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The Gilded Age and Progressive Era : a documentary reader

Title: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era : a documentary reader / edited by William A. Link and Susannah J. Link.
Publication: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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xiii, 330 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"This volume presents documents that illustrate the variety of experiences and themes involved in the transformation of American political, economic, and social systems during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1870-1920). Includes nearly 70 documents which cover the period from the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the 1870s through World War I. Explores the experiences of people during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era from a variety of diverse perspectives, including important political and cultural leaders as well as everyday individuals. Charts the nationalization of American life and the establishment of the United States as a global power. Introduces students to historical analysis and encourages them to engage critically with primary sources. Introductory materials from the editors situate the documents within their historical context. A bibliography provides essential suggestions for further reading and research "--
"Following the conclusion of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Progressive Era brought a wholesale restructuring of social and political institutions. The period from the 1870s through World War I was characterized by the nationalization of American life, the establishment of the United States as a global power, the refashioning of social relationships and the reconstruction of the political system. This volume gathers together documents that illustrate the variety of experiences and themes involved in the transformation of American political, economic, and social systems during this period, and presents the essential perspectives of race, class, gender, and culture. Situating the documents within their historical context, the book is divided into five thematic sections: the American frontier after Reconstruction; the transformations that arrived with industrialization; the social and political crisis that gripped the United States at the end of the 19th century; reform; imperialism and war. This collection enables readers to engage actively in historical interpretation and to understand the interplay between social and political forces in the period, exploring the experiences of people during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era from a variety of diverse perspectives"--

