Of the People
A History of the United States, Volume 2: Since 1865
5th Edition
Published on 24. September 2021
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Of the People: A History of the United States does more than tell the history of America--of its people and places, of its dealings and ideals. It unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything but certain, from its complex beginnings to its modern challenges.
The authors see American history as a story "of the people," of their struggles to shape their lives and their land.
Their narrative focuses on the social and political lives of people--some famous, some ordinary--revealing the compelling story of America's democracy from an individual perspective, from across the landscapes
of diverse communities, and ultimately from within the larger context of the world.
The theme of democracy concentrates attention on the most fundamental concerns of history: people and power. These concerns have been especially relevant as the authors completed revising the book for this new edition. The tumultuous presidential campaign of 2020, one of the most divisive in American history, took place in the midst of a deadly pandemic and culminated in the extraordinary
storming of the federal Capitol building in Washington, D.C. in January 2021. Recent history is always a challenge and always subject to revision, but the authors have wanted to show how contemporary
struggles over democracy are rooted in the past. Their balanced, inclusive approach makes it more possible for teachers and students to deal with the most controversial events.
The authors see American history as a story "of the people," of their struggles to shape their lives and their land.
Their narrative focuses on the social and political lives of people--some famous, some ordinary--revealing the compelling story of America's democracy from an individual perspective, from across the landscapes
of diverse communities, and ultimately from within the larger context of the world.
The theme of democracy concentrates attention on the most fundamental concerns of history: people and power. These concerns have been especially relevant as the authors completed revising the book for this new edition. The tumultuous presidential campaign of 2020, one of the most divisive in American history, took place in the midst of a deadly pandemic and culminated in the extraordinary
storming of the federal Capitol building in Washington, D.C. in January 2021. Recent history is always a challenge and always subject to revision, but the authors have wanted to show how contemporary
struggles over democracy are rooted in the past. Their balanced, inclusive approach makes it more possible for teachers and students to deal with the most controversial events.
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Michael McGerr is Paul V. McNutt Professor of History at Indiana University-Bloomington. Camilla Townsend is Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. Karen M. Dunak is Associate Professor of History at Muskingum University. Mark Summers is Thomas D. Clark Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. Jan Ellen Lewis was Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University-Newark.
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Features Preface New to the Fifth Edition Hallmark Features Learning Resources for Of the People
Acknowledgments About the Authors CHAPTER 15. Reconstructing a Nation, 1865-1877 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: John Dennett Visits a Freedmen's Bureau Court Wartime Reconstruction Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan Versus the Wade-Davis Bill The Meaning of Freedom Experiments with Free Labor Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1867 The Political Economy of Contract Labor Resistance to Presidential Reconstruction Congress Clashes with the President Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment Congressional Reconstruction The South Remade The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson Radical Reconstruction in the South Achievements and Failures of Radical Government The Political Economy of Sharecropping The Gospel of Prosperity A Counterrevolution of Terrorism and Economic Pressure AMERICA IN THE WORLD: Reconstructing America's Foreign Policy A Reconstructed West The Overland Trail The Origins of Indian Reservations Reforming Native American Tribes out of Existence The Retreat from Republican Radicalism Republicans Become the Party of Moderation Reconstructing the North The Fifteenth Amendment and Nationwide African American Suffrage Women and Suffrage The End of Reconstruction Corruption Is the Fashion Liberal Republicans Revolt "Redeeming" the South STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: An Incident at Coushatta, August 1874 The Twice-Stolen Election of 1876 Sharecropping Becomes Wage Labor Conclusion Chapter 15. Primary Sources
15.1 Petroleum V. Nasby [David Ross Locke], A Platform for Northern Democrats (1865)
15.2 A Black tenant farmer describes working conditions
15.3 Sharecropping Contract Between Alonzo T. Mial and Fenner Powell (1886)
15.4 Joseph Farley, An Account of Reconstruction
15.5 A Southern Unionist Judge's Daughter Writes the President for Help (1874)
15.6 Red Cloud Pleads the Plains Indians' Point of View at Cooper Union (1870) CHAPTER 16. The Triumph of Industrial Capitalism, 1850-1890 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Rosa Cassettari The Political Economy of Global Capitalism The "Great Depression" of the Late Nineteenth Century AMERICA IN THE WORLD: The Global Migration of Labor The Economic Transformation of the West Cattlemen: From Drovers to Ranchers Commercial Farmers Remake the Plains Changes in the Land AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Pioneers' Paradise Lost America Moves to the City The Rise of Big Business The Rise of Andrew Carnegie Carnegie Dominates the Steel Industry Big Business Consolidates A New Social Order Lifestyles of the Very Rich The Consolidation of the New Middle Class The Industrial Working Class Comes of Age Social Darwinism and the Growth of Scientific Racism STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: "The Chinese Must Go" The Knights of Labor and the Haymarket Disaster Conclusion Chapter 16. Primary Sources
