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Voices of Freedom

Contents: Volume 2

  • 15. "What is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865–1877
    • 69. "Colloquy With Colored Ministers" (1865)
    • 70. Petition for Land (1865)
    • 71. The White South and Black Freedom (1866)
    • 72. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Reconstructing Marriage (c. 1875)
    • 73. Robert B. Elliott on Civil Rights (1874)
  • 16. America’s Gilded Age, 1870–1890
    • 74. Chief Joseph, "Let Me Be a Free Man" (1879)
    • 75. Social Darwinism (ca. 1880)
    • 76. The Labor Movement in the Gilded Age (1887)
    • 77. Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879)
    • 78. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1888)
  • 17. Freedom’s Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890–1900
    • 79. The Populist Platform (1892)
    • 80. John Marshall Harlan, Dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
    • 81. Chinese-American Protest (1885)
    • 82. The Anti-Imperialist Movement (1898)
  • 18. The Progressive Era, 1900–1916
    • 83. A Mexican-American Family and American Freedom (c. 1926)
    • 84. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898)
    • 85. Industrial Liberty (1910)
    • 86. The IWW and the Free Speech Fights (1909)
    • 87. Margaret Sanger on "Free Motherhood" (1920)
    • 88. Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom (1912)
  • 19. Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916–1920
    • 89. Woodrow Wilson on America and the World (1916)
    • 90. Eugene V. Debs, Speech to the Jury (1918)
    • 91. Randolph Bourne on Americanization (1916)
    • 92. Marcus Garvey, Africa for the Africans (1921)
    • 93. The Great Steel Strike (1919)
  • 20. From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920–32
    • 94. André Siegfried on the "New Society" (1928)
    • 95. The Fight for Civil Liberties (1921)
    • 96. Clarence Darrow at the Scopes Trial (1924)
    • 97. Alain Locke, The New Negro (1925)
    • 98. Freedom and the Modern World (1928)
  • 21. The New Deal, 1932–1940
    • 99. Letter to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (1937)
    • 100. Labor’s Great Upheaval (1936)
    • 101. Franklin D. Roosevelt on Economic Freedom (1936)
    • 102. Herbert Hoover on the New Deal and Liberty (1936)
    • 103. W. E. B. Du Bois, "A Nation Within a Nation" (1935)
  • 22. Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941–1945
    • 104. The Four Freedoms (1941)
    • 105. Henry R. Luce, The American Century (1941)
    • 106. Henry A. Wallace, "The Century of the Common Man" (1942)
    • 107. F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944)
    • 108. Justice Robert A. Jackson, Dissent in Korematsu v. United States (1944)
  • 23. America and the Cold War, 1945–1953
    • 109. The Truman Doctrine (1947)
    • 110. NSC 68 and the Ideological Cold War (1950)
    • 111. Walter Lippmann, a Critique of Containment (1947)
    • 112. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
    • 113. The Truman Administration and Civil Rights (1947)
    • 114. Henry Steele Commager on the Loyalty Crusade (1947)
  • 24. An Affluent Society, 1953–1960
    • 115. Freedom in Industrial Society (1960)
    • 116. Big Business and American Freedom (1952)
    • 117. C. Wright Mills on "Cheerful Robots" (1959)
    • 118. The Beats (1956)
    • 119. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
  • 25. The Sixties: 1960–1968
    • 120. James Baldwin on Student Radicals (1960)
    • 121. Lyndon B. Johnson, "Freedom is Not Enough" (1965)
    • 122. The Port Huron Statement and Participatory Democracy (1962)
    • 123. The Antiwar Movement (1965)
    • 124. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)
    • 125. César Chávez, Letter from Delano (1969)
  • 26. The Triumph of Conservatism: 1969–1988
    • 126. Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (1962)
    • 127. The Sharon Statement (1960)
    • 128. Barry Goldwater, "Extremism in the Defense of Liberty" (1964)
    • 129. Jimmy Carter on Human Rights (1977)
    • 130. The Reagan Revolution (1981)
  • 27. Globalization and Its Discontents: 1989–2000
    • 131. Declaration for Global Democracy (1999)
    • 132. The "Freedom Revolution" (1995)
    • 133. Bill Clinton, "America’s Millennium" (1999)
  • 28. Epilogue: 9/11 and the Next American Century
    • 134. George W. Bush, "They Hate Our Freedom" (2001)
    • 135. The National Security Strategy (2002)
    • 136. Robert Byrd on the War in Iraq (2003)
    • 137. Anthony Kennedy, "The Search for Greater Freedom" (2003)