American History Firsthand: Working with Primary Sources, Volume 2, 2nd edition
Published by Pearson (October 17, 2007) © 2008
- Peter J. Frederick Wabash College
- Julie Roy Jeffrey
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Designed to give students an up-close and personal view of history, American History First Hand: Working with Primary Sources offers students the opportunity to experience written documents, visual materials, material culture artifacts, and maps–the materials historians actually work with to decipher the past.
Completely unique in this market, American History First Hand: Working with Primary Sources is innovative and exciting, allowing students to learn first-hand what history is and what historians actually do. In each volume, there are 12 archives, with each archive containing loose facsimiles for students to explore. In addition to the documents, students will also obtain a four-page introduction that describes the issues and themes of the folders. Pedagogical materials will help them explore the ramifications of these sources, as they practice the art of historical analysis.
- The design of American History First Hand: Working with Primary Sources allows students to experience “real” historical evidence. While it may be difficult for instructors to send students to explore archives, historical societies, and museum collections, this exciting new collection gives students the experience and "feel" for the historian's craft.
- American History First Hand: Working with Primary Sources contains a wide array of primary sources, which fall into three main categories: written and printed sources, visual sources, and material culture, or artifacts. Public and private letters, songs and sheet music, treaties, congressional acts, portraits, cartoons, film posters, family artifacts, needlework and more are included.
- Extensive pedagogy includes an Archive Overview, a Timeline, Placing the Sources in Context, About the Sources, a List of Sources, and Questions to Consider.
- Chapters 17, 22 and 23 have been extensively revised and updated with a variety of new sources.
- New sources enrich topics and themes like cultural encounters among Euro-Americans, Native-Americans, African-Americans and Mexicans; gender, class, racial, religious, and regional diversity; daily life and work and marital conflict and intimacy, the challenges of nation-building and forming a common culture; and issues of American expansionism, imperialism, and war and peace, and the development of liberalism and conservatism.
- Many “Questions to Consider” questions have been revised to guide individual analysis and encourage classroom discussion.
Archive Twelve: Reconstruction: Clashing Dreams and Realities, 1865—1868
12.1 Painting, The Armed Slave, by William Spang, about 1865
12.2 Confederate song, “I’m a Good Old Rebel,” by R. B. Buckley, 1866
12.3 Legal form for the restoration of confiscated property held by the Freedmen’s Bureau, South Carolina Freedmen’s Bureau records
12.4 Black Codes [Laws] of Mississippi, 1865
12.5a Legal contract between Alonzo T. Mial and 27 freed laborers, 1866
12.5b Affidavit of ex-slave Enoch Braston, enclosed in letter from Chaplain L. S. Livermore to Lt. Col. R. S. Donaldson, January 10, 1866
12.5c Freedmen’s School, 1866, appearing in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, September 22, 1866
12.5d Broadside, The Freedman’s Bureau, 1866
12.6 Letter from James A. Payne to stepdaughter Katherine F. Sterrett, September 1, 1867
12.7 Letter from a Mississippi black soldier, Calvin Holly, to Major General O. O. Howard, December 16, 1865
12.8 Letter from ex-slave Hawkins Wilson to Jane Wilson, May 11, 1867
12.9 Cartoon, “This Is a White Man’s Government,” by Thomas Nast, Harper’s Weekly, vol. 12, September 5, 1868
Archive Thirteen:
13.1 Treaty of Fort Laramie between the United States and the
Sioux (Lakota), 1868
13.3a Indian pictograph of heroic exploits, on buffalo hide, northern Plains, probably Cheyenne
13.3b Yanktonai Sioux pictograph, Winter Count, 1890—1891
13.3c Pictographic account of the Battle of Little Bighorn by the Miniconjou Lakota Sioux Chief Red Horse, June 25—26
13.4a Camping with the Sioux, Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher, September 24, and October 5, 1881
13.4b Act of Congress, the General Allotment Act (Dawes Act), 1887
13.4c Map platting, Indian Allotments on the Rosebud Reservation, 1903
13.4d Legal allotment certificate for William Shakespeare (War Bonnet), Shoshone Agency, 1904
