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| Volume II: From 1865 | |
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| Preface for Instructors | |
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| Introduction for Students | |
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| Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | |
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| Black Codes Enacted in the South | |
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| Mississippi Black Code, November 1865 | |
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| Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families | |
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| Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865-1870 | |
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| A Black Convention in Alabama | |
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| "Address of the Colored Convention to the People of Alabama," 1867 | |
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| Klan Violence against Blacks | |
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| Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871 | |
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| A Northern Republican's Report on Reconstruction | |
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| Charles Nordhoff, The Cotton States, 1875 | |
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| Business and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1895 | |
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| John D. Rockefeller Defends His Oil Trust | |
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| Testimony to the U.S. Industrial Commission, 1899 | |
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| Jay Gould on Capital and Labor | |
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| Testimony before the U.S. Senate, 1883 | |
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| William Graham Sumner on Social Obligations | |
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| What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 1883 | |
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| Andrew Carnegie Explains the Gospel of Wealth | |
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| "Wealth," 1889 | |
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| Henry Demarest Lloyd Attacks Monopolies | |
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| Wealth Against Commonwealth, 1894 | |
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| The West in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900 | |
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| Observations of Chinese Immigrants | |
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| James F. Rusling, Across America, 1866-1867 | |
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| Swedish Immigrants on the Kansas Prairie | |
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| Ida Lindgren, Letters, 1870-1874 | |
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| Texas Rangers on the Mexican Border | |
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| N. A. Jennings, A Texas Ranger, 1875 | |
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| In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat Describes White Encroachment | |
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| Chief Joseph, Speech to a White Audience, 1879 | |
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| A Plea to "Citizenize" Indians | |
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| Richard Pratt, "Kill the Indian... and Save the Man," 1892 | |
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| The City and It's Workers, 1870-1890 | |
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| A Textile Worker Explains the Labor Market | |
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| Thomas O'Donnell, Testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee, 1885 | |
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| Domestic Servants on Household Work | |
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| Interviews with Journalist Helen Campbell, 1880s | |
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| A Romanian Jew Immigrates to America | |
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| Michael Gold, Jews without Money, 1890s | |
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| Labor Contractors and Italian Immigrants | |
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| S. Merlino, "Italian Immigrants and Their Enslavement, 1893 | |
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| George Washington Plunkitt Explains Politics | |
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| William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, 1905 | |
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| Dissent, Depression, and War, The 1890s | |
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| Addressing The Crisis in Rural America | |
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| Populist Party Platform, July 4, 1892 | |
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| White Supremacy in Wilmington, North Carolina | |
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| Gunner Jesse Blake, Narrative of the Wilmington "Rebellion" of 1898 | |
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| Pinkertons Defeated at Homestead | |
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| Pinkerton Guard Testimony, 1893 | |
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| Conflicting Views about Labor Unions | |
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| N.F. Thompson, Testimony before the Industrial Commission on the Relations and Conditions on Capital and Labor, 1900 | |
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| Samuel Gompers, Letter to the American Federationist, 1894 | |
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| Mark Twain on the Blessing-of-Civilization Trust | |
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| "To the Person Sitting in Darkness," February, 1901 | |
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| Progressive Reform from the Grass Roots to the White House, 1890-1916 | |
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| Jane Addams on Settlement Houses | |
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| "The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements," 1892 | |
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| John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Explains "The Best Thing for All of Us" | |
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| Speech to Colorado Fuel and Iron Officials and Employee Representatives, October 2, 1915 | |
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| Mother Jones on the Futility of Class Harmony | |
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| Letter to Mrs. Potter Palmer, January 12, 1907 | |
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| An Anonymous Man Explains Why He Is a Wobbly | |
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| "Why I Am a Member of the I.W.W.," 1922 | |
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| Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation | |
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| The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895 | |
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| W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality | |
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| "Booker T. Washington and Others," 1903 | |
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| World War I: The Progressive Crusade at Home and Abroad, 1914-1920 | |
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| President Woodrow Wilson Asks Congress for a Declaration of War | |
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| Speech to Congress, April 2, 1917 | |
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| Eugene V. Debs Attacks Capitalist War Mongers | |
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| Speech Delivered in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918 | |
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| A Doughboy's Letter from the Home Front | |
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| Anonymous Soldier's Letter to Elmer J. Sutters, 1918 | |
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| National Popular Justice League Criticizes the Red Scare | |
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| Report on Illegal Practices of the Department of Justice, 1920 | |
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| An African American Responds to the Chicago Race Riot | |
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| Stanley B. Norvell, Letter to Victor S. Lawson, 1919 | |
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| From New Era to Great Depression, 1920-1932 | |
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| President Calvin Coolidge on Government and Business | |
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| Address before the New York Chamber of Commerce, November 19, 1925 | |
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| Reinhold Niebuhr on Christianity in Detroit | |
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| Diary Entries, 1925-1928 | |
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| The Ku Klux Klan Defends Americanism | |
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| Hiram W. Evans, "The Klan's Fight for Americanism," 1926 | |
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| Anzia Yesierska Describes a Vacation for "Worn Out Mothers" | |
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| "The Free Vacation House", 1920 | |
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| Marcus Garvey Explains the Goals of the Universal Negro Improvement Association | |
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| "The Negro's Greatest Enemy," 1923 | |
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| The New Deal Experiment, 1932-1939 | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt Proposes an Activist Government | |
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| Speech to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, 1932 | |
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| Working People's Letters to New Dealers | |
