Wendy Maier-Sarti

Annual Editions: United States History, Volume 2: Reconstruction Through the Present

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• Verlag: Dushkin Publishing
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UNIT 1: Reconstruction and the Gilded Age
1. The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction on the World
Stage, Edward L. Ayers, OAH Magazine of History, 2006. The Civil War,
Emancipation, and Reconstruction were seminal events in American history.
The author argues that the war and its aftermath "has carried a different
meaning for every generation of Americans" and "embodied struggles that
would confront people on every continent."
2. The Nez Perce Flight for Justice, W. David Edmunds, American Heritage,
2008. Despite a long history of cooperation with whites, in 1877 the Nez
Perce Indians led by Chief Joseph were thrown off their historic lands in
Oregon. Driven from place to place over a distance of 1,000 miles, the
exhausted band finally was defeated in September of that year. "I am tired.
My heart is sick and sad," Joseph stated. "From where the sun now stands I
will fight no more forever."
3. The Life and Times of Hetty the Hoarder, the Witch of Wall Street,
Theresa Oneill, Mental Floss, 2013. Hetty Green was one of the wealthiest
and influential Americans of her time, yet her name is seldom, if ever
mentioned in the same narrative as a Carnegie or Vanderbilt, let alone as
an entry in a textbook index. A ruthless businesswoman who had more in
common with John Rockefeller than not, as she "was a financier ... [who]
oversaw tremendous real estate deals, bought and sold railroads, and made
loans. She was particularly adept at prospering during the downfall of
others; buying falling stocks, foreclosing properties, and even holding
entire banks, entire cities, at her mercy through enormous loans." Yet,
because of her many eccentricities, she has been portrayed as an uncaring,
unnatural "witch" who was incapable of caring for anyone save her dog
Dewey. In capturing gender precepts of the age, we can look to Hetty
herself, who said that I am not a hard woman, but because I do not have a
secretary to announce every kind act I perform I am called close and mean
and stingy."
4. Mark Twain's Satanic Existentialist: The Mysterious Stranger, Bennett
Kravitz, European Journal of American Culture, 2014. During the Gilded Age,
there was great stratification between all socioeconomic classes.
Culturally, it appeared that societal expectations were rampant with
optimism but how realistic was this? Who better than Mark Twain to
challenge these expectations and demand that Americans look for more beyond
any prescribed limitations. Kravitz argues that we should look at "Twain's
The Mysterious Stranger in the context of American optimism at the onset of
the twentieth century. While often considered one of the most pessimistic
of Twain's novels, The Mysterious Stranger is portrayed as Twain's
engagement with the philosophy of existentialism. Specifically, the article
examines the ways that the text engages the existential premises of Jean
Paul Sartre. Rather than abandoning his American optimism, Twain
essentially destroys the visible world of endless warfare and religious
obstruction to allow Americans to reclaim their Emersonian optimism by
suggesting that we all 'Dream other dreams and better.'"
5. Sex Radical: Victoria Woodhull and the Marriage Contract, 1870-1876,
P.D. Rich, Original Work, 2014. Victoria Woodhull challenged traditional
women's private and public cultural as well as societal roles. One issue
that she felt especially strong about was marriage, referring to it as a
practice that destroyed women's liberty, limited their sexual expression
and left them extremely vulnerable. "Arguably one of the most widely heard
women in America," Woodhull, in a very public way, exposed what she felt
was the hypocrisy of marriage, often citing the Constitution as proof for
her arguments. Her "speeches included gender equality, individual
sovereignty, sexual freedom, the marriage contract, marital rape,
prostitution and the care of children. Her controversial ideas on marriage
and childrearing, set her apart from the other feminist leaders of her
day."
6. The Temple of Peace: The Hague Peace Conferences, Andrew Carnegie and
the Building of the Peace Palace (1898-1913), Randall Lesaffer, Original
Work, 2013. Andrew Carnegie, the great American industrialist, donated over
a million dollars to enable the construction of the Temple of Peace, a
global conference center designed to be not only the epicenter of
Carnegie's League of Peace, but a space that would be the site of the "new
world court, the Permanent Court of International Justice" which was a
decision that sealed the city's future as the "legal capital of the world."
It opened, prophetically, on the eve of World War One.
