Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Documents in American History

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Chapter 16 ~ His Terrible Swift Sword - The Civil War 1 ~ Declaration of Causes 2 ~ A Diary from Dixie 3 ~ Lincoln's Orders 4 ~ New Jersey Recruitment Poster 5 ~ General Ulysses S. Grant to President Abraham Lincoln 6 ~ The Battle Hymn of the Republic 7 ~ Robert E. Lee, General Order, No. 9 Chapter 17 ~ Binding the Wounds 1 ~ Letter from General William T. Sherman 2 ~ The Statutes at Large of the United States of America 3 ~ Amendment XIV 4 ~ Rufus Saxton, Testimony Before Congress, 1866 5 ~ Henry W. Grady, His Life, Writings, and Speeches 6 ~ Testimony of Benjamin Singleton Chapter 18 ~ Rising Phoenix Dying Thunderbird 1 ~ Letter from Uriah W. Oblnger to Matie V. Oblinger and Ella Oblinger 2 ~ Frank Collinson, Life in the Saddle 3 ~ The Trial of Standing Bear 4 ~ The Dawes Severalty Act: An Indian Homestead Act 5 ~ Ida B. Wells on Lynching 6 ~ The Conquest of the Philippines by the United States Chapter 19 ~ The Goose That Lays Golden Eggs 1 ~ Songs of Work 2 ~ Occupational Distribution, 1880 and 1920 3 ~ Acres of Diamonds 4 ~ A Railroad Timetable 5 ~ The Appeal to Reason 6 ~ Frederick Winslow Taylor on the Principles of Scientific Management 7 ~ Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward Chapter 20 ~ Urban Canyons 1 ~ Photograph of the Flatiron Building 2 ~ Growth of New Orleans to 1900 3 ~ "I Seen My Opportunities and I Took 'Em," George W. Plunkitt 4 ~ Lincoln Steffins, The Shame of the Cities 5 ~ Cartoons of Thomas Nast 6 ~ Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives 7 ~ Charles Monroe Sheldon, In His Steps Chapter 21 ~ More Hell and Less Corn 1 ~ Frank Norris, The Pit 2 ~ Mary E. Lease, "The Bloodhounds of Money" 3 ~ "Good-bye, My Part, Good-bye" 4 ~ "You Can't Come In" 5 ~ Interstate Commerce Act 6 ~ William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" Speech Chapter 22 ~ Social Engineers 1 ~ Mary C. Todd: "Education of Indian Girls in the West" 2 ~ Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House 3 ~ Laws Affecting Women and Children in the Suffrage and Non-Suffrage States 4 ~ The Bureau of Corporations, 1903 5 ~ Establishment of Standard Time 6 ~ Sixteenth Amendment 7 ~ Seventeenth Amendment 8 ~ John Muir, The Endangered Valley--The Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park Chapter 23 ~ Unilateralism among Friends 1 ~ The Council of National Defense 2 ~ Woodrow Wilson's War Message 3 ~ George Creel, How We Advertised America 4 ~ Mirian E. Tefft, Recollections as 15 Year-old Girl in Bisbee Arizona 5 ~ Mathew Chopin, "Through the Valley of Death" 6 ~ Letter on Negro Soldiers 7 ~ Ida Clyde Clarke, American Women and the World War Chapter 24 ~ The Tribal Twenties 1 ~ Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., My Years With General Motors 2 ~ Robert S. Lynd & Helen Merrell Lynd, Middletown 3 ~ J.A. Evans, "Extension Work Among Negroes Conducted by Negro Agents, 1923" 4 ~ The Indian Citizenship Act (1924) 5 ~ Immigration by the Numbers 6 ~ Malcolm Crowley, Exile's Return: A Narrative Chapter 25 ~ Restoring the Temple 1 ~ Herbert Hoover's Inaugural Address 2 ~ Radio Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 7, 1933 3 ~ Letters from the "Forgotten Man" 4 ~ Photograph from Let us Now Praise Famous Men 5 ~ Woodie Guthrie's "Tom Joad" 6 ~ A Battle in San Francisco 7 ~ Eleanor Roosevelt,A Letter on Lynching Chapter 26 ~ American Money, American Guns, and Russian Blood 1 ~ The Atlantic Charter 2 ~ Executive Order No. 9066 3 ~ E.B. White, The Meaning of Democracy 4 ~ A Tuskegee Airman Remembers 5 ~ William Menchester, Goodbye, Darkness 6 ~ Poems about Hiroshima Chapter 27: Organizational Men and Governments 1 ~ The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 2 ~ Arthur Miller, "All My Sons" 3 ~ New York State Anti-Discrimination Act, March 12, 1945 4 ~ Marilyn R. Allen, Alien Minorities and Mongrelization 5 ~ Ferdinand Lundberg and Marynia F. Farnham, Modern Women: The Lost Sex 6 ~ Harry S. Truman Remembers the Beginning of the Korean War 7 ~ Joseph McCarthy's Speech at Wheeling, W. Virginia, 1950 Chapter 28 ~ Redeeming Promissory Notes 1 ~ Myrlie Evers Remembers 2 ~ Declaration of Indian Purpose 3 ~ The Voting Rights Act of 1965 4 ~ South Boston High School 5 ~ Missing Emmett 6 ~ A Christmas Letter of Hope Chapter 29 ~ Hubris 1 ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Ponders Involvement in Vietnam 2 ~ John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address 3 ~ John F. Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis Speech 4 ~ Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" Program 5 ~ Port Huron Statement 6 ~ "Ballad of Joe Hill" 7 ~ Manifesto Addressed to the President of the United States from the Youth of America Chapter 30 ~ Crisis Confidence 1 ~ Two Photographs: Vietnam and Kent State 2 ~ Richard M. Nixon, "Peace with Honor" 3 ~ Richard Nixon's Resignation 4 ~ Gerald R. Ford, "Withdrawal from Vietnam" 5 ~ Gerald R. Ford, Proclamation 4417: An American Promise 6 ~ Death of Elvis Presley 7 ~ Three Mile Island 8 ~ Jimmy Carter's "Malaise" Speech Chapter 31 ~ Standing Tall 1 ~ Hostile Takeovers 2 ~ Reaganite Culture 3 ~ George Bush, Breaking Down the Berlin Wall 4 ~ Contract with America 5 ~ Elinor Burkett, America in the Age of AIDS 6 ~ Native American Ironic Humor Chapter 32 ~ Rainbows and Webs 1 ~ The Early Days of ARPANET 2 ~ Native American Casinos 3 ~ C.P. Ellis, Race: The American Obsession 4 ~ Fighting Hate 5 ~ Women's Reproductive Rights 6 ~ Truth in Accounting 7 ~ Fatal College Daze