Outside Reading
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Reconstruction (1863–1877)
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Industrialization
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The Labor Question
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Immigration: Atlantic and Pacific
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The Growth of Cities and Social Reform
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American Empire
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Westward Expansion
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Political and Business Reform: Populists and Progressives
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The United States and World War I
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The 1920s: Looking Forward, Looking Backward
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The Great Depression
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The New Deal
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The United States and World War II
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The United States and the Cold War
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Civil Rights in the United States
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The Counterculture
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The Vietnam War
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Conservatism and Reaganism
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Clinton, Bush, Obama, and the Age of Terror
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How to Read Primary Sources
Includes Instructor Note
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Homestead Act
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Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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Black Code of Mississippi
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Testimony before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction on Atrocities in the South against Blacks
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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Treaty of Fort Laramie
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Ku Klux Klan Act
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National Quarantine Act
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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T. Thomas Fortune: "The Present Relations of Labor and Capital"
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Dawes Severalty Act
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Andrew Carnegie: “Wealth”
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Samuel Gompers: Address to Workers in Louisville, Kentucky
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Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
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Wounded Knee Massacre: Statements and Eyewitness Accounts
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Immigration Act of 1891
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Populist Party: Omaha Platform
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Jane Addams: "The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements"
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Frederick Jackson Turner: “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”
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Eugene V. Debs: “Liberty” Speech
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Booker T. Washington: Atlanta Exposition Address
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William Jennings Bryan: "Cross of Gold" Speech
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Includes Instructor Note
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William McKinley: "Benevolent Assimilation" Proclamation
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Thorstein Veblen: “Conspicuous Consumption”
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Eugene V. Debs: "How I Became a Socialist"
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W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
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Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
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Ida B. Wells: "Booker T. Washington and His Critics"
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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Jane Addams: "Why Women Should Vote"
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Dillingham Commission Report
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Progressive Party Platform
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Billy Sunday: “Get on the Water Wagon”
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Emma Goldman: Speech against Conscription and War
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Robert La Follette: Speech Opposing War with Germany
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Zimmermann Telegram
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Woodrow Wilson: Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War against Germany
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Espionage Act
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Woodrow Wilson: Fourteen Points
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Eugene V. Debs: Antiwar Speech
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Sedition Act
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Volstead Act
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W. E. B. Du Bois: "Returning Soldiers"
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Schenck v. United States
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Margaret Sanger: “Birth Control and Racial Betterment”
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Anzia Yezierska: “How I Found America”
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Marcus Garvey: "The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association"
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Immigration Act of 1924
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James Weldon Johnson: "Harlem: The Culture Capital"
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Alain Locke: "Enter the New Negro"
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William Jennings Bryan: Speech at the Scopes Trial
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Herbert Hoover: "Rugged Individualism" Campaign Speech
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Herbert Hoover: "The Consequences of the Proposed New Deal"
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address
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National Industrial Recovery Act
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Emergency Banking Relief Act
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John S. Gambs: "United We Eat"
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Wayne W. Parrish: Letter to Harry Hopkins
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Paul Taylor: “Again the Covered Wagon”
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Social Security Act
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National Labor Relations Act
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Huey Long: "Share Our Wealth" Address
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Report of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee
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Fair Labor Standards Act
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Pearl Harbor" Speech
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: Four Freedoms Message to Congress
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Executive Order 9066: Internment of Japanese Americans
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Order for Internment of Japanese Americans in San Francisco
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GI Bill
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Korematsu v. United States
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Harry S. Truman: Statement Announcing the Use of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
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Winston Churchill: Iron Curtain Speech
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George F. Kennan: “Long Telegram”
Includes Instructor Note
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George Marshall: Marshall Plan Speech
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J. Edgar Hoover: Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee
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Harry S. Truman: Truman Doctrine
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Joseph McCarthy: "Enemies from Within" Speech
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy
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William H. Whyte: The Organization Man
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Southern Manifesto
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Richard M. Nixon: “Kitchen” Debate with Nikita Khrushchev
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Statement of Purpose
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John F. Kennedy: Man on the Moon Speech
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John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address
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Newton N. Minow: Vast Wasteland of Television Speech
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Beliefs and Principles of the John Birch Society
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Tom Hayden: “The Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society”
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John F. Kennedy: Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
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Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" Speech
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John F. Kennedy: Civil Rights Address
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Malcolm X: "Message to the Grass Roots"
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Ronald Reagan: "A Time for Choosing"
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Barry Goldwater: Acceptance Speech for the Presidential Nomination of the Republican Party
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Lyndon Baines Johnson: “Great Society” Speech
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Black Panther Party: “What We Want, What We Believe”
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National Organization for Women Statement of Purpose
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Stokely Carmichael: "Black Power"
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence"
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Kerner Commission Report
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Richard M. Nixon: “Silent Majority” Speech
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Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz: Proclamation
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Lucian Truscott IV: “Gay Power Comes To Sheridan Square”
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Gloria Steinem: “Living the Revolution”
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Abbie Hoffman: Steal This Book
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Equal Rights Amendment
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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
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Ronald Reagan: First Inaugural Address
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Billy Graham: "The Coming Storm"
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Time: “The Computer Moves In”
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Ronald Reagan: "Evil Empire" Speech
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Gordon Gekko: “Greed Is Good” Speech
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Ronald Reagan: Remarks on East-West Relations at the Brandenburg Gate
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Benjamin R. Barber: “Jihad vs. McWorld”
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Republican Contract with America
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Osama bin Laden: Declaration of Jihad against Americans
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George W. Bush: Address to the Nation on September 11, 2001
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Patriot Act
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Robert C. Byrd: "The Emperor Has No Clothes" Speech
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Barack Obama: First Inaugural Address