16.1 Stephen Crane Visits the "Breaker" at a Coal Mine
16.2 Visual Document: Alfred R. Waud, "Bessemer Steel Manufacture" (1876)
16.3 George Steevens, Excerpt from The Land of the Dollar (1897)
16.4 James Baird Weaver, A Call to Action (1892)
16.5 Visual Documents: "Gift for the Grangers" (1873) and the Jorns Family of Dry Valley, Custer County, Nebraska (1886)
16.6 William A. Peffer Pleads the Farmer's Cause, 1891 CHAPTER 17. The Culture and Politics of Industrial America, 1870-1892 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Luna Kellie and the Farmers' Alliance The Elusive Boundaries of Male and Female The Victorian Construction of Male and Female The Moralists' Crusade for Morality Urban Culture A New Cultural Order: New Americans Stir Old Fears Josiah Strong Attacks Immigration From Immigrants to Ethnic Americans The Catholic Church and Its Limits in Immigrant Culture Immigrant Cultures The Enemy at the Gates Two Political Styles The Triumph of Party Politics Masculine Partisanship and Feminine Voluntarism The Women's Christian Temperance Union The Critics of Popular Politics STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The "Crusade" Against Alcohol Economic Issues Dominate National Politics Greenbacks and Greenbackers Weak Presidents Oversee a Stronger Federal Government AMERICA IN THE WORLD: Foreign Policy: The Limited Significance of Commercial Expansion Government Activism and Its Limits States Discover Activism Cities: Boss Rule and New Responsibilities Challenging the New Industrial Order Henry George and the Limits of Producers' Ideology Edward Bellamy and the Nationalist Clubs Agrarian Revolt The Rise of the Populists Conclusion Chapter 17. Primary Sources
17.1 Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" (1883)
17.2 Josiah Strong, Excerpts from "The Superiority of the Anglo-Saxon Race" (1885)
17.3 Henry George, Excerpts from "That We Might All Be Rich" (1883)
17.4 Jacob Riis, Excerpt from How the Other Half Lives (1890) and Visual Document: Jacob Riis, Visual Document "Nomads of the Street" (ca. 1890)
17.5 New York World, "How Tim Got the Votes" (1892)
17.6 Tammany Times, "And Reform Moves On" (1895) CHAPTER 18. Industry and Empire, 1890-1900 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: J. P. Morgan The Crisis of the 1890s Hard Times and Demands for Help The Overseas Frontier The Drive for Efficiency The Struggle Between Management and Labor Corporate Consolidation A Modern Economy Currency: Gold Versus Silver The Cross of Gold The Battle of the Standards The Retreat from Politics The Lure of the Cities AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Galveston, Texas, 1900 Inventing Jim Crow The Atlanta Compromise Disfranchisement and the Decline of Popular Politics STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Wilmington Race Riot Organized Labor Retreats from Politics American Diplomacy Enters the Modern World Sea Power and the Imperial Urge The Scramble for Empire War with Spain The Anti-Imperialists The Philippine-American War The Open Door Conclusion Chapter 18. Primary Sources
18.1 Frederick Winslow Taylor, Excerpts from The Principles of Scientific Management (1911)
18.2 Booker T. Washington, "The Atlanta Compromise" (1895)
18.3 Theodore Roosevelt, Excerpts from "The Strenuous Life" (1899)
18.4 Platform for the Anti Imperialist League (1899) CHAPTER 19. A United Body of Action, 1900-1916 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Helen Keller Toward a New Politics The Insecurity of Modern Life The Decline of Partisan Politics Social Housekeeping Evolution or Revolution? The Progressives Social Workers and Muckrakers STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Public Response to The Jungle Dictatorship of the Experts Progressives on the Color Line Progressives in State and Local Politics Redesigning the City Reform Mayors and City Services Progressives and the States A Push for "Genuine Democracy" and a "Moral Awakening" The Executive Branch Against the Trusts The Square Deal Conserving Water, Land, and Forests Theodore Roosevelt and Big Stick Diplomacy Taft and Dollar Diplomacy AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: The Hetch Hetchy Valley Rival Visions of the Industrial Future The New Nationalism The 1912 Election The New Freedom Conclusion Chapter 19. Primary Sources
19.1 Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennet, Plan of Chicago (1909)
19.2 Upton Sinclair, Excerpts from The Jungle (1906)
19.3 Visual Documents: Lewis Wickes Hine, National Child Labor Committee Photographs (Early 1900S)
19.4 Helen Keller, Excerpts from "Blind Leaders" (1913) CHAPTER 20. A Global Power, 1914-1919 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Walter Lippmann The Challenge of Revolution The Mexican Revolution Bringing Order to the Caribbean A One-Sided Neutrality The Lusitania's Last Voyage The Drift to War The Election of 1916 The Last Attempts at Peace War Aims The Fight in Congress Mobilizing the Nation and the Economy Enforcing Patriotism STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Eugene Debs Speaks Out Against the War Regimenting the Economy The Great Migration Reforms Become "War Measures" Over There Citizens into Soldiers The Fourteen Points The Final Offensive Revolutionary Anxieties Wilson in Paris The Senate Rejects the League Red Scare AMERICA IN THE WORLD: The 1918 Influenza Epidemic Conclusion Chapter 20. Primary Sources
20.1 Eugene V. Debs, Excerpts from Canton, Ohio, Speech (1918)
