Major Problems in American History, Volume 2: Since 1865

Elizabeth Cobbs, professor and Dwight E. Stanford Chair in American Foreign Relations at San Diego State University, has won literary prizes for both history and fiction: the Allan Nevins Prize, Stuart Bernath Book Prize, San Diego Book Award and Director’s Mention for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction. Her books include "American Umpire" (2013), "Broken Promises: A Novel of Civil War" (2011), "All You Need is Love: The Peace Corps and the 1960s" (2000) and "The Rich Neighbor Policy" (1992). She has served on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in History and on the Historical Advisory Committee of the U.S. State Department. She has received awards and fellowships from the Fulbright Commission; Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Organization of American States; American Philosophical Society; Rockefeller Foundation and other distinguished institutions. Her essays have been published in the New York Times, Jerusalem Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, China Daily News, National Public Radio, Washington Independent, San Diego Union and Reuters. Her current project is a history of women soldiers in World War I. Jon Gjerde died in October 2008. He was Alexander F. and May T. Morrison professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1982. His areas of expertise included nineteenth-century America with particular reference to immigration and religion, and he published some thirty articles on these subjects. He also published FROM PEASANTS TO FARMERS: THE MIGRATION FROM BALESTRAND, NORWAY, TO THE UPPER MIDDLE WEST (1985) and THE MINDS OF THE WEST: THE ETHNOCULTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE RURAL MIDDLE WEST, 1830-1917 (1997), both of which won the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award of the Immigration History Society for the best book in agricultural history.

• 1. Reconstruction, 1865-1877 DOCUMENTS1. African Americans Recall Personal Experiences of Newfound Freedom, c. 18652. Louisiana Black Codes Reinstate Provisions of the Slave Era, 18653. President Andrew Johnson Denounces Changes in His Program of Reconstruction, 18674. Congressman Thaddeus Stevens Demands a Radical Reconstruction, 18675. Representative Benjamin Butler Argues That President Andrew Johnson Be Impeached, 18686. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Questions Abolitionist Support for Female Enfranchisement, 18687. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments Grant Citizenship and Due Process of Law to African Americans and Suffrage to African American Men, 1868, 18708. Elias Hill, an African American Man, Recounts a Nighttime Visit from the Ku Klux Klan, 18719. Confederate General Jubal Early Memorializes the "Lost Cause," 1894ESSAYSSteven Hahn, Continuing the War: White and Black Violence During ReconstructionDavid W. Blight, Ending the War: The Push for National Reconciliation2. Western Settlement and the FrontierDOCUMENTS1. The Governor of Missouri Orders the Militia to Exterminate Mormons, 18382. The Homestead Act Provides Free Land to Settlers, 18623. Pioneer Mary Barnard Aguirre Marries into the Spanish West, 18634. The Federal Government Punishes Confederate Indians, 18655. Katie Bighead (Cheyenne) Remembers Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn, 18766. Chief Joseph (Nez Percé) Surrenders, 18777. Southern Freedmen Resolve to Move West, 18798. Wyoming Gunfight: An Attack on Chinatown, 18859. Historian Frederick Jackson Turner Articulates the "Frontier Thesis," 1893ESSAYSRay Allen Billington, The Frontier as a Cradle of LibertyPatricia Nelson Limerick, The Frontier as a Place of Conquest and Conflict3. Industrialization, Workers, and the New ImmigrationDOCUMENTS1. Chinese Immigrant Lee Chew Denounces Prejudice in America, 18822. Poet Emma Lazurus Praises The New Colossus, 18833. Immigrant Thomas O'Donnell Describes the Worker's Plight, 18834. Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie Preaches a Gospel of Wealth, 18895. Unionist Samuel Gompers Asks "What Does the Working Man Want?" 18906. Jurgis Rudkus Discovers Drink in The Jungle, 19057. A Slovenian Boy Recounts Tales of the Golden Country, 19098. Engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor Manufactures the Ideal Worker, 1910ESSAYSOscar Handlin, Uprooted and Trapped: The One-Way Route to ModernityMark Wyman, Coming and Going: Round Trip to America4. Imperialism and World PowerDOCUMENTS1. President William McKinley Asks for War to Liberate Cuba, 18982. Governor Theodore Roosevelt Praises the Manly Virtues of Imperialism, 18993. Filipino Leader Emilio Aguinaldo Rallies His People to Arms, 18994. The American Anti-Imperialist League Denounces U.S. Policy, 18995. Mark Twain Satirizes "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," 19006. A Soldier Criticizes American Racism in the Philippines, 19027. The Roosevelt Corollary Makes the U.S. the Police of Latin America, 19048. President Woodrow Wilson Disavows Territorial Conquest, 1913ESSAYSGail Bederman, Gendering Imperialism: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest for Manhood and EmpireAnders Stephanson, Global Competition and Manifest Destiny on the Cusp of the Twentieth Century5. The Progressive MovementDOCUMENTS1. W.C.T.U. Blasts Drinking and Smoking, and Demands the Power to Protect, 18932. Philosopher John Dewey Advocates Democracy Through Education, 18993. NAACP Founder W.E.B. DuBois Denounces Compromise on Negro Education and Civil Rights, 19034. Journalist Lincoln Steffens Exposes the Shame of Corruption, 19045. Political Boss George Washington Plunkitt Defends "Honest" Graft, 19056. Social Worker Jane Addams Advocates Civic Housekeeping, 19067. President Theodore Roosevelt Preaches Conservation and Efficiency, 19088. Sociologist William Graham Sumner Denounces Reformers' Fanaticism, 19139. Rewriting the Constitution: Amendments on Income Tax, Election of Senators, Prohibition, and the Vote for Women,