America Firsthand, Volume 2
Readings from Reconstruction to PresentTenth Edition| ©2016 Anthony Marcus; John M. Giggie; David Burner
ISBN:9781319029685
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American history told by everyday Americans
This distinctive, class-tested primary source reader tells America’s story through the words and other creative expressions of the ordinary and extraordinary Americans who shaped it. "Points of View" sections provide varied vantage points on important topics, and select images draw students into interpreting the visual record. This carefully crafted, ready-to-go collection saves instructors time and effort in finding consistently engaging and informative sources.
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[An] excellent collection of primary documents that in my experience has helped students to evaluate constructed social and racial stereotypes, analyze opposing viewpoints, and relate events to their own lives in the present.
– Petra DeWitt, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyStudents find it very accessible and are ALWAYS intrigued by first person accounts. … It provides a wonderful "jumping off" point for discussions of rich topics. I love the diversity of voices—and so do my students!
– Ann K. Lupo, SUNY Buffalo State CollegeThe book provides useful tools to get students to be more aware of what life was like in the past and how it compares and contrasts with life in America today.
– Philip M. Montesano, City College of San Francisco
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America Firsthand, Volume 2
Tenth Edition| ©2016
Anthony Marcus; John M. Giggie; David Burner
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America Firsthand, Volume 2
Tenth Edition| 2016
Anthony Marcus; John M. Giggie; David Burner
Table of Contents
After the Civil War: New South and New West
Points of View: The Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)
1. She Walks with Her Shawl, and One Bull, Victory at Greasy Grass
2. Charles DeRudio, Witness to Custer’s Last Stand
3. Felix Haywood et al., African Americans during Reconstruction
4. Ida B. Wells, African American Protest
5. Freedmen in the West
6. Caleb G. Forshey and the Reverend James Sinclair, White Southerners’ Reactions to Reconstruction
7. Grimes Family and Swindell Brothers, Work under Sharecropper and Labor Contracts
8. Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), School Days of an Indian Girl
9. The Homestead Act and the Peopling of the West
PART TWO
The Gilded Age: Industrial Growth and CrisisPoints of View: The Rise of Labor Unions
10. The Knights of Labor, Early Efforts at Labor Organizing
11. Industrial Workers of the World, Demanding a New Workplace
12. The Industrial City
13. William Steinway, Workers Prosper as Industry Grows
14. George Rice, Losing Out to Standard Oil
15. Joseph T. Finnerty, The Decline of the Independent Craftsman
16. Albert Parsons, The Haymarket Riot
17. Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in American Politics
18. The Omaha Platform, Agrarian Protests
19. Pauline Newman et al., Conditions at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company
PART THREE
A Society in Flux: Preparing for an American CenturyPoints of View: Suppressing the "Dreadful Curse of Liquor" (1890-1919)
20. Carrie Nation, Smashing the Evils of Alcohol
21. Percy Andreae, A Glimpse behind the Mask of Prohibition
22. Letters from the Battlefront and the Home Front, Debating War in the Philippines
23. Abraham Cahan, A Bintel Brief
24. Immigrant Labor at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
25. Emmett J. Scott et al., Letters from the Great Migration
26. Lucy Burns and Alice Paul, Prison Notes
27. Edwin W. Sims, War on the White Slave Trade
28. Kate Richards O’Hare et al., The Trial of Kate Richards O’Hare
A New Society: Between the Wars
Points of View: The Great Depression
29. Anonymous, Down and Out in the Great Depression
30. Morey Skaret, On the Road during the Great Depression
31. Images of the Great Depression
32. William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, In Defense of the Bible
33. Langston Hughes, The Harlem Renaissance
34. Margaret Sanger, My Fight for Birth Control
35. Unknown Photographer, Capitalizing on New Fears: The Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
36. Luis Tenorio et al., Mexican Migrants and the Promise of America
37. Genora Dollinger, Taking a Stand: The Sit-Down Strikes of the 1930s
PART FIVE
"The American Century": War, Affluence, and Uncertainty
Points of View: Building and Using an Atomic Bomb (1942–1945)
38. J. Robert Oppenheimer, To Build an Atomic Bomb
39. Paul Tibbets and George Weller, To Use an Atomic Bomb
40. Fanny Christina Hill, Rosie the Riveter
41. Ben Yorita and Philip Hayasaka, Memories of the Internment Camp
42. Otto Apel, Mechanized Angels in Korea
43. Ring Lardner Jr., Blacklisted: The Post–World War II Red Scare
44. Levittown: Making America Suburban
45. Charles Douglas Jackson, The Sputnik Crisis: The Beep Heard ’Round the World
PART SIX
Awakenings: Authority and Liberty in the Modern Age
Points of View: The My Lai Massacre and Its Aftermath (1968–1970)
46. Ronald L. Ridenhour et al., Disbelief and Corroboration
47. General Westmoreland, President Nixon et al., Cover-Up and Outcome
48. Naomi Weisstein, The Adventures of a Woman in Science in the 1960s
49. Phyllis Schlafly, The Limits of the Women’s Movement
50. Student Workers, Mississippi Freedom Summer
51. Protest Movements of the 1960s and 1970s
52. Pablo Guzmán, The Young Lords
53. César Chávez, Toward Mexican American Civil Rights
54. Robert Amsel et al., The Gay Rights Movement
Between History and Tomorrow: Life After the Cold War
Points of View: A Public Debate between Somalis in Lewiston, Maine, and Their Mayor (October 1, 2002-January 29, 2003)
55. Mayor Laurier T. Raymond et al., The Letter That Sparked the Debate and Supporters of It
56. Elders of the Somali Community et al., Letters in Support of the Somali Community
57. Cathy Langston, When PATCO Went on Strike
58. The Los Angeles Riots of 1992
59. Dennis W. Shepard, Homophobia in the Heartland
60. United States Interrogation Policy
61. Ahmir Questlove Thompson, Walking While Black: The Unhappy Marriage of Race and Criminal Justice
62. Ryan J. Downey and Hannah Appel, Personal and Social Debt
63. Stanley Crouch, Barack Hussein Obama: Black Like Whom?
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America Firsthand, Volume 2
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Anthony Marcus; John M. Giggie; David Burner
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Anthony Marcus
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John M. Giggie
John Giggie is an associate professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Alabama, where he currently serves as the Director of the Graduate Program in History and as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow. His research specializations include the American South, African American history, and American religious history. He has published After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1917 and edited Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Commercial Culture. He also coedits the Religion and American Culture series for the University of Alabama Press. His current scholarly project is a book on African American religion during the Civil War.
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David Burner
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Susan Belasco
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Linck Johnson
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America Firsthand, Volume 2
Tenth Edition| 2016
Anthony Marcus; John M. Giggie; David Burner
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