THE AMERICAN YAWPPRIMARY SOURCE READER22. THE NEW ERALIFE IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICATHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION The Recent Past 30. Yawp \yôp\ n: 1: a raucous noise 2: rough vigorous language. "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman, 1855.

TEACHING MATERIALS

Introductory Note. In a 2006 issue of the Journal of American History, digital history pioneer Roy Rosenzweig asked, “Can History Be Open Source?” After more than a decade of labor by academic historians to inject open source materials into the academic mainstream, we can answer affirmatively: history can be open source.Instructors can now design high quality, academically rigorous, and

THE AMERICAN YAWP

The Americ A n Y Aw p A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook vol. 1: to 1877 edited by joseph l. locke and ben wright stanford university press • stanford, california by te oar o Trstees o te elan Stanor nior University. 23. THE GREAT DEPRESSION ALAIN LOCKE ON THE “NEW NEGRO” (1925) Alain Locke on the “New Negro” (1925) Alain Locke, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, was a distinguished academic—the first African American Rhodes Scholar, he obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard—who taught at Howard University for 35 years. In 1925, he published an essay, “Enter the New Negro,” that

described an

ROSE COHEN ON THE WORLD BEYOND HER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Rose Cohen on the World Beyond her Immigrant Neighborhood (ca.1897/1918) Rose Cohen was born in Russia in 1880 as Rahel Golub. She immigrated to the United States in 1892 and lived in a Russian Jewish neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. Her, she writes about her encounter with the world outside of her ethnic neighborhood. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her enslavement under the pseudonym of Linda Brent. In this excerpt Jacobs explains her experience struggling

with

AIKO HERZIG-YOSHINAGA ON JAPANESE INTERNMENT (1942/1994 Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga on Japanese Internment (1942/1994) Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was born in 1924 in Sacramento, California and moved to Los Angeles at the age of nine. A second-generation (“Nisei”) Japanese American, she was incarcerated at the Manzanar internment camp in California and later at other internment camps in Arkansas. STATEMENTS OF AIDS PATIENTS (1983) Statements of AIDS Patients (1983) HIV/AIDS confronted Americans in the 1980s. The disease was first associated with gay men (it was initially called Gay-Related Immune Disease, or GRID) and AIDS sufferers fought for recognition of the disease’s magnitude, petitioned for research funds, and battled against popular stigma associated with the disease. PEDRO LOPEZ ON HIS MOTHER’S DEPORTATION (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez on His Mother’s Deportation (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez immigrated to Postville, Iowa, with his family as a young child. On May 12, 2008, Pedro Lopez’s mother, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested, jailed, and deported to Mexico. Pedro was 13. Here, he describes the experience. THE AMERICAN YAWPPRIMARY SOURCE READER22. THE NEW ERALIFE IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICATHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION The Recent Past 30. Yawp \yôp\ n: 1: a raucous noise 2: rough vigorous language. "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman, 1855.

TEACHING MATERIALS

Introductory Note. In a 2006 issue of the Journal of American History, digital history pioneer Roy Rosenzweig asked, “Can History Be Open Source?” After more than a decade of labor by academic historians to inject open source materials into the academic mainstream, we can answer affirmatively: history can be open source.Instructors can now design high quality, academically rigorous, and

THE AMERICAN YAWP

The Americ A n Y Aw p A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook vol. 1: to 1877 edited by joseph l. locke and ben wright stanford university press • stanford, california by te oar o Trstees o te elan Stanor nior University. 23. THE GREAT DEPRESSION ALAIN LOCKE ON THE “NEW NEGRO” (1925) Alain Locke on the “New Negro” (1925) Alain Locke, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, was a distinguished academic—the first African American Rhodes Scholar, he obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard—who taught at Howard University for 35 years. In 1925, he published an essay, “Enter the New Negro,” that

described an

ROSE COHEN ON THE WORLD BEYOND HER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Rose Cohen on the World Beyond her Immigrant Neighborhood (ca.1897/1918) Rose Cohen was born in Russia in 1880 as Rahel Golub. She immigrated to the United States in 1892 and lived in a Russian Jewish neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. Her, she writes about her encounter with the world outside of her ethnic neighborhood. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her enslavement under the pseudonym of Linda Brent. In this excerpt Jacobs explains her experience struggling

with

AIKO HERZIG-YOSHINAGA ON JAPANESE INTERNMENT (1942/1994 Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga on Japanese Internment (1942/1994) Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was born in 1924 in Sacramento, California and moved to Los Angeles at the age of nine. A second-generation (“Nisei”) Japanese American, she was incarcerated at the Manzanar internment camp in California and later at other internment camps in Arkansas. STATEMENTS OF AIDS PATIENTS (1983) Statements of AIDS Patients (1983) HIV/AIDS confronted Americans in the 1980s. The disease was first associated with gay men (it was initially called Gay-Related Immune Disease, or GRID) and AIDS sufferers fought for recognition of the disease’s magnitude, petitioned for research funds, and battled against popular stigma associated with the disease. PEDRO LOPEZ ON HIS MOTHER’S DEPORTATION (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez on His Mother’s Deportation (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez immigrated to Postville, Iowa, with his family as a young child. On May 12, 2008, Pedro Lopez’s mother, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested, jailed, and deported to Mexico. Pedro was 13. Here, he describes the experience.

14. THE CIVIL WAR

On September 17, 1862, McClellan’s and Lee’s forces collided at the Battle of Antietam near the town of Sharpsburg. This battle was the first major battle of the Civil War to occur on Union soil. It remains the bloodiest single day in American history: over twenty thousand soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing. 23. THE GREAT DEPRESSION 23. The Great Depression. In this famous 1936 photograph by Dorothea Lange, a destitute, thirty-two-year-old mother of seven captures the agonies of the Great Depression. Library of Congress. *The American Yawp is an evolving, collaborative text. Please click here to improve

this chapter.*.

