9 Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Lynch Law in Georgia (i899) 7, i0. For a modern assessment of the Hose case, see Edwin T. Arnold, What Virtue There is in Fire: Cultural Memory and the Lynching of Sam Hose (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2009).
10 Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases (New York, 1892).
11 New York Times, February 24, 1884.
12 John Greenleaf Whittier to John Murray Forbes, June 12, 1891, in Hughes (ed.), Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, II, 227.
13 Abraham Lincoln to Joshua Speed, August 24, 1855 in Basler (ed), Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, II, 323.
14 Roger Daniels and Otis L. Graham, Debating American Immigration, 1882-Present (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001) 7.
15 James Bryce, The American Commonwealth, 2 Vols. (1888. Revised Edition. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923) II, 472.
16 Josiah Strong, Our Country: Its Possible Future and its Present Crisis (New York: The American Home Mission Society, 1885) 40-41.
17 Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities (1902. Reprint. New York: Hill and Wang, 1957) 7-8. 18.
18 Marcus Eli Ravage, An American in the Making: The Life Story of an Immigrant (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1917) 60.
11 Pershing quoted in Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 200l) 35.
12 Theodore Roosevelt, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail (1888. Reprint. New York: The Century Company, i9ii) 2.
13 Theodore Roosevelt, “The Strenuous Life,” in Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (New York: Cosimo, 2006) i, 3.
14 Josiah Strong, Expansion: Under New World-Conditions (New York: Baker and Taylor Co., 1900) 18-19.
15 Arthur S. Link, Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917 (New York: Harpers, 1954).
16 Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden,” McClure’s Magazine, February 12, 1899; “The Brown Man’s Burden” first appeared in Truth and was later reprinted in the Literary Digest, February 25, 1899.
17 Theodore Roosevelt, “True Americanism,” The Forum Magazine (April, i894), available at: http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trspeeches.html (June 20, 2010).
18 Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation originally appeared as a series in Rolling Stone in 1999. Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984) 129.
19 Theodore Roosevelt, “The New Nationalism,” Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31, 1910, available at: http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trspeeches.html (June 20, 2010).
20 Woodrow Wilson, “Address at Gettysburg, July 4, 1913,” available at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=65370 (June 20, 2010).
21 Theodore Roosevelt, “Case Against the Reactionaries,” Chicago, June i7,
i9i2.
22 Woodrow Wilson, Second Annual Message to Congress, December 8, 1914.
23 S. Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845. London: George Slater, 1850) 27, 21.
24 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, A History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. i (Rochester: Fowler and Wells, 1889) 70-71.
25 Mary Church Terrell, “The Justice of Woman Suffrage,” The Crisis, September 1912, quoted in Marjorie Spruill Wheeler (ed.), Votes for Women: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Tennessee, the South, and the Nation (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, i995) i52, i54.
26 Woodrow Wilson, Address to a Joint Session of Congress, April 2, 1917.
27 The Crisis, June 1918, 60.
28 [To the] French Military Mission. stationed with the American Army. August 7, 1918, published as “A French Directive,” The Crisis, XVIII (May, 1919) 16-18, available at: http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1135.htm (June 22,
20I0).
29 W.E.B. Du Bois, “Returning Soldiers,” The Crisis, May 1919, 13, available at: http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1127.htm (June 22, 2010).
30 Edward L. Bernays, “The Engineering of Consent,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 250 (March 1947): 113-20, quotation 114.
1 The description of the ceremonies attending the return and burial of the Unknown Soldier are taken from the New York Times, November 9-11, 1921.
2 Holmes’s opinion can be accessed at: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/ getcase.pl?court=US&vol=249&invol=47 (July 10, 2010).
3 The Big Money forms the concluding part of the trilogy that also included The 42nd Parallel (1930) and Nineteen Nineteen (1932) that was published together in 1938 as U.S.A. Quotation from John Dos Passos, U.S.A. (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986) 1105.
4 An audio recording of Harding’s speech, delivered in Boston on May 24, 1920, is available via the Library of Congress at: http://memory.loc.gov/ ammem/nfhtml/nfexpe.html (July 10, 2010).
5 Sheldon Cheney quoted in Robert Hughes, American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997) 405.
6 Sheldon Cheney, An Art-Lover’s Guide to the Exposition (Berkeley: Berkeley Oak, 1915) 7.
7 Calvin Coolidge, “Whose Country Is This?” Good Housekeeping, 72:2 (February 1921): 13-110, 109.
8 James J. Davis, The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1922) 27, 60.
9 Purnell quoted in Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001)
i05.
10 Harry Hamilton Laughlin, Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (Chicago: Published Psychopathic Laboratory of the Municipal Court, 1922).
11 Buck vs. Bell (1927), available at: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/ getcase.pl?court=us&vol=274&invol=200 (July 18, 2010).
12 Herbert Hoover, “Address of the 50th Anniversary of Thomas Edison’s Invention of the Incandescent Electric Lamp,” October 21,1929, available at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2i967&st=&sti= (July 20, 2010).
13 Herbert Hoover, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1929, available at: http:// www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2i804 (July 22, 2010).
14 Herbert Hoover, campaign speech, New York, October 22, 1928; Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union, December 2, 1930.
15 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Commonwealth Club Address, September 23, 1932.
16 Raymond Gram Swing, Forerunners of American Fascism (New York: Julian Messner, 1935).
17 Herbert Hoover, “The Challenge to Liberty,” Saturday Evening Post, September 8, 1934; Roosevelt, Fireside Chat, September 30, 1934, available at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=i4759 (July 22, 2010).
18 Raymond Chandler, “The Simple Art of Murder,” The Atlantic Monthly, 1944; reprinted in The Chandler Collection, Vol. 3 (London: Picador, 1984) 191.
19 John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers (1921. Reprint. California: Coyote Canyon Press, 2007) 282.
20 Hoover, “The Challenge to Liberty.”
Chapter 10: A Land in Transition: America in the Atomic Age
1 Anonymous (300 soldiers) to the Editor, Baltimore Afro-American, November 23, 1942; Pvt. Norman Brittingham to Truman K. Gibson, Jr., July 17, 1943, both in Phillip McGuire (ed), Taps for a Jim Crow Army: Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II (1983. Reprint. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1993) ii, 18; Anonymous Maryland Black Soldier to the Secretary of War, October 2, 1865, in Ira Berlin et al. (eds.), Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, Series II, The Black Military Experience (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982) 654; James Henry Gooding to Abraham Lincoln, September 28, 1863, in Corporal James Henry Gooding, On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Civil War Soldier’s Letters from the Front, ed. Virginia M. Adams (Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, i99i) i20.