Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. Populist Factions Primary Source Party Platform: Omaha Platform, National People’s Party Platform. » Read (requires password) Secondary Source Article: Thomas Frank, “The Leviathan with Tentacles of Steel: Railroads in the Minds of Kansas Populists,” Western Historical Quarterly » Read 2. Western Regionalism Primary Source Book Chapter: Frederick [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” Primary: Speech: “The Evil Empire,” President Reagan’s Speech to the House of Commons, June 8, 1982. » Read Secondary: Article: Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry, "Who Won the Cold War?" Foreign Policy (Summer 1992) » Read
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Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” Primary: "Telegram From the Embassy in Vietnam to the Department of State,” Saigon, January 13, 1968 » Read Broadcast: Walter Cronkite’s “We Are Mired in Stalemate,” February 27, 1968 » Read Secondary: Article: Chester J. Pach, “TV’s 1968: War, Politics, and Violence on the Network Evening [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. Civil Rights and the Cold War Primary Source Court Ruling: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Decision » Read Secondary Source Article: Mary Dzudziak, “Brown as a Cold War Case,” Journal of American History » Read 2. Segregation at the University of Oklahoma Primary Source A) Article: [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. Asymmetric Conflict and the Cold War Primary Source Speech: Harry S. Truman, “President Harry S. Truman’s Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947” » Read Secondary Source Article: Andrew Mack, “Why Big Nations Lose Small Wars,” World Politics » Read 2. The Cold War at [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. World War II: What Our Boys Are Fighting For Primary Source Speech: Henry A. Wallace, “Century of the Common Man,” » Read (requires password) Secondary Source Article: Robert B. Westbrook, “’I Want a Girl, Just Like the Girl that Married Harry James’: American Women and the [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. The Great Depression and the New Deal Primary Source Speech: Franklin Roosevelt, "Inaugural Address," March 4, 1933 » Read Speech: Franklin Roosevelt, "Fireside Chat on the Banking Crisis," March 12, 1933 » Read Secondary Source Article: Christina Romer, “What Ended the Great Depression?” The Journal of Economic [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. Herbert Hoover’s Vision for America Primary Source Book Chapter: Herbert Hoover, "American Individualism," American Individualism (Chapter 1) » Read Secondary Source Article: Ellis Hawley, “Hoover, the Commerce Secretariat, and the Vision of an ‘Associative State,’ 1921-1928,” The Journal of American History » Read 2. Harlem Renaissance Primary Source Poem: [...]
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Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. Reconstruction and Voting Rights Primary Source Speech: Frederick Douglass, “What the Black Man Wants,” » Read (requires password) Secondary Source Article: Patrick Williams, “Suffrage Restriction in Post-Reconstruction Texas: Urban Politics and the Specter of the Commune,” The Journal of Southern History » Read -OR- Article: Eric Foner, [...]