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Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era Documents and Essays

by: Fink, Leon

Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era Documents and Essays

by: Fink, Leon

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0618042555
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Copyright: 08/04/2000
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Summary

This text presents a carefully selected group of readings, on topics such as American capitalism and the Great War, that allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions.

Preface

Introducing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

(16)

Essays

Industrial Spring: America in the Gilded Age

(6)

Sean Dennis Cashman

Pivotal Decades, 1900--1920

(8)

John Milton Cooper, Jr.

Further Reading

(1)

The Price of Progress: Capitalism and Its Discontents

(29)

Documents

Andrew Carnegie Hails the Triumph of America, 1885

(2)

Henry George Dissects the Paradox of Capitalist Growth, 1879

(3)

The Reverend Alexander Lewis Offers an Ode to Upward Mobility, 1902

(1)

Mark Twain Satirizes the Great American Myth, 1879

(1)

The Purposes and Program of the Knights of Labor, 1878

(1)

A Trade Union Official Enunciates a Restrictive AFL Policy Toward Women Workers, 1897

(2)

Essays

The Machine as Deity and Demon

(7)

Alan Trachtenberg

Class Consciousness American-Style

(11)

Leon Fink

Further Reading

(1)

Behind the Bravura of the Wild West

(40)

Documents

A Buffalo Hunter Describes His Business, c. 1875

(2)

President Chester A. Arthur Aims to Turn Indians into U.S. Citizens, 1881

(1)

A Popular Account of the Death of Jesse James, 1882

(2)

Miguel Antonio Otero Remembers the Land Wars of the 1880s

(1)

Black Elk Remembers the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890

(1)

Frederick Jackson Turner Praises the Frontier as the Source of American Democracy, 1893

(1)

Catharine Calk McCarty Meets Her Cattlemen Neighbors, 1916

(3)

Essays

Outlaw Gangs and Social Bandits

(12)

Richard White

Western Women and the Uses of Domestic Ideology

(8)

Robert L. Griswold

Farming and the Northern Ute Experience

(7)

David Rich Lewis

Further Reading

(1)

Trials of the New South

(30)

Documents

Sharecroppers' Contracts, 1876--1886

(1)

Atlanta Constitution Editor Henry W. Grady Heralds the New South, 1886

(3)

Historian Broadus Mitchell Describes a Benevolent Cotton-Mill Campaign of the 1880s

(1)

Labor Organizer Mother Jones Compares Southern Mill Life to Serfdom, 1901

(1)

Frederick Douglass Describes a Legacy of Race Hatred, 1883

(2)

A Teacher and Two Pupils Outline the Problems of a ``Colored'' School, 1883

(3)

Essays

Mill and Mine

(9)

Edward L. Ayers

Bent Backs in the Rural South

107

(7)

Jacqueline Jones

Further Reading

114

(2)

Rise of the Industrial City: New Places, New Peoples

116

(42)

Documents

Population Growth in Select U.S. Cities, 1870--1920

118

(2)

Immigrant Distribution in Six Cities, 1870--1920

120

(1)

A Visiting Rudyard Kipling Returns, Unimpressed, from Chicago, 1899

121

(1)

Poet Carl Sandburg Extols the City of the Big Shoulders, 1916

122

(1)

Congress Takes Aim at the ``Chinese Menace,'' 1892

123

(1)

Huang Zunxian Expresses the Chinese Perspective in Poetry, c. 1884

124

(2)

W.E.B. Du Bois Denounces Racial Prejudice in Philadelphia, 1899

126

(2)

An Advice Column for Jewish Immigrants, 1906, 1907

128

(4)

Essays

Technology and the Treadmill of Urban Progress

132

(9)

Maury Klein

Harvey A. Kantor

Families Enter America

141

(9)

John Bodnar

Americanization of the Mexican Immigrant

150

(7)

George J. Sanchez

Further Reading

157

(1)

Politics in the Gilded Age: Mainstream and Periphery

158

(30)

Documents

Three Cartoonists Interpret the Political Scene, 1880, 1888

160

(1)