20.2 George Creel, Excerpts from How We Advertised America (1920)
20.3 Woodrow Wilson, "Fourteen Points" Speech (1918)
20.4 Marysville Evening Tribune, Influenza and the American military (1918) CHAPTER 21. The Modern Nation, 1919-1928 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: "America's Sweetheart" A Dynamic Economy The Development of Industry The Trend Toward Large-Scale Organization The Transformation of Work and the Workforce The Defeat of Organized Labor The Decline of Agriculture The Urban Nation A Modern Culture The Spread of Consumerism New Pleasures for a Mass Audience A Sexual Revolution Changing Gender Ideals STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Flappers and Feminists AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: The Tulsa Race Massacre
The Family and Youth The Celebration of the Individual The Limits of the Modern Culture The Limits of Prosperity The "Lost Generation" of Intellectuals Fundamentalist Christians and "Old-Time Religion" Nativists and Immigration Restriction The Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan Mexican Americans African Americans and the "New Negro" A "New Era" in Politics and Government The Modern Political System The Republican Ascendancy The Politics of Individualism Republican Foreign Policy Extending the "New Era" AMERICA IN THE WORLD: J. Walter Thompson and International Markets Conclusion Chapter 21. Primary Sources
21.1 Hiram Wesley Evans, Excerpts from "The Klan: Defender of Americanism" (1925)
21.2 Marie Prevost on "The Flapper" (1923)
21.3 Visual Document: Colgate & Co. Advertisement (1925)
21.4 Robert Lynd and Helen Lynd, Excerpt from "Remaking Leisure in Middletown" (1929) CHAPTER 22. A Great Depression and a New Deal, 1929-1940 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Dorothea Lange The Great Depression Causes Descending into Depression Hoover Responds The First New Deal The Election of 1932 FDR Takes Command Federal Relief The Farm Crisis STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Civilian Conservation Corps and a New Brand of Environmentalism The Blue Eagle The Second New Deal Critics Attack from All Sides The Second Hundred Days Social Security for Some Labor and the New Deal The New Deal Coalition Crisis of the New Deal Conservatives Counterattack AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: THE 1937 OHIO RIVER FLOOD The Liberal Crisis of Confidence Conclusion Chapter 22. Primary Sources
22.1 Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933)
22.2 Visual Documents: Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration Photographs (1930S)
22.3 "Ballad for Americans," Federal Theater Project, Sing for Your Supper (1939)
22.4 Remembering the Great Depression, Excerpts from Studs Terkel's Hard Times (1970) CHAPTER 23. The Second World War, 1941-1945 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: A. Philip Randolph Island in a Totalitarian Sea A World of Hostile Blocs The Good Neighbor America First? Means Short of War Turning the Tide Midway and Coral Sea AMERICA IN THE WORLD: Martial Law in Hawaii Gone with the Draft The Winning Weapons The Second Front Organizing for Production A Mixed Economy Industry Moves South and West New Jobs in New Places Women in Industry Between Idealism and Fear Japanese Internment No Shelter from the Holocaust STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Zoot Suit Riots Closing with the Enemy Taking the War to Europe Island Hopping in the Pacific Building a New World The Fruits of Victory Conclusion Chapter 23. Primary Sources
23.1 Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" Speech (1941)
23.2 Charles Lindbergh, America First Committee Address (1941)
23.3 Letter from James G. Thompson to the Editor of the Pittsburgh Courier (1942)
23.4 From Italy to Chicago, Pfc. Ray Latal Comes Home (1945) CHAPTER 24. The Cold War, 1945-1954 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: John Turchinetz Origins of the Cold War Ideological Competition Uneasy Allies From Allies to Enemies National Security The Truman Doctrine Containment Taking Risks Global Revolutions AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: The Nevada Test Site Korea NSC-68 The Reconversion of American Society The Postwar Economy The Challenge of Organized Labor Opportunities for Women Civil Rights for African Americans The Frustrations of Liberalism The Democrats' Troubles Truman's Comeback Fighting the Cold War at Home Doubts and Fears in the Atomic Age The Anti-Communist Crusade STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Hollywood Ten The Hunt for Spies The Rise of McCarthyism Conclusion Chapter 24. Primary Sources
24.1 President Harry S Truman (1947)
24.2 High School and College Graduates in the Cold War (1948-1950)
24.3 Statements by the United Auto Workers and General Motors (1945)
24.4 Harry S. Truman, Excerpts from Special Message to the Congress Recommending a Comprehensive Health Program (1945)
24.5 Joseph McCarthy, Excerpts from Wheeling, West Virginia Speech (1950) CHAPTER 25. The Consumer Society, 1945-1961 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: The Ricardos Living the Good Life Economic Prosperity AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: West Texas The Suburban Dream The Pursuit of Pleasure A Homogeneous Society? The Discovery of Conformity The Decline of Class and Ethnicity The Resurgence of Religion and Family Maintaining Gender Roles Persisting Racial Differences The Survival of Diversity The Eisenhower Era at Home and Abroad "Ike" and 1950s America Modern Republicanism An Aggressive Cold War Strategy Avoiding War with the Communist Powers Crises in the Third World AMERICA IN THE WORLD: American Tourists in Cold War Europe Challenges to the Consumer Society Rebellious Youth The Beat Movement The Rebirth of Environmentalism STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: "SOS"-SMOG!
