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America and Its Sources
America and Its Sources
A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
Author(s): Erin L. Conlin, Stephan Schaffrath
Publication Date: 01 August, 2019  Available in all formats
ISBN: 9781935306375
Pages: 240
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306375

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Keywords: U.S. History, American History, Primary Sources, Primary Documents, Textbooks
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.

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1.1: Early America and the Civil War
2 pages
1.2: Richard Frethorne: Letter to His Parents (1623)
3 pages
1.3: Virginia Slave Acts (1660s)
2 pages
1.4: Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
3 pages
1.5: South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession (1860)
4 pages
1.6: Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address (1865)
3 pages
1.7: Unit 1 Review
1 pages
2.1: Reconstruction and Redemption
2 pages
2.2: The “Civil War Amendments”: Excerpts from the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution
2 pages
2.3: Black Code of Mississippi (1865)
4 pages
2.4: Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan (1869)
2 pages
2.5: Initiation Charge of the Ku Klux Klan (1869)
3 pages
2.6: Richard Harvey Cain: “All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights” (1874)
4 pages
2.7: Unit 2 Review
3 pages
3.1: Westward Expansion and American Identity
4 pages
3.2: Letter from Wong Ar Chong (1879)
3 pages
3.3: Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
3 pages
3.4: Wounded Knee Massacre: Statements and Eyewitness Accounts (1891)
4 pages
3.5: Frederick Jackson Turner: “The Signiscance of the Frontier in American History” (1893)
3 pages
3.6: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
5 pages
3.7: Unit 3 Review
4 pages
4.1: Industrialization and Social Reform
3 pages
4.2: Wendell Phillips: “The Foundation of the Labor Movement” (1871)
3 pages
4.3: Samuel Gompers: Editorial on the Pullman Strike (1894)
3 pages
4.4: Upton Sinclair: The Jungle (1906)
3 pages
4.5: Ida B. Wells: “Lynching: Our National Crime” (1909)
4 pages
4.6: Jane Addams: “Why Women Should Vote” (1910)
3 pages
4.7: Unit 4 Review
2 pages
5.1: World War I and the Turbulent Twenties
3 pages
5.2: Navy Poster from World War I (1917)
3 pages
5.3: W.E.B. Du Bois: “Returning Soldiers” (1919)
4 pages
5.4: Walter F. White: “The Eruption of Tulsa” (1921)
5 pages
5.5: Marcus Garvey: “The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association” (1922)
4 pages
5.6: Ellen Welles Page: “A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents” (1922)
4 pages
5.7: Unit 5 Review
5 pages
6.1: The Great Depression
4 pages
6.2: Herbert Hoover: “Rugged Individualism” Campaign Speech (1928)
4 pages
6.3: Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address (1933)
3 pages
6.4: Wayne W. Parrish: Letter to Harry Hopkins (1934)
4 pages
6.5: New Deal Legislation (selected excerpts from 1935 and 1938)
5 pages
6.6: John P. Davis: “A Black Inventory of the New Deal” (1935)
3 pages
6.7: Unit 6 Review
3 pages
7.1: World War II and the Home Front
3 pages
7.2: Franklin D. Roosevelt: Four Freedoms Message to Congress (1941)
5 pages
7.3: Executive Order 8802: Banning Discrimination in Government and Defense Industries (1941)
4 pages
7.4: Order for Internment of Japanese Americans in San Francisco (1942)
4 pages
7.5: GI Bill (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944)
4 pages
7.6: Harry S. Truman: Statement Announcing the Use of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (1945)
4 pages
7.7: Unit 7 Review
3 pages
8.1: The Cold War
5 pages
8.2: George F. Kennan: “Long Telegram” (1946)
4 pages
8.3: Harry S. Truman: Truman Doctrine (1947)
4 pages
8.4: Joseph McCarthy: “Enemies from Within” Speech (1950)
4 pages
8.5: Richard M. Nixon: “Kitchen” Debate with Nikita Khrushchev (1959)
3 pages
8.6: John F. Kennedy: Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba (1962)
4 pages
8.7: Unit 8 Review
2 pages
9.1: Aruence, Unrest, and Civil Rights
2 pages
9.2: Advertisements from the 1950s and 1960s
5 pages
9.3: Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
4 pages
9.4: Southern Manifesto (1956)
3 pages
9.5: Martin Luther King Jr.: “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963)
5 pages
9.6: Stokely Carmichael: “Black Power” (1966)
3 pages
9.7: Unit 9 Review
3 pages
10.1: Expanding Civil Rights
5 pages
10.2: Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique (1963)
4 pages
10.3: Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz: Proclamation (1969)
4 pages
10.4: Statement of Cesar E. Chavez before the U.S. Senate (1969)
3 pages
10.5: Gay Liberation Front: Program Platform Statement (1970)
5 pages
10.6: Combahee River Collective Statement (1977)
4 pages
10.7: Unit 10 Review
3 pages
11.1: Vietnam and Counterculture
5 pages
11.2: Bob Dylan: “Blowin’ in the Wind” (1963)
2 pages
11.3: Martin Luther King Jr.: “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” (1967)
4 pages
11.4: Richard M. Nixon: Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia (1970)
4 pages
11.5: John Kerry: Testimony of the Vietnam Veterans against the War (1971)
4 pages
11.6: Richard M. Nixon: Special Message to Congress about Establishing the EPA and NOAA (1970)
4 pages
11.7: Unit 11 Review
2 pages
12.1: The Triumph of Conservatism
2 pages
12.2: Barry Goldwater: Acceptance Speech for the Presidential Nomination of the Republican Party (1964)
5 pages
12.3: Ronald Reagan: “A Time for Choosing” (1964)
4 pages
12.4: Richard M. Nixon: “Silent Majority” Speech (1969)
6 pages
12.5: Jerry Falwell: Listen America (1980)
3 pages
12.6: Ronald Reagan: First Inaugural Address (1981)
4 pages
12.7: Unit 12 Review
2 pages
13.1: Deindustrialization and the Booming Nineties
3 pages
13.2: Bill Tolan: “In Desperate 1983, There Was Nowhere for Pittsburgh’s Economy to Go but Up: A Tide of Change” (2012)
4 pages
13.3: George H.W. Bush: “Read My Lips” Speech (1988)
5 pages
13.4: Bill Clinton: Remarks on Signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (1993)
4 pages
13.5: Republican Contract with America (1994)
4 pages
13.6: Bill Clinton: Farewell Address (2001)
4 pages
13.7: Unit 13 Review
3 pages
14.1: Twenty-First Century America
4 pages
14.2: George W. Bush: Address to the Nation on September 11, 2001
4 pages
14.3: Robert C. Byrd: “The Emperor Has No Clothes” Speech (2003)
5 pages
14.4: Barack Obama: “A More Perfect Union” (2008)
4 pages
14.5: Sarah Palin: Keynote Speech at the Inaugural Tea Party Convention (2010)
4 pages
14.6: Donald J. Trump: Inaugural Address (2017)
4 pages
14.7: Unit 14 Review
2 pages
Description
Subject(s): U.S. History, American History, Primary Sources, Primary Documents, Textbooks
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.

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Table of contents
  • 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
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