Series Statement

Uncovering the past : documentary readers in American history ; 12

Uniform Title

Uncovering the past (Malden, Mass.) ; 12

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.
Sources.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prelude : Mark Twain and the Gilded Age / Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, from 'The Gilded Age, ' 1873 -- Part I. New frontiers -- ch. 1. The new south -- "The New South," 1886 / Henry W. Grady -- Henry McNeal Turner on African American civil rights, 1889 -- From 'The Old South and New, ' 1888 / William D. Kelley -- Photographs of southern textile workers, 1908-09 / Lewis Hine -- ch. 2. The new west -- From 'California Revisited, ' 1858-1897, 1898 / T.S. Kenderdine -- From 'Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail, ' 1888 / Theodore Roosevelt -- From 'The Squatter and the Don, ' (1885) / Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton -- An address from the workingmen of San Francisco to their brothers throughout the Pacific coast, 1878 / Workingmen's Party -- ch. 3. Native Americans -- Native Americans and white attempts to assimilate, from "The School Days of an Indian Girl," 1900 / Zitkala-Sa -- Selected statements and speeches by the Nez Perce Chief, 1877-79 / Chief Joseph -- Lakota accounts of the massacre at Wounded Knee, 1896 -- Photographs and images from Buffalo Bill's wild west show, 1896-99 -- Part II. Industrial society -- ch. 4. Big business -- "The Gospel of Wealth," 1889 / Andrew Carnegie -- "The Coming Slavery," 1884 / Herbert Spencer -- "The Lords of Industry," 1884 / Henry Demarest Lloyd -- US Supreme Court, Slaughterhouse Cases, 1873 -- From 'The Principles of Scientific Management, ' 1911 / Frederick Winslow Taylor -- From 'Acres of Diamonds, ' 1915 / Russell Conwell -- ch. 5. Gilded Age society -- From 'The Theory of the Leisure Class, ' 1899 / Thorstein Veblen -- From "The Yellow Wall-Paper," 1892 / Charolette Perkins Gilman -- From 'Progress and Poverty, ' 1879 / Henry George -- Photographs of Gilded Age mansions -- The woman's building, from 'The Book of the Fair, ' 1893 / Hubert Howe Bancroft -- ch. 6. Working people -- "In the Depths of a Coal Mine," 1894 / Stephen Crane -- From 'The Workers : an Experiment in Social Reality, ' 1899 / Walter A. Wyckoff -- Image from the National Police Gazette, 1879 -- Hardshell preacher, from 'The Hoosier Schoolmaster, ' 1871 / Edward Eggleston -- Tramping in America, 1910 / Leon Ray Livingston -- From 'The Jungle, ' 1906 / Upton Sinclair -- ch. 7. Immigrants in the industrial age -- "The Russian Jew in America," 1898 / Abraham Cahan -- Treaty regulating immigration from China 1880 -- "Mexican Americans and Southwestern Growth," 1912 / Samuel Bryan -- Photographs from 'How the Other Half Lives, ' 1890 / Jacob Riis -- Hyphenated Americanism, 1915 / Theodore Roosevelt -- The emergence of reform Judaism, 1883 and 1885.
Part III. Social conflict -- ch. 8. Populism -- "The Women in the Alliance Movement," 1892 / Annie L. Diggs -- The Omaha platform : launching the Populist Party, 1892 -- "The Negro Questions in the South," 1892 / Thomas E. Watson -- "Cross of Gold" speech, 1896 / William Jennings Bryan -- ch. 9. The coming of Jim Crow -- "Lynch Law in America," 1900 / Ida B. Wells -- U.S. Supreme Court, Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 -- The Atlanta Compromise, 1895 / Booker T. Washington -- "Of Booker T. Washington and Others," from 'The Souls of Black Folk' / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Images from the North Carolina white supremacy campaign, 1898 -- "What it Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States," 1906 / Mary Church Terrell -- ch. 10. Labor protest -- Testimony on railroad labor strikes, 1878 / Roger O'Mara -- Report on the Chicago Pullman Strike, 1894 / United States Strike Commission -- "The Shirtwaist Makers' Stike," 1909 / Constance D. Leupp -- Photographs of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 1911 -- Part IV. Reform -- ch. 11. Rebuilding American institutions -- From 'The School and Society, ' 1899 / Jon Dewey -- From 'Christianity and the Social Crisis, ' 1907 / Walter Raucschenbusch -- From 'Heredity in Relations to Eugenics, ' 1915 / Charles Davenport -- "Morality and Birth Control," 1918 / Margaret Sanger -- From 'Women and Temperance, ' 1883 / Frances E. Willard -- The social evil in Chicago, 1911 / Chicago Vice Commission -- ch. 12. The political system -- "Peril in the Machine," 1897 / Robert M. La Follette -- The Dayton Plan, 1914 / Isaac F. Marcosson -- The Suffrage movement in southern California, 1910-11 / Helen Waleska Bary -- Seventeenth Amendment ot the US Constitution (direct election of senators), 1913 -- Marie Jenney Howe on women's public role, 1910 -- Part V. Imperialism and war -- ch. 13. Imperialism and anti-imperialism -- "What Shall Be Done about the Philippines?" 1897 / Mayo W. Hazeltine -- Platt Amendment, 1901 -- "Democracy of Militariasm," 1899 / Jane Addams -- Photograph from the tour of the Great White Fleet, 1907-09 -- ch. 14. The debate about World War I -- W.E.B. Du Bois on the postwar peace, 1918 -- The Canton, Ohio, anti-war speech, 1918 / Eugene V. Debs -- Espionage Act, 1917 -- The Fourteen Points Address, 1918 / Woodrow Wilson.

Call Number

E661

ISBN

9781444331387
1444331388
9781444331394
1444331396

LCCN

2011034658

OCLC

747529210

Title

The Gilded Age and Progressive Era : a documentary reader / edited by William A. Link and Susannah J. Link.

Imprint

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Uncovering the past : documentary readers in American history ; 12

Uncovering the past (Malden, Mass.) ; 12

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover image

Chronological Term

1865-1933

Added Author

Link, William A.

Link, Susannah J.

Research Call Number

*R-USLHG E661 G455 2012

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