Voices of the American Past, Volume II
by Hyser, Raymond; Arndt, J.Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-02-09
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
Other versions by this Author
-
Free Shipping On Orders Over $35
Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify towards the $35 purchase minimum.
-
We Buy This Book Back!
List Price: $115.95
Buy Used
In Stock
$86.96
Rent Textbook
Select for Price
New Textbook
We're Sorry
Sold Out
eTextbook
We're Sorry
Not Available
How Marketplace Works:
- This item is offered by an independent seller and not shipped from our warehouse
- Item details like edition and cover design may differ from our description; see seller's comments before ordering.
- Sellers much confirm and ship within two business days; otherwise, the order will be cancelled and refunded.
- Marketplace purchases cannot be returned to eCampus.com. Contact the seller directly for inquiries; if no response within two days, contact customer service.
- Additional shipping costs apply to Marketplace purchases. Review shipping costs at checkout.
Summary
VOICES OF THE AMERICAN PAST is a two-volume reader that presents a variety of diverse perspectives through more than 240 primary sources. Excerpts from speeches, letters, journals, magazine articles, hearings and government documents raise issues from both public and private aspects of American life throughout history. A ?Guide to Reading and Interpreting Documents? in the front matter explains how and why historians use primary source evidence, and outlines basic points to help readers learn to analyze sources. Brief headnotes set each source into context. ?Questions to Consider? precede each document, offering prompts for critical thinking and reflection. The volumes are organized chronologically into 27 chapters, with the Reconstruction chapter overlapping in both volumes.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the Fifth Edition | p. x |
| A Guide to Reading and Interpreting Documents and Images | p. xii |
| About the Authors | p. xvi |
| Reconstruction | p. 293 |
| A Northern Teacher's View of the Freedmen (1863-1865) | p. 293 |
| Charleston, South Carolina, at the Conclusion of the Civil War (1865) | p. 296 |
| African Americans Seek Protection (1865) | p. 299 |
| Thaddeus Stevens on Reconstruction and the South (1865) | p. 301 |
| A White Southern Perspective on Reconstruction (1868) | p. 303 |
| African American Suffrage in the South (1867, 1876) | p. 306 |
| An African American Congressman Calls for Civil Rights (1874) | p. 308 |
| The Situation for African Americans in the South (1879) | p. 311 |
| The West | p. 315 |
| A Native American Remembers Life on the Great Plains (1870s) | p. 315 |
| Hunting Buffalo on the Great Plains (c. 1875) | p. 318 |
| A Century of Dishonor (1881) | p. 320 |
| A Western Newspaper Editorial on the Custer Massacre (1876) | p. 323 |
| Cultural Exchange on the Arizona Frontier (1874) | p. 325 |
| A Native American Remembers the Ghost Dance (1890) | p. 328 |
| Populist Party Platform (1892) | p. 330 |
| ôThe Significance of the Frontier in American Historyö (1893) | p. 333 |
| A Woman's Description of Farm Life in Illinois (1905) | p. 336 |
| Gilded Age America | p. 339 |
| The Cattle Industry (1884) | p. 340 |
| The Impact of Mechanization (1889) | p. 343 |
| Views of Big Business (1883, 1889, 1900) | p. 345 |
| ôThe Forgotten Manö (1883) | p. 347 |
| The Gospel of Wealth (1889) | p. 350 |
| Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878) | p. 353 |
| Lynching in the South (1895) | p. 355 |
| W. E. B. Du Bois on Race Relations (1903) | p. 358 |
| The Unwanted Immigrants: The Chinese (1878) | p. 361 |
| ôThe Story of a Sweatshop Girlö (1902) | p. 364 |
| An Italian Immigrant's Experience in America (1902) | p. 367 |
| A Woman's Perspective on Women and the Economy (1898) | p. 370 |
| The Progressive Movement | p. 373 |
| An Insider's View of Hull House | p. 373 |
| ôThe American Forestsö (1901) | p. 376 |
| Boss Government at Work (1903) | p. 379 |
| The Jungle (1906) | p. 381 |
| The Socialist Alternative (1908) | p. 384 |
| ôWhy Women Should Voteö (1910) | p. 387 |
| The New Nationalism of Theodore Roosevelt (1912) | p. 389 |
| Women and the Middle-Class Home (1913) | p. 392 |
| America on the World Stage | p. 395 |
| The Sinking of the Maine (1898) | p. 396 |
| Aguinaldo's Call for Philippine Independence (1899) | p. 398 |
| An Anti-Imperialist Perspective (1899) | p. 400 |
| The New Manifest Destiny (1900) | p. 402 |
| Perspectives of Overseas Expansion (1898, 1899, 1900) | p. 405 |
| ôA Colombian View of the Panama Canal Questionö (1903) | p. 408 |
| Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904) | p. 410 |
| Woodrow Wilson's Declaration of War Message (1917) | p. 412 |
| Advertising the War Effort (1920) | p. 415 |
| Opposition to the League of Nations (1919) | p. 418 |
| The Red Scare (1920) | p. 420 |
