon Landslide and Watergate Scandal, 1972–1974 

The Presidency of Jimmy Carter, 1976–1980 

Jimmy Carter and the Limits of Affluence 

The Perils of Détente

Challenges in the Middle East

The Persistence of Liberalism in the 1970s 

Popular Culture

Women’s Movement　 　

Environmentalism 　 　 　 　

Racial Struggles Continue 

COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Women of Color and Feminism

Source 27.2 Workshop Resolutions, First National Chicana Conference, 1971

Source 27.3 Combahee River Collective, A Black Feminist Statement, 1977 

Mexican Americans Challenge Discrimination

The New Right Rises  

Tax Revolt

Neo-Conservatism

Christian Conservatism

COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The Rise of the New Right

Source 27.4 Dan T. Carter, George Wallace, Race, and the New Right, 1996

Source 27.5 Daniel K. Williams, The Christian Right, 2010 　

Conclusion: The Swing toward Conservatism 

Chapter Review 

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 27

The New Right and Its Critics 

Source 27.6 Proposition 13, California, 1978 | Source 27.7 Phyllis Schlafly, "What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women?" 1972 | Source 27.8 Gloria Steinem, Testimony on the Equal Rights Amendment, May 6, 1970　 | Source 27.9 Paul Weyrich, Building the Moral Majority, 1979 | Source 27.10 A. Bartlett Giamatti, The Moral Majority Threatens Freedom, 1981　

 

Chapter 28

The Triumph of Conservatism, the End of the Cold War, and the Rise of the New World Order, 1980–1992

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

George Shultz and Demetria Martinez 

The Reagan Revolution 

Reagan and Reaganomics 

GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Source 28.1 Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981

The Implementation of Social Conservatism 

Reagan and the End of the Cold War, 1981–1988

"The Evil Empire"　 　 　 　

Human Rights and the Fight against Communism 

Fighting International Terrorism 

The Nuclear Freeze Movement 

The Road to Nuclear De-escalation 

COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The Nuclear Freeze Movement

Source 28.2 New Jersey Referendum on Nuclear Freeze, 1982

Source 28.3 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Pastoral Letter on War and Peace, 1983 

The Presidency of George H. W. Bush, 1989–1993 

"Kinder and Gentler" Conservatism 

The Breakup of the Soviet Union　

COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The End of the Cold War

Source 28.4  John Spanier, Gorbachev Needed to End the Cold War, 1992

Source 28.5   Beth Fischer, Reagan Ends the Cold War, 1997

Globalization and the New World Order 

Managing Conflict after the Cold War 

The 1992 Election 　 　 　 　

Conclusion: Conservative Ascendancy and the End of the Cold War 

Chapter Review 　

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 28

The Iran-Contra Affair 

Source 28.6 The Boland Amendments, 1982 and 1984 | Source 28.7 CIA Freedom Fighter’s Manual, 1983 | Source 28.8 Ronald Reagan, Speech on the Iran-Contra Affair, 1987 | Source 28.9 Oliver North, Testimony to Congress, July 1987 | Source 28.10 George Mitchell, Response to Oliver North, 1987

 

Chapter 29

The Challenges of a Globalized World, 1993 to the present 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Bill Gates and Alicia Garza

Transforming American Society 

The Computer Revolution 

The Changing American Population 　

Political Polarization and Globalization in the Clinton Years 

Politics during the Clinton Administration 

GUIDED PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Source 29.1 Bo Yee, The New American Sweatshop, 1994 

Global Challenges 

The Presidency of George W. Bush 

Bush and Compassionate Conservatism 

The Iraq War 

Bush’s Second Term 

COMPARATIVE PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The War in Iraq

Source 29.2 George W. Bush, Declaration of Victory in Iraq, May 1, 2003

Source 29.3 Farnaz Fassihi, Report from Baghdad, 2004 

The Challenges Faced by President Barack Obama 

The Great Recession 

Obama and the Great Recession

The 2010 Revolt Against Obama

Obama’s Second Term

Latinos and Immigration

Asian Americans

African Americans and Institutional Racism

The Native American Struggle Continued

Obama and the World

COMPARATIVE SECONDARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

The Election of Barack Obama

Source 29.4  Frederick C. Harris, Decline of Black Politics, 2012

Source 29.5  Randall Kennedy, The Importance of Symbolism, 2011

The Presidency of Donald Trump　 　 　 　 　

The 2016 Election 　 　 　 　

The Trump Presidency

Pandemic, Protests, and Politics　

Conclusion: Technology and Terror in a Global Society 

Chapter Review 

PRIMARY SOURCE PROJECT 29

The Uses of September 11 

Source 29.6 Diana Hoffman, "The Power of Freedom," 2002 | Source 29.7 Khaled Abou El Fadl, Response to September 11, 2001 | Source 29.8 Anti-Muslim Discrimination, 2011 | Source 29.9 Edward Snowden, Interview, 2014 | Source 29.10 Alice M. Greenwald, Message from the Director of the 9/11 Memorial Museum