Myth America A Historical Anthology, Volume 1 [Paperback]

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

I. Myths of Reconstruction & the Gilded Age.

Myth of Reconstruction (Eric Foner).

The Lost Cause Myth in the New South Era (Charles ReaganWilson).

The Agrarian Myth (Richard Hofstadter).

Frontierswomen: Myths and Realities (Glenda Riley).

Ten-Gallon Hero: The Myth of the Cowboy (David Brion Davis).

Andrew Carnegie and the Robber Baron Myth (MiltonGoldin).

II. American Myths at Century’s End.

The Winning of the West and the Sioux: A Myth (RichardWhite).

Myths of the American West: Missionaries, Entrepreneurs, and NewIdentites (Patricia Nelson LimerickA).

Commanding Performance: Booker T. Washington’s AtlantaCompromise Address (David Lionel Smith).

The Horatio Alger Myth (Carol Nackenoff).

Mythology and Workers’ Power (Herbert G. Gutman).

The ‘May Day’ Myth: The Emergence of the UnitedStates as a World Power (Patrick Gerster and NicholasCords).

III. Myths of Progressivism & the 1920s.

The Frontier Myth and Teddy Roosevelt’s Fight forConservation (Leroy G. Dorsey).

Woodrow Wilson, Ethnicity, and the Myth of American Unity (HansVought).

Silent Cinema as Historical Mythmaker (John Hope Franklin).

The Myth of the Disillusioned American Soldier (David M.Kennedy).

What Sadie Knew: The Immigrant Working Girl and the Emergence ofthe Modern Young Women (John McClymer).

The Mythic Meaning of Lindbergh’s Flight (John WilliamWard).

IV. Myths of Politics & Foreign Affairs.