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My substantially-revised and updated 3d edition of Major Problems-Gilded Aged and Progressive Era is just out from Cengage, TOC copied below, best, Leon Fink
Table of Contents
1. Introducing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
ESSAYS.
Rebecca Edwards, The Thrust of Paleotechnology. T. J. Jackson Lears,
Dreaming of Rebirth.
2. The Price of Progress.
DOCUMENTS.
Andrew Carnegie Hails the Triumph of America, 1885. Henry George Dissects
the Paradox of Capitalist Growth, 1879. Ragged Dick Learns About
“Struggling Upward,” 1895. Mark Twain Satirizes the Great American Myth,
1879. William Vanderbilt Defends Railroad Corporation Practices, 1882.
Anarchist August Spies Calls on Laborers to Arm Themselves, 1886.
ESSAYS.
David Nasaw, The Law of Accumulation: A Gospel for the Wealthy. Michael
Kazin, The Dreams of the Left.
3. Domesticating the West.
DOCUMENTS.
Bison Skulls Ready for Processing, Mid-1870s. The Medican (i.e. Medicine)
Man, 1891. Sitting Bull Crosses into Canada to Elude U.S. Authorities,
1877. President Chester A. Arthur Aims to Turn Indians into U.S. Citizens,
1881. Las Gorras Blancas Announce Their Platform, 1890. Chinese Workers in
Wyoming Protest Mob Attack, 1885. Frederick Jackson Turner Praises the
Frontier as the Source of American Democracy, 1893. Norwegian Women Attack
a Saloon, 1890s.
ESSAYS.
Richard White, Betting the Ranch: The Economics of the Open Range. Dee
Garceau-Hagen, The Gendering of Ranch Work.
4. The World of Work in Industrial America.
DOCUMENTS.
North Carolina Landowner A. T. Mial Engages Sharecroppers, 1876, 1886.
Mule-Spinner Thomas O'Donnell Laments the Decline of the Factory Artisan,
1883. The Purposes and Program of the Knights of Labor, 1878. A Trade
Union Official Enunciates a Restrictive AFL Policy Toward Women Workers,
1897. Labor Organizer Mother Jones Compares Southern Mill Life to Serfdom,
1901. F. W. Taylor Recruits the Ideal Worker with the Principles of
Scientific Management, 1910. Upton Sinclair Describes the Assembly Line at
Ford Motor Company, 1910s.
ESSAYS.
Thomas G. Andrews, The Miners' Freedom. Olivier Zunz, The Rise of the
Managers.
5. Urbanization: New Places, New Peoples.
DOCUMENTS.
Population Growth in Select U.S. Cities, 1870–1920. Immigrant Distribution
in Six Cities, 1890–1910. Traffic on Dearborn and Randolph, Chicago, 1909.
Congress Takes Aim at the “Chinese Menace,” 1892. Types and Development of
Man, 1904. Jacob Riis Describes Italian Immigrant Life in New York, 1914.
The Jewish Daily Forward Offers Advice for New Immigrants, 1906–1907.
Henry Ford's Social Department Polices Immigrant Life, 1910s.
ESSAYS.
Maury Klein, The Collision of City and Country. George J. Sanchez,
Americanization of the Mexican Immigrant. Douglas Baynton, The
Undesirability of Admitting Deaf Mutes.
6. Gilded Age Politics.
DOCUMENTS.
Three Cartoonists Interpret the Political Scene, 1880, 1884, 1888.
Free-Thinker Robert G. Ingersoll Waves the Bloody Shirt, c. 1880. New York
City's Boss Plunkitt Defends “Honest” Graft, 1905. The Pendleton Act
Authorizes Civil Service Employment, 1883. Virginia Activist Live Pryor
Seeks Help for Her Downtrodden Black Sisters, 1880. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Demands Suffrage as the Protection of Selfhood, 1892.
ESSAYS.
