Required Readings and Resources
Give My Liberty: American History:
Chapter 15: “What is Freedom?”: Reconstruction, 1865–1877 (pages 564–602)
Chapter 16: America’s Guilded Age, 1878–1890 (pages 603–648)
Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History, Chapter 15:
“Petition of Black Residents of Nashville” (1865), pages 1–4.
“The Mississippi Black Code” (1865), pages 7–11.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Home Life” (ca. 1875), pages 14–17.
Frederick Douglass, “The Composite Nation” (1869), pages 18–23.
Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History, Chapter 16:
Andrew Carnegie, “The Gospel of Wealth” (1889), pages 32–35.
William Graham Sumner, “On Social Darwinism” (1880), pages 35–39.
Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879), pages 42–45.
Walter Rauschenbusch, “The Social Gospel” (1912), pages 49–
Guides to Performing Primary Source Analysis
“How to Read a Primary Source” by Zachary Schrag
https://historyprofessor.org/research/how-to-read-a-primary-source/
“How to Analyze a Primary Source” by Molly Ladd-Taylor, Annette Igra, Rachel Seidman, and others
https://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/resources/study/primary/
“Interrogating Texts: Six Reading Habits to Develop in Your First Year at Harvard” by Susan Gilroy, Librarian for Undergraduate Writing Programs, Lamont Library
http://guides.library.harvard.edu/sixreadinghabits
How to Do Citations
Since there are two books either written or edited by Eric Foner, the citations for the textbook, Give Me Liberty, shoudl give the authors last name, a key word from the book’s title, and the page referenced: (Foner, Liberty, 29).
For the sourcebook, Voices of Freedom, you will need to use three different forms of citations. For the introductory paragraphs to each text, which are Foner’s contextualizations of the texts, use the editor’s last name, a key word from the book’s title, and the page number referenced: (Foner, Voices, 1).
Otherwise, whenever a text has a distinct author (such as Adam Smith), use that author’s name and the page number (Smith, 3). If the text does NOT have a distinct author (like “Jewish Petition to the Dutch West India Company”), furnish key words from the the title of the text and the page number: (“Jewish Petition” 21).
By making distinctions between the author of each piece, you make it easier for your reader to know who you are getting your information from.
Please answer each question with a minimum of 150 words and please follow all the instructions above.
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- From your reading of Andrew Carnegie’s “The Gospel of Wealth” and William Graham Sumner’s “On Social Darwinism,” what were some people’s perceptions of the Gilded Age?
- In terms of Henry George’s Progress and Poverty and Walter Rauschenbusch’s “The Social Gospel,” what were individual’s concerns regarding reforms?
- In what ways do the “Petition of Black Residents of Nashville” and “The Mississippi Black Code” tell us about former slaves’ and slaveholders’ views of freedom?