13.5a Autobiographical narrative by Luther Standing Bear on his first days at the Carlisle (Pennsylvania) Indian School
13.5b Photograph of Chief Standing Bear the elder visiting his son at Carlisle, in Luther Standing Bear
13.6 Autobiographical narrative by Zitkala-Sa on her first days at boarding school in Indiana, in Zitkala-Sa
13.7a Photograph of young Sioux at Carlisle boarding school, 1879
13.7b Photograph of the first graduating class at Carlisle boarding school, 1889
13.7c Photograph of four generations of the Two Strike family, by John A. Anderson, about 1906
13.8a Indian pictograph by Wo-Haw, The Buffalo Who Wouldn’t Die
13.8b Indian pictograph by Wo-Haw, Skinning a Buffalo
13.8c Indian pictograph by Wo-Haw, Classroom at Fort Marion
Archive Fourteen: American Imperialism: War with the Philippines
14.1a Poem by 1st Colorado volunteer soldier praising his Filipina girlfriend, “Colorado Soldier’s DELF,” Denver Post, undated, author unknown
14.1b Description of warfare by 1st Colorado Infantry Regiment volunteer Guy Sims, TMs, Wauneta, Nebraska, 1941
14.2 Letter from Private Carl Larsen, 1st Colorado volunteer, to “Dear Friend,” February 25, 1899
14.3 Magazine dispatch filed August 30, 1898, by John Bass, in Harper’s Weekly
14.4 Speech/essay by Theodore Roosevelt, “The Strenuous Life”
14.5 Congressional speeches on imperialism, by Senator Albert Beveridge (Indiana) and Senator George Hoar (Massachusetts), United States Senate, January 9, 1900
14.6 Speech by President William McKinley
14.7a Poem by Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden,”1899
14.7b Poem by Ernest Howard Crosby, “The Real ‘White Man’s Burden’,” 1899
14.8a Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League, October 18, 1899
14.8b Speech on imperialism by Senator George F. Hoar (Massachusetts), United States Senate, January 9, 1899
14.9a Cartoon in magazine, “The Spanish Brute Adds Mutilation to Murder,” by Grant Hamilton, in Judge, July 9, 1898
14.9b Cartoon in magazine, “Is He to Be a Despot?” artist unknown, 1899
14.10 Essay by Mark Twain, “To the Person Sitting in Darkness,” February 1901
Archive Fifteen: Confronting the Problems of Urban, Industrial America
15.1 Magazine article on the changing character of immigration, by Kate Claghorn (1900—1901)
15.2a Cartoon of the party boss, undated, artist unknown.
15.2b Songs by Samuel “Golden Rule” Jones, in Samuel M. Jones, Jr. (1899—1901)
15.3a Movie poster for The Jungle, 1913.
15.3b Movie poster for The Jungle, 1913.
15.4a Photograph by Jacob Riis, Finishing Pants
15.4b Photograph by Lewis Hines, Henry McShane, 1908.
15.4c Photograph by Lewis Hines, Annie Fedele, 1912
15.5 Extract from magazine article on “Our Poorer Brother,” by Theodore Roosevelt, 1897
15.6 W. E. B. DuBois’s “The Seventh Ward of Philadelphia,” 1899
15.7 Settlement house records on Margaret Mitchell’s neighborhood visits, around January 1907
15.8 Settlement house records on Margaret Mitchell’s neighborhood visits, August 1907
15.9 Settlement house records on Margaret Mitchell’s neighborhood visits, October 1907
15.10 Settlement house records on Margaret Mitchell’s neighborhood visits, November 2, 1907 and January 17, 1908
Archive Sixteen: The Americans’ Experience in the Great War
16.1 Sheet music, “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier,” by Al Piantadosi and Alfred Bryan, 1915
16.2 President Wilson’s war message to Congress, 1917
16.3 War poster, “True Sons of Freedom,” 1918, by Charles Gustrine
16.4 Sheet music, “Good Bye Alexander,” 1918, by Creamer and Layton
16.5 Journal entries of James C. Adell, 1917—1918
16.6 Army Intelligence Test, ALPHA, Form 5, Test 8, 1921
16.7 A report on a German-American family, undated and unsigned, probably around April 17, 1918, by Clayton Ely Emig
16.8 Letters from Rufus Ullman to his family, May 13 and August 31, 1918
16.9 Journal entries of Dudley J. Hard, 1918
16.10 Form letter from John J. Pershing, February 28, 1919
Archive Seventeen: The Emergence of Modernism Between the Wars
17.1 Book excerpt on women and consumption, Christine Frederick, Selling Mrs. Consumer, 1929
17.2a Advertisement for a Dodge sedan, Ladies’ Home Journal, December 1922
17.2b Advertisement for a Cadillac, Good Housekeeping, February 1926
17.2c Advertisement for Listerine, Good Housekeeping, February 1926
17.2d Advertisement for Sellers kitchen cabinets, Good Housekeeping, February 1926
17.2e Advertisement for Lifebuoy soap, Ladies’ Home Journal, October 1935
17.3 Magazine article on worldliness, John Roach Straton, “How Rationalism in the Pulpit Makes Worldliness in the Pew,” Moody Bible Institute Monthly, January 1923
