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Index
Title Page Copyright Preface Contents Part I: Reconstruction and After
Introduction Document
1. Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill, July 8, 1864 2. The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864 3. Abraham Lincoln, Speech, April 11, 1865 4. Thaddeus Stevens, Speech, December 18, 1865 5. Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, June 20, 1866 6. An Address to the Loyal Citizens and Congress of the United States of America, August 1865 7. Wade Hampton on Reconstruction, 1866 8. Alexander Stephens on Reconstruction, April 11, 1866 9. Andrew Johnson, Cleveland Speech, September 3, 1866 10. Andrew Johnson, Veto of the First Reconstruction Act, March 2, 1867 11. Charles Sumner, Opinion on the Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868 12. James W. Grimes, Opinion on the Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868 13. Atlanta News, “Meet Brute Force with Brute Force,” September 10, 1874 14. Blanche K. Bruce, Speech in the Senate, March 31, 1876 15. Slaughterhouse Cases, 1873 16. Civil Rights Cases, 1883 17. John Marshall Harlan, Dissenting Opinion in Civil Rights Cases, 1883 18. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 19. John Marshall Harlan, Dissenting Opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
Part II: Industrialism and Social Reform
Introduction Document
1. Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879 2. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 1888 3. Andrew Carnegie, “Wealth,” June 1889 4. William Graham Sumner, “The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over,” March 1894 5. Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894 6. Samuel Gompers, Letter on Labor in Industrial Society, September 1894 7. Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co., 1895 8. John Marshall Harlan, Dissenting Opinion in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co., 1895 9. U.S. v. E. C. Knight and Co., 1895 10. John Marshall Harlan, Dissenting Opinion in U.S. v. E. C. Knight and Co., 1895
Part III: Agrarian Protest
Introduction Document
1. Resolutions of a Meeting of the Illinois State Farmers’ Association, April 1873 2. Munn v. Illinois. 1877 3. Stephen J. Field, Dissenting Opinion in Munn v. Illinois, 1877 4. Populist Party Platform, July 4, 1892 5. Grover Cleveland, Message on the Repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, August 8, 1893 6. W. H. (“Coin”) Harvey, Coin’s Financial School, 1894 7. James Laurence Laughlin, Answer to “Coin” Harvey, 1895 8. William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold Speech, July 8, 1896 9. William Allen White, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?,” August 16, 1896
Part IV: Imperialism and War
Introduction Document
1. Josiah Strong, Our Country, 1885 2. Henry Cabot Lodge, “Our Blundering Foreign Policy,” March 1895 3. William McKinley, War Message to Congress, April 11, 1898 4. Walter Hines Page, “The War with Spain and After,” June 1898 5. Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League, October 17, 1899 6. Woodrow Wilson, Appeal for Neutrality, August 19, 1914 7. Woodrow Wilson, Peace without Victory Address, January 22, 1917 8. Woodrow Wilson, Speech for Declaration of War against Germany, April 2, 1917 9. George W. Norris, Speech against Declaration of War, April 4, 1917 10. Woodrow Wilson, Speech on the Fourteen Points, January 8, 1918 11. Woodrow Wilson, Speech on the Covenant of the League of Nations, February 14, 1919 12. William E. Borah, Speech on the League of Nations, November 19, 1919
Part V: Progressivism
Introduction Document
1. Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities, 1904 2. George Washington Plunkitt, “Honest Graft,” 1905 3. Walter Lippmann, “The Themes of Muckraking,” 1914 4. Lochnerv. New York, 1905 5. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dissenting Opinion in Lochner v. New York, 1905 6. Muller v. Oregon, 1908 7. David Wilcox, Testimony on Railroad Reform, January 21, 1905 8. William P. Hepburn, Speech on Railroad Reform, February 7, 1906 9. Willian Allen White, The Old Order Changeth, 1910 10. Elihu Root, Experiments in Government, 1913 11. Theodore Roosevelt, Acceptance Speech, August 6, 1912 12. Woodrow Wilson. The New Freedom. 1913 13. Report of the Pujo Committee, February 28, 1913 14. Woodrow Wilson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1913
Part VI: Prosperity and Depression
Introduction Document