Mark Summers, The Power of Partisanship. Rebecca Edwards, Gendered
Politics in the Gilded Age: Prohibitionist Strategies.
7. The Crises of the 1890s.
DOCUMENTS.
Political Economist Richard Ely Analyzes Pullman, IL, 1885. Harper's
Satirizes Eugene Debs, 1894. The People's Party Pledges to End Economic
Oppression: The Omaha Platform, 1892. Tom Watson Advocates a Biracial
Populism, 1892. William Jennings Bryan Scorns the Gold Standard: The
“Cross of Gold” Speech, 1896. The Republican Party Platform Seeks
Protection and Sound Money, 1896.
ESSAYS.
Charles Postel, Revisiting the Populists. David Montgomery, The Pullman
Boycott and the Making of Modern America.
8. Jim Crow America.
DOCUMENTS.
Atlanta Constitution Editor Henry W. Grady Heralds the New South, 1886.
The U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Segregation: Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896.
Booker T. Washington Advocates Self-Help, 1895. W.E.B. Du Bois Rejects
Washington's Strategy of Accommodation, 1903. Mary Church Terrell Praises
the Club Work of Colored Women, 1901. The Lynching of African-American
Farmhand Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, 1916. Negro Migrants Explain
Their Reasons for Coming North 1917–1918.
ESSAYS.
Robert J. Norrell, Booker T. Washington Catches Political Fire. David
Blight, The Lost Cause in Black and White.
9. Constructing Empires.
DOCUMENTS.
Alfred T. Mahan Proclaims the Importance of Sea Power, 1890. Theodore
Roosevelt Links War in the Philippines to the Ideal of the Strenuous Life,
1899. Poet Arthur H. MacOwen Memorializes the Destruction of the Maine,
1898. William Jennings Bryan Opposes U.S. Occupations of the Philippines,
1900. Emilio Aguinaldo Resists U.S. Occupation of the Philippines, 1899.
President Theodore Roosevelt Justifies U.S. Intervention in Latin America,
1904.
ESSAYS.
Matthew Jacobson, Children of Barbarism, the Culture of Empire. Julie
Greene, The Panama Canal: Transforming a Foreign Landscape.
10. Science in the Material, Social, and Spiritual Worlds.
DOCUMENTS.
Lester Frank Ward Attacks Laissez Faire in the Name of Reform Darwinism,
1884. Jane Addams Explains the Need for Social Settlements, 1892.
Washington Gladden Explains the Higher Criticism, 1894. Reverend Franklin
Johnson Attacks Biblical Criticism, 1910–1915. Gentleman-Sociologist
Richard Dugdale Examines the Criminality of the “Jukes,” 1877.
ESSAYS.
Alice O'Connor, Poverty Knowledge in the Progressive Era. Thomas Hughes,
An Inventor Nation.
11. Consumer Culture and Commercialized Leisure.
DOCUMENTS.
Pear's Soap Ads Target Race and Gender, 1899, 1905. Frank Baum's Dorothy
Contrasts Kansas with the Emerald City of the Land of Oz, 1900. Charlotte
Perkins Gilman Seeks to Extricate Women from the Trap of Consumption,
1899. Amusement Park Promoter Frederic Thompson Creates the Carnival
Spirit, 1908. Jack Johnson Bests Jim Jeffries in the “Fight of the
Century,” 1910.
ESSAYS.
George Chauncey, The Bowery as Homosexual Haven. Kathy Peiss, Beauty
Culture and Women's Commerce.
12. Progressivism: Roots of the Reform Vision.
DOCUMENTS.
Lewis Hine Documents Child Labor, 1900s. Reporter William G. Shepherd
Witnesses the Triangle Fire, 1911. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Memorializes the
Victims of the Triangle Fire, 1911. Baptist Clergyman Walter Rauschenbusch
Seeks a Social Christianity, 1912. Lincoln Steffens Exposes the Corruption
of Municipal Politics, 1904. John Dewey Advocates a Democratic Schoolroom,
1900.