17.4 The “Creed of Klanswomen,” 1924. The Kluxer, March 8, 1924, p. 20.
17.5 A criticism of prohibition, in Fabian Franklin, What Prohibition Has Done to America,1922
17.6 Foreword from The New Negro, 1925
17.7 Photograph by James VanDerZee, Couple in Raccoon Coats, 1932
17.8 Two poems by Langston Hughes, Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues (New York: Knopf, 1926), “Proem” and “Epilogue”
Archive Eighteen: Rural America During the New Deal
18.1 Radio broadcast by Henry A. Wallace, May 13, 1933
18.2 Printed handbill for a mass meeting of North Dakota farmers, July 30, 1933
18.3 Report on drought conditions in western Kansas, April 1935
18.4 An Open Letter to Rex Tugwell, 1939
18.5 Newsreel transcript, “The Land of Cotton,” Partial transcript from March of Time newsreel August 1936
18.6 An examination of the plight of sharecroppers, 1936
18.7 Letter from Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hannon to Eleanor Roosevelt, 1939
18.8a Photograph by Dorothea Lange, The Trek of Bums, February 1936
18.8b Photograph by Dorothea Lange, Dispossessed Arkansas Farmers, 1935
18.8c Photograph by Dorothea Lange of Oklahoma Dust Bowl Refugees, June 1935
18.9 An attack on New Deal farm policies, 1936
18.10 Radio broadcast of President Roosevelt’s fireside chat, September 6, 1936
Archive Nineteen: “The Good War”: A Diverse Nation in World War II
19.1 Transcript of interview with Bob Barker, January or February, 1942
19.2 Magazine illustrations depicting the Four Freedoms, 1943, by Norman Rockwell
19.3a War poster, United We Win, 1943
19.3b War poster, Above and Beyond the Call of Duty, undated, by David Stone Martin
19.3c War poster, Man the Guns–Join the Navy, 1942, by McClelland Barclay
19.3d War poster, You Talk of Sacrifice, undated, produced by Winchester
19.4 March on Washington flier, 1941
19.5 Oral interview with Robert Rasmus, in Studs Terkel, “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II, 1984
19.6 Oral interview with Timuel Black, in Studs Terkel, “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II, 1984
19.7 Photograph of the Buss family, 1942.
19.8 Oral interview with Peggy Terry, in Studs Terkel, “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II, 1984
19.9 Photograph of women working on the fuselage of a bomber aircraft during WWII, October 1942
19.10a Photograph of Japanese internment camp meal line, June 12, 1942
19.10b Poem about a relocation camp, undated, author unknown
19.11 Oral interview with Peter Ota, in Studs Terkel, “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II, 1984
19.12 Illustration picturing the postwar world, 1943
Archive Twenty: Social and Cultural Life in a Mass Society
20.1 C. Wright Mills’s analysis of mass media, 1963
20.2 Cookbook excerpts, 1948
20.3 An account of the birth of McDonald’s1977
20.4b Magazine advertisement for International Harvester trucks picturing an American family June 22, 1957
20.5a Newspaper advertisement for Halo shampoo, 1954
20.5b Magazine advertisement for Powers fluid foundation, 1953
20.6a Magazine article on the younger generation, 1951
20.6b Rock and roll lyrics, “Yakety Yak,” 1958
20.6c Photograph of Elvis Presley singing on stage, June 22, 1956
20.7 A television script, “Living 1950——The Children of Strangers,” November—December 1950
20.8a Photograph of crowd action at Central High School, 1957
20.8b Photograph of Elizabeth Eckford waiting for the bus, 1957
20.9 Holograph letter from Daisy Bates to Ray Wilkens, December 17, 1957
Archive Twenty-One: The United States and the Vietnam War
21.1 Declaration of Independence for the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, September 2, 1945
21.2a Policy statement about American objectives in Southeast Asia, June 25, 1952
21.2b Report by Vice President Johnson on his visit to Asian countries, May 23, 1961
21.2c Magazine advertisement about the dangers of socialism. The Saturday Evening Post, April 5, 1952
21.3 General Vo Nguyen Giap’s reflections on the people’s war, 1961
21.4a Photograph of Vietnamese resistance measures, 1965
