Sources for Forging America Volume Two

Felicia Angeja Viator is Associate Professor of History at San Francisco State University.Stefan Lund is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia.

• How to Read a Primary SourceChapter 15. Ending the War and (Re)Constructing the Nation, 1863-186515.1 Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863)15.2 Nancy Johnson, Testimony by a Georgia Freedwoman about How Union Troops Stole Her Property (1873)15.3 Excerpt from the Virginia Black Codes (1866)15.4 Visual Source: Battleground Ruins in Charleston, SC (c. 1860-1865)15.5 Visual Source: Thomas Nast, Pardon and Franchise (1865)Chapter 16. The Promise and Limits of Reconstruction, 1865-187716.1 Thaddeus Stevens, Speech to Congress (1867)16.2 Testimony of Mervin Givens to Congress about Ku Klux Klan Activity in South Carolina (1871)16.3 Visual Source: Distinguished Members, Reconstructed Constitution of Louisiana (1868)16.4 Visual Source: Philadelphia Mayoral Election Poster on Racial Segregation on Public Transit (1868)16.5 Visual Source: Thomas Nast, Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner (1869)Chapter 17. Capitalism Takes Hold, 1873-189017.1 Walt Whitman, "To A Locomotive in Winter" (1876)17.2 Mrs. Spotted Horn Bull, Testimony on the Battle of the Greasy Grass (Little Bighorn) (n.d.)17.3 Frank Lloyd Wright, On Seeing His First American City (1887)17.4 Visual Source: William Holbrook Beard, The Bulls and Bears in the Market, Wall Street (1879)17.5 Visual Source: Solomon D. Butcher, Shores Family near Westerville, Custer County, NE (1887)17.6 Visual Source: The Destruction of the Buffalo (c. 1892)Chapter 18. Caldrons of Protest, 1886-189618.1 Bob Hart, "The Eight-hour System" (n.d.)18.2 Colored Farmers' Alliance on Violence against Black Farmers (1889)18.3 Lucy Parsons, Speech to the Industrial Workers of the World (1905)18.4 Visual Source: Thomas Nast, Difficult Problems Solving Themselves (1879)18.5 Visual Source: The Anarchist-labor Troubles in Chicago (1886)Chapter 19. A Second Reconstruction, 1890-191419.1 Upton Sinclair, Excerpts from The Jungle (1906)19.2 Margaret Sanger, Excerpts from What Every Girl Should Know (1916)19.3 Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Address at the First National Conference of Black Women's Clubs (1895)19.4 Visual Source: Grant E. Hamilton, Out in the Cold (1884)19.5 Visual Source: Ad for Horsford's Acid Phosphate Brain Tonic for "Nervousness" (1888)19.6 Visual Source: Rand McNally and Company, Bird's Eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893)Chapter 20. A New Empire at Home and Abroad, 1890-191420.1 Citizens' Committee on the Annexation of Hawaii, "Memorial to the President, the Congress, and the People of the United States of America" (1897)20.2 Frederick Douglass, Letter to Ida B. Wells (1892)20.3 Simon Pokagon, "The Red Man's Greeting" (1893)20.4 Enrique Dupuy de Lôme, Letter to José Canalejas (1898)20.5 Platt Amendment (1903)20.6 Visual Source: Grant E. Hamilton, I Rather Like That Imported Affair (1904)20.7 Visual Source: Leaders of the Philippine Revolution (c. 1898)Chapter 21. War, Revolution, and Reaction, 1910-192521.1 Woodrow Wilson, "Fourteen Points" (1918)21.2 Alan Seegar, "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" (1919)21.3 Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), "Editorial Comment" (1919)21.4 Visual Source: 302nd and 92nd Regiments in Action in France (1918)21.5 Visual Source: Ku Klux Klan Parade, Washington, DC (1926)Chapter 22. Looking Into the Abyss, 1920-193422.1 Elliott Bell, "Crash" (1939)22.2 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Banking Crisis Fireside Chat (1933)22.3 "Defensa de los Norteños" (n.d.)22.4 The Carter Family, "No Depression in Heaven" (1936)22.5 Visual Source: Dorothea Lange, Family Who Traveled by Freight Train (1939)Chapter 23. Birth Pangs of Social Democracy, 1933-194023.1 Caroline Henderson, Letter to a Friend in Maryland "from the Dust Bowl" (1935)23.2 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden (1936)23.3 Visual Source: Peter Stackpole, Bay Bridge Workers at Quitting Time (1935)23.4 Visual Source: Russell Lee, Front of Spanish Language Movie Theater, San Antonio, TX (1939)23.5 Visual Source: Boris Deutsch, Cultural Contributions of North, South and Central America (1939-1944)Chapter 24. Flames of Global War, Visions of Global Peace, 1940-194524.1 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Annual Message to Congress and "Four Freedoms" (1941)24.2 A. Philip Randolph, Program of the March on Washington Movement (1941)24.3 Janet Matsuda, "Hope Out of Gloom" (1944/45)24.4 Visual Source: Russell Lee, Child Waiting at Los Angeles Evacuation Center (1942)24.5 Visual Source: This Man Is Your Friend: Chinese--He Fights for Freedom (1942)Chapter 25. Cold-War America, 1945-195725.1 Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954)25.2 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Statement of Purpose (1960, revised 1962)25.3 US Government Amicus Curiae Brief for Brown v. Board of Education (1952)25.4 Visual Source: Linda Christian as "Anatomic Bomb" (1945)25.5 Visual Source: U.S. Steel's "Bride's House" Advertisement (1956)Chapter 26. Rebellion on the Left, Resurgence on the Right, 1957-196826.1 John Lewis, "Wake Up America" (1963)26.2 Barry Goldwater, Speech to Congress Explaining Vote against 1964 Civil Rights Act (1964)26.3 Lyndon B. Johnson, Special Message to Congress (1965)26.4 Paul Potter, On the Vietnam War (1965)26.5 Visual Source: Police Arresting Black Men During the Watts Uprising, Los Angeles (1965)Chapter 27. Destabilizations, 1968-197927.1 Black Panther Party for Self Defense, "Ten-Point Program" (1966)27.2 Third World Gay Revolution, "Sixteen Point Platform and Program" (1970)27.3 Young Lords Party, "Thirteen Points Program and Platform" (1969)27.4 Visual Source: Cover of Ms. Magazine (1972)27.5 Visual Source: Herblock, Hostage (1979)Chapter 28. New Conservatism and Its Discontents, 1980-198928.1 Ronald Reagan, Campaign Speech at the Cow Palace in San Francisco (1966)28.2 Phyllis Schlafly, "What's Wrong With 'Equal Rights' for Women?" (1972)28.3 Jerry Falwell, "The Five Major Problems Moral Americans Need to Be Ready to Face" (1980)28.4 National Security Council, Directive No. 75 on US Relations with the USSR (1983) 28.5 Visual Source: Herblock, Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick (1986)Chapter 29. After the Wall Fell: America and the Twenty-First Century, 1989-200429.1 George H. W. Bush, "New World Order" Address before Congress (1990)29.2 George W. Bush, "War on Terror" Address before Congress (2001)29.3 Moustafa Bayoumi, Excerpts from "How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?" (2001)29.4 NAACP on Voter Irregularities in Florida (2000)29.5 Visual Source: Ann Telnaes, The Bush Decision (2000)Chapter 30. Destinies, 2005-present30.1 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Excerpt from "Fear of a Black President" (2012)30.2 Greta Thunberg, Speech at the UN Climate Action Summit (2019)30.3 Nicholas Fandos and Emily Cochrane, "After Pro-Trump Mob Storms Capitol, Congress Confirms Biden's Win" (2021)30.4 Visual Source: Michael Williamson, Rainbow White House after Gay Marriage Supreme Court Decision (2015) 30.5 Visual Source: Dave Granlund, March Madness (2016)