The Struggle for Civil Rights The Crisis of "Misplaced Power" Conclusion Chapter 25. Primary Sources
25.1 Gael Greene, "The Battle of Levittown" (1957)
25.2 H. H. Remmers and D. H. Radler, Excerpts from "Teenage Attitudes" (1958)
25.3 Malvina Lindsay, "Science Alone No Answer to Sputnik" (1957)
25.4 United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, Excerpts from "Survive Nuclear Attack" (1960) CHAPTER 26. "The Table of Democracy," 1960-1968 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: The A&T Four New Approaches to Power Grassroots Activism for Civil Rights The New Liberalism The New Conservatism The New Left The Presidential Election of 1960 The New Frontier Style and Substance Civil Rights AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: "Spaceport USA" Flexible Response and the Third World Two Confrontations with the Soviets Kennedy and Vietnam The Great Society Lyndon Johnson's Mandate "Success Without Squalor" Preserving Personal Freedom The Death of Jim Crow The American War in Vietnam Johnson's Decision for War Fighting a Limited War The War at Home The Great Society Comes Apart The Emergence of Black Power The Youth Rebellion STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Protest in the Schools The Rebirth of the Women's Movement Conservative Backlash 1968: A Tumultuous Year Conclusion Chapter 26. Primary Sources
26.1 Martin Luther King Jr.,"Statement to the Press at the Beginning of the Youth Leadership Conference" (1960) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Statement Of Purpose (1960)
26.2 John F. Kennedy, Excerpts from Inaugural Address (1961)
26.3 Lyndon B. Johnson, Excerpts from Address at Johns Hopkins University, "Peace Without Conquest" (1965)
26.4 Diane Carlson Evans, Oral History Interview on Her Service as an Army Nurse in Vietnam (2012)
26.5 John Wilcock, "The Human Be-In" and "San Francisco" (1967) CHAPTER 27. Living with Less, 1968-1980 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: "Fighting Shirley Chisholm" A New Crisis: Economic Decline Weakness at Home The Energy Crisis Competition Abroad The Multinationals The Impact of Decline AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: The South Bronx Confronting Decline: Nixon's Strategy A New Foreign Policy Ending the Vietnam War Chile and the Middle East Taming Big Government An Uncertain Economic Policy Refusing to Settle for Less: Struggles for Rights African Americans' Struggle for Racial Justice Women's Liberation Mexican Americans and "Brown Power" Asian American Activism The Struggle for Native American Rights Gay Power Backlash: From Radical Action to Conservative Reaction "The Movement" and the "Me Decade" The Plight of the White Ethnics The Republican Counterattack Political Crisis: Three Troubled Presidencies Watergate: The Fall of Richard Nixon Gerald Ford and a Skeptical Nation STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Pollster
"Why Not the Best?": Jimmy Carter Conclusion Chapter 27. Primary Sources
27.1 Testimony of Gerald Dickey, Mergers and Industrial Concentration; Hearings Before The Subcommittee on Antitrust And Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary (1978)
27.2 Nixon Decides on the Christmas Bombing (1972)
27.3 New York Radical Women, Principles (1968) and Pat Maxwell, "Homosexuals in the Movement" (1970)
27.4 Statements by Roman Pucinski, Ethnic Heritage Studies Centers; Hearings Before the General Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor (1970)
27.5 Clyde Warrior, "Statement," 1967 CHAPTER 28. The Triumph of Conservatism, 1980-1991 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Linda Chavez Creating a Conservative Majority The New Economy The Rehabilitation of Business The Rise of the Religious Right The 1980 Presidential Election The Reagan Revolution at Home The Reagan Style Shrinking Government Reaganomics The 1984 Presidential Election The Reagan Revolution Abroad Restoring American Power Confronting the "Evil Empire" The Reagan Doctrine in the Third World The Middle East and Terrorism AMERICA IN THE WORLD: The Ethiopian Famine The United States and the World Economy The Battle over Conservative Social Values Attacking the Legacy of the 1960s Women's Rights and Abortion Gays and the AIDS Crisis African Americans and Racial Inequality "The Decade of the Hispanic" From Scandal to Triumph Business and Religious Scandals Political Scandals Setbacks for the Conservative Agenda AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Times Beach, Missouri
A Vulnerable Economy Reagan's Comeback STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Reagan at the Berlin Wall Conclusion Chapter 28. Primary Sources
28.1 Jerry Falwell, Excerpts from Listen, America! (1980)
28.2 Ronald Reagan, Excerpts from "Address To The Nation On The Economy" (1981)
28.3 The Debate Over the Defense Build-Up (1983)
28.4 Equal Pay for Women (1982)
28.5 Excerpts from The Republican and Democratic Party Platforms on the State of the American Family (1984) CHAPTER 29. The Globalized, Information Society 1989-2008 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: David Rockefeller The Age of Globalization The Cold War and Globalization New Communications Technologies Multinationals and NGOs Expanding Trade Moving People Contesting Globalization AMERICA IN THE WORLD: Titanic and the Globalization of Hollywood A New Economy From Industry to Information A Second Economic Revolution? Downsizing America Boom and Insecurity Democracy Deadlocked George H. W. Bush and the End of the Reagan Revolution The Rebellion Against Politics as Usual Clinton's Compromise with Conservatism Domestic Dissent and Terrorism Scandal Culture Wars African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era Family Values Multiculturalism Women in the Postfeminist Era Contesting Gay and Lesbian Rights Redefining Foreign Policy in the Global Age The New World Order The Persian Gulf War Retreating from the New World Order A New Threat Twin Crises "Bush 43" 9/11 The Global War on Terror The Iraq War Iraq and Afghanistan in Turmoil STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: "Gitmo" Financial Crisis Conclusion Chapter 29. Primary Sources
29.1 Kenichi Ohmae, "Declaration of Interdependence Toward The World-2005" (1990) and Helena Norberg-Hodge, "Break Up The Monoculture" (1996)
