2002-2003 Document Reader for US Since 1940

PART 1: WORLD WAR II, LIBERALISM AND THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR

PART 2: DOMESTIC CONTAINMENT- INVENTING POST-WAR SOCIETY

PART 3: THE EXPANSION OF NEW DEAL LIBERALISM: NEW FRONTIER TO GREAT SOCIETY

PART 4: THE VIETNAM WAR , THE NEW LEFTAND THE "UNRAVELING OF AMERICA"

PART 5: FIN-DE SIECLE AMERICA AND THE END(S) OF LIBERALISM

GENERAL TOOLS FOR STUDENTS

Essay Tutorial

Homework Form

Essay Grader

Outline Worksheet

Speakeasy Directions

Web Page Grader

DBQ Guide

Debate Form

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine the Aggressors Speech (1937)

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Press Conference on Lend-Lease (December 17, 1940)

The Atlantic Charter (1941)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms Speech (1941)

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pearl Harbor Speech (December 8, 1941)

Winston S. Churchill, The Iron Curtain Dropped by Russia (1945)

George E Kennan, The Necessity for Containment (1946)

Henry A. Wallace, Are We Only Paying Lip Service to Peace? (1946)

Harry Truman, Truman Doctrine Speech (1947)

Arthur Schlesinger, Did FDR Betray the Jews? (Newsweek 18 Apr. 1994)

John Correll, The Decision That Launched the Enola Gay (Air Force Magazine, April 1994 )

Alan Brinkley, The Concept of New Deal Liberalism (1995)

Franklin Roosevelt, "An Economic Bill of Rights" (January 1944)

Arthur Schlesinger, The Vital Center (1949)

Joseph R. McCarthy, Speech at Wheeling, West VA (1950)

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)

The Southern Declaration on Integration (1956)

Lillian Hellman, Scoundrel Time (1976)

Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957)

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958)

Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Farewell Address (1961)

Michael Harrington, The Other America (1962)

Betty Freidan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)

Rebel Voices, Rosy the Riveter – Revisited (1999)

Secondary Sources and Timelines

Truman’s Fair Deal

Ellen W. Schrecker, The Age of McCarthyism (1996)

McCarthyism Timeline

Richard Bernstein, "Long, Bitter Debate From the '50's: Views of Kazan and His Critics" (1988)

Selected Articles from the Kazan Award Controversy

Godfrey Hodgson, The Ideology of the Liberal Consensus (1976)

Eisenhower Timeline

Kenneth Jackson, The Baby Boom and the Age of the Subdivision, (1985)

Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound (1988)

Daniel Horowitz, Rethinking Betty Freidan and The Feminine Mystique (1996)

Activities

DBQ: Containment and Postwar Prosperity

DBQ: Domestic Containment: Cold War, Warm Hearth

DBQ: Suburbia

Slides on The History of Suburbia, Cult of Domesticity and the Ideology of Separate Spheres

The Avant-Garde of the 1950s- In the Belly of the Beast (role playing presentations)

Martin Luther King, Jr, March on Washington Address at the Lincoln Memorial (1963)

Malcolm X. Message to the Grass Roots (1963)

Bayard Rustin, From Protest to Politics (1965)

John F. Kennedy, The New Frontier Speech (1960)

John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961)

John F. Kennedy , The New Frontier in Space (1961)

Barry Goldwater, Opening Campaign Speech (1964)

Lyndon Johnson, "Howard University Address" (1965)

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) [unedited]

Miranda v. Arizona and the " Miranda Warning" (1966)

Roe v. Wade (1973)

Secondary Sources and Timelines

Harvard Sitkoff, The Preconditions for Racial Change (1975)

Kennedy’s New Frontier Programs

Johnson’s Great Society Programs

Great Society Timeline

Civil Rights Timeline

Ira Katznelson, Was the Great Society a Lost Opportunity? [unedited]
from Fraser and Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order (1989)

Edsall and Edsall, A Pivotal Year
from Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights and Taxes on American Politics (1992)

Activities

Web Inquiry: Evaluating "Thirteen Days" as History

DBQ: Civil Disobedience to Black Power: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Movement, 1952-1975

Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1963)

Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)

Lyndon Johnson, Johns Hopkins University Address on Vietnam (April 1965)

Black Power Documents

Stokely Carmichael, What We Want (September 1966)

Black Panther Party, Platform and Program: What We Want, What We Believe (1966)

Karin Ashley et al., You Don't Need a Weatherman To Know Which Way the Wind Blows (1969)

Selected Speeches of the Antiwar Movement (1967-71)

Jerry Avorn et al., Up Against the Ivy Wall (1968) [uneditied]

Robert Kennedy, Selected Speeches (1968)

Richard Hammer, One Morning in the War (1970) [unedited]

Leslie Gelb, Causes of the War (1972) [unedited]

Michael Herr, Report from Vietnam (1977) [unedited]

Secondary Sources and Timelines

John Garry Clifford Vietnam in Historical Perspective (1975)

Allen Matusow, Rise and Fall of a Counterculture (1984) [unedited]

Sara Evans, Women's Consciousness and the Southern Black Movement [unedited]

bell hooks, Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory (1984) [unedited]

Estelle Freedman and John D Tmilio, The Emergence of Gay Liberation (1988) [unedited]

The Vietnam War and the Polarization of American Politics Timeline

Counterculture Timeline

Activities

DBQ: Rock and Folk Music of the 60s: Was the Counterculture Radical?

Spiro Agnew, Impudence in the Streets- Address at Pennsylvania Republican Dinner (October 1969)

Peter Schrag, The Forgotten American (1969)

Robert B. Semple, Nixon Aides Dismiss Watergate Suspicions (NYT, October 1972)

Ricard M. Nixon and John Haldeman, The "Smoking Gun" (June 23, 1972)

Gerald R. Ford, Pardoning Richard Nixon (September, 1974)

Jimmy Carter, America's Crisis of Confidence (1979)

Ronald W. Reagan, Speech Before the International Business Council (1980)

US News and World Report, Rise of the Evangelical Right (1980)

US News and World Report, Looking Ahead (1980)

Ronald W. Reagan, Foreign Policy Speech Before the National Association of Evangelicals (1983)

Ronald W. Reagan, The Second American Revolution, State of the Union Address (1985)

David Stockman, Ronald Reagan- New Dealer (1986) [unedited]
Marcus and Burner, eds. America sinde 1945, New York: St. Martn's Press, 1991, pp. 327-336

Charles Murray, Losing Ground: Discredited Liberalism (1984)
from Charles Murray, Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980. Basic Books: New York, 1984

William Julius Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged (1987)

William Jefferson Clinton, The Era of Big Government is Over- State of the Union (1996)

Peter Edelman, The Worst thing Bill Clinton Has Done (1997)

Jason DeParle and Steven A. Holmes, A War on Poverty Subtly Linked to Race (2000)
New York Times, December 26 2000

George W. Bush, Address on Terrorism Before a Joint Meeting of Congress (September 21, 2001)

Secondary Sources and Timelines

Edsall and Edsall, Chain Reaction (1992) [unedited]
From Thomas Byne Edsall and Mary Edsall, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics (1992)

Jessica Baen, Watergate Timeline

Social Welfare Timeline

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Cycles in American Politics (1987) [unedited]
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s The Cycles of American History, Houghton Mifflin Co. (New York, 1987)

Activities