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- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/Hist_121%3A_History_of_the_United_States_after_1865_(Conrad)/15%3A_The_Recent_Past/15.06%3A_The_Obama_YearsSenator Barack Obama had only been a member of the Illinois state senate when Congress debated the war actions, but he had publicly denounced the war, predicting the sectarian violence that would ensu...Senator Barack Obama had only been a member of the Illinois state senate when Congress debated the war actions, but he had publicly denounced the war, predicting the sectarian violence that would ensue, and remained critical of the invasion through his 2004 campaign for the U.S.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/Hist_121%3A_History_of_the_United_States_after_1865_(Conrad)/05%3A_The_Progressive_Era/5.06%3A_Jim_Crow_and_African_American_LifeFerguson decision that legalized segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine, Washington said to white Americans, “In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, ye...Ferguson decision that legalized segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine, Washington said to white Americans, “In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.” 39 Washington was both praised as a race leader and pilloried as an accommodationist to America’s unjust racial hierarchy; his public advocacy of a conciliatory posture toward white supremacy concealed the efforts to which he went to as…
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/Hist_121%3A_History_of_the_United_States_after_1865_(Conrad)/03%3A_Life_in_Industrial_America/3.03%3A_Immigration_and_UrbanizationSociologist Kenyon Butterfield, concerned by the sprawling nature of industrial cities and suburbs, regretted the eroding social position of rural citizens and farmers: “Agriculture does not hold the ...Sociologist Kenyon Butterfield, concerned by the sprawling nature of industrial cities and suburbs, regretted the eroding social position of rural citizens and farmers: “Agriculture does not hold the same relative rank among our industries that it did in former years.” Butterfield saw “the farm problem” as part of “the whole question of democratic civilization.” 8 He and many others thought the rise of the cities and the fall of the countryside threatened traditional American values.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/Hist_121%3A_History_of_the_United_States_after_1865_(Conrad)/14%3A_The_Triumph_of_the_Right/14.10%3A_The_New_Right_AbroadThe president’s underlings had not only violated the Boland Amendment but had also, by selling arms to Iran, made a mockery of Reagan’s declaration that “America will never make concessions to the ter...The president’s underlings had not only violated the Boland Amendment but had also, by selling arms to Iran, made a mockery of Reagan’s declaration that “America will never make concessions to the terrorists.” But while the Iran-Contra affair generated comparisons to the Watergate scandal, investigators were never able to prove Reagan knew about the operation.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/Hist_121%3A_History_of_the_United_States_after_1865_(Conrad)/03%3A_Life_in_Industrial_America/3.06%3A_ConclusionThe Jim Crow South stripped away the vestiges of Reconstruction, and New South boosters papered over the scars. In all of its many facets, by the turn of the twentieth century, the United States had b...The Jim Crow South stripped away the vestiges of Reconstruction, and New South boosters papered over the scars. In all of its many facets, by the turn of the twentieth century, the United States had been radically transformed. And the transformations continued to ripple outward into the West and overseas, and inward into radical protest and progressive reforms. For Americans at the twilight of the nineteenth century and the dawn of the twentieth, a bold new world loomed.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/Hist_121%3A_History_of_the_United_States_after_1865_(Conrad)/09%3A_World_War_II/9.13%3A_Reference_MaterialBarnhart, Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987); Dick Wilson, When Tigers Fight: The Story of the Sino-Japanese War, 19...Barnhart, Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987); Dick Wilson, When Tigers Fight: The Story of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945 (New York: Viking, 1982); and Mark Peattie, Edward Drea, and Hans van de Ven, eds., The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945 (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011).
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/Hist_121%3A_History_of_the_United_States_after_1865_(Conrad)/03%3A_Life_in_Industrial_America/3.01%3A_IntroductionHe described a rushed and crowded city, a “huge wilderness” with “scores of miles of these terrible streets” and their “hundred thousand of these terrible people.” “The show impressed me with a great ...He described a rushed and crowded city, a “huge wilderness” with “scores of miles of these terrible streets” and their “hundred thousand of these terrible people.” “The show impressed me with a great horror,” he wrote. “There was no color in the street and no beauty—only a maze of wire ropes overhead and dirty stone flagging under foot.” He took a cab “and the cabman said that these things were the proof of progress.” Kipling visited a “gilded and mirrored” hotel “crammed with people talking ab…
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/Hist_121%3A_History_of_the_United_States_after_1865_(Conrad)/08%3A_The_Great_Depression/8.01%3A_Voices_of_ProtestLong proposed a Share Our Wealth program in which the federal government would confiscate the assets of the extremely wealthy and redistribute them to the less well-off through guaranteed minimum inco...Long proposed a Share Our Wealth program in which the federal government would confiscate the assets of the extremely wealthy and redistribute them to the less well-off through guaranteed minimum incomes. “How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what’s intended for nine-tenths of the people to eat?” he asked.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/Hist_121%3A_History_of_the_United_States_after_1865_(Conrad)/07%3A_The_New_Era/7.06%3A_The_New_NegroThe 1920s represented a period of serious self-reflection among African Americans, most especially those in northern ghettos. New York City was a popular destination of American blacks during the Grea...The 1920s represented a period of serious self-reflection among African Americans, most especially those in northern ghettos. New York City was a popular destination of American blacks during the Great Migration. The city’s black population grew 257 percent, from 91,709 in 1910 to 327,706 by 1930 (the white population grew only 20 percent). Moreover, by 1930, some 98,620 foreign-born blacks had migrated to the United States. Nearly half made their home in Manhattan’s Harlem district.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/Hist_121%3A_History_of_the_United_States_after_1865_(Conrad)/08%3A_The_Great_Depression/8.11%3A_The_Bonus_ArmyGiven the economic hardships facing the country, the bonus came to symbolize government relief for the most deserving recipients, and from across the country more than fifteen thousand unemployed vete...Given the economic hardships facing the country, the bonus came to symbolize government relief for the most deserving recipients, and from across the country more than fifteen thousand unemployed veterans and their families converged on Washington, D.C. They erected a tent city across the Potomac River in Anacostia Flats, a “Hooverville” in the spirit of the camps of homeless and unemployed Americans then appearing in American cities.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/Hist_121%3A_History_of_the_United_States_after_1865_(Conrad)/04%3A_American_Empire/4.02%3A_Patterns_of_American_InterventionsMissions were established in almost every country of the Middle East, and even though their efforts resulted in relatively few converts, missionaries helped establish hospitals and schools, and their ...Missions were established in almost every country of the Middle East, and even though their efforts resulted in relatively few converts, missionaries helped establish hospitals and schools, and their work laid the foundation for the establishment of Western-style universities, such as Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey (1863), the American University of Beirut (1866), and the American University of Cairo (1919).
