Author:
Freidel, Frank, 1916-1993, ed.
Edition Statement:2d ed.
Imprint:Chicago : Rand McNally [1972]
Description2 v. ; 23 cm.
Note:v. 1. Seventeenth century through Reconstruction.--v. 2. Reconstruction to the present.
Note:v.1. -- 1. THE PURITAN CHURCH AND STATE: -- 1. The Puritan state and Puritan society / Perry Miller -- 2. Christian charitie / John Winthrop -- 3. Defense of an order of court / John Winthrop -- 4. Speech to the general court, July 3, 1645 / John Winthrop -- 5. Christian calling / John Cotton -- 6. Degenerating New England / Samuel Willard -- 7. An earnest exhortation / Increase Mather -- 8. Narrative of surprising conversions / Jonathan Edwards -- 9. Whitefield preaches in Middletown / Nathan Cole -- 10. A discourse concerning unlimited submission / Jonathan Mayhew -- 11. The millennium / Joseph Bellamy -- 2. THE REVOLUTION: -- 12. Rhetoric and reality in the American Revolution / Gordon Wood -- 13. Objections to the taxation ... briefly consider'd / Soame Jenyns -- 14. Considerations on behalf of the colonists / James Otis -- 15. The Stamp Affair in Newport / William Almy -- 16. The Association of the Sons of Liberty of New York -- 17. Samuel Adams rallies support for Massachusetts -- 18. Notes ... independence / Thomas Jefferson -- 3. THE EARLY REPUBLIC: HAMILTON VS. JEFFERSON: -- 19. The quarrel between Hamilton and Jefferson / John Miller -- 20. First report on the public credit / Alexander Hamilton -- 21. The political consequences of Hamilton's system / Thomas Jefferson -- 22. Constitutional arguments against the Bank of the United States / Thomas Jefferson -- 23. The constitutionality of the Bank of the U.S. / Alexander Hamilton -- 24. An estimate of Jefferson / Alexander Hamilton -- 4. THE AGE OF JACKSON: -- 25. The Jacksonian persuasion / Marvin Meyers -- 26. Farewell address / Andrew Jackson -- 27. Equality / William Leggett -- 28. Office of the people / George Bancroft -- 5. ROMANTIC REFORM IN AMERICA: -- 29. Romantic reform in America / John Thomas -- 20. What is implied in regeneration / Charles Finney -- 31. The true idea of a Christian church / Theodore Parker -- 32. The laboring classes / Orestes Brownson -- 33. Declaration of the antislavery convention / William L. Garrison -- 34. Narrative of Nehemiah Caulkins / T.D. Weld -- 6. THE MYTH OF THE WEST: -- 35. Thomas Hart Benton [and] James Fenimore Cooper / Henry Nash Smith -- 36. The Pioneers, chapter 22 / James F. Cooper -- 37. Thirty years' view / T.H. Benton -- 38. Annexation of Texas / John L. O'Sullivan -- 39. Imaginary commonwealths / J. Sullivan Cox -- 40. Speech ... January 12, 1848 / Abraham Lincoln -- 7. THE SEPARATE SOUTH: -- 41. The proslavery argument revisited / Ralph Morrow -- 42. Disquisition on government / John C. Calhoun -- 43. On the slavery question / John C. Calhoun -- 44. South Carolina declaration on the causes inducing secession -- 45. Cannibals all! / George Fitzhugh -- 46. Slavery / Stanley Elkins -- 47. The irrepressible conflict / W.H. Seward -- 48. A house divided against itself cannot stand / Abraham Lincoln -- 49. The Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln -- 50. Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- 51. Last public address / Abraham Lincoln -- 52. A restoration to former relations / Caleb G. Forshey -- 53. They can live here when free / Richard Hill.
Note:v.2. -- 1. DREAMS OF SUCCESS: -- 1. From rags to respectability: Horatio Alger / John G. Cawelti -- 2. Social statics / Herbert Spencer -- 3. Acres of diamonds / Russell H. Conwell -- 4. Mind as a social factor [and] Broadening the way to success / Lester Ward -- 5. Majority and dissenting opinions / Lochner v. New York -- 6. The influence of Darwinism on philosophy / John Dewey -- 2. POPULISM: -- 7. The Populist heritage anad the intellectual / C. Vann Woodward -- 8. Alienated man / Farmers' Alliance -- 9. An industrial society to serve man / Frank Doster -- 10. The liberties of the individual / L.D. Lewelling -- 11. The tramp circular / L.D. Llewelling -- 12. Three editorials / Topeka Advocate -- 13. Three editorials / Farmers' Alliance -- 14. The divinity of humanity / Henry Demerest Lloyd -- 15. This unparalleled suffering / Ignatius Donnelly -- 16. The People's Party / Omaha Platform -- 17. The cross of gold / William Jennings Bryan -- 3. THE PROGRESSIVE ERA: -- 18. An obituary for "the Progressive Movement" / Peter Filene -- 19. The snare of preparation / Jane Addams -- 20. 40 years of it / Brand Whitlock -- 21. Racial expansion / Albert J. Beveridge -- 22. The man with the muck rake / Theodore Roosevelt -- 23. Peace without victory / Woodrow Wilson -- 24. The destiny of America / Woodrow Wilson -- 25. Our democratic mission / Woodrow Wilson -- 26. Liberals and the war / Frederic C. Howe -- 4. THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN VALUES: -- 27. The Americanization of Sigmund Freud: adaptations of psychoanalysis before 1917 / F.H. Matthews -- 28. Dr. Jelliffe / Mabel Dodge -- 29. An American testament / Joseph Freeman -- 30. Exile's return / Malcolm Cowley -- 5. THE NEW DEAL AND WORLD WAR: -- 31. The Roosevelt reconstruction retrospect / William Leuchtenburg -- 32. First inaugural address / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- 33. National Labor Relations Act / The Congress -- 34. Party platforms, 1936 / Republicans and Democrats -- 35. The quarantine speech / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- 36. The four freedoms / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- 37. To the delegates at Dumbarton Oaks / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- 38. Unilateral privilege and a multilateral peace / Arthur H. Vandenberg -- 39. Power and responsibility / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- 6. INTERVENTION AT HOME AND ABROAD: -- 40. A taste for intervention / Ronald Steel -- 41. The Truman doctrine / Harry S. Truman -- 42. The Marshall Plan / George C. Marshall -- 43. Foreign policy and domestic policy / Harry S. Truman -- 44. Our free economy / Robert A. Taft -- 45. The Republican congress / Harry S. Truman -- 46. The unanimous decision / Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka -- 47. Dominoes [and] The military-industrial complex / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- 48. Vietnam pro and con / Lyndon B. Johnson and Wayne Morse -- 49. A sick society / J. William Fulbright -- 7. THE 1970S: -- 50. The Pentagon Papers / A State Department Study -- 51. I will go to China / Richard M. Nixon.
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