29.2 Solomon D. Trujillo, "Opportunity in the New Information Economy" (1998)
29.3 The Defense of Marriage Act (1996)
29.4 George H. W. Bush, Excerpts from "Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the Cessation of Hostilities in the Persian Gulf Conflict" (1991)
29.5 George W. Bush, Excerpts from "Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the United States Response to the Terrorist Attacks of September 11" (2001) CHAPTER 30. "The American Dream," 2008-2021 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Maria "Bambi" Roaquin Obama and the Promise of Change The Presidential Election of 2008 Confronting Economic Crisis Ending the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq The Politics of Frustration A Second Term Climate Change Unending War? Diversity and Division A Diverse Society of Color Tolerance and Intolerance STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: #BlackLivesMatter, "Black Twitter," and Smartphones LGBTQ Rights Shifting Religious Beliefs and Practices Economic Change and a Divided Nation Jobs and Growth AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: The Winter Strawberry Capital of the World The Rich, the Poor, and the Middle Class Women and Men Baby Boomers and Millennials Urban and Rural Democracy Under Stress Money and Politics Polarized Politics The Presidential Election of 2016 Economic Dynamism and Presidential Politics "Make America Great Again" "America First" The Crisis of 2020 Impeachment Pandemic "I Can't Breathe" The Presidential Election of 2020 Conclusion Chapter 30. Primary Sources
30.1 Barack Obama, Keynote Address, Democratic Party Convention (2004) 30.2 Debate in the House of Representatives on a Resolution "That Symbols and Traditions of Christmas Should Be Protected" (2005) 30.3 Harry M. Reid, "The Koch Brothers" (2015) 30.4 Donald Trump, Extract of Remarks at a "Make America Great Again" Rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (2017) 30.5 Children and Immigration Policy (2018) Appendices
Appendix A Historical Documents The Declaration of Independence The Constitution of the United States of America Articles Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Appendix B Historical Facts and Data US Presidents and Vice Presidents Admission of States into the Union Glossary Photo Credits Index
Features Preface New to the Fifth Edition Hallmark Features Learning Resources for Of the People
Acknowledgments About the Authors CHAPTER 15. Reconstructing a Nation, 1865-1877 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: John Dennett Visits a Freedmen's Bureau Court Wartime Reconstruction Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan Versus the Wade-Davis Bill The Meaning of Freedom Experiments with Free Labor Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1867 The Political Economy of Contract Labor Resistance to Presidential Reconstruction Congress Clashes with the President Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment Congressional Reconstruction The South Remade The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson Radical Reconstruction in the South Achievements and Failures of Radical Government The Political Economy of Sharecropping The Gospel of Prosperity A Counterrevolution of Terrorism and Economic Pressure AMERICA IN THE WORLD: Reconstructing America's Foreign Policy A Reconstructed West The Overland Trail The Origins of Indian Reservations Reforming Native American Tribes out of Existence The Retreat from Republican Radicalism Republicans Become the Party of Moderation Reconstructing the North The Fifteenth Amendment and Nationwide African American Suffrage Women and Suffrage The End of Reconstruction Corruption Is the Fashion Liberal Republicans Revolt "Redeeming" the South STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: An Incident at Coushatta, August 1874 The Twice-Stolen Election of 1876 Sharecropping Becomes Wage Labor Conclusion Chapter 15. Primary Sources
15.1 Petroleum V. Nasby [David Ross Locke], A Platform for Northern Democrats (1865)
15.2 A Black tenant farmer describes working conditions
15.3 Sharecropping Contract Between Alonzo T. Mial and Fenner Powell (1886)
15.4 Joseph Farley, An Account of Reconstruction
15.5 A Southern Unionist Judge's Daughter Writes the President for Help (1874)
15.6 Red Cloud Pleads the Plains Indians' Point of View at Cooper Union (1870) CHAPTER 16. The Triumph of Industrial Capitalism, 1850-1890 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Rosa Cassettari The Political Economy of Global Capitalism The "Great Depression" of the Late Nineteenth Century AMERICA IN THE WORLD: The Global Migration of Labor The Economic Transformation of the West Cattlemen: From Drovers to Ranchers Commercial Farmers Remake the Plains Changes in the Land AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Pioneers' Paradise Lost America Moves to the City The Rise of Big Business The Rise of Andrew Carnegie Carnegie Dominates the Steel Industry Big Business Consolidates A New Social Order Lifestyles of the Very Rich The Consolidation of the New Middle Class The Industrial Working Class Comes of Age Social Darwinism and the Growth of Scientific Racism STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: "The Chinese Must Go" The Knights of Labor and the Haymarket Disaster Conclusion Chapter 16. Primary Sources
16.1 Stephen Crane Visits the "Breaker" at a Coal Mine
16.2 Visual Document: Alfred R. Waud, "Bessemer Steel Manufacture" (1876)
16.3 George Steevens, Excerpt from The Land of the Dollar (1897)
16.4 James Baird Weaver, A Call to Action (1892)
16.5 Visual Documents: "Gift for the Grangers" (1873) and the Jorns Family of Dry Valley, Custer County, Nebraska (1886)
