The Contents of Defining Documents in American History: The Emergence of Modern America (1874–1917)
Publisher’s Note
Editor’s Introduction
Contributors
The End of the Frontier and the Start of a New Era
“The Rush to Oklahoma”
“The Significance of the Frontier in American History”
Labor Pains
“Account of the Haymarket Riot”
Eugene Debs: “What Can We Do for Working People?”
Frick’s Fracas: Henry Frick Makes His Case
The Homestead Strike: A Congressional View
Senator Sherman on the Pullman Strike
Coal Strike Hearings: The Miners Testify
“Echoes from the Recent Pennsylvania Coal Strike”
The Lives of Workers
From How the Other Half Lives
An Immigrant Garment Worker’s “Days and Dreams”
Jane Addams: “Child Labor and Other Dangers of Childhood”
From The Jungle
Child Labor in the New York City Tenements
Fire Hazards in New York City Factories
Capital Concerns
Wall Street Owns the Country
Populist Party Platform, 1892
President Grover Cleveland on Repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act
“Political Causes of the Business Depression”
Andrew Carnegie: “The Gospel of Wealth”
Conflicts Farther Afield
Queen Liliuokalani to President Benjamin Harrison
Report on the Battle of Santiago
Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League
“Subjugation on the Philippines Iniquitous”
The War Prayer
US-Mexico Tensions
Minorities and Mistreatments
Chinese Exclusion Act
Address of the Lake Mohonk Conference on Indian Affairs
Plessy v. Ferguson
W.E.B. Du Bois: “Strivings of the Negro People”
W.E.B. Du Bois: “The Study of the Negro Problems”
A Mississippi Governor Opposes Black Education
“What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the U.S.A.”
A Skeptical View of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
W.E.B. Du Bois: “Socialism and the Negro Problem”
Women, Suffrage, and Society
Petition to US Congress for Women’s Suffrage
Frances Willard: Address to the National Council of Women
From Youth’s Educator for Home and Society
On American Motherhood
“Women’s Suffrage in a Democratic Republic”
Petition from the Women Voters Anti-Suffrage Party
Reformers and Remedies
“The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over”
Frances Willard on Christian Social Responsibility
Jane Addams on Settlement Houses
John Dewey on Social Organization and the Individual
President Theodore Roosevelt on the Conservation of Natural Resources
Declaration of the Conservation Conference
An Argument for Prohibition
A Technological Breakthrough
The Wright Brothers’ First Powered Flight
Chronological List
Web Resources
Bibliography