10. RELIGION AND REFORM The bonds between British and American reformers can be traced throughout the many social improvement projects of the nineteenth century. Transatlantic cooperation galvanized efforts to reform individuals’ and societies’ relationships to alcohol, labor, religion, education, commerce, and

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The Americ A n Y Aw p A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook vol. 2: since 1877 edited by joseph l. locke and ben wright stanford university press • stanford, california te oar of Trstees of te ean stanfor nior niersity. PAT BUCHANAN ON THE CULTURE WAR (1992) Pat Buchanan on the Culture War (1992) Pat Buchanan was a conservative journalist who worked in the Nixon and Reagan administrations before running for the Republican presidential nomination in 1992. Although he lost the nomination to George H.W. Bush, he was invited to speak at that year’s Republican National Convention, where he delivered a

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The American Yawp Chapter 22 – The New Era Quiz 1. Warren G. Harding won office by campaigning on which theme a. A return to normalcy b. An

era of innovation

GEORGE FITZHUGH ARGUES THAT SLAVERY IS BETTER THAN LIBERTY George Fitzhugh Argues that Slavery is Better than Liberty and Equality, 1854. As the nineteenth century progressed, some Americans shifted their understanding of slavery from a HAUDENOSAUNEE THANKSGIVING ADDRESS Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address. This Thanksgiving address was used by the six nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) to open and close major gatherings or meetings. The prayer was also sometimes used individually at the beginning or end of the day. The People. Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue. LUTIANT VAN WERT DESCRIBES THE 1918 FLU PANDEMIC (1918 Lutiant Van Wert, a Native American woman, volunteered as a nurse in Washington D.C. during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Here, she writes to a former classmate still enrolled at the Haskell Institute, a government-run boarding school for Native American students in Kansas, and describes her work as a PEDRO LOPEZ ON HIS MOTHER’S DEPORTATION (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez on His Mother’s Deportation (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez immigrated to Postville, Iowa, with his family as a young child. On May 12, 2008, Pedro Lopez’s mother, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested, jailed, and deported to Mexico. Pedro was 13. Here, he describes the experience. THE AMERICAN YAWPPRIMARY SOURCE READER22. THE NEW ERALIFE IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICATHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION The Recent Past 30. Yawp \yôp\ n: 1: a raucous noise 2: rough vigorous language. "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman, 1855.

THE AMERICAN YAWP

The Americ A n Y Aw p A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook vol. 1: to 1877 edited by joseph l. locke and ben wright stanford university press • stanford, california by te oar o Trstees o te elan Stanor nior University.

TEACHING MATERIALS

Introductory Note. In a 2006 issue of the Journal of American History, digital history pioneer Roy Rosenzweig asked, “Can History Be Open Source?” After more than a decade of labor by academic historians to inject open source materials into the academic mainstream, we can answer affirmatively: history can be open source.Instructors can now design high quality, academically rigorous, and ALAIN LOCKE ON THE “NEW NEGRO” (1925) Alain Locke on the “New Negro” (1925) Alain Locke, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, was a distinguished academic—the first African American Rhodes Scholar, he obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard—who taught at Howard University for 35 years. In 1925, he published an essay, “Enter the New Negro,” that

described an

ROSE COHEN ON THE WORLD BEYOND HER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Rose Cohen on the World Beyond her Immigrant Neighborhood (ca.1897/1918) Rose Cohen was born in Russia in 1880 as Rahel Golub. She immigrated to the United States in 1892 and lived in a Russian Jewish neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. Her, she writes about her encounter with the world outside of her ethnic neighborhood. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her enslavement under the pseudonym of Linda Brent. In this excerpt Jacobs explains her experience struggling

with

AIKO HERZIG-YOSHINAGA ON JAPANESE INTERNMENT (1942/1994 Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga on Japanese Internment (1942/1994) Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was born in 1924 in Sacramento, California and moved to Los Angeles at the age of nine. A second-generation (“Nisei”) Japanese American, she was incarcerated at the Manzanar internment camp in California and later at other internment camps in Arkansas. BERTHA MCCALL ON AMERICA’S “MOVING PEOPLE” (1940) Bertha McCall on America’s “Moving People” (1940) Bertha McCall, general director of the National Travelers Aid Association, acquired a special knowledge of the massive displacement of individuals and families during the Great Depression. In 1940, McCall testified before the House of Representatives’ Select Committee to Investigate the STATEMENTS OF AIDS PATIENTS (1983) Statements of AIDS Patients (1983) HIV/AIDS confronted Americans in the 1980s. The disease was first associated with gay men (it was initially called Gay-Related Immune Disease, or GRID) and AIDS sufferers fought for recognition of the disease’s magnitude, petitioned for research funds, and battled against popular stigma associated with the disease. PEDRO LOPEZ ON HIS MOTHER’S DEPORTATION (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez on His Mother’s Deportation (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez immigrated to Postville, Iowa, with his family as a young child. On May 12, 2008, Pedro Lopez’s mother, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested, jailed, and deported to Mexico. Pedro was 13. Here, he describes the experience. THE AMERICAN YAWPPRIMARY SOURCE READER22. THE NEW ERALIFE IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICATHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION The Recent Past 30. Yawp \yôp\ n: 1: a raucous noise 2: rough vigorous language. "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman, 1855.

THE AMERICAN YAWP

The Americ A n Y Aw p A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook vol. 1: to 1877 edited by joseph l. locke and ben wright stanford university press • stanford, california by te oar o Trstees o te elan Stanor nior University.

TEACHING MATERIALS

Introductory Note. In a 2006 issue of the Journal of American History, digital history pioneer Roy Rosenzweig asked, “Can History Be Open Source?” After more than a decade of labor by academic historians to inject open source materials into the academic mainstream, we can answer affirmatively: history can be open source.Instructors can now design high quality, academically rigorous, and ALAIN LOCKE ON THE “NEW NEGRO” (1925) Alain Locke on the “New Negro” (1925) Alain Locke, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, was a distinguished academic—the first African American Rhodes Scholar, he obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard—who taught at Howard University for 35 years. In 1925, he published an essay, “Enter the New Negro,” that

described an

ROSE COHEN ON THE WORLD BEYOND HER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Rose Cohen on the World Beyond her Immigrant Neighborhood (ca.1897/1918) Rose Cohen was born in Russia in 1880 as Rahel Golub. She immigrated to the United States in 1892 and lived in a Russian Jewish neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. Her, she writes about her encounter with the world outside of her ethnic neighborhood. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her enslavement under the pseudonym of Linda Brent. In this excerpt Jacobs explains her experience struggling

with

AIKO HERZIG-YOSHINAGA ON JAPANESE INTERNMENT (1942/1994 Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga on Japanese Internment (1942/1994) Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was born in 1924 in Sacramento, California and moved to Los Angeles at the age of nine. A second-generation (“Nisei”) Japanese American, she was incarcerated at the Manzanar internment camp in California and later at other internment camps in Arkansas. BERTHA MCCALL ON AMERICA’S “MOVING PEOPLE” (1940) Bertha McCall on America’s “Moving People” (1940) Bertha McCall, general director of the National Travelers Aid Association, acquired a special knowledge of the massive displacement of individuals and families during the Great Depression. In 1940, McCall testified before the House of Representatives’ Select Committee to Investigate the STATEMENTS OF AIDS PATIENTS (1983) Statements of AIDS Patients (1983) HIV/AIDS confronted Americans in the 1980s. The disease was first associated with gay men (it was initially called Gay-Related Immune Disease, or GRID) and AIDS sufferers fought for recognition of the disease’s magnitude, petitioned for research funds, and battled against popular stigma associated with the disease. PEDRO LOPEZ ON HIS MOTHER’S DEPORTATION (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez on His Mother’s Deportation (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez immigrated to Postville, Iowa, with his family as a young child. On May 12, 2008, Pedro Lopez’s mother, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested, jailed, and deported to Mexico. Pedro was 13. Here, he describes the experience.

