Primary Sources
Spring 2007
TA: J.M. Johnson
Assignments
Writing Assignment
Primary Source Assignment
Discussion Essay: Week 3, 4 and 5
Week 1: January 29 to February 2
Two Images of the Freedmen's Bureau
Who Shall Dictate the Terms? The Franklin Respository
Spotswood Rice Addresses His Former Master on the matter of his daughter Mary
What Are We To Do? The Valley Virginian
Week 2: February 5 to February 9
Henry Demarest Lloyd, "The Lords of Industry," North American Review 331 (June 1884)
Thomas Nast, "The Chinese Question," Harper's Weekly February 18, 1871
"New York's Hester Street"
Week 3: February 12 to February 16
Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise"
W. E. B. DuBois's critique
People's Platform, adopted in Omaha, NE, July 1892
Plessy v. Ferguson
"Typical Gold-Bugs", Harper's Weekly, July 11, 1896
"It Is No Longer the Republican Party of Lincoln, But of Robbery and Rothschilds" from Sound Money October 22, 1896
Week 4: February 19 to February 23
Progressive Party Platform, August 1912
Working for the Triangle Shirtwaist Company
Week 5: February 28 to March 2nd
Josiah Strong, Excerpt from Our Country (1885)
The Teller Amendment
"School Begins" cartoon from Puck (on page 578 of Foner Textbook)
Week 6: March 5 to March 9
Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" speech, January 1918
The Niagara Movement's "Declaration of Principles," 1905
Interrogating Birth of a Nation