ESSAYS.
Daniel Rodgers, In Search of Progressivism. Vanessa H. May, Middle-Class
Reformers and the Unprotected Domestic Worker.
13. The Progressive State.
DOCUMENTS.
The Supreme Court Accepts Limits on Working Women's Hours: Muller v.
Oregon, 1908. Al Smith Looks Back on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and
Reforms, 1929. Charles McCarthy Inventories Wisconsin's La Follette-Era
Reforms, (1909–1911), 1911. Theodore Roosevelt Justifies State Regulation
of Enterprise, 1910. Louis Brandeis Takes on Monopolies, 1913.
ESSAYS.
Alan Dawley, Progressive Statecraft. Eric Foner, Freedom and the
Progressive State.
14. Progressive Environmentalism.
DOCUMENTS.
Children Play in the Street with a Dead Horse, ca. 1900. Upton Sinclair
Describes Meat-Packing in Chicago, 1906. Conservationist Anna Comstock
Sets Out a Nature-Study Curriculum, 1922. Congress Debates the Hetch
Hetchy Dam, 1913. Enos Mills Mourns the Death of a One-Thousand-Year-Old
Pine, 1914.
ESSAYS.
Donald Worster. The Passion of John Muir. Karl Jacoby, The Havasupai Problem.
15. American and the Great War.
DOCUMENTS.
President Woodrow Wilson Defends American Neutrality, 1914. President
Woodrow Wilson Takes the U.S. to War, 1917. World War I Propaganda
Posters, 1917–1919. Newspapers Report the African-American Experience
During World War I, 1917–1918. A Wobbly Testifies to Vigilante Attack,
1917. President Wilson Envisions Fourteen Points of a New World Order,
1918.
ESSAYS.
David M. Kennedy, Over There: Interpreting Wartime Experiences Abroad.
Joseph McCartin, Safe for Democracy? The Workplace During the Great War.
Colin Fisher, African Americans, Outdoor Recreation, and the 1919 Chicago
Race Riot.
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Table of Contents
1. Introducing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
ESSAYS.
Rebecca Edwards, The Thrust of Paleotechnology. T. J. Jackson Lears,
Dreaming of Rebirth.
2. The Price of Progress.
DOCUMENTS.
Andrew Carnegie Hails the Triumph of America, 1885. Henry George Dissects
the Paradox of Capitalist Growth, 1879. Ragged Dick Learns About
“Struggling Upward,” 1895. Mark Twain Satirizes the Great American Myth,
1879. William Vanderbilt Defends Railroad Corporation Practices, 1882.
Anarchist August Spies Calls on Laborers to Arm Themselves, 1886.
ESSAYS.
David Nasaw, The Law of Accumulation: A Gospel for the Wealthy. Michael
Kazin, The Dreams of the Left.
3. Domesticating the West.
DOCUMENTS.
Bison Skulls Ready for Processing, Mid-1870s. The Medican (i.e. Medicine)
Man, 1891. Sitting Bull Crosses into Canada to Elude U.S. Authorities,
1877. President Chester A. Arthur Aims to Turn Indians into U.S. Citizens,
1881. Las Gorras Blancas Announce Their Platform, 1890. Chinese Workers in
Wyoming Protest Mob Attack, 1885. Frederick Jackson Turner Praises the
Frontier as the Source of American Democracy, 1893. Norwegian Women Attack
a Saloon, 1890s.
ESSAYS.
Richard White, Betting the Ranch: The Economics of the Open Range. Dee
Garceau-Hagen, The Gendering of Ranch Work.
4. The World of Work in Industrial America.
DOCUMENTS.
North Carolina Landowner A. T. Mial Engages Sharecroppers, 1876, 1886.
