Thinking Through the Past: A Critical Thinking Approach to U.S. History, Volume II / Edition 5

by John Hollitz

Overview

This anthology for U.S. history gives readers the opportunity to apply critical thinking skills to the examination of historical sources, providing pedagogy and background information to help them draw substantive conclusions. The careful organization and the context provided in each chapter make the material accessible, allowing readers to gain some interesting insights into American history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781285427447
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

John Hollitz received his Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin in 1981 and has been professor of history at the Community College of Southern Nevada since 1992. Previously, he taught at California State University, Chico. In addition to CONTENDING VOICES, he has also authored a critical thinking reader, THINKING THROUGH THE PAST, 5th Edition (Cengage, 2014). Dr. Hollitz is a dedicated teacher of the U.S. History survey course.

Table of Contents

1. HISTORIANS AND TEXTBOOKS: THE STORY OF RECONSTRUCTION. Secondary Sources: Reconstruction (1906). The Negro in Reconstruction (1922). The Ordeal of Reconstruction (1966). Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution (2001). 2. USING PRIMARY SOURCES: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE CONDITION OF LABOR. Primary Sources: Testimony of Workingmen (1879). Earnings, Expenses and Conditions of Workingmen and Their Families (1884). Human Power. . . Is What We Are Losing (1910). Why We Struck at Pullman (1895). Colored Workmen and a Strike (1887). I Struck Because I Had To (1902). Women Make Demands (1869). Summary of Conditions Among Women Workers Found by the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor (1887). A Union Official Discusses the Impact of Women Workers (1897). Work in a Garment Factory (1902). Gainful Workers by Age, 1870-1920. Breaker Boys (1906). 3. EVALUATING PRIMARY SOURCES: SAVING THE INDIANS IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Primary Sources: Land and Law as Agents in Educating Indians (1885). The Dawes Act (1887). A Cheyenne Tells His Son About the Land (ca. 1876). Cheyennes Try Farming (ca. 1877). A Sioux Recalls Severalty (ca. 1900). Supervised Indian Land Holdings by State, 1881-1933. A Proposal for Indian Education (1888). Instructions to Indian Agents and Superintendents of Indian Schools (1889). The Education of Indian Students at Carlisle (1891). Luther Standing Bear Recalls Carlisle (1933). Wohaw's Self-Portrait (1877). Taking an Indian Child to School (1891). A Crow Medicine Woman on Teaching the Young (1932). Percentage of Population Over Ten Illiterate, 1900-1930. 4. EVALUATING A HISTORICAL ARGUMENT: AMERICAN MANHOOD AND PHILIPPINE ANNEXATION. Secondary Source: Male Degeneracy and the Allure of the Philippines (1998). Primary Sources: Recommended by Hoar (1899). The Anti-Expansion Ticket for 1900 (1899). The White Man's Burden (1899). The Filipino's First Bath (1899). The Strenuous Life (1899). William McKinley on Annexation (1899). In Support of an American Empire (1900). Selection from the Treaty Debate (1899). Value of Manufactured Exports, 1880-1900. Value of U.S. Exports by Country of Destination, 1880-1900. 5. THE PROBLEM OF HISTORICAL MOTIVATION: THE BUNGALOW AS THE PROGRESSIVE HOUSE. Secondary Source: The Progressive Housewife and the Bungalow (1981). Primary Sources: A Victorian House (1875). A Craftsman Cottage (1909). The Craftsman Contrasts Complexity and Confusion with Cohesion and Harmony (1907). Craftsman Home Interiors (1909). Gustav Stickley on the Craftsman Home (1909). Edward Bok on Simplicity (1900). Cover from The Bungalow Magazine (1909). Standards of Living in the Home (1912). The Efficient and Inefficient Homemaker (1920). Domestic Economy (1904). Double Bungalow Plan, Bowen Court. Female Servants by Regions, per 1,000 Families, 1880-1920. Clerical Workers in the United States, by Sex, 1870-1920. 6. IDEOLOGY AND HISTORY: ADVERTISING IN THE 1920's. Secondary Source: Advertising the American Dream (1985). Primary Sources: The Poor Little Bride of 1860 (1920). Listerine Advertisement (1923). Ford Motors Advertisement (1924). Kotex Advertisement (1927). Calvin Coolidge on the Economic Aspects of Advertising (1926). Earnest Elmo Calkins, Business the Civilizer (1926). Walter Dill Scott on Effective Advertisements (1928). Advertising to Women (1928). 