14. THE CIVIL WAR

On September 17, 1862, McClellan’s and Lee’s forces collided at the Battle of Antietam near the town of Sharpsburg. This battle was the first major battle of the Civil War to occur on Union soil. It remains the bloodiest single day in American history: over twenty thousand soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing. JOURNAL OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, 1492 Journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492. First encounters between Europeans and Native Americans were dramatic events. In this account we see the assumptions and intentions of Christopher Columbus, as he immediately began assessing the potential of these people to serve European economic interests. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her enslavement under the pseudonym of Linda Brent. In this excerpt Jacobs explains her experience struggling

with

JUANITA GARCIA ON MIGRANT LABOR (1952) Juanita Garcia on Migrant Labor (1952) During the labor shortages of World War II, the United States’ launched the Bracero (“laborer”) program to bring Mexican laborers into the United States. The program continued into the 1960s and brought more than a million workers into the United States on PAT BUCHANAN ON THE CULTURE WAR (1992) Pat Buchanan on the Culture War (1992) Pat Buchanan was a conservative journalist who worked in the Nixon and Reagan administrations before running for the Republican presidential nomination in 1992. Although he lost the nomination to George H.W. Bush, he was invited to speak at that year’s Republican National Convention, where he delivered a BERTHA MCCALL ON AMERICA’S “MOVING PEOPLE” (1940) Bertha McCall on America’s “Moving People” (1940) Bertha McCall, general director of the National Travelers Aid Association, acquired a special knowledge of the massive displacement of individuals and families during the Great Depression. In 1940, McCall testified before the House of Representatives’ Select Committee to Investigate the LUTIANT VAN WERT DESCRIBES THE 1918 FLU PANDEMIC (1918 Lutiant Van Wert, a Native American woman, volunteered as a nurse in Washington D.C. during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Here, she writes to a former classmate still enrolled at the Haskell Institute, a government-run boarding school for Native American students in Kansas, and describes her work as a SENATOR MARGARET CHASE SMITH’S “DECLARATION OF CONSCIENCE Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine condemned the tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy in a congressional speech on June 1, 1950. She attacked McCarthy’s conspiratorial charges and broken lives left in their wake. She blamed political leaders of both parties for failing to corral McCarthy’s wild attacks. I think that it is high time that

we

HAUDENOSAUNEE THANKSGIVING ADDRESS Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address. This Thanksgiving address was used by the six nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) to open and close major gatherings or meetings. The prayer was also sometimes used individually at the beginning or end of the day. The People. Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue. CONGRESSMAN ARTHUR L. MILLER GIVES “THE PUTRID FACTS In 1950, Representative Arthur L. Miller, a Nebraska Republican, offered an amendment to a bill requiring background checks for employees of the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA). THE AMERICAN YAWPPRIMARY SOURCE READER22. THE NEW ERALIFE IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICATHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION The Recent Past 30. Yawp \yôp\ n: 1: a raucous noise 2: rough vigorous language. "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman, 1855.

THE AMERICAN YAWP

The Americ A n Y Aw p A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook vol. 1: to 1877 edited by joseph l. locke and ben wright stanford university press • stanford, california by te oar o Trstees o te elan Stanor nior University.

TEACHING MATERIALS

Introductory Note. In a 2006 issue of the Journal of American History, digital history pioneer Roy Rosenzweig asked, “Can History Be Open Source?” After more than a decade of labor by academic historians to inject open source materials into the academic mainstream, we can answer affirmatively: history can be open source.Instructors can now design high quality, academically rigorous, and ALAIN LOCKE ON THE “NEW NEGRO” (1925) Alain Locke on the “New Negro” (1925) Alain Locke, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, was a distinguished academic—the first African American Rhodes Scholar, he obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard—who taught at Howard University for 35 years. In 1925, he published an essay, “Enter the New Negro,” that

described an

ROSE COHEN ON THE WORLD BEYOND HER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Rose Cohen on the World Beyond her Immigrant Neighborhood (ca.1897/1918) Rose Cohen was born in Russia in 1880 as Rahel Golub. She immigrated to the United States in 1892 and lived in a Russian Jewish neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. Her, she writes about her encounter with the world outside of her ethnic neighborhood. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her enslavement under the pseudonym of Linda Brent. In this excerpt Jacobs explains her experience struggling

with

AIKO HERZIG-YOSHINAGA ON JAPANESE INTERNMENT (1942/1994 Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga on Japanese Internment (1942/1994) Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was born in 1924 in Sacramento, California and moved to Los Angeles at the age of nine. A second-generation (“Nisei”) Japanese American, she was incarcerated at the Manzanar internment camp in California and later at other internment camps in Arkansas. BERTHA MCCALL ON AMERICA’S “MOVING PEOPLE” (1940) Bertha McCall on America’s “Moving People” (1940) Bertha McCall, general director of the National Travelers Aid Association, acquired a special knowledge of the massive displacement of individuals and families during the Great Depression. In 1940, McCall testified before the House of Representatives’ Select Committee to Investigate the STATEMENTS OF AIDS PATIENTS (1983) Statements of AIDS Patients (1983) HIV/AIDS confronted Americans in the 1980s. The disease was first associated with gay men (it was initially called Gay-Related Immune Disease, or GRID) and AIDS sufferers fought for recognition of the disease’s magnitude, petitioned for research funds, and battled against popular stigma associated with the disease. PEDRO LOPEZ ON HIS MOTHER’S DEPORTATION (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez on His Mother’s Deportation (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez immigrated to Postville, Iowa, with his family as a young child. On May 12, 2008, Pedro Lopez’s mother, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested, jailed, and deported to Mexico. Pedro was 13. Here, he describes the experience. THE AMERICAN YAWPPRIMARY SOURCE READER22. THE NEW ERALIFE IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICATHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION The Recent Past 30. Yawp \yôp\ n: 1: a raucous noise 2: rough vigorous language. "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman, 1855.

THE AMERICAN YAWP

The Americ A n Y Aw p A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook vol. 1: to 1877 edited by joseph l. locke and ben wright stanford university press • stanford, california by te oar o Trstees o te elan Stanor nior University.