16.6 William A. Peffer Pleads the Farmer's Cause, 1891 CHAPTER 17. The Culture and Politics of Industrial America, 1870-1892 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Luna Kellie and the Farmers' Alliance The Elusive Boundaries of Male and Female The Victorian Construction of Male and Female The Moralists' Crusade for Morality Urban Culture A New Cultural Order: New Americans Stir Old Fears Josiah Strong Attacks Immigration From Immigrants to Ethnic Americans The Catholic Church and Its Limits in Immigrant Culture Immigrant Cultures The Enemy at the Gates Two Political Styles The Triumph of Party Politics Masculine Partisanship and Feminine Voluntarism The Women's Christian Temperance Union The Critics of Popular Politics STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The "Crusade" Against Alcohol Economic Issues Dominate National Politics Greenbacks and Greenbackers Weak Presidents Oversee a Stronger Federal Government AMERICA IN THE WORLD: Foreign Policy: The Limited Significance of Commercial Expansion Government Activism and Its Limits States Discover Activism Cities: Boss Rule and New Responsibilities Challenging the New Industrial Order Henry George and the Limits of Producers' Ideology Edward Bellamy and the Nationalist Clubs Agrarian Revolt The Rise of the Populists Conclusion Chapter 17. Primary Sources
17.1 Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" (1883)
17.2 Josiah Strong, Excerpts from "The Superiority of the Anglo-Saxon Race" (1885)
17.3 Henry George, Excerpts from "That We Might All Be Rich" (1883)
17.4 Jacob Riis, Excerpt from How the Other Half Lives (1890) and Visual Document: Jacob Riis, Visual Document "Nomads of the Street" (ca. 1890)
17.5 New York World, "How Tim Got the Votes" (1892)
17.6 Tammany Times, "And Reform Moves On" (1895) CHAPTER 18. Industry and Empire, 1890-1900 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: J. P. Morgan The Crisis of the 1890s Hard Times and Demands for Help The Overseas Frontier The Drive for Efficiency The Struggle Between Management and Labor Corporate Consolidation A Modern Economy Currency: Gold Versus Silver The Cross of Gold The Battle of the Standards The Retreat from Politics The Lure of the Cities AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Galveston, Texas, 1900 Inventing Jim Crow The Atlanta Compromise Disfranchisement and the Decline of Popular Politics STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Wilmington Race Riot Organized Labor Retreats from Politics American Diplomacy Enters the Modern World Sea Power and the Imperial Urge The Scramble for Empire War with Spain The Anti-Imperialists The Philippine-American War The Open Door Conclusion Chapter 18. Primary Sources
18.1 Frederick Winslow Taylor, Excerpts from The Principles of Scientific Management (1911)
18.2 Booker T. Washington, "The Atlanta Compromise" (1895)
18.3 Theodore Roosevelt, Excerpts from "The Strenuous Life" (1899)
18.4 Platform for the Anti Imperialist League (1899) CHAPTER 19. A United Body of Action, 1900-1916 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Helen Keller Toward a New Politics The Insecurity of Modern Life The Decline of Partisan Politics Social Housekeeping Evolution or Revolution? The Progressives Social Workers and Muckrakers STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Public Response to The Jungle Dictatorship of the Experts Progressives on the Color Line Progressives in State and Local Politics Redesigning the City Reform Mayors and City Services Progressives and the States A Push for "Genuine Democracy" and a "Moral Awakening" The Executive Branch Against the Trusts The Square Deal Conserving Water, Land, and Forests Theodore Roosevelt and Big Stick Diplomacy Taft and Dollar Diplomacy AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: The Hetch Hetchy Valley Rival Visions of the Industrial Future The New Nationalism The 1912 Election The New Freedom Conclusion Chapter 19. Primary Sources
19.1 Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennet, Plan of Chicago (1909)
19.2 Upton Sinclair, Excerpts from The Jungle (1906)
19.3 Visual Documents: Lewis Wickes Hine, National Child Labor Committee Photographs (Early 1900S)
19.4 Helen Keller, Excerpts from "Blind Leaders" (1913) CHAPTER 20. A Global Power, 1914-1919 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Walter Lippmann The Challenge of Revolution The Mexican Revolution Bringing Order to the Caribbean A One-Sided Neutrality The Lusitania's Last Voyage The Drift to War The Election of 1916 The Last Attempts at Peace War Aims The Fight in Congress Mobilizing the Nation and the Economy Enforcing Patriotism STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Eugene Debs Speaks Out Against the War Regimenting the Economy The Great Migration Reforms Become "War Measures" Over There Citizens into Soldiers The Fourteen Points The Final Offensive Revolutionary Anxieties Wilson in Paris The Senate Rejects the League Red Scare AMERICA IN THE WORLD: The 1918 Influenza Epidemic Conclusion Chapter 20. Primary Sources
20.1 Eugene V. Debs, Excerpts from Canton, Ohio, Speech (1918)
20.2 George Creel, Excerpts from How We Advertised America (1920)
20.3 Woodrow Wilson, "Fourteen Points" Speech (1918)
20.4 Marysville Evening Tribune, Influenza and the American military (1918) CHAPTER 21. The Modern Nation, 1919-1928 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: "America's Sweetheart" A Dynamic Economy The Development of Industry The Trend Toward Large-Scale Organization The Transformation of Work and the Workforce The Defeat of Organized Labor The Decline of Agriculture The Urban Nation A Modern Culture The Spread of Consumerism New Pleasures for a Mass Audience A Sexual Revolution Changing Gender Ideals STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Flappers and Feminists AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: The Tulsa Race Massacre
The Family and Youth The Celebration of the Individual The Limits of the Modern Culture The Limits of Prosperity The "Lost Generation" of Intellectuals Fundamentalist Christians and "Old-Time Religion" Nativists and Immigration Restriction The Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan Mexican Americans African Americans and the "New Negro" A "New Era" in Politics and Government The Modern Political System The Republican Ascendancy The Politics of Individualism Republican Foreign Policy Extending the "New Era" AMERICA IN THE WORLD: J. Walter Thompson and International Markets Conclusion Chapter 21. Primary Sources
21.1 Hiram Wesley Evans, Excerpts from "The Klan: Defender of Americanism" (1925)
21.2 Marie Prevost on "The Flapper" (1923)
21.3 Visual Document: Colgate & Co. Advertisement (1925)