Mule-Spinner Thomas O'Donnell Laments the Decline of the Factory Artisan,
1883. The Purposes and Program of the Knights of Labor, 1878. A Trade
Union Official Enunciates a Restrictive AFL Policy Toward Women Workers,
1897. Labor Organizer Mother Jones Compares Southern Mill Life to Serfdom,
1901. F. W. Taylor Recruits the Ideal Worker with the Principles of
Scientific Management, 1910. Upton Sinclair Describes the Assembly Line at
Ford Motor Company, 1910s.
ESSAYS.
Thomas G. Andrews, The Miners' Freedom. Olivier Zunz, The Rise of the
Managers.
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5. Urbanization: New Places, New Peoples.
DOCUMENTS.
Population Growth in Select U.S. Cities, 1870–1920. Immigrant Distribution
in Six Cities, 1890–1910. Traffic on Dearborn and Randolph, Chicago, 1909.
Congress Takes Aim at the “Chinese Menace,” 1892. Types and Development of
Man, 1904. Jacob Riis Describes Italian Immigrant Life in New York, 1914.
The Jewish Daily Forward Offers Advice for New Immigrants, 1906–1907.
Henry Ford's Social Department Polices Immigrant Life, 1910s.
ESSAYS.
Maury Klein, The Collision of City and Country. George J. Sanchez,
Americanization of the Mexican Immigrant. Douglas Baynton, The
Undesirability of Admitting Deaf Mutes.
6. Gilded Age Politics.
DOCUMENTS.
Three Cartoonists Interpret the Political Scene, 1880, 1884, 1888.
Free-Thinker Robert G. Ingersoll Waves the Bloody Shirt, c. 1880. New York
City's Boss Plunkitt Defends “Honest” Graft, 1905. The Pendleton Act
Authorizes Civil Service Employment, 1883. Virginia Activist Live Pryor
Seeks Help for Her Downtrodden Black Sisters, 1880. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Demands Suffrage as the Protection of Selfhood, 1892.
ESSAYS.
Mark Summers, The Power of Partisanship. Rebecca Edwards, Gendered
Politics in the Gilded Age: Prohibitionist Strategies.
7. The Crises of the 1890s.
DOCUMENTS.
Political Economist Richard Ely Analyzes Pullman, IL, 1885. Harper's
Satirizes Eugene Debs, 1894. The People's Party Pledges to End Economic
Oppression: The Omaha Platform, 1892. Tom Watson Advocates a Biracial
Populism, 1892. William Jennings Bryan Scorns the Gold Standard: The
“Cross of Gold” Speech, 1896. The Republican Party Platform Seeks
Protection and Sound Money, 1896.
ESSAYS.
Charles Postel, Revisiting the Populists. David Montgomery, The Pullman
Boycott and the Making of Modern America.
8. Jim Crow America.
DOCUMENTS.
Atlanta Constitution Editor Henry W. Grady Heralds the New South, 1886.
The U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Segregation: Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896.
Booker T. Washington Advocates Self-Help, 1895. W.E.B. Du Bois Rejects
Washington's Strategy of Accommodation, 1903. Mary Church Terrell Praises
the Club Work of Colored Women, 1901. The Lynching of African-American
Farmhand Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, 1916. Negro Migrants Explain
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Their Reasons for Coming North 1917–1918.
ESSAYS.
Robert J. Norrell, Booker T. Washington Catches Political Fire. David
Blight, The Lost Cause in Black and White.
9. Constructing Empires.
DOCUMENTS.
Alfred T. Mahan Proclaims the Importance of Sea Power, 1890. Theodore
Roosevelt Links War in the Philippines to the Ideal of the Strenuous Life,
1899. Poet Arthur H. MacOwen Memorializes the Destruction of the Maine,
1898. William Jennings Bryan Opposes U.S. Occupations of the Philippines,
1900. Emilio Aguinaldo Resists U.S. Occupation of the Philippines, 1899.
President Theodore Roosevelt Justifies U.S. Intervention in Latin America,
1904.
ESSAYS.