TEACHING MATERIALS

Introductory Note. In a 2006 issue of the Journal of American History, digital history pioneer Roy Rosenzweig asked, “Can History Be Open Source?” After more than a decade of labor by academic historians to inject open source materials into the academic mainstream, we can answer affirmatively: history can be open source.Instructors can now design high quality, academically rigorous, and ALAIN LOCKE ON THE “NEW NEGRO” (1925) Alain Locke on the “New Negro” (1925) Alain Locke, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, was a distinguished academic—the first African American Rhodes Scholar, he obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard—who taught at Howard University for 35 years. In 1925, he published an essay, “Enter the New Negro,” that

described an

ROSE COHEN ON THE WORLD BEYOND HER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Rose Cohen on the World Beyond her Immigrant Neighborhood (ca.1897/1918) Rose Cohen was born in Russia in 1880 as Rahel Golub. She immigrated to the United States in 1892 and lived in a Russian Jewish neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. Her, she writes about her encounter with the world outside of her ethnic neighborhood. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her enslavement under the pseudonym of Linda Brent. In this excerpt Jacobs explains her experience struggling

with

AIKO HERZIG-YOSHINAGA ON JAPANESE INTERNMENT (1942/1994 Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga on Japanese Internment (1942/1994) Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was born in 1924 in Sacramento, California and moved to Los Angeles at the age of nine. A second-generation (“Nisei”) Japanese American, she was incarcerated at the Manzanar internment camp in California and later at other internment camps in Arkansas. BERTHA MCCALL ON AMERICA’S “MOVING PEOPLE” (1940) Bertha McCall on America’s “Moving People” (1940) Bertha McCall, general director of the National Travelers Aid Association, acquired a special knowledge of the massive displacement of individuals and families during the Great Depression. In 1940, McCall testified before the House of Representatives’ Select Committee to Investigate the STATEMENTS OF AIDS PATIENTS (1983) Statements of AIDS Patients (1983) HIV/AIDS confronted Americans in the 1980s. The disease was first associated with gay men (it was initially called Gay-Related Immune Disease, or GRID) and AIDS sufferers fought for recognition of the disease’s magnitude, petitioned for research funds, and battled against popular stigma associated with the disease. PEDRO LOPEZ ON HIS MOTHER’S DEPORTATION (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez on His Mother’s Deportation (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez immigrated to Postville, Iowa, with his family as a young child. On May 12, 2008, Pedro Lopez’s mother, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested, jailed, and deported to Mexico. Pedro was 13. Here, he describes the experience.

14. THE CIVIL WAR

On September 17, 1862, McClellan’s and Lee’s forces collided at the Battle of Antietam near the town of Sharpsburg. This battle was the first major battle of the Civil War to occur on Union soil. It remains the bloodiest single day in American history: over twenty thousand soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing. JOURNAL OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, 1492 Journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492. First encounters between Europeans and Native Americans were dramatic events. In this account we see the assumptions and intentions of Christopher Columbus, as he immediately began assessing the potential of these people to serve European economic interests. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her enslavement under the pseudonym of Linda Brent. In this excerpt Jacobs explains her experience struggling

with

JUANITA GARCIA ON MIGRANT LABOR (1952) Juanita Garcia on Migrant Labor (1952) During the labor shortages of World War II, the United States’ launched the Bracero (“laborer”) program to bring Mexican laborers into the United States. The program continued into the 1960s and brought more than a million workers into the United States on PAT BUCHANAN ON THE CULTURE WAR (1992) Pat Buchanan on the Culture War (1992) Pat Buchanan was a conservative journalist who worked in the Nixon and Reagan administrations before running for the Republican presidential nomination in 1992. Although he lost the nomination to George H.W. Bush, he was invited to speak at that year’s Republican National Convention, where he delivered a BERTHA MCCALL ON AMERICA’S “MOVING PEOPLE” (1940) Bertha McCall on America’s “Moving People” (1940) Bertha McCall, general director of the National Travelers Aid Association, acquired a special knowledge of the massive displacement of individuals and families during the Great Depression. In 1940, McCall testified before the House of Representatives’ Select Committee to Investigate the LUTIANT VAN WERT DESCRIBES THE 1918 FLU PANDEMIC (1918 Lutiant Van Wert, a Native American woman, volunteered as a nurse in Washington D.C. during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Here, she writes to a former classmate still enrolled at the Haskell Institute, a government-run boarding school for Native American students in Kansas, and describes her work as a SENATOR MARGARET CHASE SMITH’S “DECLARATION OF CONSCIENCE Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine condemned the tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy in a congressional speech on June 1, 1950. She attacked McCarthy’s conspiratorial charges and broken lives left in their wake. She blamed political leaders of both parties for failing to corral McCarthy’s wild attacks. I think that it is high time that

we

HAUDENOSAUNEE THANKSGIVING ADDRESS Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address. This Thanksgiving address was used by the six nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) to open and close major gatherings or meetings. The prayer was also sometimes used individually at the beginning or end of the day. The People. Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue. CONGRESSMAN ARTHUR L. MILLER GIVES “THE PUTRID FACTS In 1950, Representative Arthur L. Miller, a Nebraska Republican, offered an amendment to a bill requiring background checks for employees of the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA). THE AMERICAN YAWPPRIMARY SOURCE READER22. THE NEW ERALIFE IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICATHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Yawp \yôp\ n: 1: a raucous noise 2: rough vigorous language "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman, 1855.

TEACHING MATERIALS

Introductory Note. In a 2006 issue of the Journal of American History, digital history pioneer Roy Rosenzweig asked, “Can History Be Open Source?” After more than a decade of labor by academic historians to inject open source materials into the academic mainstream, we can answer affirmatively: history can be open source.Instructors can now design high quality, academically rigorous, and

THE AMERICAN YAWP

The Americ A n Y Aw p A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook vol. 1: to 1877 edited by joseph l. locke and ben wright stanford university press • stanford, california by te oar o Trstees o te elan Stanor nior University. ALAIN LOCKE ON THE “NEW NEGRO” (1925) Alain Locke, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, was a distinguished academic—the first African American Rhodes Scholar, he obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard—who taught at Howard University for 35 years. ROSE COHEN ON THE WORLD BEYOND HER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Rose Cohen was born in Russia in 1880 as Rahel Golub. She immigrated to the United States in 1892 and lived in a Russian Jewish neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. AIKO HERZIG-YOSHINAGA ON JAPANESE INTERNMENT (1942/1994 Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was born in 1924 in Sacramento, California and moved to Los Angeles at the age of nine. A second-generation (“Nisei”) Japanese American, she was incarcerated at the Manzanar internment camp in California and later at other internment camps in

Arkansas.

BERTHA MCCALL ON AMERICA’S “MOVING PEOPLE” (1940) Bertha McCall, general director of the National Travelers Aid Association, acquired a special knowledge of the massive displacement of individuals and families during the Great Depression. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her STATEMENTS OF AIDS PATIENTS (1983) Statements of AIDS Patients (1983) HIV/AIDS confronted Americans in the 1980s. The disease was first associated with gay men (it was initially called Gay-Related Immune Disease, or GRID) and AIDS sufferers fought for recognition of the disease’s magnitude, petitioned for research funds, and battled against popular stigma associated with the disease. PEDRO LOPEZ ON HIS MOTHER’S DEPORTATION (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez immigrated to Postville, Iowa, with his family as a young child. On May 12, 2008, Pedro Lopez’s mother, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested, jailed, and deported to Mexico. THE AMERICAN YAWPPRIMARY SOURCE READER22. THE NEW ERALIFE IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICATHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Yawp \yôp\ n: 1: a raucous noise 2: rough vigorous language "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman, 1855.