UNIT 2: The Emergence of Modern America
7. Plenty Horses' Vengeance, Sam G. Carr, Wild West, 2007. Plenty Horses
sought vengeance against U.S. soldiers in the tragic aftermath of the
Battle of Wounded Knee. He killed a soldier, was arrested and indicted for
murder. At his trial, Plenty Horses argued that the killing was justified
because "If they [the United States] are going to punish every man who shot
another when not engaged in actual fighting, then why not arrest the
soldiers who killed poor old Big Foot? He was lying before his tepee dying
of fever, unable to raise his hand, and yet a dozen bullets were fired into
his body. And look at the six Indians found long after the battle--one man
and the rest women and children, all shot down within eight miles of Pine
Ridge by scouts or soldiers. Why not investigate that?"
8. What Happened at Haymarket?, John J. Miller, National Review, 2013. On
May 1, 1886, a group of workers, mostly German speaking immigrants
assembled in Haymarket Square, Chicago, to peacefully appeal for an
eight-hour workday. Someone threw a bomb into the crowd, police panicked,
opened fire, and killed a handful of protesters and several of their own
policemen. Eight political radicals were rounded up and eventually found
guilty. Seven received death sentences, one committed suicide, four were
executed and three pardoned. Examining the transcripts of the trial and
building a diorama of the crime scene in his basement, historian Timothy
Messer-Kruse has written several journal articles and books challenging the
conventional wisdom of the Haymarket Square incident arguing several of the
arrested "anarchists" may have been responsible for the root.
9. Theodore Roosevelt, The Spanish-American War, and the Emergence of the
United States as a Great Power, William N. Tilchin, Theodore Roosevelt
Association Journal, 2010. Professor William N. Tilchin argues that the
accidental rise to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt after the
assassination of William McKinley gave American foreign policy a strategic
vision previously non-existent. The strategic vision included building a
canal through Panama connecting the two oceans and fortified by the United
States; proclaiming U.S. hegemony in the Caribbean through the
pronouncement of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine; building a
strong navy to compete with the world's powers; and establishing strong
friendships with England and France.
10. America's Second-Best Idea, Bill Croke, The American Spectator, 2009.
Bill Croke discusses the documentarian work of Ken Burns, who might be
considered "the American's historian." In this analysis, and in examining
Burn's latest work on the history of conservation in the United States,
Croke provides an overview of the "birth of the modern American
conservation movement" and examines activists from John Muir to Theodore
Roosevelt, both of whom understood that the preservation of public space
was vital to American heritage. These public spaces "are timeless
compliments to the American character. Yellowstone and Yosemite and others
are the national landmarks of American exceptionalism, and the fact that we
preserved them says a lot about us."
11. "A Machine of Practical Utility", Tom D. Crouch, American Heritage,
2010. Experiments conducted on December 17, 1903 by the Wright brothers at
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina generally are regarded as the first powered and
controlled flights in history. The longest flight made that day, however,
lasted only 59 seconds. Not until 1905, Crouch shows, did they become
certain that "they had invented an aircraft that could be flown reliably
over significant distances under a pilot's complete control."
12. Socialists vs. Socialites: The Class and Ideological Dispute during the
Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909, Victoria Banda, Northwest Passages
Journal, 2014. In 1909, 20,000 women who worked in the New York garment
industry went on strike, a movement almost entirely led by females. These
workers were protesting unfair wages, unsafe working conditions, and
unbearable terms of employment. Banda looks at how upper class women along
with the Socialist Party of New York helped bring about a resolution for
the workers, only a few months after the strike began.
UNIT 3: From Progressive to the 1920s
13. The $5 Day, Robert H. Casey, American Heritage, 2010. In January 1914,
executives of the Ford Motor Company announced that they were going to
double the minimum wage for an eight hour working day to $5. Henry Ford
became something of a hero to workers, who flocked to his plant to enjoy
higher pay. Author Casey explores some of the unanticipated consequences of
this bold move.
14. Meuse-Argonne: America's Bloodiest Single Battle Occurred in the
Forests and Fields of Eastern France during World War I, Edward G. Lengel,
American Heritage, 2010. October, 1918 shifted the balance of power in
favor of the allies and led to the eventual victory in the war. By
following the battle experiences of Lieutenant Samuel Woodfill and
thirteen-year-old private Ernest L. Wrentmore, the author provides a
microcosmic history of warfare as the inexperienced American soldiers
adjust to the first modern warfare with its use of mustard gas and
sub-machine guns that could fire up to 100 rounds per minutes.