21.4 Robert Lynd and Helen Lynd, Excerpt from "Remaking Leisure in Middletown" (1929) CHAPTER 22. A Great Depression and a New Deal, 1929-1940 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Dorothea Lange The Great Depression Causes Descending into Depression Hoover Responds The First New Deal The Election of 1932 FDR Takes Command Federal Relief The Farm Crisis STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Civilian Conservation Corps and a New Brand of Environmentalism The Blue Eagle The Second New Deal Critics Attack from All Sides The Second Hundred Days Social Security for Some Labor and the New Deal The New Deal Coalition Crisis of the New Deal Conservatives Counterattack AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: THE 1937 OHIO RIVER FLOOD The Liberal Crisis of Confidence Conclusion Chapter 22. Primary Sources
22.1 Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933)
22.2 Visual Documents: Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration Photographs (1930S)
22.3 "Ballad for Americans," Federal Theater Project, Sing for Your Supper (1939)
22.4 Remembering the Great Depression, Excerpts from Studs Terkel's Hard Times (1970) CHAPTER 23. The Second World War, 1941-1945 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: A. Philip Randolph Island in a Totalitarian Sea A World of Hostile Blocs The Good Neighbor America First? Means Short of War Turning the Tide Midway and Coral Sea AMERICA IN THE WORLD: Martial Law in Hawaii Gone with the Draft The Winning Weapons The Second Front Organizing for Production A Mixed Economy Industry Moves South and West New Jobs in New Places Women in Industry Between Idealism and Fear Japanese Internment No Shelter from the Holocaust STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Zoot Suit Riots Closing with the Enemy Taking the War to Europe Island Hopping in the Pacific Building a New World The Fruits of Victory Conclusion Chapter 23. Primary Sources
23.1 Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" Speech (1941)
23.2 Charles Lindbergh, America First Committee Address (1941)
23.3 Letter from James G. Thompson to the Editor of the Pittsburgh Courier (1942)
23.4 From Italy to Chicago, Pfc. Ray Latal Comes Home (1945) CHAPTER 24. The Cold War, 1945-1954 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: John Turchinetz Origins of the Cold War Ideological Competition Uneasy Allies From Allies to Enemies National Security The Truman Doctrine Containment Taking Risks Global Revolutions AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: The Nevada Test Site Korea NSC-68 The Reconversion of American Society The Postwar Economy The Challenge of Organized Labor Opportunities for Women Civil Rights for African Americans The Frustrations of Liberalism The Democrats' Troubles Truman's Comeback Fighting the Cold War at Home Doubts and Fears in the Atomic Age The Anti-Communist Crusade STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Hollywood Ten The Hunt for Spies The Rise of McCarthyism Conclusion Chapter 24. Primary Sources
24.1 President Harry S Truman (1947)
24.2 High School and College Graduates in the Cold War (1948-1950)
24.3 Statements by the United Auto Workers and General Motors (1945)
24.4 Harry S. Truman, Excerpts from Special Message to the Congress Recommending a Comprehensive Health Program (1945)
24.5 Joseph McCarthy, Excerpts from Wheeling, West Virginia Speech (1950) CHAPTER 25. The Consumer Society, 1945-1961 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: The Ricardos Living the Good Life Economic Prosperity AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: West Texas The Suburban Dream The Pursuit of Pleasure A Homogeneous Society? The Discovery of Conformity The Decline of Class and Ethnicity The Resurgence of Religion and Family Maintaining Gender Roles Persisting Racial Differences The Survival of Diversity The Eisenhower Era at Home and Abroad "Ike" and 1950s America Modern Republicanism An Aggressive Cold War Strategy Avoiding War with the Communist Powers Crises in the Third World AMERICA IN THE WORLD: American Tourists in Cold War Europe Challenges to the Consumer Society Rebellious Youth The Beat Movement The Rebirth of Environmentalism STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: "SOS"-SMOG!
The Struggle for Civil Rights The Crisis of "Misplaced Power" Conclusion Chapter 25. Primary Sources
25.1 Gael Greene, "The Battle of Levittown" (1957)
25.2 H. H. Remmers and D. H. Radler, Excerpts from "Teenage Attitudes" (1958)
25.3 Malvina Lindsay, "Science Alone No Answer to Sputnik" (1957)
25.4 United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, Excerpts from "Survive Nuclear Attack" (1960) CHAPTER 26. "The Table of Democracy," 1960-1968 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: The A&T Four New Approaches to Power Grassroots Activism for Civil Rights The New Liberalism The New Conservatism The New Left The Presidential Election of 1960 The New Frontier Style and Substance Civil Rights AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: "Spaceport USA" Flexible Response and the Third World Two Confrontations with the Soviets Kennedy and Vietnam The Great Society Lyndon Johnson's Mandate "Success Without Squalor" Preserving Personal Freedom The Death of Jim Crow The American War in Vietnam Johnson's Decision for War Fighting a Limited War The War at Home The Great Society Comes Apart The Emergence of Black Power The Youth Rebellion STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Protest in the Schools The Rebirth of the Women's Movement Conservative Backlash 1968: A Tumultuous Year Conclusion Chapter 26. Primary Sources
26.1 Martin Luther King Jr.,"Statement to the Press at the Beginning of the Youth Leadership Conference" (1960) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Statement Of Purpose (1960)
26.2 John F. Kennedy, Excerpts from Inaugural Address (1961)
26.3 Lyndon B. Johnson, Excerpts from Address at Johns Hopkins University, "Peace Without Conquest" (1965)
26.4 Diane Carlson Evans, Oral History Interview on Her Service as an Army Nurse in Vietnam (2012)