TEACHING MATERIALS

Introductory Note. In a 2006 issue of the Journal of American History, digital history pioneer Roy Rosenzweig asked, “Can History Be Open Source?” After more than a decade of labor by academic historians to inject open source materials into the academic mainstream, we can answer affirmatively: history can be open source.Instructors can now design high quality, academically rigorous, and

THE AMERICAN YAWP

The Americ A n Y Aw p A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook vol. 1: to 1877 edited by joseph l. locke and ben wright stanford university press • stanford, california by te oar o Trstees o te elan Stanor nior University. ALAIN LOCKE ON THE “NEW NEGRO” (1925) Alain Locke, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, was a distinguished academic—the first African American Rhodes Scholar, he obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard—who taught at Howard University for 35 years. ROSE COHEN ON THE WORLD BEYOND HER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Rose Cohen was born in Russia in 1880 as Rahel Golub. She immigrated to the United States in 1892 and lived in a Russian Jewish neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. AIKO HERZIG-YOSHINAGA ON JAPANESE INTERNMENT (1942/1994 Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was born in 1924 in Sacramento, California and moved to Los Angeles at the age of nine. A second-generation (“Nisei”) Japanese American, she was incarcerated at the Manzanar internment camp in California and later at other internment camps in

Arkansas.

BERTHA MCCALL ON AMERICA’S “MOVING PEOPLE” (1940) Bertha McCall, general director of the National Travelers Aid Association, acquired a special knowledge of the massive displacement of individuals and families during the Great Depression. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her STATEMENTS OF AIDS PATIENTS (1983) Statements of AIDS Patients (1983) HIV/AIDS confronted Americans in the 1980s. The disease was first associated with gay men (it was initially called Gay-Related Immune Disease, or GRID) and AIDS sufferers fought for recognition of the disease’s magnitude, petitioned for research funds, and battled against popular stigma associated with the disease. PEDRO LOPEZ ON HIS MOTHER’S DEPORTATION (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez immigrated to Postville, Iowa, with his family as a young child. On May 12, 2008, Pedro Lopez’s mother, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested, jailed, and deported to Mexico.

14. THE CIVIL WAR

I. Introduction. The American Civil War, the bloodiest in the nation’s history, resulted in approximately 750,000 deaths. 1 The war touched the life of nearly every American as military mobilization reached levels never seen before or since. Most northern soldiers went to war to preserve the Union, but the war ultimately transformed into a struggle to eradicate slavery. JOURNAL OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, 1492 Journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492. First encounters between Europeans and Native Americans were dramatic events. In this account we see the assumptions and intentions of Christopher Columbus, as he immediately began assessing the potential of these people to serve European economic interests. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her JUANITA GARCIA ON MIGRANT LABOR (1952) Juanita Garcia on Migrant Labor (1952) During the labor shortages of World War II, the United States’ launched the Bracero (“laborer”) program to bring Mexican laborers into the United

States.

BERTHA MCCALL ON AMERICA’S “MOVING PEOPLE” (1940) Bertha McCall, general director of the National Travelers Aid Association, acquired a special knowledge of the massive displacement of individuals and families during the Great Depression. PAT BUCHANAN ON THE CULTURE WAR (1992) Pat Buchanan on the Culture War (1992) Pat Buchanan was a conservative journalist who worked in the Nixon and Reagan administrations before running for the Republican presidential nomination in 1992. LUTIANT VAN WERT DESCRIBES THE 1918 FLU PANDEMIC (1918 Lutiant Van Wert, a Native American woman, volunteered as a nurse in Washington D.C. during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Here, she writes to a former classmate still enrolled at the Haskell Institute, a government-run boarding school for Native American students in Kansas, and describes her work as a SENATOR MARGARET CHASE SMITH’S “DECLARATION OF CONSCIENCE Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine condemned the tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy in a congressional speech on June 1, 1950. She attacked McCarthy’s conspiratorial charges and HAUDENOSAUNEE THANKSGIVING ADDRESS Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address. This Thanksgiving address was used by the six nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) to open and close major gatherings or meetings. CONGRESSMAN ARTHUR L. MILLER GIVES “THE PUTRID FACTS In 1950, Representative Arthur L. Miller, a Nebraska Republican, offered an amendment to a bill requiring background checks for employees of the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA). THE AMERICAN YAWPPRIMARY SOURCE READER22. THE NEW ERALIFE IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICATHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Yawp \yôp\ n: 1: a raucous noise 2: rough vigorous language "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman, 1855.

THE AMERICAN YAWP

The Americ A n Y Aw p A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook vol. 1: to 1877 edited by joseph l. locke and ben wright stanford university press • stanford, california by te oar o Trstees o te elan Stanor nior University. THE AMERICAN YAWP READER Home; Abolitionist Sheet Music Cover Page, 1844; America Guided by Wisdom Engraving, 1815; American Revolution Cartoon; Anti-Catholic Cartoon, 1855; Anti-immigrant cartoon

TEACHING MATERIALS

Introductory Note. In a 2006 issue of the Journal of American History, digital history pioneer Roy Rosenzweig asked, “Can History Be Open Source?” After more than a decade of labor by academic historians to inject open source materials into the academic mainstream, we can answer affirmatively: history can be open source.Instructors can now design high quality, academically rigorous, and ALAIN LOCKE ON THE “NEW NEGRO” (1925) Alain Locke, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, was a distinguished academic—the first African American Rhodes Scholar, he obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard—who taught at Howard University for 35 years. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her AIKO HERZIG-YOSHINAGA ON JAPANESE INTERNMENT (1942/1994 Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was born in 1924 in Sacramento, California and moved to Los Angeles at the age of nine. A second-generation (“Nisei”) Japanese American, she was incarcerated at the Manzanar internment camp in California and later at other internment camps in

Arkansas.

STATEMENTS OF AIDS PATIENTS (1983) Statements of AIDS Patients (1983) HIV/AIDS confronted Americans in the 1980s. The disease was first associated with gay men (it was initially called Gay-Related Immune Disease, or GRID) and AIDS sufferers fought for recognition of the disease’s magnitude, petitioned for research funds, and battled against popular stigma associated with the disease. ROSE COHEN ON THE WORLD BEYOND HER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Rose Cohen was born in Russia in 1880 as Rahel Golub. She immigrated to the United States in 1892 and lived in a Russian Jewish neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. PEDRO LOPEZ ON HIS MOTHER’S DEPORTATION (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez immigrated to Postville, Iowa, with his family as a young child. On May 12, 2008, Pedro Lopez’s mother, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested, jailed, and deported to Mexico. THE AMERICAN YAWPPRIMARY SOURCE READER22. THE NEW ERALIFE IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICATHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Yawp \yôp\ n: 1: a raucous noise 2: rough vigorous language "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman, 1855.

