CHAPTER 9
Samuel F. B. Morse, in Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals, 274
Alexander Mackay, in The Western World, 275
Samuel Breck, in American Railroads, 278
Amelia Stewart Knight, in Covered Wagon Women, 280
tribal elder, in Native American Testimony, 281
Amelia Stewart Knight, in Covered Wagon Women, 282
Catherine Haun, in Frontier Women, 284
Stephen F. Austin, in Texas: An Album of History, 288
Mary Austin Holly, in Texas: An Album of History, 290
Robert E. Lee, a letter cited in R. E. Lee by Douglass Southall Freeman, 293
Walter Colton, in California: A Bicentennial History, 298
Louisa Clapp, in They Saw the Elephant, 299
CHAPTER 10
John C. Calhoun, in The Compromise of 1850, edited by Edwin C.
Rozwenc, 304
Alexander H. Stephens, quoted in The Coming of the Civil War, 306
Henry Clay, in Voices from the Civil War, 308
Daniel Webster, Seventh of March speech, in The American Spirit, 308
Charlotte Forten, in The Underground Railroad, by Charles L. Blockson, 310
Frederick Douglass, in Voices from the Civil War, 311
Harry Grimes, in The Underground Railroad, by Charles L. Blockson, 312
Stephen A. Douglas, in The Civil War, by Geoffrey C. Ward, 315
Horace Greeley, in The Coming of the Civil War, 318
P. J. Scruggs, in The Coming of the Civil War, 321
Abraham Lincoln, 1858 speech, 324
William Tecumseh Sherman, in None Died in Vain, 330
Chief Justice Roger Taney, Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), 332
CHAPTER 11
Robert Anderson, in Fifty Basic Civil War Documents, 338
correspondent, New York World, July 21, 1861, 342
Mary Bedinger Mitchell, in Battle Cry of Freedom, 344
William Yancey, in The Civil War: A Narrative, 346
Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, 347
Henry M. Turner, in Voices from the Civil War, 348
Mary Chesnut, in Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 351
Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, in Battle Cry of Freedom, 353
Frank Aretas Haskell, in The Civil War by Geoffrey C. Ward, 357
Abraham Lincoln, “The Gettysburg Address,” November 19, 1863, 361
Eliza Frances Andrews, in Voices from the Civil War, 364
Garland H. White, in Been in the Storm So Long, 366
Gideon Welles, in Voices from the Civil War, 371
CHAPTER 12
Andrew Johnson, Reconstruction: The Ending of the Civil War, 376
Philip A. Bell, in Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race,
Slavery, and Emancipation, 378
Robert G. Fitzgerald, in Proud Shoes, 383
William Beverly Nash, The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story
of Reconstruction, 386
Eva B. Jones, in The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the
Civil War, 387
Henry M. Turner, in The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Stor y
of Reconstruction, 393
Abram Colby, in Testimony to Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the
Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, 394
Charles Harris, in American Colonization Society Papers in the
Congressional Record, 400
CHAPTER 13
Zitkala-S
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a, The School Days of an Indian Girl, 408
Gall, a Hunkpapa Sioux, in Bur y My Heart at Wounded Knee, 412
Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks, 414
Esther Clark Hill, in Pioneer Women, 420
Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in
American History,” 422
Mary Elizabeth Lease, in “The Populist Uprising,” 425
William Jennings Bryan, Democratic convention speech,
Chicago, July 8, 1896, 429
Mark Twain, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” 430
Anonymous, “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez,” translated
by Américo Paredes, 431
Chief Satanta, Speech at the Medicine Lodge Creek Council (1867), 431
CHAPTER 14
Pattillo Higgins, in Spindeltop, 436
Richard T. Ely, “Pullman: A Social Study,” 442
Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, 447
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 451
Hamlin Garland, in McClure’s Magazine, 453
CHAPTER 15
Lisa See, On Gold Mountain, 460
Rosa Cavalleri, in Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant, 462
Edward Ferro, in I Was Dreaming to Come to America, 463
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 468
Jack London, The Story of an Eye-witness, 470
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, 473
James Pendergast, in The Pendergast Machine, 474
CHAPTER 16
E. F. Farrington, in The Great Bridge, 482
Frederick Law Olmsted, in Frederick Law Olmsted’s New York, 484
Orville Wright, in Frontiers of Flight, 485
William Torrey Harris, in Public Schools and Moral Education, 488
anonymous schoolboy, in The One Best System, 489
Ida B. Wells, in Crusade for Justice, 492
Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition address, 1895, 494
Justice Henry B. Brown, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), 496
Bruce Blen, in Amusing the Million, 498
CHAPTER 17
Camella Teoli, at congressional hearings, March 1912, 512
Eugene V. Debs, Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches, 514
Susette La Flesche, in Bright Eyes, 519
Sophia Smith, in Alma Mater, 521
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 523
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, 531
Ida M. Tarbell, “The Histor y of the Standard Oil Company,” 532
Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities, 533
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 333
Gifford Pinchot, The Fight for Conser vation, 534
Woodrow Wilson, in The New Freedom, 537
Carrie Chapman Catt, letter to Maud Wood Park, 538
William Monroe Trotter, address to President Wilson,
November 12, 1914, 543
CHAPTER 18
Queen Liliuokalani, in Those Kings and Queens of Old Hawaii, 548
James Creelman, in New York World, May 17, 1896, 552
Luis Muñoz Rivera, in The Puerto Ricans, 558
Andrew Carnegie, in Distant Possessions, 561
Mark Twain, To the Person Sitting in Darkness, 564
Joseph Bucklin Bishop, in The Impossible Dream: The Building of the
Panama Canal, 565
Pancho Villa, in New York Times, January 11, 1915, 570
CHAPTER 19
Jeannette Rankin, in Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress, 578
Richard Harding Davis, in Hooray for Peace, Hurrah for War, 580
Woodrow Wilson, in American Voices, 586
Eddie Rickenbacker, Rickenbacker: An Autobiography, 587
Joseph Douglas Lawrence, Fighting Soldier: The AEF in 1918, 589
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