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HISTORY 17B
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS

This page contains the primary documents you will be reading throughout the semester.  You must complete the readings by the first session of each week.  Highlighted authors are linked to sites that will give you background material on who wrote each of these passages (but are not part of the required reading).

WEEK 1

THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION ADDRESS (1895)

by Booker T. Washington

OF MR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND OTHERS

by W.E.B. DuBois


WEEK 6

TRUMAN'S DECISION TO DROP THE BOMB

by Harry Truman

A SURVIVOR'S ACCOUNT OF THE HIROSHIMA BLAST (1945)

by Hiroko Nakamoto


WEEK 8

LONG TELEGRAM (1946) 

by George Kennan



WEEK 9

friedan2.jpg (7835 bytes) THE PROBLEM THAT HAS NO NAME 

by Betty Friedan

UP FROM THE POTATO FIELDS (1950)

Time Magazine

 

"'LEAVE IT TO BEAVER' AND 'OZZIE AND HARRIET':  AMERICAN FAMILIES IN THE 1950S"

by Stephanie Coontz


WEEK 10

LETTER FROM A BIRMINGHAM CITY JAIL (April 16, 1963)

by Martin Luther King, Jr.

MESSAGE TO THE GRASS ROOTS (1963)

by Malcolm X


WEEK 11

PEASANT EXPERIENCES IN THE VIETNAM WAR

from the International Commission of Enquiry into U.S. Crimes in Indochina (1972)

mylai.jpg (60120 bytes) MY LAI MASSACRE

Testimony of Dennis Conti (1970)

PORT HURON STATEMENT (1962)

from Students for a Democratic Society


WEEK 12

THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION THE PARANOID STYLE IN AMERICAN POLITICS

by Richard Hofstadter

 

WEEK 13

40th PRESIDENT RODE BOUNDLESS OPTIMISM

by


WEEK 14

THE DISUNITING OF AMERICA (Foreword)

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

lv_riot1.jpg (40468 bytes) LAS VEGAS

by Mike Davis

SOME PEOPLE DON'T COUNT

by Marc Cooper and Greg Goldin


Week 15

PRESIDENT BUSH'S ADDRESS TO CONGRESS AFTER THE 9-11 TRAGEDY (Sept 20, 2001)

MR. BUSH IS WALKING INTO A TRAP

by Robert Fisk