Table of Contents
An * indicates a new selection. Each chapter concludes with “Glossary,” and “Implications.”
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Sources and Interpretations.
PART I.
Chapter 1.
Past Traces: Jourdon Anderson, “To My Old Master” (1865).
Reading: Eric Foner, “African Americans in Public Office During the Era of Reconstruction.”
Chapter 2.
Past Traces: *Lee Chew, “Life of a Chinese Immigrant” (1903).
Reading: Jack Chen, “The Chinese Link a Continent and a Nation.”
Chapter 3.
Past Traces: *Lydia Allen Rudd, “Diary of a Westward Travel” (1852).
Reading: Christine Stansell,“Women on the Great Plains, 1865-1890.”
Chapter 4.
Past Traces: *The Omaha Platform of the People's Party” (1892).
Reading: *Bruce Palmer, “The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism.”
Chapter 5.
Past Traces: *Horatio Alger, Jr., “Bound to Rise, Or, Up the Ladder” (1900).
Reading: Carol Nackenoff, “Of Factories and Failures: Exploring the Invisible Factory Gates of Horatio Alger, Jr.”
Chapter 6.
Past Traces: *Red Cloud (1890) and Flying Hawk (1936) on Wounded Knee.
Reading: *Laura Jane Moore, “Lozen: An Apache Woman Warrior.”
PART II.
Chapter 1.
Past Traces: *James T. Rapier, “The Agricultural Labor Force in the South” (1880).
Reading: Jacqueline Jones, “A Bridge of Bent Backs and Laboring Muscles: The Rural South, 1880-1915.”
Chapter 2.
Past Traces: *John Muir, “Mount Ritter” (1911).
Reading: Peter Wild, “John Muir: The Mysteries of Mountains.”
Chapter 3.
Past Traces: *Herbert Croly, “Progressive Democracy” (1914).
Reading: Jeffrey P. Moran, “Modernism Gone Mad: Sex Education Comes to Chicago, 1913.”
Chapter 4.
Past Traces: *Advertisements (1925/1927).
Reading: Mary Murphy, “Messenger of the New Age: Station KGIR in Butte.”
Chapter 5.
Past Traces: *Meridel LeSueur, “The Despair of Unemployed Women” (1932).
Reading: Edward R. Ellis, “What the Depression Did to People.”
Chapter 6.
Past Traces: *A. Philip Randolph, “Why Should We March?” (1942).
Reading: Mark H. Leff,“The Politics of Sacrifice on the Home Front in World War II.”
PART III.
Chapter 1.
Past Traces: *Students for a Democratic Society, Port Huron Statement (1962).
Reading: Nils Kristian Bogen, “Rebels Without a Cause: Toward an Understanding of Anxious Youth in Postwar America.”
Chapter 2.
Past Traces: *Ladies' Home Journal, “The Young Mothers of the 1950s” (1956).
Reading: Lynn Y. Weiner, “Reconstructing Motherhood: The La Leche League in Postwar America.”
Chapter 3.
Past Traces: *Restrictions at Levittown (Late 1940s)
Reading: Kenneth T. Jackson, “The Drive-In Culture of Contemporary America.”
Chapter 4.
Past Traces: *Lyndon B. Johnson, “Commencement Address at Howard University” (1965).
Reading: Allan J. Matusow, “The Vietnam War, the Liberals, and the Overthrow of LBJ.”
Chapter 5.
Past Traces: *Ione Malloy, “Southie Won't Go” (1975).
Reading: *Robin D. G. Kelley, “After Civil Rights: The African American Working and Middle Classes.”
Chapter 6.
Past Traces: *Patricia Morrisroe, “Yuppies-the New Class” (1985).
Reading: *Juliet B. Schor, “The Insidious Cycle of Work and Spend.”
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