The Soul of America

by Jon Meacham

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  ———. Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: An Illustrated History. Based on a documentary film by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

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  Whitman, James Q. Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2017.

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  Zahniser, J. D., and Amelia R. Fry. Alice Paul: Claiming Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

  Zakaria, Fareed. The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. Rev. ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007.

 
Zangwill, Israel. From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill’s Jewish Plays; Three Playscripts. Edited by Edna Nahshon. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006.

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  Selected Articles

  Abbott, Lyman. “A Review of President Roosevelt’s Administration IV: Its Influence on Patriotism and Public Service.” The Outlook, February 27, 1909, 430-34.

  Addams, Jane. “Why I Seconded Roosevelt’s Nomination.” Woman’s Journal 43 (August 17, 1912): 257, in JAMC (reel 47-0469), Special Collections, University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago.

  Baker, Peter. “DNA Shows Warren Harding Wasn’t America’s First Black President,” The New York Times, August 18, 2015.

  Brenner, Marie. “How Donald Trump and Roy Cohn’s Ruthless Symbiosis Changed America.” Vanity Fair, August 2017.

  Buckley, William F., Jr. “Goldwater, the John Birch Society, and Me.” Commentary, March 1, 2008, 52–54.

  Churchill, Winston S. “What Good’s a Constitution?” Collier’s, August 22, 1936, 386–93.

  Cooper, Melissa. “Reframing Eleanor Roosevelt’s Influence in the 1930s Anti-Lynching Movement Around a ‘New Philosophy of Government.’ ” European Journal of American Studies 12, no. 1 (Spring 2017), https://ejas.revues.org/​11914.

  Desmond, Frank. “McCarthy Charges Reds Hold U.S. Jobs.” The Wheeling (W.V.) Intelligencer, February 10, 1950.

  Douglass, Frederick. “An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage.” The Atlantic Monthly, January 1867, 112–17.

  Fairbanks, James David. “The Priestly Functions of the Presidency: A Discussion of the Literature on Civil Religion and Its Implications for the Study of Presidential Leadership.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 11, no. 2 (Spring 1981): 214–32.

  Felzenberg, Alvin S. “Calvin Coolidge and Race: His Record in Dealing with the Racial Tensions of the 1920s.” The New England Journal of History 55, no. 1 (Fall 1988), 83–96.

  Gleason, Philip. “The Melting Pot: Symbol of Fusion or Confusion?” American Quarterly 16, no. 1 (Spring 1964): 20–46.

  Goldman, Eric F. “The Presidency as Moral Leadership.” In Ethical Standards in American Public Life, ed. Clarence N. Callender and James C. Charlesworth, special issue, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 280 (March 1952): 37–45.

  Gould, Jack. “Television in Review: New ‘Format’ Brings Out the President’s Warmth and Charm Before Cameras.” The New York Times, April 6, 1954, 41.

  Graham, Sally Hunter. “Woodrow Wilson, Alice Paul, and the Woman Suffrage Movement.” Political Science Quarterly 98, no. 4 (Winter 1983–84): 665–79.

  Grantham, Dewey W., Jr. “Dinner at the White House: Theodore Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, and the South.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 17, no. 2 (June 1958): 112–30.

  Hacker, J. David. “A Census-Based Count of the Civil War Dead.” Civil War History 57, no. 4 (December 2011): 307–48.

  Hobbs, Allyson. “A Hundred Years Later, ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Hasn’t Gone Away.” The New Yorker, December 13, 2015.

  Howe, Julia Ward. “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” The Atlantic Monthly, February 1862, 145.

  Hsu, Hua. “The End of White America?” The Atlantic, January–February 2009.

  Johnson, Donald. “Wilson, Burleson, and Censorship in the First World War.” Journal of Southern History 28, no. 1 (February 1962): 46–58.

  Kraus, Joe. “How the Melting Pot Stirred America: The Reception of Zangwill’s Play and Theater’s Role in the American Assimilation Experience.” MELUS 24, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 3–19.

  Lawson, Steven F. “ ‘I Got It from the New York Times’: Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy Civil Rights Program.” Journal of Negro History vol. 67, no. 2 (Summer 1982): 159-73.

  Leuchtenburg, William E. “The Conversion of Harry Truman.” American Heritage, November 1991, 55–58.

  McCormick, Anne O’Hare. “Roosevelt’s View of the Big Job: The Presidency Is ‘a Superb Opportunity for Applying the Simple Rules of Human Conduct,’ Says the Democratic Candidate, Interviewed in the Midst of a Whirl of Varied Activity.” The New York Times, September 11, 1932.

  McPherson, James M. “Southern Comfort.” New York Review of Books, April 12, 2001, 28, 30–32.

  McVeigh, Rory. “Power Devaluation, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Democratic National Convention of 1924.” Sociological Forum 16, no. 1 (March 2001): 1–30.

  O’Toole, Patricia. “Assassination Foiled.” Smithsonian, November 2012, 64–65.

  Rhoads, William B. “Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Architecture of Warm Springs.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 67, no. 1 (Spring 1983): 70–87.