21.4b Photograph of tunnel construction, 1965
21.4c Photograph of making weapons from unexploded American bombs, 1965
21.4d Photograph of a Cu Chi female guerrilla, 1965
21.4e Photograph of making bamboo traps, 1965
21.5 Cartoon about the war, 1964
21.6 Testimony by marine William Crandell at the Winter Soldier Investigation, January 31 and February 1, 1971
21.7 Testimony by members of the First Marine Division at the Winter Soldier Investigation, January 31 and February 1, 1971
21.8 Testimony by members of the Twenty-fifth Infantry Division at the Winter Soldier Investigation, January 31 and February 1, 1971
21.9a Photograph of American soldiers wading in rice paddy, 1966
21.9b Photograph of U.S. soldiers jumping from helicopters, November 16, 1967
21.9c Photograph of U.S. troops in action in South Vietnam, February 22, 1968
21.9d Photograph of an American patrol stopping Vietnamese civilians, November 1969
21.9e Photograph of an American soldier with Vietnamese police, December 1969
Archive 22: Experiencing the “Sixties”
22.1 Political and protest buttons, 1960s
22.2 “The Port Huron Statement” of the Students for a Democratic Society, June 1962
22.3a Issues paper no. 7, “Student Subversion, the Majority Replies,” 1965, Young Americans for Freedom
22.3b Pamphlet, “What Can I Do? to Combat Communism,” about 1965, Students Associated Against Totalitarianism
22.4a Oral history of the civil rights activist Lawrence Guyot, 1978
22.4b Enclosure in letter from SNCC: “SNCC Does Not Wish to Become A New Version of the White Man’s Burden,” June 6, 1966
22.4c Black Panther Flyer, “If You’re Not Part of the Solution You’re Part of the Problem,” 1968
22.4d Black Panther Flyer, “Racist Dog Policemen,” 1968
22.4e Black Panther Flyer, “We Will Not Sit Back and Let the Fascists Murder Chairman Bobby in the Electric Chair,” no date
22.5a Oral history of a student activist, James Seff, 1973
22.5b Photograph of students and professors in a brawl at Columbia University, April 28, 1968
22.6a Antiwar appeal from teachers, “Help Stop the War in Vietnam,” 1967
22.6b Photograph of Vietnam War Protestors outside the White House, November 30, 1965
22.6c Photograph, “Stop the Vietnam War” rally, Central Park, NYC, 1968
22.6d Photograph, “Along the March Route,” Washington, DC, 1967
22.6e Photograph, “Pentagon Peace Demonstration,” Washington, DC, 1967
22.6f Photograph, “Pro-war Demonstrator,” New York City, 1968
22.7a Oral History of cultural rebellion of Erika Taylor, 1973
22.7b Flyer, “Love: A Psychedelic Celebration, Tompkins Square Park,” October 6, 1966
22.8 Book covers, Our Bodies Our Selves: A Book by and for Women, 1971 and 1998
Archive Twenty-Three: The Return of Conservatism to America
23.1a Foreword to The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater 1960
23.1b Conclusion to speech, “A Choice Not an Echo,” by Barry Goldwater, 1964, accepting the Republican nomination for president
23.1c Speech by Ronald Reagan to the National Association of Evangelicals, March 8, 1983
23.2 Catalog cover and introduction, “Restoring America,” 2007—2008
23.3a Presidential election flyer, “Where Do the Candidates Stand on Abortion?” 1992
23.3b Planned Parenthood flflyer, “A Closer Look at The Violent Opposition,” undated
23.3c “Statement of Concerned Women for America on the Passing of Ruth Bell Graham,” June 15, 2007
23.4a “Mission Statement, Promise Keepers,” 2001—2005
23.4b Newspaper article, “Hundreds of Thousands Gather On the Mall in a Day of Prayers,” October 5, 1997
23.4c “Seven Questions Women Ask About Promise Keepers,” 2001—2005
23.5 Alliance Defense Fund pamphlet, “The Truth About Student Rights”
23.6 Alliance Defense Fund pamphlet, “The Truth About Faith in the Workplace”
23.7 Transcript of Bush statement on Constitutional ban on same sex marriage, February 24, 2004
23.8a Photograph of gay couple, 2003
23.8b Photograph of man protesting gay marriage, 2004
23.9a Excerpts from George W. Bush’s discussion on Social Security, April 29, 2005.
23.9b Cartoon, “Fixing This Should Be Easy”
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