The Way we lived : essays and documents in American social history [compiled by] Frederick M. Binder, David M. Reimers

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reimers, David M.

Binder, Frederick M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Sources.

United States.

United States--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Mass. : D.C. Heath, c1988.

Contents:

Boston and New York in the eighteenth century / Pauline Maier. Benjamin Franklin's Union Fire Company, 1738. Philadelphia, 1748. The scourge of yellow fever, Philadelphia, 1793. This bleeding land / Robert A. Gross. A Tory punished, 1775. Tories vilified, 1779. A New Hampshire boy joins the Navy, 1779. The factory as a republican community / John F. Kasson. Lowell : a cooperative worker, 1844. Lowell : a "dissident worker," 1845. Lowell : management's view, 1845. The trail of tears / Dee Brown. Memorial of the Cherokee nation, 1830. Removal defended, 1830. The "crime" of removal, 1838. Women and their families on the Overland Trail to California and Oregon, 1842, 1867 / Johnny Faragher and Christine Stansell. Oregon fever, 1845. Emigrants to Texas, c. 1857. Woman's profession, 1869. Walking and leaping and praising God / Bernard Weisberger.

A camp meeting, 1829. Visiting the Shakers, c. 1841. A letter from Brook Farm, 1841. The Philadelphia Native American riots of 1844 / Michael Feldberg. Irish immigrants : a sympathetic view, c. 1833. A native-born American's response to the Irish immigrants, 1838-1857. Strong drink / Ronald G. Walters. "And I will be heard," 1831. The "reformatory and elevating influences" of the public schools, 1848. The convictions of a peace advocate, 1854. A feminist marries, 1855. A slave family in the ante bellum South / Loren Schweninger. Sold at auction, c. 1820. Northern racism, 1837. Negro churches in Savannah, c. 1860. Glory can not atone : Shiloh, April 6, 7, 1862." The fall of Fort Sumter. The South celebrates, 1861. The fall of Fort Sumter : the North responds, 1861. A Black soldier writes to President Lincoln, 1863. Recollections of war, 1875.

Immigrant women in Tampa : the Italian experience, 1890-1930 / Gary R. Mormino and George E. Pozzetta. Tenement cigar makers, c. 1890. The experience of a Chinese immigrant, 1880-1903. Rose Schneiderman and the Triangle fire / Bonnie Mitelman. Memoirs of a sweatshop girl, 1902. "Our daily life is not a pleasant one, 1902." Risking life and limb in PIttsburgh's steel mills, 1910. Going into Canaan / William M. Tuttle. "I want to come North," 1917. "Protect your property!" (1919), 1920. Race riot in Chicago, 1919. The Doughboy's war ; an extraordinary interlude / David M. Kennedy. Diary of an unknown aviator, 1918. German-American loyalty, 1917. Letters from Mennonite draftees, 1918.

v. 1. 1607-1877: The Seneca nation of Indians / Anthony F.C. Wallace. The Indian as noble savage, 1709. The Indian as ruthless savage, 1782. An Indian's view, 1805. Looking out for number one : conflicting cultural values in early seventeenth-century Virginia / T.H. Breen. The experiences of an indentured servant, 1623. "We shall be as a citty upon a Hill,"1630. The middle passage / Daniel P. Mannix and Malcolm Cowley. Voyage from Africa, 1756. An immigrant's journey, 1750. Husbands and wives, parents and children in Plymouth Colony / John Demos. Two poems, 1678. The duty of children toward their parents, 1727. Good manners for colonial children, 1772. The churchgoers / Patricia U. Bonomi. A New York act to encourage the baptizing of Negro, Indian, and Mulatto slaves, 1706. The Great Awakening in Connecticut, 1740. Opposition to the Great Awakening, c. 1742.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives

ISBN:

066909031X (pbk. : v. 2)

0669090301 (pbk. : v. 1)

OCLC:

18018463