Many document readers offer lots of sources, but only Going to the Source combines a rich selection of primary sources with in-depth instructions for how to use each type of source. Mirroring the chronology of the U.S. history survey, each chapter familiarizes students with a single type of source while focusing on an intriguing historical episode such as the Cherokee Removal or the 1894 Pullman Strike. Students practice working with a diverse range of source types including photographs, diaries, oral histories, speeches, advertisements, political cartoons, and more. A capstone chapter in each volume prompts students to synthesize information on a single topic from a variety of source types. The wide range of topics and sources across 28 chapters provides students with all they need to become fully engaged with America’s history.

Preface

Introduction: Historians and Their Sources

1 Political Terrorism during Reconstruction: Congressional Hearings and Reports on the Ku Klux Klan

What Can Congressional Hearings and Reports Tell Us? 0

checklist: Interrogating Congressional Hearings and Reports

Source Analysis Table

1. Testimony of Samuel T. Poinier, Washington, D.C., June 7, 1871

2. Testimony of D. H. Chamberlain, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1871

3. Testimony of Elias Thomson, Spartanburg, South Carolina, July 7, 1871

4. Testimony of Lucy McMillan, Spartanburg, South Carolina, July 10, 1871

5. Testimony of Mervin Givens, Spartanburg, South Carolina, July 12, 1871

6. Majority Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, February 19, 1872, Submitted by Luke P. Poland

7. Minority Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, February 19, 1872, Submitted by James B. Beck

2 Picturing a Western Myth: Photography and the Blackfeet Indians

What Can Photographs Tell Us?

checklist: Interrogating Photographs

Source Analysis Table

1. Greetings from Glacier National Park, c. 1920

2. Great Northern Railway Calendar, 1923

3. Blackfeet and Park Golfers, c. 1930

4. Spearfishing in Glacier National Park, date unknown

5. Two Guns White Calf Reading, date unknown

6. Old Ration Place, date unknown

7. Blackfeet Performance, c. 1930

8. Family at Sun Dance Encampment, 1908

9. Students with Their Harvest, 1912

10. Mad Plume Family Harvest, c. 1920

11. Blackfeet Girl at Glacier National Park Switchboard, c. 1920

12. Sewing Class at the Cut Bank Boarding School, 1907

3 Reading the 1894 Pullman Strike: Chicago’s Daily Papers Report the News

What Can Newspaper Articles Tell Us?

checklist: Interrogating Newspaper Articles

Source Analysis Table

1. Chicago Tribune, May 12, 1894, page 1

2. Chicago Times, May 12, 1894, page 1

3. Chicago Tribune, May 15, 1894, page 8

4. Chicago Times, May 15, 1894, page 1

5. Chicago Tribune, June 26, 1894, page 8

6. Chicago Times, June 26, 1894, page 1

7. Chicago Tribune, June 28, 1894, page 1

8. Chicago Times, June 28, 1894, page 1

9. Chicago Tribune, July 1, 1894, page 1

10. Chicago Times, July 1, 1894, page 1

11. Chicago Tribune, July 7, 1894, page 1

12. Chicago Times, July 7, 1894, page 1

13. Chicago Tribune, July 15, 1894, page 1

14. Chicago Times, July 15, 1894, page 1

4 Settling into Our Memories: Three Immigrant Women’s Autobiographies

What Can Autobiographies Tell Us?

checklist: Interrogating Autobiographies

Source Analysis Table

1. I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl by Hilda Satt Polacheck

2. Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side by Rose Cohen

3. Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant as recounted by Marie Hall Ets

5 Selling Respectability: Advertisements in the African American Press, 1910–1913

What Can Magazine Advertisements Tell Us?