Thomas Nast Attacks the Democrats, 1880

160

(1)

Joseph Keppler Ridicules the Third-Term Aspirations of President Grant, 1880

161

(1)

Watson Heston Lampoons Parties and Their Corporate Patrons, 1888

162

(1)

Free-Thinker Robert G. Ingersoll Waves the Bloody Shirt, c. 1880

163

(1)

Virginia Activist Live Pryor Seeks Help for Her Downtrodden Black Sisters, 1880

163

(1)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Demands Suffrage as the Protection of Selfhood, 1892

164

(1)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Justifies the Woman's Bible, 1895

165

(2)

Essays

Political Culture: Public Life and the Conduct of Politics

167

(12)

Charles W. Calhoun

The Limitations of Sisterhood

179

(8)

Ellen Carol DuBois

Further Reading

187

(1)

The 1890s: Economic Depression and Political Crisis

188

(37)

Documents

John W. Holway, a Pinkerton Guard, Views the Battle of Homestead, 1892

189

(4)

Eugene V. Debs Denounces the Role of Corporations and the Courts in the Pullman Strike, 1895

193

(1)

Populist Principles: The Omaha Platform, 1892

194

(2)

William Jennings Bryan Scorns Advocates of the Gold Standard: The ``Cross of Gold'' Speech, 1896

196

(1)

The Republican Party Platform, 1896

197

(2)

Puck Assails William Jennings Bryan and the ``Popocrats,'' 1896

199

(1)

McKinley Takes Credit for New Prosperity, 1900

200

(1)

Essays

The Depression of the 1890s

201

(7)

Nell Irvin Painter

The Righteous Commonwealth of the Late Nineteenth Century

208

(16)

Michael Kazin

Further Reading

224

(1)

Professionalism and the Uses of New Knowledge

225

(38)

Documents

John Fiske Reconciles Evolutionism and Christian Doctrine (1882), 1902

226

(3)

William Graham Sumner Elaborates the Principles of Social Darwinism, 1885

229

(2)

Lester Frank Ward Attacks Laissez Faire in the Name of Reform Darwinism, 1884

231

(3)

A Day in the Life of Thomas Alva Edison, 1885

234

(1)

Jane Addams Explains the Need for Social Settlements, 1892

235

(2)

F.W. Taylor Recruits the Ideal Worker with the Principles of Scientific Management, 1910

237

(2)

Essays

The Culture of Professionalism

239

(5)

Burton J. Bledstein

The Female Dominion of Professional Service

244

(9)

Robyn Muncy

Social Darwinism: Adapting Evolution to Society

253

(9)

Edward Caudill

Further Reading

262

(1)

The Language of Empire

263

(32)

Documents

Alfred T. Mahan Proclaims the Importance of Sea Power, 1890

264

(1)

Theodore Roosevelt Links War in the Philippines to the Ideal of the Strenuous Life, 1899

265

(2)

William Jennings Bryan Opposes U.S. Occupation of the Philippines, 1900

267

(3)

Albert Beveridge Defends U.S. Imperialism, 1900

270

(2)

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904

272

(1)

Essays

The United States as New Kid on the Block, 1890--1940

273

(6)

Paul Kennedy

1898: The Meaning of the Maine

279

(7)

Louis A. Perez

Theodore Roosevelt and the Strenuous Life

286

(8)

Gail Bederman

Further Reading

294

(1)

Race and Power Under Jim Crow

295

(30)

Documents

The U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Segregation: Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

296

(3)

Congressman Frank Clark Praises Segregation, 1908

299

(2)

Booker T. Washington Advocates Self-Help, 1895

301

(2)

W.E.B. Du Bois Rejects Washington's Strategy of Accommodation, 1903

303

(2)

Mary Church Terrell Praises the Club Work of Colored Women, 1901

305

(2)

Essays

Whiteness and Manhood

307

(8)

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Uplift and the Decline of Black Politics

315

(8)

Kevin K. Gaines

Further Reading

323

(2)

Consumer Culture and Commercialized Leisure

325

(30)

Documents

Theodore Dreiser's Carrie Discovers the Department Store, 1900

326

(1)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Seeks to Extricate Women from the Trap of Consumption, 1899

327

(1)

Amusement Park Promoter Frederic Thompson Creates the Carnival Spirit, 1908

328

(4)

Democracy at the Movies, 1910

332

(1)

Ring Lardner's Baseball ``Busher'' Writes Home, 1914

333

(3)

Essays

Baseball and the Values of Industrial America

336

(10)

Gunther Barth

Steppin' Out

346

(8)

Lewis A. Erenberg

Further Reading

354

(1)

Progressivism: Roots of the Reform Vision

355

(32)

Documents

John Dewey Advocates a Democratic Schoolroom, 1900

356

(2)

Lincoln Steffens Exposes the Corruption of Municipal Politics, 1904

358

(2)

New York City's Boss Plunkitt Defends ``Honest'' Graft, 1905

360

(2)

Socialist Reformer Robert Hunter Decries Murder by Tenement, 1907

362

(1)

Baptist Clergyman Walter Rauschenbusch Seeks a Social Christianity, 1912

363

(2)

Two Suffrage Cartoons

365

(1)

``The Corn or the Cob---Which?'' 1911

365

(1)

``Double the Power of the Home,'' 1915

366

(1)

Essays

Evaluating the Progressives

367

(12)

Richard L. McCormick

Lewis Hine and the Two Faces of Progressive Photography

379

(7)

Robert Westbrook

Further Reading

386

(1)

Progressivism: Foundations for a New American State

387

(25)

Documents

The Supreme Court Accepts Limits on Working Women's Hours: Muller v. Oregon, 1908

388

(1)

Charles McCarthy Inventories Wisconsin's La Follette--Era Reforms (1909--1911), 1911

389

(3)

Theodore Roosevelt Announces the New Nationalism, 1910

392

(1)

Woodrow Wilson Proclaims the New Freedom, 1913

393

(2)

The Clayton Anti-Trust Act, 1914

395

(2)

Essays

Progressive Statecraft

397

(7)

Alan Dawley

Freedom and the Progressive State

404

(7)

Eric Foner

Further Reading

411

(1)

Nature Without Nurture: Progressives Confront Environmental Destruction

412

(33)

Documents

413

(14)

President Theodore Roosevelt's Conservation Message, 1907

A Lumberer's Perspective on the California Redwoods, 1884

415

(2)

Enos Mills Mourns the Death of a One-Thousand-Year-Old Pine, 1914

417

(3)

The Pros and Cons of the Great Hetch Hetchy Dam Debate, 1913

420

(5)

Jane Addams Offers an Example of Municipal Housekeeping in Chicago, 1910

425

(2)

Essays

Economic Gain and Environmental Loss: Lumber

427

(4)

William J. Cronon

The Hetch Hetchy Controversy

431

(9)

Roderick Nash

Responding to the Urban Environmental Crisis

440

(4)

Martin V. Melosi

Further Reading

444

(1)

America and the Great War

445

(39)

Documents

President Woodrow Wilson's War Message, 1917

446

(2)

Senator Robert M. La Follette's Antiwar Dissent, 1917

448

(2)

George Creel Looks Back on the Selling of the War, 1920

450

(2)

A Wobbly Testifies to Vigilante Attack, 1917

452

(2)

The U.S. Government Punishes War Protesters: The Espionage Act, 1918

454

(1)

Two Treatments of the Color Question During Wartime, 1918

455

(1)

A.U.S. Divisional Commander in Kansas Counsels Against Race Discussions

455

(1)

German Propaganda Circular Targets the African American Soldier

456

(1)

Wilson's Fourteen Points for World Peace, 1918

457

(2)

Essays

Managing War

459

(9)

Barry D. Karl

Over There: Interpreting Wartime Experiences Abroad

468

(8)

David M. Kennedy

Wilson and the War for Democracy

476

(8)

Arthur S. Link

Further Reading

484

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