1. Populist Factions Primary Source “National Peoples’ Party Platform (Omaha Platform).” In A Populist Reader: Selections from the Works of American Populist Leaders, 1st ed., 90–96. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. » Read (requires 4x4 login) Secondary Source Frank, Thomas. “Leviathan with Tentacles of Steel: Railroads in the Minds of Kansas Populists.” The Western Historical [...]
Primary: Reagan, Ronald. “Evil Empire Speech, March 8, 1983.” Voices of Democracy. The U.S. Oratory Project » Read Secondary: Deudney, Daniel, and G. John Ikenberry. “Who Won the Cold War?” Foreign Policy, no. 87 (July 1, 1992): 123–38. » Read
1. Richard Nixon Primary: Nixon, Richard. “Address to the Nation About the Watergate Investigations. April 30, 1973.” American Presidency Project » Read Secondary: “The Watergate Story [Parts 1-4].” The Washington Post. Part 1 » Read Part 2 » Read Part 3 » Read Part 4 » Read 2. Post War Environmentalism Primary Source Carson, Rachel. “And [...]
Primary: “Telegram From the Embassy in Vietnam to the Department of State. Saigon, January 13, 1968.” Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume VI, Vietnam, January–August 1968. Office of the Historian, Department of State. » Read “Walter Cronkite’s ‘We Are Mired in Stalemate’ Broadcast, February 27, 1968.” Digital History. » Read Secondary: Pach, Chester J., Jr. [...]
1. Civil Rights and the Cold War Primary Source Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) » Read Secondary Source Dudziak, Mary L. “Brown as a Cold War Case.” The Journal of American History 91, no. 1 (June 1, 2004): 32–42 » Read 2. Segregation at the University of Oklahoma Primary Source “Negro to [...]
1. Asymmetric Conflict and the Cold War Primary Source Truman, Harry S. “Truman Doctrine: President Harry S. Truman’s Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947.” Avalon Project. » Read Secondary Source Mack, Andrew. “Why Big Nations Lose Small Wars: The Politics of Asymmetric Conflict.” World Politics 27, no. 2 (January 1, 1975): [...]
1. World War II: What Our Boys Are Fighting For Primary Source Wallace, Henry A. [Speech articulating the goals of the war for the allies.] In Century of the Common Man. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. » Read (requires 4x4 login) Secondary Source Westbrook, Robert B. “‘I Want a Girl, Just Like the Girl That Married [...]
1. The Great Depression and the New Deal Primary Source Roosevelt, Franklin. “First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933.” The American Presidency Project. » Read Roosevelt, Franklin. “Fireside Chat on Banking, March 12, 1933.” The American Presidency Project. » Read Secondary Source Romer, Christina D. “What Ended the Great Depression?” The Journal of Economic History 52, no. [...]
1. Herbert Hoover’s Vision for America Primary Source Hoover, Herbert. “American Individualism.” Chapter 1 in American Individualism. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1922. » Read Secondary Source Hawley, Ellis W. “Herbert Hoover, the Commerce Secretariat, and the Vision of an ‘Associative State,’ 1921-1928.” The Journal of American History 61, no. 1 (June 1, 1974): 116–40. » Read [...]
1. World War I and Trans-National America Primary Source Bourne, Randolph. “Trans-National America.” Atlantic Monthly. 118 (July 1916): 86–97. » Read (requires 4x4 login) Secondary Source A) Higham, John. “American Immigration Policy in Historical Perspective.” Law and Contemporary Problems 21, no. 2 (April 1, 1956): 213–35. » Read B) Ngai, Mae M. “Nationalism, Immigration Control, and the Ethnoracial [...]
1. The March of the Mill Children Primary Source Mother Jones. “March of the Mill Children, 1903.” In Dissent in America: Voices That Shaped a Nation, edited by Ralph F. Young, 223–27. New York: Pearson Longman, 2008. » Read (requires 4x4 login) Secondary Source Gorn, Elliott J. “Children’s Crusade.” In Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous [...]
1. Conservatism and Liberalism in the Gilded Age Primary Source William Graham Sumner. “That It Is Not Wicked to Be Rich...” Abridged from What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 43–57. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883. » Read Ward, Lester F. “Mind as a Social Factor (Abridged).” Mind 9, no. 36 (1884): 563–73. » Read Secondary [...]
1. Reconstruction and Voting Rights Primary Source Douglass, Frederick. “What the Black Man Wants, April 1865.” Speech reprinted in Dissent in America, 173–75. New York: Pearson Longman, 2008. » Read (requires 4x4 login) Secondary Source Williams, Patrick G. “Suffrage Restriction in Post-Reconstruction Texas: Urban Politics and the Specter of the Commune.” The Journal of Southern [...]