Matthew Jacobson, Children of Barbarism, the Culture of Empire. Julie
Greene, The Panama Canal: Transforming a Foreign Landscape.
10. Science in the Material, Social, and Spiritual Worlds.
DOCUMENTS.
Lester Frank Ward Attacks Laissez Faire in the Name of Reform Darwinism,
1884. Jane Addams Explains the Need for Social Settlements, 1892.
Washington Gladden Explains the Higher Criticism, 1894. Reverend Franklin
Johnson Attacks Biblical Criticism, 1910–1915. Gentleman-Sociologist
Richard Dugdale Examines the Criminality of the “Jukes,” 1877.
ESSAYS.
Alice O'Connor, Poverty Knowledge in the Progressive Era. Thomas Hughes,
An Inventor Nation.
11. Consumer Culture and Commercialized Leisure.
DOCUMENTS.
Pear's Soap Ads Target Race and Gender, 1899, 1905. Frank Baum's Dorothy
Contrasts Kansas with the Emerald City of the Land of Oz, 1900. Charlotte
Perkins Gilman Seeks to Extricate Women from the Trap of Consumption,
1899. Amusement Park Promoter Frederic Thompson Creates the Carnival
Spirit, 1908. Jack Johnson Bests Jim Jeffries in the “Fight of the
Century,” 1910.
ESSAYS.
George Chauncey, The Bowery as Homosexual Haven. Kathy Peiss, Beauty
Culture and Women's Commerce.
12. Progressivism: Roots of the Reform Vision.
DOCUMENTS.
Lewis Hine Documents Child Labor, 1900s. Reporter William G. Shepherd
Witnesses the Triangle Fire, 1911. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Memorializes the
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Victims of the Triangle Fire, 1911. Baptist Clergyman Walter Rauschenbusch
Seeks a Social Christianity, 1912. Lincoln Steffens Exposes the Corruption
of Municipal Politics, 1904. John Dewey Advocates a Democratic Schoolroom,
1900.
ESSAYS.
Daniel Rodgers, In Search of Progressivism. Vanessa H. May, Middle-Class
Reformers and the Unprotected Domestic Worker.
13. The Progressive State.
DOCUMENTS.
The Supreme Court Accepts Limits on Working Women's Hours: Muller v.
Oregon, 1908. Al Smith Looks Back on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and
Reforms, 1929. Charles McCarthy Inventories Wisconsin's La Follette-Era
Reforms, (1909–1911), 1911. Theodore Roosevelt Justifies State Regulation
of Enterprise, 1910. Louis Brandeis Takes on Monopolies, 1913.
ESSAYS.
Alan Dawley, Progressive Statecraft. Eric Foner, Freedom and the
Progressive State.
14. Progressive Environmentalism.
DOCUMENTS.
Children Play in the Street with a Dead Horse, ca. 1900. Upton Sinclair
Describes Meat-Packing in Chicago, 1906. Conservationist Anna Comstock
Sets Out a Nature-Study Curriculum, 1922. Congress Debates the Hetch
Hetchy Dam, 1913. Enos Mills Mourns the Death of a One-Thousand-Year-Old
Pine, 1914.
ESSAYS.
Donald Worster. The Passion of John Muir. Karl Jacoby, The Havasupai Problem.
15. American and the Great War.
DOCUMENTS.
President Woodrow Wilson Defends American Neutrality, 1914. President
Woodrow Wilson Takes the U.S. to War, 1917. World War I Propaganda
Posters, 1917–1919. Newspapers Report the African-American Experience
During World War I, 1917–1918. A Wobbly Testifies to Vigilante Attack,
1917. President Wilson Envisions Fourteen Points of a New World Order,
1918.
ESSAYS.
David M. Kennedy, Over There: Interpreting Wartime Experiences Abroad.
Joseph McCartin, Safe for Democracy? The Workplace During the Great War.
Colin Fisher, African Americans, Outdoor Recreation, and the 1919 Chicago
Race Riot.
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