15. To Make the World Safe for Democracy, John Lukacs, American Heritage,
2010. On April 2, 1917 President Woodrow Wilson appeared before Congress to
ask for a declaration of war against Germany. "The world," he stated, "must
be made safe for democracy." The allies won the war, but Wilson failed to
attain the kind of settlement he wanted at the Paris Peace Conference and
the United States Senate repudiated his plan for a League of Nations.
Twenty years later, Americans faced the horrifying prospect of another
world war.
16. Even Lindbergh Got Lost, Roger Connor, Air & Space Magazine, 2013. A
year after making aviation history flying from New York to Paris, Charles
Lindbergh got lost flying his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, between Cuba
and Florida. Connor reveals that Lindbergh did not know how to navigate
until after his famous flight that crossed the Atlantic. At the time,
pilots relied on naval navigational techniques. Lindbergh later met Philip
Van Horm Weems and formed a friendship and partnership that would forever
change how aviators navigate the skies.
17. Enemy of Men: The Vamps, Ice Princesses, and Flappers of the Silent
Screens, Kristine Somerville, Missouri Review, 2014. Hollywood was in its
relative infancy when actors typically women were first typecast as
magical, or even mythical creatures like vampires and demons. Other
constructs took on the modern imaging of the day, such as the real-life
flappers seen at the end of the 1910s. Images of women reflected societal
challenges and growth, alongside the advances in women's rights and
recognition. Somerville explains how "new disruption in gender roles found
expression in cinema. Images of dangerous femininity became a familiar
motif, as did male subjugation. In fact, as far as the studios were
concerned, stories of evil women trying to debase weak men were big
moneymakers [whereas] unlike the vamp, the flapper didn't undermine men;
she conquered them simply to have a good time."
UNIT 4: From the Great Depression to World War II
18. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano
Los Angeles, 1900-1945, Natalia Molina, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano
Studies, 2014. Natalia Molina explores the impact of this seminal work on
the 20th anniversary of its release. Los Angeles in the early 20th century
was home to Mexican immigrants who helped shape the landscape of the city;
the second and subsequent generations implemented "the unique formation of
a Mexican American identity marked by cultural adaptation, diversity, and
experimentation" that defines the metropolis to this very day.
19. A New Deal for the American People, Roger Biles, Northern Illinois
University Press, 1991. Critics of the New Deal on the right claimed that
FDR created a socialist or fascist state, or, at best, an anti-free market
business environment. Critics on the left believe Roosevelt caved in to the
interests of big business and did little to help the lower-middle class,
poor, and minorities with their economic problems. History Professor Roger
Biles contends that, in spite of its minimal reforms and non-revolutionary
programs, the New Deal created a limited welfare state that implemented
economic stabilizers to avert another depression.
20. Food Policy During the Depression and the Second World War: FDR's New
Deal Legislation and Eleanor Roosevelt's Bully Pulpit, William Aspray,
George Royer, and Melissa G. Ocepek, Formal and Informal Approaches to Food
Policy, 2014. Eleanor Roosevelt, the champion of the dispossessed, "played
an active informal role in using the bully pulpit of the White House to
promote food, nutrition, and physical fitness" during the Great Depression
and then later during the emergence of the Second World War. The authors,
in their succinct examination of New Deal food policies, demonstrate how
Mrs. Roosevelt sough rapprochement with everyone from farmers to mothers
during a time of food shortages and surpluses, price hikes, and low morale.
Further, they argue that Mrs. Roosevelt was the single most influential
First Lady in terms of food policy until Mrs. Obama.
21. The Roosevelt Years and the Rise of the American Welfare State, Alix
Meyer, Cercles, 2014. Historian Alix Meyer explores what welfare in the
United States was before the New Deal, and how New Deal policies such as
the Social Security Act and subsequent programs helped shape the modern
American welfare state. Franklin D. Roosevelt was determined to use
whatever means necessary to help the country rebuild from the Great
Depression. Meyer's essay explains how devastated the nation's economy was
and outlined Roosevelt's response as frenetic, at best, as the "First
Hundred Days of the Roosevelt years were thus marked by an exceptional
surge in legislative activity that promised to thoroughly transform the
federal government's role and give it the tools to ensure the Nation's
welfare."
