The power of words: documents in American history

v. 2. From 1865 : Reconstruction. Report on the Condition of the South (1865), Carl Schurz. Plain Counsels for Freedmen (1865), Clinton B. Fisk. Report on Land Reform in the South Carolina Islands (1865, 1866), James C. Beecher. Address from the Colored Citizens of Norfolk to the People of the United States (1865). The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1868). The State of the South (1872), The Nation. Letter on Ku Klux Klan Activities (1870), Albion W. Tourgee. Testimony Before U.S. Senate Regarding the Agricultural Labor Force in the South (1880), James T. Rapier. The West. An Overland Journey, (1860), Horace Greeley. Diary of Western Travel (1852), Lydia Allen Rudd. Six Months in the Gold Mines (1850), Edward Gould Buffum. Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest (1874), Joseph G. McCoy. Memorial of the Chinese Six Companies to U.S. Grant, President of the United States (1876). Congressional Report on Indian Affairs (1887). Tragedy at Wounded Knee (1890). The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893), Frederick Jackson Turner. Labor and Capital. Wealth (1889), Andrew Carnegie. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Session of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry (1879). Interstate Commerce Act (1887). Suit by the United States against Workingmen's Amalgamated Council of New Orleans (1893). A Piece-Rate System (1896), Frederick Winslow Taylor. Address by George Engel, Condemned Haymarket Anarchist (1886), George Engel. Looking Backward (1888), Edward Bellamy. Urban Society. The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century (1899), Adna Weber. The Jungle (1905), Upton Sinclair. The Immigrant Woman and Her Job (1930), Caroline Manning. The Promised Land (1912), Mary Antin. Plunkett of Tammany Hall (1905), William Riordan. If I Were a Man (1914), Charlotte Perkins Gilman. New York, Park Commission (1888), Proposal to Buffalo. Review of Opening at Coney Island (1904), New York Times. Imperial Power and Domestic Unrest. Our Country (1885), Rev. Josiah Strong. The Outlook for Socialism in the United States (1900), Euguene V. Debs. Lynch Law in America (1900), Ida B. Wells. The Business World vs. the Politicians (1895), Henry Cabot Lodge. Third Annual Message to Congress (1903), Theodore Roosevelt. What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883), William Graham Sumner. Platform of the People's Party (1892). Cross of Gold Speech (1896), William Jennings Bryan. Progressivism. Progressive Democracy (1914), Herbert Croly. Other People's Money and How Bankers Use It, Louis Brandeis. Birmingham Under the Commission Plan (1911), Walker Percy. Report of the Vice Commission of Louisville, Kentucky (1915). Twenty Years at Hull House (1892), Jane Addams. Chairman of the National Legislative Committee of the American Purity Federation, Testimony before Congress (1910), James H. Patten. Platform Adopted by the National Negro Committee (1909). Getting Out the Vote (1911), Helen Todd. Corporate Society. Campaign Speech at Boston (1920), Warren G. Harding. Big Ideas From Big Business (1921), Edward Earl Purinton. Babbit,(1922) Sinclair Lewis. Middletown (1929), Robert and Helen Lynd. Meditations of a Wage-Earning Wife (1924), Jane Littell. The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1926), Langston Hughes. Letters from the Great Migration, (1917). The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1926), Langston Hughes. Gastonia (1929), Mary Heaton Vorse. The Great Depression and the Rise of the Welfare State. Editorial on Economic Conditions (1932), Fortune. Speech at San Francisco (1932), Franklin D. Roosevelt. Speech in New York City (1932), Herbert Hoover. The New Deal for Nearly Four Months (1933), J. Frederick Essary. Report on the Inadequacy of Federal Relief Efforts (1933), Lorena Hickok. My First Days in the White House (1935), Huey P. Long. Memoirs of the Depression (1939), Charlie Storms. Letters to FDR (1934, 1937). World War II. Annual Message to Congress (1941), Franklin D. Roosevelt. Radio Address (1941), Charles Lindbergh. The Atlantic Charter (1941). For the Jews - Life or Death? (1944), I.F. Stone. Desert Exile (1982), Yoshiko Uchida. Why Should We March? (1942), A Philip Randolph. Out of Their Mouths (1942), Sterling A. Brown. >From Rosie the Riveter Revisited (1942-1945), Juanita Loveless. The Culture of Prosperity. The Unfinished Work (1946), Kenneth MacFarland. Long Telegram (1946), George F. Kennan. National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 (1950). How You Can Survive an Atomic Bomb Blast (1950), Richard Gerstell. The Power of Positive Thinking (1952), Norman Vincent Peale. The National Style (1957), David Riesman. Young Motherhood (1956), Ladies Home Journal. Photo Essay on Teen-age Consumption (1959), Life. The Other America (1962), Michael Harrington. Demands for Civil Justice. Letter from Birmingham Jail(1963), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Malcolm X. The Port Huron Statement (1962), Students for a Democratic Society. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Memorandum on the Albany Movement (1961), Charles Sherrod. Commencement Address at Howard University (1965), Lyndon B. Johnson. I'd Rather Be Black Than Female (1970), Shirley Chisholm. What Has Happened to America? (1967), Richard M. Nixon. The Situation in Watts Today (1967), Donald Wheeldin. War in Vietnam. Press Conference (1954), Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964). A Time to Break Silence, (1967), Martin Luther King, Jr. Suppose They Gave a War and No One Came (1966), Charlotte Keyes. Columbia Liberated (1968), Columbia Strike Coordinating Committee. Columbia University Commencement Address (1968), Richard Hofstadter. The Flower of the Dragon (1968), Richard Boyle. Demented Vets and Other Myths (1983), George Swiers. Multicultural America. The Peoples of America (1965), Nathan Glazer. Remarks Upon Singing the Immigration Bill (1965), Lyndon B. Johnson. Testimony Before Congress on Immigration Reform (1964), Mrs. Robert H.V. Duncan. Asian Influx Alters Life in Suburbia (1987), Los Angeles Times. Southie Won't Go (1986), Ione Molloy. God is Beside You on the Picket Line , Cesar Chavez. Come Out (1970), The Gay Liberation Front. Republican Hegemony. First Inaugural Address (1981), Ronald Reagan. The Supply-Side Revolution (1984), Paul Craig Roberts. My Case for Reagan (1984), T. Boone Pickens. The New Class (1985), Patricia Morrisroe. Modern-Day Mentors (1987), Leah Rosch. Listen, America! (1981), Jerry Falwell. The G.O.P. 'Me Decade' (1984), Sidney Blumenthal. Dead End in Silicon Valley (1985), Diana Hembree. The End of the Cold War. Address to the National Association of Evangelicals (1983), Ronald Reagan. Speech to the American Security Council Foundation (1985), Bill Chappell. Did the West Undo the East? (1993), Stephen Sestanovich. The United States Was the Loser in the Cold War (1993), Wade Huntley. The Morning After (1993), Cynthia Enloe. The Workplace, After the Deluge (1993), New York Times. Toward Postindustrial Society. The Work of Nations (1991), Robert Reich. A Declaration of Sustainability (1993), Paul Hawken. Social Responsibility: A Conservative View (1992), Doug Bandow. Rebels With a Cause (1993), Myron Magnet. A Guide to the Ghettos (1993), Camilo Jose Vergara. Greetings From the Electronic Plantations (1993), Roger Swardson.