THE AMERICAN YAWP

The Americ A n Y Aw p A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook vol. 1: to 1877 edited by joseph l. locke and ben wright stanford university press • stanford, california by te oar o Trstees o te elan Stanor nior University. THE AMERICAN YAWP READER Home; Abolitionist Sheet Music Cover Page, 1844; America Guided by Wisdom Engraving, 1815; American Revolution Cartoon; Anti-Catholic Cartoon, 1855; Anti-immigrant cartoon

TEACHING MATERIALS

Introductory Note. In a 2006 issue of the Journal of American History, digital history pioneer Roy Rosenzweig asked, “Can History Be Open Source?” After more than a decade of labor by academic historians to inject open source materials into the academic mainstream, we can answer affirmatively: history can be open source.Instructors can now design high quality, academically rigorous, and ALAIN LOCKE ON THE “NEW NEGRO” (1925) Alain Locke, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, was a distinguished academic—the first African American Rhodes Scholar, he obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard—who taught at Howard University for 35 years. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her AIKO HERZIG-YOSHINAGA ON JAPANESE INTERNMENT (1942/1994 Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was born in 1924 in Sacramento, California and moved to Los Angeles at the age of nine. A second-generation (“Nisei”) Japanese American, she was incarcerated at the Manzanar internment camp in California and later at other internment camps in

Arkansas.

STATEMENTS OF AIDS PATIENTS (1983) Statements of AIDS Patients (1983) HIV/AIDS confronted Americans in the 1980s. The disease was first associated with gay men (it was initially called Gay-Related Immune Disease, or GRID) and AIDS sufferers fought for recognition of the disease’s magnitude, petitioned for research funds, and battled against popular stigma associated with the disease. ROSE COHEN ON THE WORLD BEYOND HER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Rose Cohen was born in Russia in 1880 as Rahel Golub. She immigrated to the United States in 1892 and lived in a Russian Jewish neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. PEDRO LOPEZ ON HIS MOTHER’S DEPORTATION (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez immigrated to Postville, Iowa, with his family as a young child. On May 12, 2008, Pedro Lopez’s mother, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested, jailed, and deported to Mexico.

14. THE CIVIL WAR

I. Introduction. The American Civil War, the bloodiest in the nation’s history, resulted in approximately 750,000 deaths. 1 The war touched the life of nearly every American as military mobilization reached levels never seen before or since. Most northern soldiers went to war to preserve the Union, but the war ultimately transformed into a struggle to eradicate slavery. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her JOURNAL OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, 1492 Journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492. First encounters between Europeans and Native Americans were dramatic events. In this account we see the assumptions and intentions of Christopher Columbus, as he immediately began assessing the potential of these people to serve European economic interests. PAT BUCHANAN ON THE CULTURE WAR (1992) Pat Buchanan on the Culture War (1992) Pat Buchanan was a conservative journalist who worked in the Nixon and Reagan administrations before running for the Republican presidential nomination in 1992. BERTHA MCCALL ON AMERICA’S “MOVING PEOPLE” (1940) Bertha McCall, general director of the National Travelers Aid Association, acquired a special knowledge of the massive displacement of individuals and families during the Great Depression. LAURA C. KELLOGG ON INDIAN EDUCATION (1913) The United States used education to culturally assimilate Native Americans. Laura Cornelius Kellogg, an Oneida author, performer, and activist who helped found the Society of American Indians (SAI) in 1913, criticized the cultural chauvinism of American policy. GLORIA STEINEM ON EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN (1970) The first Congressional hearing on the equal rights amendment (ERA) was held in 1923, but the push for the amendment stalled until the 1960s, when a revived women’s movement thrust it again into the national consciousness. LUTIANT VAN WERT DESCRIBES THE 1918 FLU PANDEMIC (1918 Lutiant Van Wert, a Native American woman, volunteered as a nurse in Washington D.C. during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Here, she writes to a former classmate still enrolled at the Haskell Institute, a government-run boarding school for Native American students in Kansas, and describes her work as a SENATOR MARGARET CHASE SMITH’S “DECLARATION OF CONSCIENCE Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine condemned the tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy in a congressional speech on June 1, 1950. She attacked McCarthy’s conspiratorial charges and CONGRESSMAN ARTHUR L. MILLER GIVES “THE PUTRID FACTS In 1950, Representative Arthur L. Miller, a Nebraska Republican, offered an amendment to a bill requiring background checks for employees of the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA). THE AMERICAN YAWPPRIMARY SOURCE READER22. THE NEW ERALIFE IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICATHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION The Recent Past 30. Yawp \yôp\ n: 1: a raucous noise 2: rough vigorous language. "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman, 1855.

TEACHING MATERIALS

Introductory Note. In a 2006 issue of the Journal of American History, digital history pioneer Roy Rosenzweig asked, “Can History Be Open Source?” After more than a decade of labor by academic historians to inject open source materials into the academic mainstream, we can answer affirmatively: history can be open source.Instructors can now design high quality, academically rigorous, and

14. THE CIVIL WAR

THE AMERICAN YAWP

The Americ A n Y Aw p A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook vol. 1: to 1877 edited by joseph l. locke and ben wright stanford university press • stanford, california by te oar o Trstees o te elan Stanor nior University. 10. RELIGION AND REFORM JOURNAL OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, 1492 Journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492. First encounters between Europeans and Native Americans were dramatic events. In this account we see the assumptions and intentions of Christopher Columbus, as he immediately began assessing the potential of these people to serve European economic interests. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her enslavement under the pseudonym of Linda Brent. In this excerpt Jacobs explains her experience struggling

with

ROSE COHEN ON THE WORLD BEYOND HER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Rose Cohen on the World Beyond her Immigrant Neighborhood (ca.1897/1918) Rose Cohen was born in Russia in 1880 as Rahel Golub. She immigrated to the United States in 1892 and lived in a Russian Jewish neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. Her, she writes about her encounter with the world outside of her ethnic neighborhood. AIKO HERZIG-YOSHINAGA ON JAPANESE INTERNMENT (1942/1994 Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga on Japanese Internment (1942/1994) Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was born in 1924 in Sacramento, California and moved to Los Angeles at the age of nine. A second-generation (“Nisei”) Japanese American, she was incarcerated at the Manzanar internment camp in California and later at other internment camps in Arkansas. PEDRO LOPEZ ON HIS MOTHER’S DEPORTATION (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez on His Mother’s Deportation (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez immigrated to Postville, Iowa, with his family as a young child. On May 12, 2008, Pedro Lopez’s mother, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested, jailed, and deported to Mexico. Pedro was 13. Here, he describes the experience. THE AMERICAN YAWPPRIMARY SOURCE READER22. THE NEW ERALIFE IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICATHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION The Recent Past 30. Yawp \yôp\ n: 1: a raucous noise 2: rough vigorous language. "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman, 1855.