checklist: Interrogating Advertisements

Source Analysis Table

1. Philip A. Payton, Jr., Company

2. White Rose Working Girls’ Home

3. Hotel Dale

4. Bussing-Wheaton Kitchen Supplies

5. Jackson Specialty Company

6. N.Y. & N.J. Industrial Exchange

7. International Realty Corporation

8. Cottman & Cottman Shipping

9. Nyanza Drug Co. & Pharmacy

10. Blackdom, New Mexico

11. Wilberforce University

12. Daytona Educational and Industrial School for Negro Girls

13. Knoxville College

14. Provident Hospital and Training School for Colored Nurses

15. Self-Published Books on the Race Question

16. Mary White Ovington on the Race Question

17. National Negro Doll Company

18. Solomon Garrett, Tonsorial Artist

19. Madame C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company

20. The Dunbar Company: Face Powder

6 Living under Fire: World War I Soldiers’ Diaries

What Can Wartime Diaries Tell Us?

checklist: Interrogating Diaries

Source Analysis Table

1. Corporal Eugene Kennedy, Company E, 303rd Engineers, Seventy-eighth Division, AEF

2. Captain John M. Trible, Medical Corps, Sanitary Train, Third Infantry Division, AEF

3. Sergeant Elmer F. Straub, 150th Field Artillery, Forty-second Rainbow Division

7 Singing of Struggle: Mexican Workers’ Folk Songs from the American Southwest

What Can Folk Music Tell Us?

checklist: Interrogating Song Lyrics

Source Analysis Table

1. An Emigrant’s Farewell (Despedida de un norteño)

2. Advice to the Northerners (Consejos a los norteños)

3. The Northerners (Los norteños)

4. Defense of the Emigrants (Defensa de los norteños)

5. Ballad of Pennsylvania (Corrido de Pensilvania)

6. Verses of the Beet-Field Workers ( Versos de los betabeleros)

7. Mexicans Who Speak English (Los Mexicanos que hablan ingles)

8. Radios and Chicanos (Radios y chicanos)

9. The Ranch (El rancho)

10. Red Bandannas (Los paños colorados)

8 Painting a New Deal: U.S. Post Office Murals from the Great Depression

What Can Public Art Tell Us?

checklist: Interrogating Public Art

Source Analysis Table

1. The Riveter by Ben Shahn, Bronx, New York, 1938

2. Development of the Land by Elsa Jemne, Ladysmith, Wisconsin, 1938

3. Postman in a Storm by Robert Tabor, Independence, Iowa, 1938

4. Legend of James Edward Hamilton — Barefoot Mailman by Stevan Dohanos, West Palm Beach, Florida, 1940

5. Tennessee Valley Authority by Xavier Gonzalez, Huntsville, Alabama, 1937

6. Plowshare Manufacturing by Edward Millman, Moline, Illinois, 1937

7. Sorting the Mail by Reginald Marsh, Washington, D.C., 1936

8. Mining by Michael Lenson, Mount Hope, West Virginia, 1942

9. Orange Picking by Paul Hull Julian, Fullerton, California, 1942

10. Tobacco Industry by Lee Gatch, Mullins, South Carolina, 1939

9 Challenging Wartime Internment: Supreme Court Records from Korematsu v. United States

What Can Supreme Court Records Tell Us?

checklist: Interrogating Court Documents

Source Analysis Table

1. Part Three of the Brief Submitted by the Solicitor General of the United States and the Department of Justice Supporting Korematsu’s Conviction

2. Brief Submitted by Wayne M. Collins, Counsel for Appellant

3. Amicus Curiae Briefs Submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union

4. Amicus Curiae Brief Submitted by the Japanese American Citizens’ League on Behalf of Fred Korematsu

5. The Opinion of the Supreme Court, Issued December 18, 1944

6. Justice Owen J. Roberts, Dissenting from the Majority

7. Justice Frank Murphy, Dissenting from the Majority

8. Justice Robert Jackson, Dissenting from the Majority

10 The Cold War Heats Up: Presidential Recordings from the Cuban Missile Crisis

What Can Presidential Tapes Tell Us?

checklist: Interrogating Presidential Tapes

Source Analysis Table

1. Tuesday, October 16, 6:30 p.m. (Day One of the crisis)

2. Thursday, October 18, 11:10 a.m. (Day Three of the crisis)

3. Saturday, October 27, 10:00 a.m. (Day Twelve of the crisis)

4. Saturday, October 27, 4:00 p.m. (Day Twelve of the crisis)

11 Speaking of Equality: The Senate Debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964

What Can Senate Speeches Tell Us?