| The Return to ôNormalcyö | p. 423 |
| A Speech Against Immigration Restriction (1921) | p. 423 |
| The Role of Advertising (1922) | p. 425 |
| The Impact of the Automobile (1922) | p. 429 |
| The New Negro (1925) | p. 431 |
| Religion and the Scopes Trial (1925) | p. 434 |
| The Ku Klux Klan's Perspective (1926) | p. 437 |
| The New Woman (1927) | p. 439 |
| American Individualism (1928) | p. 443 |
| FDR and the New Deal | p. 446 |
| Urban Families in the Great Depression (1931) | p. 446 |
| Women on the Breadlines (1932) | p. 449 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933) | p. 451 |
| A Businessman's View of the New Deal (1934) | p. 454 |
| Editorial Cartoons On the New Deal (1934, 1935) | p. 457 |
| The ôDust Bowlö (1935) | p. 459 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt on Social Welfare (1936) | p. 461 |
| The Tennessee Valley Authority (1937) | p. 463 |
| An African American Evaluation of the New Deal (1940) | p. 466 |
| ôThe New Deal in Reviewö (1940) | p. 469 |
| Isolationism and World War II | p. 473 |
| The Four Freedoms (1941) | p. 473 |
| Isolation from the European War (1941) | p. 476 |
| Roosevelt's Declaration of War Message (1941) | p. 479 |
| Life in a Japanese Internment Camp (1942) | p. 481 |
| Women in the Home-Front War Effort (1942) | p. 483 |
| The Second World War Homefront (1941-1945) | p. 486 |
| African Americans in the Military (1944) | p. 490 |
| Truman's Decision to Drop the Bomb (1945) | p. 493 |
| Remembering the Hiroshima Atomic Blast (1945) | p. 495 |
| Postwar America | p. 498 |
| ôContainmentö (1946) | p. 498 |
| NSC-68, A Blueprint for the Cold War (1950) | p. 503 |
| Communists in the Government (1950) | p. 506 |
| Life in the Suburbs (1953) | p. 508 |
| Governor Herman Talmadge's Statement on the Brown Decision (1954) | p. 511 |
| Viewpoint on the Emmitt Till Murder Trial (1955) | p. 513 |
| The Impact of Television (1955) | p. 516 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961) | p. 519 |
| Poverty in the Age of Affluence (1962) | p. 522 |
| ôThe Problem That Has No Nameö (1963) | p. 525 |
| The Turbulent Sixties | p. 529 |
| Silent Spring (1962) | p. 529 |
| ôLetter from Birmingham Jailö (1963) | p. 532 |
| Malcolm X on Race Relations (1964) | p. 535 |
| Lyndon Johnson on the Great Society (1964) | p. 538 |
| SDS Call for a March on Washington (1965) | p. 541 |
| Views of the War in Vietnam (1967) | p. 543 |
| ôI Made Promises to Dead Peopleö (1967-1968) | p. 547 |
| A Report on Racial Violence in the Cities (1968) | p. 550 |
| César Chávez and La Causa (1975) | p. 553 |
| The Rising Conservative Tide | p. 556 |
| Perspectives on Soaring Oil Prices (1973, 1974, 1976) | p. 556 |
| Sam Ervin on the Watergate Crisis (1974) | p. 559 |
| The Differences Between Men and Women (1977) | p. 562 |
| The Question of Affirmative Action (1978) | p. 566 |
| Iranian Hostage Crisis (1979-1981) | p. 568 |
| The Christian Right's Call to Action (1980) | p. 571 |
| The Reagan Revolution (1981) | p. 575 |
| Reagan's Evil Empire Speech (1983) | p. 578 |
| An Editorial on the Removal of the Berlin Wall (1989) | p. 580 |
| Society and Culture at Century's End | p. 582 |
| Catholic Bishops Call for ôEconomic Justiceö (1986) | p. 583 |
| A Perspective on AIDS (1987) | p. 586 |
| A View on Hispanic Assimilation (1991) | p. 589 |
| Bill Gates and Microsoft (1998) | p. 592 |
| The Changing Demographics of America (1999) | p. 596 |
| The Issue of Same-Sex Marriage (2001) | p. 599 |
| Age of Anxiety | p. 602 |
| George W. Bush Responds to the Terrorist Attacks (2001) | p. 603 |
| A Response to the USA Patriot Act (2001) | p. 606 |
| The United States and the World (2003) | p. 609 |
| A Perspective on Limiting Immigration to the United States (2006) | p. 612 |
| An Economist on the Financial Crisis (2007) | p. 615 |
| Barack Obama's Victory Speech (2008) | p. 617 |
| Editorial on the Nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court (2009) | p. 621 |
| Immigration in the 21st Century (2010) | p. 623 |
| Offshore Oil Drilling and the Environment (2010) | p. 626 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
An electronic version of this book is available through VitalSource.
This book is viewable on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and most smartphones.
By purchasing, you will be able to view this book online, as well as download it, for the chosen number of days.
Digital License
You are licensing a digital product for a set duration. Durations are set forth in the product description, with "Lifetime" typically meaning five (5) years of online access and permanent download to a supported device. All licenses are non-transferable.
More details can be found here.
A downloadable version of this book is available through the eCampus Reader or compatible Adobe readers.
Applications are available on iOS, Android, PC, Mac, and Windows Mobile platforms.
Please view the compatibility matrix prior to purchase.