TEACHING MATERIALS

Introductory Note. In a 2006 issue of the Journal of American History, digital history pioneer Roy Rosenzweig asked, “Can History Be Open Source?” After more than a decade of labor by academic historians to inject open source materials into the academic mainstream, we can answer affirmatively: history can be open source.Instructors can now design high quality, academically rigorous, and

14. THE CIVIL WAR

THE AMERICAN YAWP

The Americ A n Y Aw p A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook vol. 1: to 1877 edited by joseph l. locke and ben wright stanford university press • stanford, california by te oar o Trstees o te elan Stanor nior University. 10. RELIGION AND REFORM JOURNAL OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, 1492 Journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492. First encounters between Europeans and Native Americans were dramatic events. In this account we see the assumptions and intentions of Christopher Columbus, as he immediately began assessing the potential of these people to serve European economic interests. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her enslavement under the pseudonym of Linda Brent. In this excerpt Jacobs explains her experience struggling

with

ROSE COHEN ON THE WORLD BEYOND HER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Rose Cohen on the World Beyond her Immigrant Neighborhood (ca.1897/1918) Rose Cohen was born in Russia in 1880 as Rahel Golub. She immigrated to the United States in 1892 and lived in a Russian Jewish neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. Her, she writes about her encounter with the world outside of her ethnic neighborhood. AIKO HERZIG-YOSHINAGA ON JAPANESE INTERNMENT (1942/1994 Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga on Japanese Internment (1942/1994) Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was born in 1924 in Sacramento, California and moved to Los Angeles at the age of nine. A second-generation (“Nisei”) Japanese American, she was incarcerated at the Manzanar internment camp in California and later at other internment camps in Arkansas. PEDRO LOPEZ ON HIS MOTHER’S DEPORTATION (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez on His Mother’s Deportation (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez immigrated to Postville, Iowa, with his family as a young child. On May 12, 2008, Pedro Lopez’s mother, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested, jailed, and deported to Mexico. Pedro was 13. Here, he describes the experience.

24. WORLD WAR II

The broken Chinese army gave up Beiping (Beijing) to the Japanese on August 8, Shanghai on November 26, and the capital, Nanjing (Nanking), on December 13. Between 250,000 and 300,000 people were killed, and tens of thousands of women were raped, when the Japanese besieged and then sacked Nanjing.

4. COLONIAL SOCIETY

4. Colonial Society. Charles Willson Peale, The Peale Family, c. 1771–1773. Collection of the New-York Historical Society, object #1867.298. *The American Yawp is an evolving, collaborative text. Please click here to improve this chapter.*. I. Introduction. II. Consumption and Trade in the British Atlantic.

27. THE SIXTIES

I. Introduction. Perhaps no decade is so immortalized in American memory as the 1960s. Couched in the colorful rhetoric of peace and love, complemented by stirring images of the civil rights movement, and fondly remembered for its music, art, and activism, the decade brought many people hope for a more inclusive, forward-thinking

nation.

19. AMERICAN EMPIRE

19. American Empire. A political cartoon in Puck magazine on January 25, 1899, captures the mind-set of American imperialists. Library of Congress. *The American Yawp is an evolving, collaborative text. Please click here to improve this chapter.*. I. Introduction. II. Patterns of American Interventions. 11. THE COTTON REVOLUTION As the price of cotton increased to 9¢, 10¢, then 11¢ per pound over the next ten years, the average cost of an enslaved male laborer likewise rose to $775, $900, and then more than $1,600. 12. The key is that cotton and enslaved labor helped define each other, at least in

the cotton South.

JOURNAL OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, 1492 Journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492. First encounters between Europeans and Native Americans were dramatic events. In this account we see the assumptions and intentions of Christopher Columbus, as he immediately began assessing the potential of these people to serve European economic interests.

17. THE WEST

Andrew Myrick, a trader at the agency, refused to sell food on credit. “If they are hungry,” he is alleged to have said, “let them eat grass or their own dung.”. Then, on August 17, 1862, four young men of the Santees, a Dakota band, killed five white settlers near the

Redwood Agency, an

ALAIN LOCKE ON THE “NEW NEGRO” (1925) Alain Locke on the “New Negro” (1925) Alain Locke, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, was a distinguished academic—the first African American Rhodes Scholar, he obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard—who taught at Howard University for 35 years. In 1925, he published an essay, “Enter the New Negro,” that

described an

ROSE COHEN ON THE WORLD BEYOND HER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Rose Cohen on the World Beyond her Immigrant Neighborhood (ca.1897/1918) Rose Cohen was born in Russia in 1880 as Rahel Golub. She immigrated to the United States in 1892 and lived in a Russian Jewish neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. Her, she writes about her encounter with the world outside of her ethnic neighborhood. CRYSTAL EASTMAN, “NOW WE CAN BEGIN” (1920) Crystal Eastman, “Now We Can Begin” (1920) In the following selection, Crystal Eastman, a socialist and feminist, considered what women should fight for following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote. Most women will agree that August 23, the day when the Tennessee legislature

finally

THE AMERICAN YAWPPRIMARY SOURCE READER22. THE NEW ERALIFE IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICATHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION The Recent Past 30. Yawp \yôp\ n: 1: a raucous noise 2: rough vigorous language. "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman, 1855.

TEACHING MATERIALS

Introductory Note. In a 2006 issue of the Journal of American History, digital history pioneer Roy Rosenzweig asked, “Can History Be Open Source?” After more than a decade of labor by academic historians to inject open source materials into the academic mainstream, we can answer affirmatively: history can be open source.Instructors can now design high quality, academically rigorous, and

14. THE CIVIL WAR

THE AMERICAN YAWP

The Americ A n Y Aw p A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook vol. 1: to 1877 edited by joseph l. locke and ben wright stanford university press • stanford, california by te oar o Trstees o te elan Stanor nior University. 10. RELIGION AND REFORM JOURNAL OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, 1492 Journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492. First encounters between Europeans and Native Americans were dramatic events. In this account we see the assumptions and intentions of Christopher Columbus, as he immediately began assessing the potential of these people to serve European economic interests. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her enslavement under the pseudonym of Linda Brent. In this excerpt Jacobs explains her experience struggling

with

ROSE COHEN ON THE WORLD BEYOND HER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Rose Cohen on the World Beyond her Immigrant Neighborhood (ca.1897/1918) Rose Cohen was born in Russia in 1880 as Rahel Golub. She immigrated to the United States in 1892 and lived in a Russian Jewish neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. Her, she writes about her encounter with the world outside of her ethnic neighborhood. AIKO HERZIG-YOSHINAGA ON JAPANESE INTERNMENT (1942/1994 Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga on Japanese Internment (1942/1994) Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was born in 1924 in Sacramento, California and moved to Los Angeles at the age of nine. A second-generation (“Nisei”) Japanese American, she was incarcerated at the Manzanar internment camp in California and later at other internment camps in Arkansas. PEDRO LOPEZ ON HIS MOTHER’S DEPORTATION (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez on His Mother’s Deportation (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez immigrated to Postville, Iowa, with his family as a young child. On May 12, 2008, Pedro Lopez’s mother, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested, jailed, and deported to Mexico. Pedro was 13. Here, he describes the experience. THE AMERICAN YAWPPRIMARY SOURCE READER22. THE NEW ERALIFE IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICATHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION The Recent Past 30. Yawp \yôp\ n: 1: a raucous noise 2: rough vigorous language. "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman, 1855.

