MakingHistory
By Dan Allosso
MakingHistoryNov 27, 2023
US History II, Chapter 1
This is an audio version of the first chapter of my Open Textbook, US History II: Gilded Age to Present. You can read along at https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/ushistory2/chapter/chapter-1/
Surrender of Lee (1865)
Source: Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs (1886), II, 483-496. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/436/mode/2up
Among the Freedmen (1864)
Source: Elizabeth Hyde Botume, First Days Amongst the Contrabands (1893), 82-129. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/444/mode/2up
March to the Sea (1864)
Source: General William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs (1875), II, 171-90. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/428/mode/2up
Voting By Classes (1863)
Source: Daily Sun (Columbus, Georgia), October 13, 1863, quoted in Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History of the United States.
The Draft Riot (1863)
Source: Anna E. Dickinson, What Answer? (1868), 243-257. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/376/mode/2up
Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg (1863)
Source: James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox (1896), 385-395. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/372/mode/2up
On the Firing Line (1863)
Source: James K. Hosmer, The Color-Guard (1864), 187-195. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/264/mode/2up
Antietam (1862)
Source: George Washburn Smalley in New York Daily Tribune, September 20, 1862. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/346/mode/2up
Rising of the People (1861)
Source: Mary A. Livermore, My Story of the War (1889), 86-96. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/220/mode/2up
Principles of the Confederacy (1861)
Source: Jefferson Davis, in The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Fourth Series (1900), I, 104-106. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/188/mode/2up
No Extension of Slavery (1860-61)
Source: Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works (1894), I, 657-669. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/202/mode/2up
Crisis in South Carolina (1860)
Source: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the Civil War (1887), 47-55. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/182/mode/2up
Southern "Opponent" of Secession (1860)
Source: Alexander H. Stephens, A Constitutional View of the late War between the States (1870), II, 279-299. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/164/mode/2up
Result of the Election (1860)
Source: Senator John Sherman, letter to William Tecumseh Sherman, The Sherman Letters, 1837-1891 (1894), 85-88. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/162/mode/2up
A Warning (1876)
Source: Speech of Horatio Seymour to New York Electoral Commission (1876) quoted in John Bigelow, The Life of Samuel J. Tilden (1895), 84-9. https://archive.org/details/lifesamtilden02bigerich/page/84/mode/2up
Electoral Crisis (1877)
Source: Almira Russell Hancock, Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock (1887), 152-157. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/504/mode/2up
Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876)
Source: "Battle of the Little Bighorn, Narrated by an Indian Who Fought in It", by Two Moons in McClure's Magazine, September, 1898. http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/twomoonslittlebighorn.html
The Tidal Wave (1874)
Source: Hilary A. Herbert and others, Why the Solid South? or Reconstruction and its Results (1890), 61-69. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/500/mode/2up
Ku-Klux Klan (1871)
Source: House Reports, 42nd Congress, 2nd session (1872), II, pt. 1, 48-49. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/494/mode/2up
Fifteenth Amendment (1869)
Source: Henry Wilson in Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 40th Congress, 3rd session (1869), 153-154, February 8, 1869. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/492/mode/2up
Completion of the Pacific Railroad (1869)
Source: Henry Varnum Poor, Annual of the Railroads of the United States, 1869-1874 (1869), xlvi-xlviii. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/514/mode/2up
Arraignment of Reconstruction (1868)
Source: Samuel J. Tilden, Writings and Speeches (1885), I, 399-407. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/474/mode/2up
Eligibility of Colored Members to Seats (1868)
Source: Henry McNeal Turner, "On the Eligibility of Colored Members to Seats in the Georgia Legislature" (September 3, 1868). http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/mcnealturnergeorgialeg.html
Fourteenth Amendment (1866)
Source: Thaddeus Stevens in Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, 1st session (1866), 2459-2460, May 8, 1866. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/482/mode/2up
