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Klappentext The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. Each Annual Editions volume has a number of features designed to make them especially valuable for classroom use; including a brief overview for each unit, as well as Learning Outcomes, Critical Thinking questions, and Internet References to accompany each article. Go to the McGraw-Hill Create(TM) Annual Editions Article Collection at http://www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/annualeditions to browse the entire collection. Select individual Annual Editions articles to enhance your course, or access and select the entire Maier-Sarti: Annual Editions: United States History, Volume 2: Reconstruction Through the Present, 23/e book here at http://create.mheducation.com/createonline/index.html#qlink=search%2Ftext%3Disbn:1259431460 for an easy, pre-built teaching resource. Visit http://create.mheducation.com for more information on other McGraw-Hill titles and special collections. Inhaltsverzeichnis UNIT 1: Reconstruction and the Gilded Age 1. The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction on the World Stage, Edward L. Ayers, OAH Magazine of History, 2006.The Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction were seminal events in American history. The author argues that the war and its aftermath "has carried a different meaning for every generation of Americans" and "embodied struggles that would confront people on every continent." 2. The Nez Perce Flight for Justice, W. David Edmunds, American Heritage, 2008.Despite a long history of cooperation with whites, in 1877 the Nez Perce Indians led by Chief Joseph were thrown off their historic lands in Oregon. Driven from place to place over a distance of 1,000 miles, the exhausted band finally was defeated in September of that year. "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad," Joseph stated. "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever." 3. The Life and Times of Hetty the Hoarder, the Witch of Wall Street, Theresa Oneill, Mental Floss, 2013.Hetty Green was one of the wealthiest and influential Americans of her time, yet her name is seldom, if ever mentioned in the same narrative as a Carnegie or Vanderbilt, let alone as an entry in a textbook index. A ruthless businesswoman who had more in common with John Rockefeller than not, as she "was a financier ... [who] oversaw tremendous real estate deals, bought and sold railroads, and made loans. She was particularly adept at prospering during the downfall of others; buying falling stocks, foreclosing properties, and even holding entire banks, entire cities, at her mercy through enormous loans." Yet, because of her many eccentricities, she has been portrayed as an uncaring, unnatural "witch" who was incapable of caring for anyone save her dog Dewey. In capturing gender precepts of the age, we can look to Hetty herself, who said that I am not a hard woman, but because I do not have a secretary to announce every kind act I perform I am called close and mean and stingy." 4. Mark Twain's Satanic Existentialist: The Mysterious Stranger, Bennett Kravitz, European Journal of American Culture, 2014.During the Gilded Age, there was great stratification between all socioeconomic classes. Culturally, it appeared that societal expectations were rampant with optimism but how realistic was this? Who better than Mark Twain to challenge these expectations and demand that Americans look for more beyond any prescribed limitations. Kravitz argues that we should look at "Twain's The Mysterious Stranger in the context of American optimism at the onset of the twentieth century. While often...
