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Defining Documents in American History: The 1900s (1900-1909)

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




Politics and Reform




William McKinley: Last Speech




Eugene V. Debs: “How I Became a Socialist”




Lincoln Steffens: “The Shame of Minneapolis”




Anna Howard Shaw: Address on the Place of Women in Industry and Address on the Condition of Women in Industry




American Antiquities Act




Pure Food and Drug Act




Jane Addams: “Passing of the War Virtues”




Muller v. Oregon




Robert La Follette: Speech on the Amendment of National Banking Laws




Samuel Gompers: Editorial on the Supreme Court Ruling in the Danbury Hatters’ Case




Foreign Challenges




Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on the Retention of the Philippine Islands




The Insular Cases: Downes v. Bidwell




Boxer Protocol




Vladimir Lenin: What Is to Be Done?




Panama Canal Treaty




Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine




The Treaty of Portsmouth




John Kenneth Turner: Barbarous Mexico




African American Debates




Ida B. Wells: “Lynch Law in America”




George H. White: Farewell Address to Congress




Booker T. Washington: “Statement on Suffrage”




W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk




W. E. B. Du Bois: “The Parting of the Ways”




Ida B. Wells: “Booker T. Washington and His Critics”




Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles




Theodore Roosevelt: Brownsville Legacy Special Message to the Senate




Native American Life




Charles Eastman: Indian Boyhood




Edward S. Curtis: Introduction to The North American Indian




Religion and Philosophy




Rufus M. Jones: “Essential Truths”




Rudolf Steiner: Theosophy




Appendixes




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography