| Description |
1 online resource (4 volumes) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
The Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series, 1080-4749 |
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Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series.
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| Contents |
v. 1. The War of Independence and antebellum expansion and reform, 1763-1861. From colonies to nationhood, 1763-1789 -- The New Nation Takes Shape, 1789-1820 -- Changes and conflict, 1821-1861 -- Primary documents. Glimpses of colonial society and life at Princeton College (1766) -- A narrative of the adventures, dangers, and sufferings of a Revolutionary War soldier (1778) -- A description of Philadelphia (1814) -- Cruelty to slaves on a Mississippi plantation (1819) -- Francis J. Grund on American homes (1837) -- Francis J. Grund on American newspapers (1837) -- Harriet Martineau describes Washington, D.C., in the 1830s -- Harriet Martineau's description of American slavery (1830s) -- Charles Dickens on the mill girls of Lowell, Massachusetts (1842) -- Frederick Douglass on the cruelty of slaveholders and the suffering of slaves (1845) -- Sir Charles Lyell describes a Boston school (1845) -- An American home (1849) -- An address to the Legislature of New York, adopted by the State Women's Rights Convention at Albany (February 1854) -- Frederick Law Olmsted describes the American South (1856) -- A steamboat ride on the Mississippi (1857) |
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v. 2. The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the industrialization of America, 1861-1900. Historical overview -- The Civil War -- Reconstruction -- The Period of exploitation -- Industrial Age -- Primary documents. Report of the discovery of a subterranean fountain of oil (1859) -- Personal advice author Timothy Titcomb on truth-telling (1861) -- The Morrill Act (1862) -- Lieutenant William J. Hardee's rifle and light infantry tactics (1862) -- Remembering the Battle of Gettysburg (1863) -- An Ohio schoolmaster's view of the earliest period of Reconstruction (1865) -- Excerpts from Ragged Dick, or street life in New York by Horatio Alger Jr. (1868) -- A farewell to the Buffalo Soldiers from their commander (1869) -- How beauty is spoiled (1870) -- Making peace with the Apache Chief Cochise (1872) -- The saga of Stone's Landing from the Gilded Age by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1873) -- The preface to Housekeeping in Old Virginia by Marion Cabell Tyree (1877) -- Progress and poverty or the single tax (1879) -- Etiquette for the table (1880s) -- Entries from the diary of Ruth Anna Abrams (1881) -- A snippet from a Doll's life (1880s) -- From hand-sewn to machine-sewn (1867-1899) -- Daniel Carter Beard's advice to American boys (1882) -- Lina and Adelia Beard on activities for girls (1887) -- The gospel of wealth (1889) -- Christmas Day menu (1890) -- The report on the marine guard at the legations at Peking (Beijing) during the Boxer Rebellion (1900) -- The jungle by Upton Sinclair (1906) |
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v. 3. The emergence of modern America, World War I, and the Great Depression, 1900-1940. Historical overview : the United States, 1900-1940 -- The Northeast -- The Middle Atlantic states -- The South -- The Midwest -- The Southwest and Rocky Mountain West -- The Pacific West -- Primary documents. President Theodore Roosevelt's corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (December 6, 1904) -- President Theodore Roosevelt's muckraker speech, "The man with the muck rake" (April 15, 1906) -- The New York Sun describes the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (April 19, 1906) -- Pure Food and Drug Act (June 30, 1906) -- Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution : "The income tax amendment" (ratified February 3, 1913) -- President Woodrow Wilson's first inauguration address (March 4, 1913) -- President Woodrow Wilson's declaration of neutrality (August 19, 1914) -- German warning of submarine attacks on British ships (May 2, 1915) -- Zimmerman note (January 16, 1917) -- President Woodrow Wilson's war message to Congress (April 2, 1917) -- Civil liberties during World War I : the Espionage Act (June 15, 1917) -- Conscientious objection : one objector's story -- President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (January 8, 1918) -- Women's right to vote : the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (ratified August 18, 1920) -- Prohibition enforcement (January 26, 1922) -- Immigration Act of 1924 (May 26, 1924) -- Florida hurricane of 1926 (September 19, 1926) -- Poverty in the prosperous 1920s : case studies of unemployed workers I -- Poverty in the prosperous 1920s : case studies of unemployed workers II -- Boulder Dam project : transcript of the Boulder Canyon Project Act (December 21, 1928) -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inaugural address (March 4, 1933) -- Franklin D. Roosevelt's first fireside chat (March 12, 1933) -- Another fireside chat : goals of the first New Deal (May 7, 1933) -- Repeal of Prohibition : the