7. HISTORY FROM THE TOP DOWN : ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, FIRST LADY. Secondary Source: Eleanor Roosevelt as First Lady (1966). Primary Sources: Transcripts of Eleanor Roosevelt's Press Conferences (1933-1938). The Negro and Social Change (1936). Letter to Her Daughter (1937). This I Remember (1949). My Parents: A Differing View (1976). Letter from Barry Bingham to Marvin McIntyre (1934). Excerpts from Letters to Franklin Roosevelt (1935). It's Up to the Women (1933). Eleanor Roosevelt on the Equal Rights Amendment (1933). 8. HISTORY FROM THE BOTTOM UP : THE DETROIT RACE RIOT AND LOS ANGELES ZOOT SUIT RIOTS OF 1943. Secondary Source: The Detroit Rioters of 1943 (1991). Primary Sources: A Handbill for White Resistance (1942). Black Employment in Selected Detroit Companies, 1941. Black Workers Protest Against Chrysler (1943). A Complaint About the Police (1939). Changes in White and Black Death Rates, 1910-1940. An Explanation for Mexican Crime (1942). Zoot Suiters Learn Lesson in Fights with Servicemen (1943). Testimony of Zoot Suiters (1943, 2000). Views of the News (1943). A Governor's Citizen's Committee Report on Los Angeles Riots (1943). 9 POPULAR CULTURE AS HISTORY: THE COLD WAR COMES HOME. Secondary Source: The Culture of the Cold War (1991). Primary Sources: Advertisement for I Married a Communist (1953). Promotional Material for Walk East on Beacon (1952). A Game Show Producer Remembers the Red Scare (1995). A Playwright Recalls the Red Scare (1995). This Land Is Your Land (1951). A Folk Singer Remembers the Early Fifties (1995). Pogo (1952). On the Road (1957). 10. HISTORY AND POPULAR MEMORY: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. Secondary Source: I've Got the Light of Freedom (1995). Primary Sources: A SNCC Founder Discusses Its Goals (1966). Anzie Moore: Farewell to the N-Double-A (ca. 1975). Chronology of Violence, 1961 (1963). A Sharecropper's Daughter Responds to the Voter Registration Campaign (ca. 1975). A Black Activist Endorses White Participation (ca. 1975). A SNCC Organizer Recalls Federal Intervention (ca. 1975). A Letter from a Freedom Summer Volunteer (1964). Examples of Freedom School Student Work (1964). An Insider Recalls the Divisions in SNCC (1966). Fannie Lou Hamer on the Lessons of 1964 (1967). What We Want (1966). 11. CAUSATION AND THE LESSONS OF HISTORY: EXPLAINING AMERICA'S LONGEST WAR. Secondary Sources: Fighting in Cold Blood : LBJ's Conduct of Limited War in Vietnam (1994). God's Country and American Know-How (1986). Primary Sources: LBJ Expresses Doubts about Vietnam (1965). LBJ Recalls His Decision to Escalate (1971). The Central Intelligence Agency Reports on the War (1967). McNamara Recalls the Decision to Escalate (1995). Fighting a Technological War of Attrition (1977). A Medical Corpsman Recalls the Vietnamese People (1981). A Marine Remembers His Shock (1987). A Foreign Service Officer Acknowledges American Ignorance (1987). 12. GENDER, IDEOLOGY, AND HISTORICAL CHANGE: EXPLAINING THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT. Secondary Sources: Cold War Ideology and the Rise of Feminism (1988). Women's Liberation and Sixties Radicalism (2002). Primary Sources: The Problem That Has No Name (1963). Civil Rights and the Rise of Feminism (1987). NOW's Statement of Purpose (1966). Redstockings Manifesto (1969). What's Wrong with 'Equal Rights' for Women? (1972). The Combahee River Statement (1986). On Women and Sex (1972). Our Bodies, Ourselves (1973). The Politics of Housework (ca. 1970). Sex Ratios of High School and College Graduates in the United States, 1940-1990. Women's Labor Force Participation, by Marital Status, 1940-1990. 13. WHY HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION MATTERS: THE BATTLE OVER IMMIGRATION. Secondary Sources: Unguarded Gates (2004). Immigrant America (2006). Primary Sources: Illegal Immigrants: The U.S. May Gain More Than It Loses (1984). Immigration as a Threat to Social Cohesion (1985). Undocumented Workers as International Workers (1997). The Secret of Success (2002). Low Immigration and Economic Growth (2007). Two Illegal Immigrants Tell Their Story (1988). A Cambodian Immigrant's American Dream (1988). A Chinese Immigrant Battles Jessica McClintock (1993). An Illegal Immigrant Contemplates Citizenship (2004).

Editorial Reviews

The book exposes students to the skills used by historians for research and develops critical thinking. It fills a unique niche for survey level history courses.

I have perused and used many different document anthologies. I found Hollitz's work to be particularly engaging.

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