1. Hammer v. Dagenhart, 1918 2. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dissenting Opinion in Hammer v. Dagenhart, 1918 3. Abrams v. U.S., 1919 4. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dissenting Opinion in Abrams v. U.S., 1919 5. Hiram W. Evans, “The Klan’s Fight for Americanism,” 1926 6. William Allen White, Letter on the Ku Klux Klan, September 17, 1921 7. Progressive Party Platform, 1924 8. Herbert Hoover, Rugged Individualism Speech, October 22, 1928 9. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Commonwealth Club Speech, September 23, 1932 10. Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 11. Herbert Hoover, This Challenge to Liberty, October 30, 1936 12. U.S. v. Butler et al, 1936 13. Harlan Fiske Stone, Dissenting Opinion in U.S. v. Butler et al., 1936 14. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Radio Address on Supreme Court Reform, March 9, 1937 15. Report of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Supreme Court Reform, June 7, 1937
Part VII: World War II and the Post-War World
Introduction Document
1. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine the Aggressors Speech, October 5, 1937 2. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Press Conference on Lend-Lease, December 17, 1940 3. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Four Freedoms Speech, January 6, 1941 4. Burton K. Wheeler, Speech on Lend-Lease, January 12, 1941 5. Charles A. Lindbergh, Speech on America and the War, April 23, 1941 6. The Atlantic Charter, August 14, 1941 7. Franklin D. Roosevelt, War Message to Congress, December 8, 1941 8. The Truman Doctrine, March 12, 1947 9. George C. Marshall, The Marshall Plan, June 5, 1947 10. George F. Kennan, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” July 1947 11. Dean Acheson, Speech for the North Atlantic Treaty, March 18, 1949 12. Robert A. Taft, Speech against the North Atlantic Treaty, July 11, 1949 13. Douglas MacArthur, Address to Congress, April 19, 1951 14. Dean Acheson, Testimony on the Military Situation in the Far East, June 1, 1951 15. John Foster Dulles, Testimony on the Policy of Liberation, January 15, 1953 16. Lewis Mumford, Letter on American Foreign Policy, March 28, 1954 17. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Remarks on Peaceful Co-existence, June 30, 1954
Part VIII: Contemporary Challenges
Section A. Civil Rights Introduction Document
1. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954 2. Declaration of Ninety-six Southern Congressmen, March 12, 1956 3. Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have a Dream,” August 28, 1963 4. Reynolds v. Sims, 1964 5. John Marshall Harlan, Dissenting Opinion in Reynolds v. Sims, 1964 6. Lyndon B. Johnson, Speech on Voting Rights, March 15, 1965 7. Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at Howard University, June 4, 1965 8. Report of the Commission on Civil Disorders, March 2, 1968 9. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Memorandum for President Nixon, January 16, 1970 10. Abraham Ribicoff, Senate Speech on De Facto Segregation in Northern Schools, February 18, 1970 11. Richard M. Nixon, State Paper on School Desegregation, March 24, 1970 12. Citizen’s Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Memorandum on the Proposed Equal Rights Amendment, March 26, 1970 13. Arizona State Senator Trudy Camping, Against ERA, 1975 14. Fullilove v. Klutznick, 1980 15. Potter Stewart, Dissenting Opinion in Fullilove v. Klutznick, 1980
Section B. The Government and the Economy Document
16. John F. Kennedy, Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11, 1962 17. Lyndon B. Johnson, The War on Poverty, March 16, 1964 18. Barry Goldwater, Opening Campaign Speech, September 3, 1964 19. Lyndon B. Johnson, Economic Report, January 16, 1969 20. Declaration of Environmental Rights, 1970 21. Richard M. Nixon, Address on the Economy, August 15, 1971 22. House Judiciary Committee, Articles of Impeachment, August 20, 1974 23. Gerald R. Ford, Address on the Pardon of Richard M. Nixon, September 8, 1974 24. Jimmy Carter, “Crisis of Confidence” Address, July 15, 1979 25. Debate between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, Candidates for President, Election of 1980, October 28, 1980: Urban decay; Energy; the role of the Federal Government and Women’s Rights
Part IX: Foreign Policy 1958-1981
Introduction Document
1. State Department, Policy Statement on Non-Recognition of the Chinese Communist Government, August 10, 1958 2. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 17, 1961 3. John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 4. John F. Kennedy, Report on Soviet Missiles in Cuba, October 22, 1962 5. John F. Kennedy, Address on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, July 26, 1963 6. Lyndon B. Johnson, American Policy in Vietnam, April 7, 1965 7. J. William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power, 1966 8. Richard M. Nixon, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1969 9. The United States and the People’s Republic of China, The Shanghai Communiqué, February 27, 1972 10. Richard M. Nixon, Report on the Moscow Summit, June 1, 1972 11. Jimmy Carter, Address on the Camp David Accords, September 18, 1978 12. Jimmy Carter, Report to Congress on the Failed Hostage Rescue Mission to Iran, April 26, 1980 13. Ronald Reagan, Address on Arms Control Negotiations, November 18, 1981
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