¹ An excellent source is in the Newberry Library's digital collection at http://dcc.newberry.org/collections/mapping-chicago-and-midwest.

² I often use with students the preface from John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002 [1955]).

³ Unit Readings include Robert A. Divine et al., America Past and Present, 8th edition (New York: Pearson, 2007), chapters 17, 18, 19, 20, 21;Orville Vernon Burton, The Age of Lincoln (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007), 323–50; Leon Fink, “American Labor History” in The New American History, rev. edition, ed. Eric Foner (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997), 333–52; Colin G. Colloway, First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History (Boston: Bedford St. Martin's, 2008), 290–316; Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (Boston: Back Bay Books, 1993), 228–45; and Higham, Strangers in the Land, 3–11.