TEACHING MATERIALS

Introductory Note. In a 2006 issue of the Journal of American History, digital history pioneer Roy Rosenzweig asked, “Can History Be Open Source?” After more than a decade of labor by academic historians to inject open source materials into the academic mainstream, we can answer affirmatively: history can be open source.Instructors can now design high quality, academically rigorous, and

14. THE CIVIL WAR

THE AMERICAN YAWP

The Americ A n Y Aw p A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook vol. 1: to 1877 edited by joseph l. locke and ben wright stanford university press • stanford, california by te oar o Trstees o te elan Stanor nior University. 10. RELIGION AND REFORM JOURNAL OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, 1492 Journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492. First encounters between Europeans and Native Americans were dramatic events. In this account we see the assumptions and intentions of Christopher Columbus, as he immediately began assessing the potential of these people to serve European economic interests. HARRIET JACOBS ON RAPE AND SLAVERY, 1860 Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. After escaping to New York, Jacobs eventually wrote a narrative of her enslavement under the pseudonym of Linda Brent. In this excerpt Jacobs explains her experience struggling

with

ROSE COHEN ON THE WORLD BEYOND HER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Rose Cohen on the World Beyond her Immigrant Neighborhood (ca.1897/1918) Rose Cohen was born in Russia in 1880 as Rahel Golub. She immigrated to the United States in 1892 and lived in a Russian Jewish neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. Her, she writes about her encounter with the world outside of her ethnic neighborhood. AIKO HERZIG-YOSHINAGA ON JAPANESE INTERNMENT (1942/1994 Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga on Japanese Internment (1942/1994) Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was born in 1924 in Sacramento, California and moved to Los Angeles at the age of nine. A second-generation (“Nisei”) Japanese American, she was incarcerated at the Manzanar internment camp in California and later at other internment camps in Arkansas. PEDRO LOPEZ ON HIS MOTHER’S DEPORTATION (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez on His Mother’s Deportation (2008/2015) Pedro Lopez immigrated to Postville, Iowa, with his family as a young child. On May 12, 2008, Pedro Lopez’s mother, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested, jailed, and deported to Mexico. Pedro was 13. Here, he describes the experience.

24. WORLD WAR II

The broken Chinese army gave up Beiping (Beijing) to the Japanese on August 8, Shanghai on November 26, and the capital, Nanjing (Nanking), on December 13. Between 250,000 and 300,000 people were killed, and tens of thousands of women were raped, when the Japanese besieged and then sacked Nanjing.

4. COLONIAL SOCIETY

4. Colonial Society. Charles Willson Peale, The Peale Family, c. 1771–1773. Collection of the New-York Historical Society, object #1867.298. *The American Yawp is an evolving, collaborative text. Please click here to improve this chapter.*. I. Introduction. II. Consumption and Trade in the British Atlantic.

27. THE SIXTIES

I. Introduction. Perhaps no decade is so immortalized in American memory as the 1960s. Couched in the colorful rhetoric of peace and love, complemented by stirring images of the civil rights movement, and fondly remembered for its music, art, and activism, the decade brought many people hope for a more inclusive, forward-thinking

nation.

19. AMERICAN EMPIRE

19. American Empire. A political cartoon in Puck magazine on January 25, 1899, captures the mind-set of American imperialists. Library of Congress. *The American Yawp is an evolving, collaborative text. Please click here to improve this chapter.*. I. Introduction. II. Patterns of American Interventions. 11. THE COTTON REVOLUTION As the price of cotton increased to 9¢, 10¢, then 11¢ per pound over the next ten years, the average cost of an enslaved male laborer likewise rose to $775, $900, and then more than $1,600. 12. The key is that cotton and enslaved labor helped define each other, at least in

the cotton South.

17. THE WEST

Andrew Myrick, a trader at the agency, refused to sell food on credit. “If they are hungry,” he is alleged to have said, “let them eat grass or their own dung.”. Then, on August 17, 1862, four young men of the Santees, a Dakota band, killed five white settlers near the

Redwood Agency, an

JOURNAL OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, 1492 Journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492. First encounters between Europeans and Native Americans were dramatic events. In this account we see the assumptions and intentions of Christopher Columbus, as he immediately began assessing the potential of these people to serve European economic interests. ALAIN LOCKE ON THE “NEW NEGRO” (1925) Alain Locke on the “New Negro” (1925) Alain Locke, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, was a distinguished academic—the first African American Rhodes Scholar, he obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard—who taught at Howard University for 35 years. In 1925, he published an essay, “Enter the New Negro,” that

described an

ROSE COHEN ON THE WORLD BEYOND HER IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Rose Cohen on the World Beyond her Immigrant Neighborhood (ca.1897/1918) Rose Cohen was born in Russia in 1880 as Rahel Golub. She immigrated to the United States in 1892 and lived in a Russian Jewish neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side. Her, she writes about her encounter with the world outside of her ethnic neighborhood. CRYSTAL EASTMAN, “NOW WE CAN BEGIN” (1920) Crystal Eastman, “Now We Can Begin” (1920) In the following selection, Crystal Eastman, a socialist and feminist, considered what women should fight for following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote. Most women will agree that August 23, the day when the Tennessee legislature

finally

THE AMERICAN YAWP

A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook _*2020-2021 Updates*_ _Stanford University Press Edition Print Copies (__Vol. I ;

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Introduction

Primary Source Reader VOLUME I: BEFORE 1877 * Indigenous America

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* Colliding Cultures

2

* British North America

3

* Colonial Society

4

* The American Revolution

5

* A New Nation 6

* The Early Republic

7

* The Market Revolution

8

* Democracy in America

9

* Religion and Reform

10

* The Cotton Revolution

11

* Manifest Destiny

12

* The Sectional Crisis

13

* The Civil War

14

* Reconstruction

15

VOLUME II: AFTER 1877

* Capital and Labor

16

* The West

17

* Life in Industrial America

18

* American Empire

19

* The Progressive Era

20

* World War I & Its Aftermath

21

* The New Era 22

* The Great Depression

23

* World War II 24

* The Cold War 25

* The Affluent Society

26

* The Sixties 27

* The Unraveling

28

* The Triumph of the Right

29

* The Recent Past

30

Yawp \yôp\ _n_: 1: a raucous noise 2: rough vigorous language "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman,

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