Speaking History Oral Histories of the American Past 1865 Present 1st Edition by Sue Armitage, Laurie Mercier 1403977836 9781403977830

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ISBN 10: 1403977836

ISBN 13: 9781403977830

Author: Sue Armitage, Laurie Mercier

This oral history reader, designed to supplement texts on the second half of the U.S. history survey, features the words of ordinary people who describe how they shaped, viewed, and remembered American history.

Table of contents:

One 1865–1900
Race Relations
The End of Slavery: Boston Blackwell
Sharecropping and Violence: Hughsey Childes and Minnie Whitney
A California Remembers the War: Doña Angustias de la Guerra
A Wounded Knee Survivor Remembers: Dewey Beard
Work on the Western Agricultural Frontier
A Homesteader’s Account: Will H. Berger
A Cowboy’s Story: Richard Phillips
Immigration
A Greek Peddler: Anonymous
A Chinese Businessman: Woo Gen
Industrial War
The Homestead Strike: John Holway

Two 1900–1920
Reform Movements
Women’s Reform: Sylvie Thygeson and Rebecca Reyher
Race and Work in the South
Child Labor: Naomi Trammel
Growing Up with Segregation: Avery Downing
Migrations
From Russia to Chicago and Montana: Dora Rosenzweig
Beginning the Great Migration: M. Kelly Fritz
World War I
At the Front: Homer Nikirk
On the Homefront: Lola Clyde and Adin McKeown
The Influenza Epidemic: Lela Oman

Three 1920–1945
Migrations
North to the United States for “a Steady Job”: Epigmenio “Manuel” Rosales
From Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California: Mildred Lenora Morris Ward
Involuntary Migration to Mexico: Emilia Castañeda de Valenciana
Leisure and Culture in the 1920s and 1930s
Drinking and Leisure during Prohibition: Helen Raymond
American Renaissance: Marvel Cooke
Turn Your Radio On: John Koch
Work and Labor during the Great Depression
The New CIO and the 1937 Steel Strike: Thomas White
Working for the Civilian Conservation Corps: Marvin Whaley
Discrimination and the Depression: Rev Walter M. Cavers
World War II: Opportunities and Tragedies
Women at Work: LueRayne Culbertson
Women at War: Violet Hill Gordon
Negotiating Internment: Amy Uno Ishii

Four 1945–1965
The Cold War at Home
The Left during the Cold War: Rose Leopold
The Cold War and Labor: Frank Fiorello
Migrations
Opportunities in the Industrial North: Joe Farmer
Urban Indians: Gertrude Chapoose Willie
Race and Civil Rights
Desegregating the Nation’s Capital: Christine Stewart McCreary
Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi: Unita Blackwell
Postwar Work, Family, and Community
Negotiating Career and Family in Arizona: Belen Soto Moreno
Life in the D.C. Suburbs: Valerie Vahouny

Five 1965–2000
Protest and Social Change
Rock ‘n’ Roll and Cultural Protest: Gerald Vincent “Gerry” Casale
Radical Protest—SDS and the Weatherman: Jonathan Lerner
The Gender Revolution and its Backlash
The Dawning of the Gay Rights Movement: Warren Allen Smith
The Conservative Women’s Movement: Kathryn (Kay) King Regan
Cold War Warriors
Vietnam War Soldiers: Dave Taylor
The Nuclear Cold War and Its Environmental Consequences: Ian Dominic Zabarte
Cold War Migrations
“Born a Hmong Daughter”: Bo Thao
Sanctuary for Central American Refugees: Ninfa Ochoa Krueger
Economic Change and New Domestic Challenges
Shrinking Jobs in the Industrial Economy: Kenneth Hill
Domestic Terrorism and the Oklahoma City Bombing: Hal McKnight

Appendix How to Conduct an Oral History Interview: A Quick Guide
Select Bibliography

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