
Counterpoints
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This innovative book brings paired documents on twelve subjects together to showcase different perspectives on the same historical topic. In so doing, it helps students grapple with the complicated nature of history, how it is made, and how historians interpret the past. The carefully selected primary documents in Counterpoints promote student analysis and a deeper understanding of historical events. As editor Jonathan Rees says in the Introduction, "Introducing primary sources and explaining their exact relationship to historical events is one way to raise the issues associated with doing history rather than just learning what happened."
Each of the twelve units contains a unit overview to provide students with context, followed by two documents. Each document contains a document overview for further context. The document pair is then followed by discussion questions that challenge students to reflect on the topic and think critically about the different perspectives on it.
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Content
- Intro
- iCounterpoints: Paired Sources from U.S. History, 1877-present
- vAbout the Editor
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 11.1 The Labor Question
- 1.2 Edward Atkinson: "The Service Which Capital Renders When Employed by Labor" (1886)
- 1.3 Wendell Phillips: "The Labor Question" Speech (1872)
- 1.4 Questions
- 2.1 Native Americans in the American West
- 2.2 Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins: Life Among the Piutes (1883)
- 2.3 Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (1913)
- 2.4 Questions
- 3.1 Urbanization: The Physical Form and Moral Condition of Cities
- 3.2 Louis Sullivan: The Autobiography of an Idea (1923)
- 3.3 James W. Buel: Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities (1883)
- 3.4 Questions
- 4.1 The Pure Food and Drug Act
- 4.2 Harvey Wiley: Letter to the Editor of the Wine Trade Review (1906)
- 4.3 Hiram Walker & Sons, Ltd.: "A Plot 24against the People" (1911)
- 4.4 Questions
- 5.1 The Dust Bowl
- 5.2 John Steinbeck: "Starvation under the Orange Trees" (1938)
- 5.3 Frank J. Taylor: "California's Grapes of Wrath" (1939)
- 5.4 Questions
- 6.1 The New Deal and the Role of Government
- 6.2 Franklin D. Roosevelt: Second Inaugural 35Address (1937)
- 6.3 Charles I. Dawson: "The President Has Made the Issue" (1936)
- 6.4 Questions
- 7.1 Segregation in the North and South
- 7.2 W.E.B. Du Bois: "Segregation in the North" (1934)
- 7.3 Victor H. Green: The Negro Motorist "Green Book" (1940)
- 7.4 Questions
- 8.1 Anti-Communism
- 8.2 Chamber of Commerce of the United 45States: "Communist Infiltration in the United States: Its Nature and How to Combat It" (1946)
- 8.3 Ryland W. Crary and Gerald L. Steibel: "How You Can Teach About Communism" (1951)
- 508.4 Questions
- 9.1 The Modern Women's Movement
- 9.2 Casey Hayden and Mary King: "Sex and Caste" (1965)
- 9.3 Betty Friedan: Commencement Speech to Smith College Graduates (1981)
- 9.4 Questions
- 10.1 The Generation Gap and the Vietnam War
- 10.2 Lyndon B. Johnson: "Peace without Conquest" Speech about Vietnam (7 April 1965)
- 6010.3 Raymond Anthony Mungo: Anti-War Speech (1967)
- 10.4 Questions
- 11.1 The Gay Rights Movement
- 11.2 Anita Bryant Is Hit by a Pie (1977)
- 11.3 Harvey Milk: Gay Freedom Day Speech (1978)
- 11.4 Questions
- 12.1 Globalization and the North American Free Trade Agreement
- 6912.2 Ross Perot at the Third Presidential Debate (1992)
- 12.3 Bill Clinton: "Remarks on the Signing of NAFTA" (1993)
- 12.4 Questions
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