Twenty-First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (ratified December 5, 1933) -- Ending the all-white primary : Grovey v. Townsend (April 1, 1935) -- Insuring the future : the Social Security Act (August 14, 1935) -- Young and out of work during the Depression : the WPA Writer's Project I -- The American middle class in the Depression : the WPA Writers' Project II -- Recovery in Washington, D.C. : the WPA Writer's Project III -- Women in the Depression : the WPA Writer's Project IV -- President Franklin Roosevelt's "quarantine the enemy" speech (October 5, 1937) -- Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chat : "the arsenal of democracy" (December 29, 1940) -- President Franklin Roosevelt's four freedoms speech (January 6, 1941) -- President Franklin Roosevelt's "day of infamy" speech (December 8, 1941) |
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v. 4. Wartime, postwar, and contemporary America, 1940-present. Introduction and historical overview -- Daily life in the United States, 1940-1959 -- Daily life in the United States, 1960-1990 -- Daily life in the United States, 1991-2005 -- Primary Documents. Franklin D. Roosevelt's address to the nation following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (December 8, 1941) -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chat concerning the coal crisis (May 2, 1943) -- General Dwight D. Eisenhower's order of the day for D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy (June 6, 1944) -- Secretary of State George C. Marshall describes the Marshall Plan (June 5, 1947) -- Senator Margaret Chase Smith's Declaration of Conscience (June 1, 1950) -- William Faulkner accepts the Nobel Prize for Literature (September 10, 1950) -- U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling on desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education (May 17, 1954) -- President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address (January 20, 1961) -- Federal Communication Commission Chairman Newton Minnow declares television a "vast wasteland" (May 9, 1961) -- Robert Moses's "Letter from a Mississippi jail cell" (July 15, 1961) -- George C. Wallace's inaugural address as governor of Alabama (January 14, 1963) -- Madalyn Murray O'Hair's essay "The battle is joined" (June 10, 1963) -- President John F. Kennedy's address on civil rights (June 11, 1963) -- Civil Rights Act (July 2, 1964) -- President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Special message to the Congress : the American promise" (March 15, 1965) -- Voting Rights Act of 1965 (August 6, 1965) -- Excerpt from Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (June 23, 1972) -- Excerpt from the Supreme Court's decision on abortion rights in Roe v. Wade (January 22, 1973) -- President Ronald Reagan's remarks at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate (June 12, 1987) -- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Treaty (January 1, 1994) -- President George W. Bush's 9/11 address to the nation (September 11, 2001) -- Pope John Paul II's speech to 12 U.S. Cardinals on the sex abuse scandal in the American Catholic Church (April 23, 2002) -- Bill Cosby's "Pound cake speech," an address to the NAACP's gala to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (May 17, 2004) -- Karl Rove's address to the Federalist Society (November 10, 2005) |
| Summary |
The course of daily life in the United States has been a product of tradition, environment, and circumstance. How did the Civil War alter the lives of women, both white and black, left alone on southern farms? How did the Great Depression change the lives of working class families in eastern cities? How did the dicovery of gold in California transform the lives of native American, Hispanic, and white communities in western territories? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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Civilization
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Manners and customs
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Civilization -- Encyclopedias
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United States -- Social life and customs -- Encyclopedias
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United States -- Social conditions -- Encyclopedias
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
encyclopedias.
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Encyclopedias
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Encyclopedias.
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Encyclopédies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, Randall M.
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| ISBN |
9780313065361 |
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0313065365 |
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0313336997 |
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9780313336997 |
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1282419927 |
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9781282419926 |
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9786612419928 |
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661241992X |
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