checklist: Interrogating Congressional Speeches

Source Analysis Table

1. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Montana), February 17, 1964

2. Senator Richard Russell (D-Georgia), February 25, 1964

3. Senator John Stennis (D-Mississippi), March 10, 1964

4. Senator Hubert Humphrey (D-Minnesota), March 30, 1964

5. Senator Thomas Kuchel (R-California), March 30, 1964

6. Senator Sam Ervin (D-North Carolina), April 11, 1964

7. Senator Strom Thurmond (D-South Carolina), April 14, 1964

8. Senator James O. Eastland (D-Mississippi), April 18, 1964

9. Senator Everett Dirksen (R-Illinois), June 10, 1964

10. Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona), June 18, 1964

12 Red Power in South Dakota: Oral Histories about the Occupation of Wounded Knee

What Can Oral Histories Tell Us?

checklist: Interrogating Oral Histories

Source Analysis Table

1. Interview with Asa Primeaux, June 1, 1973

2. Interview with Dick Wilson, July 17, 1973

3. Interview with Bessie Cornelius, July 17, 1973

4. Interview with Jere Brennan, July 18, 1973

5. Interview with Mike Her Many Horses, July 18, 1973

6. Interview with Lewis Bad Wound, September 24, 1974

7. Interview with Robert McBride, May 26, 1976

13 Drawn to Summits: Political Cartoons on President Reagan and the Arms Race

What Can Political Cartoons Tell Us?

checklist: Interrogating Political Cartoons

Source Analysis Table

1. He’s got to eat to have the strength to start reducing by Jim Mazzotta, Fort Myers News Press, 1982

2. Surely they’ll not be so stupid as to keep on coming! by Bob Artley, Worthington Daily Globe, 1982

3. I’m surprised at how the president dealt with the Russians . . . by Walt Handelsman, Catonsville Times, 1983

4. Go on, Yuri, make my day . . . by Mike Peters, Dayton Daily News, 1984

5. The U.S. bargaining chip! The Soviet bargaining chip, chip, chip, chip! by Chuck Asay, Colorado Springs Sun, 1985

6. Gentlemen, start your engines! by Jeff MacNelly, Chicago Tribune, 1985

7. The Soviets are a bunch of rabid, murdering . . . by Mike Graston, Windsor Star, 1985

8. Hey, maybe we should do this more often by Hy Rosen, Albany Times-Union, 1985

9. Reykjavik summit destroyed by Star Wars by Jerry Fearing, St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press, 1986

10. Little Ronnie Reagan and his imaginary friend by Mike Keefe, Denver Post, 1987

11. Evolution by Joe Majeski, Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, 1988

CAPSTONE Organizing Their Lives: Women, Work, and Family, 1950–2000

What Can Multiple Source Types Tell Us?

Source Analysis Table

1. Meeting of Union of Auto, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW-CIO), Public debate. March 27–April 1, 1955

2. Modern American Housewife, Letter to the editor. Ladies’ Home Journal, March 1956

3. Women Know They Are Not Men: When Will Business Learn This Valuable Secret and Arrange Women’s Working Conditions Accordingly? Survey report. Florida Scott-Maxwell, Ladies’ Home Journal, November 1958

4. American Women: Report of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, Government report. October 1963

5. Should Mothers Work? Advice column. Dr. Benjamin Spock, Ladies’ Home Journal, January–February 1963

6. Why Feminists Want Child Care, Position paper. National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), 1969

7. Veto of the Comprehensive Child Development Act, Presidential message. President Richard M. Nixon, December 9, 1971

8. What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women? Political newsletter. The Phyllis Schlafly Report, February 1972

9. Parents Are People, Children’s song. Carol Hall for Free to Be You and Me, 1972

10. Ms. Magazine Cover, Illustration. Miriam Wosk, Spring 1972

11. The Second Stage, Book. Betty Friedan, 1981

12. Should We Expect Black Women to Be Supermothers? Magazine article. Claudia Tate, Ebony, September 1984

13. For Better or For Worse, Cartoon strip. Lynn Johnston, 1984

14. National Opinion Research Center Poll: Women, Work, and Family, Survey data. 1972–1998