Major problems in american history, 1920-1945: documents and essays, international edition

This collection of primary source documents and essays provides in-depth coverage of the cultural, social, political, economic, and intellectual events of the 1920-1945 era. In keeping with the proven strengths of the Major Problems series, the compelling documents are grouped with important secondary sources,accompanied by chapter introductions, selection headnotes, and suggested readings. INDICE: 1. AMERICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY BETWEEN THE WARS. Essays. Lynn Dumenil, The Modern Temper. Alan Dawley, American Liberalism and the Struggle for Justice between the Wars. 2. REFORM AND REACTION: PUBLIC POLICY IN THE REPUBLICAN ERA. Documents. 1. Attorney General Palmer's Case Against the "Reds," 1920. 2. Cartoon, "We Can't Digest the Scum" 1919. 3. Herbert Hoover on AmericanIndividualism, 1922. 4. Trade Association in the Auto Industry, 1924. 5. A Business Analyst Explains Why Trade Associations Don't Work, 1933. 6. "Babbitt" Sketches "Our Ideal Citizen," 1922. 7. Alva Belmont Urges Women Not to Vote, 1920. 8. Florence Kelley and Elsie Hill Debate Equal Right for Women, 1922. 9. A Mother's Plea to the Children's Bureau, 1916. Essays. Ellis Hawley, Herbert Hoover and the "Associational" State. Molly Ladd-Taylor, Maternalism, Feminism, and the Politics of Reform in the 1920s. 3. LABOR AND WELFARE CAPITALISM IN THE 1920S. Documents. 1. The Interchurch World Movement Investigates the SteelStrike, 1920. 2. Ralph Chaplin Recalls the "Clamp Down" of the Red Scare of the 1920s. 3. Black Workers ask "What Do Unions Do?", 1923. 4. The Employer's Case for Welfare Capitalism, 1925. 5. Labor's Case Against Welfare Capitalism, 1927. 6. The National Association of Manufacturers Defends the "Open Shop," 1922. 7. The American Federation of Labor Condemns the "Open Shop," 1921. 8. TheAFL Ignores Women, 1927. 9. The Women's Bureau Exposes the Myths about Women's Work, 1924. Essays. Rick Halpern, Welfare Capitalism in the Packinghouses. Alice Kessler Harris, The Uneasy Relationship between Labor and Women. 4. THE POLITICS AND CULTURE OF CONSUMPTION. Documents. 1. A Critic Sees Advertising asa Narcotic, 1934. 2. An Enthusiast Applauds Advertising, 1928. 3. Two Magazine Advertisements, 1929 and 1930. 4. Radio--A Blessing or a Curse? 1929. 5. Doubts about Auto Financing, 1926. 6. The Automobile Comes to Middletown, 1929. 7. The American Federation of Labor on the "Living Wage," 1919. 8. Bruce BartonSees Jesus as an Advertising Man, 1925. Essays. Lawrence Glickman, The Politics of Consumption in the 1920s. Roland Marchand, The Culture of Advertising. 5. INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL CURRENTS. Documents. 1. Claude McKay, "If I Must Die," 1919. 2. Langston Hughes, Two Poems of the 1920s. 3. F. Scott Fitzgerald on the Jazz Age, 1931. 4. The Educational Promise of Radio, 1930. 5. GranvilleHicks on Writers in the 1930s. 6. Two WPA Posters, 1935, 1938. 7. A Magazine Cover Comments on Public Art, 1941. 8. An Artist Remembers the WPA, 1935-9. Essays. Robert McChesney, The Battle For the Airwaves. Jane De Hart Mathews, A New Deal for Art. 6. "100 PERCENT AMERICANISM": RACE AND ETHNICITY BETWEEN THE WARS. Documents. 1. W.E.B. Du Bois on the Meaning of the War for African-Americans, 1919. 2. The Governor of California on the Asian Problem, 1920. 3. Congress Debates Immigration Restriction, 1921. 4. Cartoon, "Seeking More Freedom,"1921. 5. The Ku Klux Klan Defines Americanism, 1926. 6. Walter White Documents a Lynching, 1925. 7. St. Louis Realtors and Homeowners Bar Negro Occupancy, 1923. 8. Marcus Garvey Makes the Case for Black Nationalism, 1925. 9. Carey McWilliams Accuses California of "Getting Rid of the Mexicans," 1933. Essays. Mae Ngai, Nationalism and Immigration in the 1920s. Nancy MacLean, The Class Anxieties of the Ku Klux Klan. David Montejano, The Mexican Problem. 7. RESPONDING TO THE CRASH. Documents. 1. Herbert Hoover Reassures the Nation, 1931. 2. A Business Leader Responds (Hopefully) to the Crash, 1929. 3. Henry Ford on Unemployment and Self-Help, 1932. 4. A Participant Recalls The Ford Hunger March of 1932. 5. A Participant Recalls the Bonus Army March of 1932. 6. Leading Retailers Propose a Solution, 1934. Essays. Robert Himmelberg, Understanding the Depression. Roy Rosenzweig, Organizing the Unemployed. 8. THE DILEMMAS OF LIBERAL INTERNATIONALISM: FOREIGN POLICY BETWEEN THE WARS. Documents. 1. President Woodrow Wilson Defends the League of Nations, 1919. 2. President Calvin Coolidge on the Business of Foreign Policy, 1927. 3. A Citizen's Committee Warns of a Foreign Policy "Dangerous to our own Democracy," 1926. 4. A State DepartmentOfficial on the Benefits of Disarmament, 1931. 5. President Herbert Hoover onthe World Depression, 1932. 6. Former Secretary of State Frank Kellogg on Avoiding War, 1935. 7. Secretary of State Hull Promotes Reciprocal Trade, 1936. 8. Standard Oil v. Mexico, 1938-1940. Essays. Frank Costigliola, Foreign Policyand Cultural Expansion. Emily Rosenberg, The Dilemmas of Interwar Foreign Policy. 9. HARD TIMES AND HARDER TIMES: AGRICULTURE BETWEEN THE WARS. Documents. 1. Conditions in Rural America, 1932. 2. Tenant Farmers Recall the Conditions of Sharecropping in the 1930s. 3. From a Dust Bowl Diary, 1934. 4. A Farmer Recalls a "Penny Sale" of the 1930s. 5. Milo Reno Suggests "What the Farmer Wants," 1934. 6. The Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1933. 7. Depression and New DealBoth Hit Black Farmers, 1937. 8. John Steinbeck on Migrant Labor in California, 1938. Essays. Paul Conkin, A New Deal for Agriculture. Robin D.G. Kelley, The Sharecroppers' Union. 10. PRIVATE LIVES IN HARD TIMES Documents. 1. I Was aBurden, 1933. 2. A Working Class Women on "Making Do" in the 1930s. 3. Dr. Hilda Standish Recalls Efforts to Control Reproduction in the 1930s. 4. ChildrenRecall the 1930s. 4. The Plight of the Unemployed in the 1930s. 5. An Ordinary American Appeals to Her Government, 1935. Essays. Ruth Milkman, Women's Workin Hard Times. Leslie Reagan, Reproductive Practices and Politics. George Chauncey, The Campaign Against Homosexuality. 11. SHAPING THE NEW DEAL: RECOVERY AND REFORM POLITICS

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