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| Letter to Frances Perkins, January 27, 1935 | |
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| Letter to Frances Perkins, March 29, 1935 | |
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| Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 23, 1936 | |
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| Letter to Frances Perkins, July 27, 1937 | |
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| Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 27, 1939 | |
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| Huey Long Proposes Redistribution of Wealth | |
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| Speech to Members of the Share Our Wealth Society, 1935 | |
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| California Citrus Grower Defends Mexican Farm Workers' Campaign to Organize | |
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| Frank Stokes, "Let the Mexicans Organize," 1936 | |
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| Conservatives Criticize the New Deal | |
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| Herbert Hoover, Anti-New Deal Campaign Speech, 1936 | |
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| Minnie Hardin, Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, December 14, 1937 | |
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| The Second World War, 1939-1945 | |
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| President Franklin D. Roosevelt Requests Declaration of War on Japan | |
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| Speech to Congress, December 8, 1941 | |
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| A Japanese-American Woman Recalls Pearl Harbor | |
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| Monica Sone, Nisei Daughter, 1953 | |
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| The Holocaust: A Journalist Reports on Nazi Massacres of Jews | |
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| Varian Fry, "The Massacre of the Jews," December 21, 1942 | |
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| Soldiers Send Messages Home | |
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| Sergeant Irving Strobing, Radio Address from Corregidor, Philippines | |
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| May 5 or 6, 1942 | |
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| John Conroy, Letter, December 24, 1942 | |
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| Allen Spach, Letter, February, 1943 | |
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| James McMahon, Letter, March 10, 1944 | |
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| David Mark Olds, Letter, July 12, 1945 | |
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| The War Between the Sexes | |
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| Willard Waller Foresees the Coming War on Women, 1945 | |
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| Cold War Politics in the Truman Years, 1945-1953 | |
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| General Marshall Summarizes the Lessons of World War II | |
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| "For the Common Defense," 1945 | |
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| George F. Kennan Outlines Containment | |
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| "The Long Telegram," February 22, 1945 | |
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| Cold War Blueprint | |
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| NSC 68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security, 1950 | |
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| Senator Joseph McCarthy Hunts Communists | |
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| Speech Delivered in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950 | |
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| A POW in Korea | |
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| Nick Tosques, Oral History | |
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| The Politics and Culture of Abundance, 1952-1960 | |
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| Edith M. Stern Attacks the Domestic Bondage of Women | |
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| "Women Are Household Slaves," 1949 | |
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| Allen Ginsberg Ridicules American Hypocrisy and Complacency | |
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| "America," January 17, 1956 | |
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| Rosa Parks Says "No": A Memoir | |
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| Rosa Parks: My Story | |
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| Civil Defense in the Nuclear Shadow | |
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| North Dakota Civil Defense Agency, How You Will Survive, 1960 | |
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| President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address | |
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| Farewell Address, January 1961 | |
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| Reform, Rebellion, and Reaction, 1960-1974 | |
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| President Lyndon B. Johnson Describes the Great Society | |
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| Address at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1964 | |
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| Martin Luther King Jr. Explains Nonviolent Resistance | |
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| "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," 1963 | |
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| Black Power | |
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| Chicago Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Leaflet, 1967 | |
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| Equal Rights for Women | |
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| National Organization for Women Statement of Purpose, October 29, 1966 | |
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| Long Hot Summers of Urban Riots | |
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| The Kerner Commission Report on Civil Disorders, 1968 | |
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| Vietnam and the Limits of Power, 1961-1975 | |
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| President Kennedy Explains Why We Are In Vietnam | |
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| Bobbie Lou Pendergrass to President John F. Kennedy, February 18, 1963 | |
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| President John F. Kennedy to Bobbie Lou Pendergrass, March 6, 1963 | |
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| A Secret Government Assessment of the Vietnam War | |
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| Robert S. McNamara, "Actions Recommended for Vietnam," October 14, 1966 | |
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| Military Commander Reassures Americans that the End Is in View | |
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| General William C. Westmoreland, Public Address, November 1967 | |
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| Military Discipline in an Unpopular War | |
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| Robert D. Heinl, Jr., "The Collapse of the Armed Forces," June 7, 1971 | |
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| An American Soldier in Vietnam | |
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| Arthur E. Woodley, Jr., Oral History of a Special Forces Ranger | |
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| America Moves to the Right, 1969-1989 | |
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| The Watergate Tapes: Nixon, Dean, and Haldeman Discuss the Cancer Within the Presidency | |
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| Transcript from Tape-recorded Meeting on March 21, 1973 | |
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| Roe v. Wade and Abortion Rights | |
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| Supreme Court Decision, 1973 | |
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| President Ronald Reagan Declares the Government the Problem | |
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| Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981 | |
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| President Ronald Reagan Defends American Morality | |
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| Address to the National Association of American Evangelicals | |
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| A Vietnamese Immigrant on the West Coast | |
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| Anonymous Man, Oral History | |
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| The End of the Cold War and the Challenges of Globalization and Terrorism, 1989-2003 | |
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| President George Bush Declares a New World Order | |
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| State of the Union Address, January 29, 1991 | |
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| Supreme Court Dissents from Deciding 2000 Presidential Election | |
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| Supreme Court Dissents in George W. Bush v. Albert Gore, Jr., December 12, 2000 | |
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| President George W. Bush Receives CIA Warning about Al Qaeda and Addresses Congress after 9/11 Terrorist Attacks | |
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| President's Daily Brief, August 6, 2001, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S." | |
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| President George W. Bush, Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, September 20, 2001 | |
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| Al Qaeda Training Manual Declares Jihad | |
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| Al Qaeda Training Manual, Declaration of Jihad Against the Country's Tyrants | |
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| National Security Strategy of the United States Requires Pre-emptive War | |
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| The National Security Strategy of the United States, September 2002 | |