America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present is an innovative sourcebook designed for non-majors, ESL students, and other students who struggle with large amounts of reading. Through 14 focused units, the editors guide students from important post-1865 documents to major sources from contemporary America. Each unit includes a brief introduction to the era, unit questions, 5 expertly edited primary sources with overviews and guiding questions, and a unit review. This affordable sourcebook offers students the essential tools they need to examine and analyze primary sources without overwhelming them with lengthy and difficult texts.

• Copyright Page
• Introduction
• About the Editors
• Acknowledgments
• How to Read Primary Sources
• 1.1 Early America and the Civil War
• 1.2 Richard Frethorne: Letter to His Parents (1623)
• 1.3 Virginia Slave Acts (1660s)
• 1.4 Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
• 1.5 South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession (1860)
• 1.6 Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address (1865)
• 1.7 Unit 1 Review
• 2.1 Reconstruction and Redemption
• 2.2 The “Civil War Amendments”: Excerpts from the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution
• 2.3 Black Code of Mississippi (1865)
• 2.4 Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan (1869)
• 2.5 Initiation Charge of the Ku Klux Klan (1869)
• 2.6 Richard Harvey Cain: “All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights” (1874)
• 2.7 Unit 2 Review
• 3.1 Westward Expansion and American Identity
• 3.2 Letter from Wong Ar Chong (1879)
• 3.3 Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
• 3.4 Wounded Knee Massacre: Statements and Eyewitness Accounts (1891)
• 3.5 Frederick Jackson Turner: “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1893)
• 3.6 Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• 3.7 Unit 3 Review
• 4.1 Industrialization and Social Reform
• 4.2 Wendell Phillips: “The Foundation of the Labor Movement” (1871)
• 4.3 Samuel Gompers: Editorial on the Pullman Strike (1894)
• 4.4 Upton Sinclair: The Jungle (1906)
• 4.5 Ida B. Wells: “Lynching: Our National Crime” (1909)
• 4.6 Jane Addams: “Why Women Should Vote” (1910)
• 4.7 Unit 4 Review
• 5.1 World War I and the Turbulent Twenties
• 5.2 Navy Poster from World War I (1917)
• 5.3 W.E.B. Du Bois: “Returning Soldiers” (1919)
• 5.4 Walter F. White: “The Eruption of Tulsa” (1921)
• 5.5 Marcus Garvey: “The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association” (1922)
• 5.6 Ellen Welles Page: “A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents” (1922)
• 5.7 Unit 5 Review
• 6.1 The Great Depression
• 6.2 Herbert Hoover: “Rugged Individualism” Campaign Speech (1928)
• 6.3 Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address (1933)
• 6.4 Wayne W. Parrish: Letter to Harry Hopkins (1934)
• 6.5 New Deal Legislation (selected excerpts from 1935 and 1938)
• 6.6 John P. Davis: “A Black Inventory of the New Deal” (1935)
• 6.7 Unit 6 Review
• 7.1 World War II and the Home Front
• 7.2 Franklin D. Roosevelt: Four Freedoms Message to Congress (1941)
• 7.3 Executive Order 8802: Banning Discrimination in Government and Defense Industries (1941)
• 7.4 Order for Internment of Japanese Americans in San Francisco (1942)
• 7.5 GI Bill (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944)
• 7.6 Harry S. Truman: Statement Announcing the Use of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (1945)
• 7.7 Unit 7 Review
• 8.1 The Cold War
• 8.2 George F. Kennan: “Long Telegram” (1946)
• 8.3 Harry S. Truman: Truman Doctrine (1947)
• 8.4 Joseph McCarthy: “Enemies from Within” Speech (1950)
• 8.5 Richard M. Nixon: “Kitchen” Debate with Nikita Khrushchev (1959)
• 8.6 John F. Kennedy: Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba (1962)
• 8.7 Unit 8 Review
• 9.1 Affluence, Unrest, and Civil Rights
• 9.2 Advertisements from the 1950s and 1960s
• 9.3 Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• 9.4 Southern Manifesto (1956)
• 9.5 Martin Luther King Jr.: “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963)
• 9.6 Stokely Carmichael: “Black Power” (1966)
• 9.7 Unit 9 Review
• 10.1 Expanding Civil Rights
• 10.2 Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique (1963)
• 10.3 Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz: Proclamation (1969)
• 10.4 Statement of Cesar E. Chavez before the U.S. Senate (1969)
• 10.5 Gay Liberation Front: Program Platform Statement (1970)
• 10.6 Roe v. Wade (1973)
• 10.6 Unit 10 Review
• 11.1 Vietnam and Counterculture
• 11.2 Bob Dylan: “Blowin’ in the Wind” (1963)
• 11.3 Martin Luther King Jr.: “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” (1967)
• 11.4 Richard M. Nixon: Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia (1970)
• 11.5 John Kerry: Testimony of the Vietnam Veterans against the War (1971)
• 11.6 Richard M. Nixon: Special Message to Congress about Establishing the EPA and NOAA (1970)
• 11.7 Unit 11 Review
• 12.1 The Triumph of Conservatism
• 12.2 Barry Goldwater: Acceptance Speech for the Presidential Nomination of the Republican Party (1964)
• 12.3 Ronald Reagan: “A Time for Choosing” (1964)
• 12.4 Richard M. Nixon: “Silent Majority” Speech (1969)
• 12.5 Jerry Falwell: Listen America (1980)
• 12.6 Ronald Reagan: First Inaugural Address (1981)
• 12.7 Unit 12 Review
• 13.1 Deindustrialization and the Booming Nineties
• 13.2 Bill Tolan: “In Desperate 1983, There Was Nowhere for Pittsburgh’s Economy to Go but Up: A Tide of Change” (2012)
• 13.3 George H.W. Bush: “Read My Lips” Speech (1988)
• 13.4 Bill Clinton: Remarks on Signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (1993)
• 13.5 Republican Contract with America (1994)
• 13.6 Bill Clinton: Farewell Address (2001)
• 13.7 Unit 13 Review
• 14.1 Twenty-First Century America
• 14.2 George W. Bush: Address to the Nation on September 11, 2001
• 14.3 Robert C. Byrd: “The Emperor Has No Clothes” Speech (2003)
• 14.4 Barack Obama: “A More Perfect Union” (2008)
• 14.5 Sarah Palin: Keynote Speech at the Inaugural Tea Party Convention (2010)
• 14.6 Donald J. Trump: Inaugural Address (2017)
• 14.7 Unit 14 Review