The Underside of American History: Other Readings

From Preface: "'The Underside of American History,' intended to supplement existing textbooks, presents a selection of nontraditional readings in American history. These readings deal in various ways with a variety of oppressed groups in America. They do not attempt to give an exhaustive catalog of the prejudices and injustices that have plagued American life, but they do offer vivid testimony to the fact that much of today's unrest has its roots deep in the nation's past." ****** Contents: 1 - COLONIAL AMERICA * The Moral and Legal Justification for Dispossessing the Indians - Wilcomb E. Washburn * The Beginning of Slavery in North America - Winthrop D. Jordan * The Economic and Social Influence of the Indentured Servant - Marcus W. Jernegan * Popular Uprising and Civil Authority in 18th Century America - Pauline Maier 2 - THE NEW NATION * Enforcement of the Alien and Sedition Acts - James Morton Smith * Tecumseh, the Greatest Indian - Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. * Indian Removal and Land Allotment: The Civilized Tribes and Jacksonian Justice - Mary E. Young 3 - THE ANTE-BELLUM NORTH AND SOUTH * Religious Conflict in Ante-Bellum Boston - Oscar Handlin * The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860 * Through the Prism of Folkelore: The Black Ethos in Slavery - Sterling Stuckey 4 - WESTWARD EXPANSION * The Mormon Struggle for Autonomy - Norman F. Furniss * Anti-Chinese Sentiment in California - Elmer C. Sandmeyer * The Birth and Death of the Plains Indians - Peter Farb