22. Flight of the Wasp, Victoria Pope, American Heritage, 2009. The Women
Air Force Service Pilots served as a home front Army auxiliary during World
War II. They flew cargo, transported new planes from factories, and towed
aerial targets. Always controversial in an age when the ability of women to
perform such functions was controversial, the group was disbanded in 1944.
An initially skeptical General Harold Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Forces,
said of their performance: "It is on the record that women can fly as well
as men." Unfortunately, it was not until the 1970s that they were
officially recognized as veterans.
23. 'We Build, We Fight' They Also Served Who Drove Cranes and Cats: A
Seabee on Iwo Jima, Jack Cornwell, World War II, 2014. Jack Cornwell, who
documented his war service in letters to his wife, was a crane operator in
the 62nd Seabees serving in the Pacific theatre, when, "on February 24,
1945, elements of the 62nd Naval Construction Battalion landed on Iwo Jima.
The invasion, begun five days before, sought to convert an enemy airbase
into emergency landing strips for B-29 bombers raiding Japan."
UNIT 5: From the Cold War to 2010
24. Mad Women, Not Mad Men, Julia Baird, Newsweek, 2010. In the 1950s and
early 1960s, women were depicted culturally as weak, soft, dependent, and
controllable. Women who expressed depression, sadness, anger or rage at
situations such as the state of their marriage or professional life were
"often treated with drugs, alcohol, psychotherapy, and, at its extreme,
electroconvulsive therapy . . . women's anger, or rebellion, was frequently
misdiagnosed as sickness." Baird conflates the women of the television show
Mad Men with what real-life women faced during this period. Mad Men
explores myriad societal issues, from marital rape to civil rights. Three
of the leading characters are women: Joan, Peggy, and Betty. Each of these
women face issues that their real-life counterparts did (rape, abuse,
gender discrimination, being vilified for being sexually active, doctors
reporting on personal treatments of their spouses). Overshadowing the
narrative is the spectre of Marilyn Monroe-an ethereal alpha and omega for
the 1950s and early 1960s-whose death, Baird argued, signaled the end of an
era and the birth of modern feminism.
25. The Real Cuban Missile Crisis: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong,
Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic, 2013. Benjamin Schwarz argues that the new
evidence from the memoirs of participants in later years and the
declassification in 1997 of the "Ex Comm" committees tapes reveal that
Kennedy fabricated a crisis for reasons of politics and prestige. In
actuality, Kennedy secretly negotiated a swap for the dismantling of the
Jupiter missiles in Turkey for the intermediate range missiles in Cuba.
26. The Forgotten Radical History of the March on Washington, William P.
Jones, Dissent, 2013. Historian William P. Jones argues that the "March on
Washington" in August, 1963 was organized by groups such as the Negro
American Labor Council and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) in order to highlight "the economic subordination of the Negro" and
advance a "broad and fundamental program for further economic justice." The
first speakers such as A. Philip Randolph, John Lewis, and others advocated
radical economic reforms. But Martin Luther King toned down his demands for
economic equality in favor of a non-segregated society where Blacks and
Whites were politically and socially equal.
27. Women's Rights on the Right: The History and Stakes of Modern Pro-Life
Feminism, Mary Ziegler, Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law, & Justice, 2013.
Mary Ziegler explains the confluence between pro-life movements and modern
feminism.
28. Soft Power: Reagan the Dove, Vladislav M. Zubok, The New Republic,
2004. Ronald Reagan, once considered by many to be a bungling incompetent,
now occupies a much higher place in the ranks of twentieth century
presidents. This transformation has come about, Zubok argues, not because
of his embrace of militant policies such as Star Wars but because he sought
the path of peace with the Soviet Union when the opportunity arose.
29. A Wimp He Wasn't, John Solomon, Newsweek, 2011.Most historians and
political scientists considered George Herbert Walker Bush, an average or
below average President and a bit of a wimp. But recent research uncovered
by John Solomon, showed Vice President Bush attempted to force the
Salvadorian military to stop killing its civilian opponents. The President
also didn't excessively celebrate the fall of the wall in Berlin, so the
Russian leader was able to allow a new government takeover in East Germany.