The South As It Is (1865-66)
Source: Edwin Lawrence Godkin, The Nation (1865, 1866), I, 209-210; II, 110-173. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/448/mode/2up
Presidential Reconstruction (1866)
Source: "President's Policy" by Andrew Johnson in the Daily National Intelligencer, February 23, 1866. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/468/mode/2up
Adoption of the 13th Amendment (1865)
Source: Horace Greeley, The New York Daily Tribune, February 1, 1865. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/464/mode/2up
Mississippi Black Codes (1865)
Source: Laws of the State of Mississippi, Passed at a Regular Session of the Mississippi Legislature, held in Jackson, October, November and December, 1865 (1866) 82-93, 165-167 http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/mississippiblackcode.html
An Impartial View (1865)
Source: Report by General Carl Schurz, Senate Executive Documents, 39th Congress, 1st session (1866), I, No. 2, 13-40. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/452/mode/2up
John Brown Broke the Laws (1859)
Source: New York Herald, October 21, 1859. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/146/mode/2up
A Slave Auction (1859)
Source: Horace Greeley, New-York Daily Tribune, March 9, 1859. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/74/mode/2up
Cotton is King (1858)
Source: Senate speech by James Henry Hammond, https://civilwarcauses.org/King%20Cotton%20speech.htm
The Irrepressible Conflict (1858)
Source: William H. Seward, The Irrepressible Conflict: a Speech Delivered at Rochester (1858), 1-7. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/138/mode/2up
A House Divided (1858)
Source: Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works (1894), I, 240-243. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/136/mode/2up
Impending Crisis of the South (1857)
Source: Hinton Rowan Helper, The Impending Crisis of the South (1857), http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/impendingcrisissouthhelper.html
Dred Scott Decision Reviewed (1857)
Source: Thomas H. Benton, Historical and Legal Examination . . . of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott Case (1857), 4-96. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/132/mode/2up
Dred Scott Decision (1857)
Source: Dred Scott v. Sandford, in Samuel F. Miller, Reports of Decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States (1875), II, 6-56. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/126/mode/2up
Civil War in Kansas (1856)
Source: Thomas H. Gladstone, The Englishman in Kansas; or, Squatter Life and Border Warfare (1857), 22-66. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/114/mode/2up
Fourth of July Address at Reidsville (1854)
Source: John Wannuaucon Quinney, From Great Documents in American Indian History, Edited by Moquin, Wayne and Charles Van Doren (1973). History is a Weapon, http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/johnquinney1854fourthofjulyaddress.html
Slavery a Positive Good (1854)
Source: B. F. Stringfellow, Negro-Slavery, no Evil (1854), 9-35. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/68/mode/2up
What, To a Slave, Is the Fourth of July? (1852)
Source: BlackPast, B. (2007, January 24). (1852) Frederick Douglass, “What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July”. BlackPast.org. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1852-frederick-douglass-what-slave-fourth-july/
Foundation of a New Party (1855)
Source: George W. Julian, Political Recollections, 1840-1872 (1884), 134-150. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/100/mode/2up
A Plea for the Oppressed (1850)
Source: Lucy Stanton, "A Plea For The Oppressed", Oberlin Evangelist, December 17, 1850. http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/stantonaplea.html
The Poor Whites (1850)
Source: Emily P. Burke, Reminiscences of Georgia (1850), 205-211. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/58/mode/2up
On the Underground Railroad (1850)
Source: Levi Coffin, Reminiscences (1876), 304-311. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/80/mode/2up
Danger of Disunion (1850)
Source: John C. Calhoun, Congressional Globe, 31st Congress, 1st session (1850), 451-455. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/48/mode/2up
Lyman Ranney Letters (1850)
Source: The Ranney Letters: Family Correspondence During the Yankee Migration, https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/ranneyletters/
Civil Disobedience (1849)
Source: Henry David Thoreau (1849). Original title: “Resistance to Civil Government”. http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/thoreaucivildisobe.html
A Forty-Niner (1849-50)
Source: Alonzo Delano, Life on the Plains and among the Diggings (1854), 14-351. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/42/mode/2up