  “Robert Montgomery Presents: President as a Pro,” Life, April 19, 1954, 28–29.

  Rushay, Samuel W., Jr., “Harry Truman’s History Lessons.” Prologue 41, no. 1 (Spring 2009), https://www.archives.gov/​publications/​prologue/​2009/​spring/​truman-history.html.

  Schlesinger, Arthur M., [Sr.]. “The Lost Meaning of ‘The Pursuit of Happiness.’ ” William and Mary Quarterly 21, no. 3 (July 1964): 325–27.

  Schmoke, Kurt. “The Little Known History of Coolidge and Civil Rights.” Coolidge Quarterly 1, no. 3 (November 2016), 1–5.

  Shumsky, Neil Larry. “Zangwill’s ‘The Melting Pot’: Ethnic Tensions on Stage.” American Quarterly 27, no. 1 (March 1975): 29–41.

  Sterling, David L. “In Defense of Debs: The Lawyers and the Espionage Act Case.” Indiana Magazine of History 83, no. 1 (March 1987): 17–42.

  Swing, Raymond Gram. “The Menace of Huey Long: II. A Monarch in Pajamas.” The Nation, January 16, 1935, 69–71.

  Teachout, Terry. “Mencken Unsealed.” The New York Times, January 31, 1993.

  Teggart, Frederick J. “The Argument of Hesiod’s Works and Days.” Journal of the History of Ideas 8, no. 1 (January 1947): 45–77.

  Turlish, Lewis A. “The Rising Tide of Color: A Note on the Historicism of The Great Gatsby.” American Literature 43, no. 3 (November 1971): 442–44.

  United States Congress. “Resolution of Censure, Remarks of Senator Prescott Bush.” 83rd Cong., 2nd sess. Congressional Record 100, pt. 12 (December 1, 1954): 162–68.

  Vanden Heuvel, William J. “America and the Holocaust.” American Heritage, July–August 1999, 34–52.

  Weiss, Nancy J. “The Negro and the New Freedom: Fighting Wilsonian Segregation.” Political Science Quarterly 84, no. 1 (March 1969): 61–79.

  Wilson, Woodrow. “The Reconstruction of the Southern States.” The Atlantic Monthly, January 1901, 1–15.

  Dissertation

  Deaver, Jean Franklin. “A Study of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and ‘McCarthyism’ as Influences upon the News Media and the Evolution of Reportorial Method.” PhD diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1969.

  Online Resources

  Bailey, Greg. “This Presidential Speech on Race Shocked the Nation…in 1921.” Narratively, October 26, 2016. http://narrative.ly/​this-presidential-speech-on-race-shocked-the-nation-in-1921/.

  Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology. Edited by Walter A. Elwell. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1996. https://www.biblestudytools.com/​dictionaries/​bakers-evangelical-dictionary/.

  Boissoneault, Lorraine. “What Will Happen to Stone Mountain, America’s Largest Confederate Memorial?” Smithsonian.com, August 22, 2017. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/​history/​what-will-happen-stone-mountain-americas-largest-confederate-memorial-180964588/.

  Chisholm, Shirley. “Equal Rights for Women.” Address to the U.S. House of Representatives, May 21, 1969. https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/​2017/​03/​21/​equal-rights-for-women-may-21-1969/.

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tion of Sentiments and Resolutions: Woman’s Rights Convention, Held at Seneca Falls, 19–20 July 1848.” The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey. http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/​docs/​seneca.html.

  Douglass, Frederick. “Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln.” April 14, 1876. TeachingAmericanHistory.org. http://teachingamericanhistory.org/​library/​document/​oration-in-memory-of-abraham-lincoln/.

  Du Bois, W.E.B. “President Harding and Social Equality.” December 1921. TeachingAmericanHistory.org. http://teachingamericanhistory.org/​library/​document/​president-harding-and-social-equality.

  King Institute Encyclopedia. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Global Freedom Struggle. Stanford, Calif.: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University. https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia.

  Lewis, Thomas A. “When Washington, D.C. Came Close to Being Conquered by the Confederacy.” Smithsonian.com, July 1988. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/​history/​when-washington-dc-came-close-to-being-conquered-by-the-confederacy-180951994/.

  “Resonant Ripples in a Global Pond: The Blinding of Isaac Woodard.” University of South Carolina Upstate. https://faculty.uscupstate.edu/​amyers/​conference.html.

  Robin, Corey. “Forget About It,” Harper’s magazine (April 2018): 5–7.

  Rogers, James R. “The Meaning of ‘The Pursuit of Happiness.’ ” First Things, June 19, 2012. https://www.firstthings.com/​web-exclusives/​2012/​06/​the-meaning-of-the-pursuit-of-happiness.

  Roosevelt, Theodore. “Citizenship in a Republic.” Almanac of Theodore Roosevelt. http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/​trsorbonnespeech.html.

  ———. “Lincoln and the Race Problem.” BlackPast.Org: Remembered and Reclaimed; An Online Reference Guide to African American History. http://www.blackpast.org/​1905-theodore-roosevelt-lincoln-and-race-problem.

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