Ironically, the wimp label followed Bush during his career even though he
had been a decorated Naval pilot during World War II.
30. Repealing "Don't Ask Don't Tell": The Impact of Stereotypes on
Attitudes toward Homosexuals in the Military, Mandi Bates Bailey, Keith
Lee, and Lee R. Williams, American Review of Politics, 2013. This entry
"investigates the impact of negative stereotypes of homosexuals resulting
in biased evaluations of gays in the military and the media's ability to
prime evaluations of homosexuals in military service through the
presentation of a homosexual target," tracing executive branch decisions
towards gays and lesbians from President Harry S. Truman to Barack Obama.
31. Bush a Fond Presence in Africa for Work during and since His
Presidency, Peter Baker, The New York Times, 2014. President George W. Bush
has done more than any other president to address HIV and AIDS yet receives
little public attention. The media has covered his work, but there remains
little national or global awareness of his activism outside of the African
continent. The hatred for this president that became part of a populist,
national/international trend has led to an erroneous assessment of his
presidency. Peter Baker argues that we must reevaluate President Bush
because "while in office, Mr. Bush started the Millennium Challenge
Corporation to direct aid to African states that tried to reform corrupt
and undemocratic governments. He also initiated the President's Emergency
Plan for AIDS Relief, or Pepfar, which invested tens of billions of dollars
in fighting H.I.V., and later tackled malaria and tuberculosis . . . by the
time he left office, millions were receiving retroviral drugs keeping them
alive, and polls showed approval of the United States at 65 percent in
Tanzania, and in the 70s and 80s in other African countries. During a final
trip as president in early 2008, Mr. Bush was warmly greeted by huge crowds
of the sort he never saw at home anymore."
32. Good Health for America?, Martin Gorsky, History Today, 2010. Written
shortly before passage of President Obama's health care bill, Gorsky
provides a brief history of why previous attempts failed. "The key point,"
according to Gorsky, "is that the political institutions of the United
States tend to impede deep and contentious reforms."
UNIT 6: New Directions for American History
33. Michelle Obama 'Got Back': (Re)Defining (Counter) Stereotypes of Black
Females, Margaret M. Quinlan, B.R. Bates, and Jennifer B. Webb, Women and
Language, 2012. Michelle Obama is one of the most scrutinized First Ladies
since Jacqueline Kennedy. The authors analyze how Mrs. Obama is presented
in the media, and whether her image has been distorted into harmful racial
stereotypes, or if imaging of her has redefined how Black women are
presented. They cite that "given the potential for Michelle Obama to
introduce a new concept of Black womanhood, thereby reshaping how the
public understands the role of the First Lady, it is important to
understand what older concepts of Black womanhood are also at play in the
media and on blogs."
34. "We Are the Walking Dead": Race, Time, and Survival in Zombie
Narrative, Gerry Canavan, Extrapolation, 2010. Zombies are everywhere,
especially with the advent of one of the most watched shows in television
history, The Walking Dead. Gerry Canavan traces the rise-and rise-the
zombie narrative, arguing "zombies present the 'human face' of capitalist
monstrosity," while demonstrating that in times of economic, cultural,
and/or social unrest, apocalyptic narratives resonate.
35. Global Warming: Who Loses-and Who Wins?, Gregg Easterbrook, The
Atlantic, 2007. Global warming, Easterbrook argues, could cause a
"broad-based disruption of the global economy unparalleled by any even
other than World War II." He points out that this phenomenon probably will
do more harm to those nations already mired in poverty and might actually
benefit more affluent ones. He also discusses what must be done to stave
off disaster.
36. It's Hard to Make It In America: How the United States Stopped Being
the Land of Opportunity, Lane Kenworthy, Foreign Affairs, 2012. According
to the author the opportunity gap between children from poor families as
opposed to those from middle class and upper-class families had narrowed
considerably from the mid-nineteenth century until 1970. Since the 1970s,
inequality of opportunity for children from the lower classes has widened
considerably compared with those from the middle and upper classes. But
most Western European democracies have more economic mobility and less of
an income gap between classes. Kenworthy suggests that more federal money
spent on early education, earned income tax credits for certain families,
and shifting affirmative action programs from race and gender to family
background might provide more economic opportunities for the middle and
lower classes.