26.5 John Wilcock, "The Human Be-In" and "San Francisco" (1967) CHAPTER 27. Living with Less, 1968-1980 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: "Fighting Shirley Chisholm" A New Crisis: Economic Decline Weakness at Home The Energy Crisis Competition Abroad The Multinationals The Impact of Decline AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: The South Bronx Confronting Decline: Nixon's Strategy A New Foreign Policy Ending the Vietnam War Chile and the Middle East Taming Big Government An Uncertain Economic Policy Refusing to Settle for Less: Struggles for Rights African Americans' Struggle for Racial Justice Women's Liberation Mexican Americans and "Brown Power" Asian American Activism The Struggle for Native American Rights Gay Power Backlash: From Radical Action to Conservative Reaction "The Movement" and the "Me Decade" The Plight of the White Ethnics The Republican Counterattack Political Crisis: Three Troubled Presidencies Watergate: The Fall of Richard Nixon Gerald Ford and a Skeptical Nation STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Pollster
"Why Not the Best?": Jimmy Carter Conclusion Chapter 27. Primary Sources
27.1 Testimony of Gerald Dickey, Mergers and Industrial Concentration; Hearings Before The Subcommittee on Antitrust And Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary (1978)
27.2 Nixon Decides on the Christmas Bombing (1972)
27.3 New York Radical Women, Principles (1968) and Pat Maxwell, "Homosexuals in the Movement" (1970)
27.4 Statements by Roman Pucinski, Ethnic Heritage Studies Centers; Hearings Before the General Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor (1970)
27.5 Clyde Warrior, "Statement," 1967 CHAPTER 28. The Triumph of Conservatism, 1980-1991 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Linda Chavez Creating a Conservative Majority The New Economy The Rehabilitation of Business The Rise of the Religious Right The 1980 Presidential Election The Reagan Revolution at Home The Reagan Style Shrinking Government Reaganomics The 1984 Presidential Election The Reagan Revolution Abroad Restoring American Power Confronting the "Evil Empire" The Reagan Doctrine in the Third World The Middle East and Terrorism AMERICA IN THE WORLD: The Ethiopian Famine The United States and the World Economy The Battle over Conservative Social Values Attacking the Legacy of the 1960s Women's Rights and Abortion Gays and the AIDS Crisis African Americans and Racial Inequality "The Decade of the Hispanic" From Scandal to Triumph Business and Religious Scandals Political Scandals Setbacks for the Conservative Agenda AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Times Beach, Missouri
A Vulnerable Economy Reagan's Comeback STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Reagan at the Berlin Wall Conclusion Chapter 28. Primary Sources
28.1 Jerry Falwell, Excerpts from Listen, America! (1980)
28.2 Ronald Reagan, Excerpts from "Address To The Nation On The Economy" (1981)
28.3 The Debate Over the Defense Build-Up (1983)
28.4 Equal Pay for Women (1982)
28.5 Excerpts from The Republican and Democratic Party Platforms on the State of the American Family (1984) CHAPTER 29. The Globalized, Information Society 1989-2008 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: David Rockefeller The Age of Globalization The Cold War and Globalization New Communications Technologies Multinationals and NGOs Expanding Trade Moving People Contesting Globalization AMERICA IN THE WORLD: Titanic and the Globalization of Hollywood A New Economy From Industry to Information A Second Economic Revolution? Downsizing America Boom and Insecurity Democracy Deadlocked George H. W. Bush and the End of the Reagan Revolution The Rebellion Against Politics as Usual Clinton's Compromise with Conservatism Domestic Dissent and Terrorism Scandal Culture Wars African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era Family Values Multiculturalism Women in the Postfeminist Era Contesting Gay and Lesbian Rights Redefining Foreign Policy in the Global Age The New World Order The Persian Gulf War Retreating from the New World Order A New Threat Twin Crises "Bush 43" 9/11 The Global War on Terror The Iraq War Iraq and Afghanistan in Turmoil STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: "Gitmo" Financial Crisis Conclusion Chapter 29. Primary Sources
29.1 Kenichi Ohmae, "Declaration of Interdependence Toward The World-2005" (1990) and Helena Norberg-Hodge, "Break Up The Monoculture" (1996)
29.2 Solomon D. Trujillo, "Opportunity in the New Information Economy" (1998)
29.3 The Defense of Marriage Act (1996)
29.4 George H. W. Bush, Excerpts from "Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the Cessation of Hostilities in the Persian Gulf Conflict" (1991)
29.5 George W. Bush, Excerpts from "Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the United States Response to the Terrorist Attacks of September 11" (2001) CHAPTER 30. "The American Dream," 2008-2021 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Maria "Bambi" Roaquin Obama and the Promise of Change The Presidential Election of 2008 Confronting Economic Crisis Ending the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq The Politics of Frustration A Second Term Climate Change Unending War? Diversity and Division A Diverse Society of Color Tolerance and Intolerance STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: #BlackLivesMatter, "Black Twitter," and Smartphones LGBTQ Rights Shifting Religious Beliefs and Practices Economic Change and a Divided Nation Jobs and Growth AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: The Winter Strawberry Capital of the World The Rich, the Poor, and the Middle Class Women and Men Baby Boomers and Millennials Urban and Rural Democracy Under Stress Money and Politics Polarized Politics The Presidential Election of 2016 Economic Dynamism and Presidential Politics "Make America Great Again" "America First" The Crisis of 2020 Impeachment Pandemic "I Can't Breathe" The Presidential Election of 2020 Conclusion Chapter 30. Primary Sources
30.1 Barack Obama, Keynote Address, Democratic Party Convention (2004) 30.2 Debate in the House of Representatives on a Resolution "That Symbols and Traditions of Christmas Should Be Protected" (2005) 30.3 Harry M. Reid, "The Koch Brothers" (2015) 30.4 Donald Trump, Extract of Remarks at a "Make America Great Again" Rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (2017) 30.5 Children and Immigration Policy (2018) Appendices
Appendix A Historical Documents The Declaration of Independence The Constitution of the United States of America Articles Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Appendix B Historical Facts and Data US Presidents and Vice Presidents Admission of States into the Union Glossary Photo Credits Index