World Wars and the Modern Age (American Heritage, American Voices Series) Book

	Introduction to the AmericanHeritage American Voices Series	ix
	Introduction to World Wars and the Modern Age	xi
Part I	A Nation in Transition	1
	The Centennial Exhibition	2
	From the Atlantic Monthly, July 1876	3
	Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone	3
	From "The Tele-phone," New York Tribune, November 4, 1876	4
	Thomas Edison's Phonograph	4
	From F. C. Beach, Scientific American, December 1877	5
	Edison and Electric Lights	6
	From the New York Times, September 5, 1882	7
	Farming Becomes a Business	7
	From Hamlin Garland's A Son of the Middle Border, 1914	8
	Coming to a New Land	9
	From Edward Corsi's In the Shadow of Liberty, 1935	9
	Andrew Carnegie: An Immigrant's Success Story	10
	From Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth, 1900	11
	Mary Antin	12
	From Mary Antin's The Promised Land, 1912	12
	City Magic	14
	From Giuseppe Giacosa's Impressions of America, 1908	14
	Amusements and Pastimes	15
	A Letter from the Chicago World's Fair, 1893	15
	Big Business and National Markets	17
	From Andrew Carnegie's "Wealth," 1889	17
	From a Statement by John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1903	18
	From George Rice's Testimony, 1889	19
	The Plight of Workers and Farmers	20
	From John Spargo's The Bitter Cry of the Children, 1906	21
	Labor Wars	22
	From Samuel Gompers's Autobiography, 1877	23
Part II	Expansion and Reform	25
	The Spanish-American War	26
	From Charles J. Post's Memoirs, 1900	27
	America's Colonial Empire	28
	From President McKinley's Recollections, 1900	29
	From a Speech by Senator George Hoar, 1900	30
	The Beginning of the Progressive Movement	30
	From a Journal Article by Jane Addams, 1893	31
	The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire	32
	From Frances Perkins's Account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911	33
	Theodore Roosevelt: A Progressive in the White House	33
	From "T. R.'s Road to the White House," 1902	34
	From Mark Sullivan's Our Times, 1926	35
	Regulating Big Business	36
	From Theodore Roosevelt's The New Nationalism, 1910	37
	Government Action for Public Health	38
	From Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, 1906	39
	Uneven Progress for African Americans	40
	From "Original Rights," by Ida B. Wells, 1910	40
	Women's Right to Vote	41
	From Outlook Magazine, June 1915	42
Part III	America in the First World War	43
	World War I: From Neutrality to War	44
	From the "Zimmermann Note," March 1917	45
	From President Wilson's War Message to Congress, April 2, 1917	45
	From "The First Lady Marine," 1917	47
	The Government and Public Opinion	48
	From the Buffalo Courier, July 1918	48
	American Forces in Europe	49
	From General Pershing's Cable to Washington, June 1918	50
	From "Over There," 1917	51
	Trench Warfare	51
	From an Anonymous Soldier's Account, 1917	52
	From the Diary of Norman Roberts, 1918	53
	The Silent Weapon: Poison Gas	54
	From Lieutenant Ed Lukert's Letter to His Wife, June 1918	54
	The War in the Air	54
	From Quentin Roosevelt's Letter Home, July 1918	55
	The Road to Victory	56
	From Corporal Elmer Sherwood's Diary, October 30, 1918	56
	President Wilson's Fourteen Points	57
	From President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, 1918	58
	From a Speech by Henry Cabot Lodge, 1919	59
Part IV	The "Roaring Twenties"	61
	America on Wheels	62
	From Henry Ford's My Life and Work, 1922	63
	From "The Road to Freedom," Motor Car, 1922	64
	The Deluxe Movie Theaters	64
	From Lloyd Lewis's "The Deluxe Picture Palace," 1929	65
	The Heroic Age in Sports	66
	From the New York Times, September 20, 1924	66
	From the New York Times, September 8, 1927	67
	From an Article by W. O. McGeehan, 1926	68
	"Lucky" Lindbergh: The Greatest Hero	68
	From Frederick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday, 1931	69
	"Flaming Youth"	70
	From Preston Slosson's The Great Crusade, 1930	70
	"The Dry Decade"	72
	From Felix von Luckner's "Prohibition in America," 1926	72
	The Revival of the KKK	73
	From "The Klan's Fight for Americanism," 1926	73
	Rural Poverty	74
	From "'Leven-cent Cotton," c. 1925	75
	The "Jazz Age"	76
	From James A. Rogers, "Jazz at Home," 1925	76
	The "Harlem Renaissance"	77
	Langston Hughes's "Lament for Dark Peoples," 1926	77
	Fads and Crazes	78
	From "The Child Stylelites of Baltimore," 1929	78
Part V	The Great Depression and the New Deal	79
	From Boom to Bust	80
	From Jonathan Norton Leonard's Eyewitness Report, October 1929	81
	Hard Times	83
	From the Journal of E.W. Bakke, April 1933	83
	From Charles R. Walker's "Relief and Revolution," 1932	84
	FDR Launches the New Deal	86
	From Roosevelt's Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933	87
	From Frances Perkins's Memoirs, 1946	88
	Work Programs	89
	From Luther Wandall's "A Negro in the CCC," 1935	89
	The Dust Bowl	91
	From Lorena Hickok's Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, November 1933	92
	From John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, 1939	93
	Creating a Documentary Record	94
	Eleanor Roosevelt: The President's "Legs and Ears"	95
	From Eleanor Roosevelt's On My Own, 1958	95
	Songs of the Depression	96
	From Woody Guthrie's "So Long (It's Been Good to Know Yuh)," c. 1937	97
	Fun for Kids	98
Part VI	The Second World War	99
	The Approach of War	100
	From Edward R. Murrow's Radio Broadcast, October 10, 1940	101
	The Isolationists	101
	From Charles A. Lindbergh's Speech before the America First Committee, May 1941	102
	Pearl Harbor	103
	From Cornelia MacEwen Hurd's Eyewitness Account, December 1941	104
	The United States Declares War	104
	From Roosevelt's Address to Congress, December 8, 1941	105
	War Nerves and Anger	106
	From Howard Still's Letter to His Brother, March 1942	106
	Relocation of Japanese Americans	107
	From a Government Poster, May 1942	108
	From Jeanne Wakatsuki's Farewell to Manzanar, 1973	109
	Striking Back	110
	From a Soldier's Letter from the Italian Front, May 1944	111
	Air Power	112
	From a Bomber Pilot's Letter Home, August 1943	112
	Homefront Warriors	114
	From Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, April 1942	114
	Women Workers	115
	From a Woman War Worker's Recollections, 1942-1945	116
	D-Day: The Allied Invasion of Normandy	117
	From an Article by Ernie Pyle, June 1944	118
	From a Private's Letter to His Wife, June 1944	119
	The Shock of Hitler's Death Camps	120
	From Sergeant Evers's Letter Home, May 1945	120
	The Americans and the Russians Meet	121
	From a Soldier's Account of the American-Soviet Meeting, April 1945	122
	Winning the War in the Pacific	123
	From Ted Allenby's Account of Iwo Jima, 1945	123
	From a Physicist's Recollections of the Mahattan Project, 1945	125
	V-J Day	126
	From "Japan Surrenders: End of War," New York Times, August 15, 1945	127
	Sources	128
	Index	131