BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Problem of The People in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Robert Johnston, University of Illinois Chicago

Short Secondary Source Overview
Edwards, Rebecca. “Politics, Social Movements, and the Periodization of U.S. History.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 8(October 2009): 463-473.

Suggested Readings

Bay, Mia. To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells. Macmillan, 2010.

Cahill, Cathleen. Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement. University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Edwards, Rebecca. New Spirits: America in the "Gilded Age," 1865–1905. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2015. First published as New Spirits: America in the Gilded Age in 2006 by Oxford University Press. 

Flanagan, Maureen. America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890s–1920s. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. Knopf, 1955. 

Johnson, Benjamin Heber. Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans. Yale University Press, 2005.

Johnston, Robert D. The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon. Princeton University Press, 2003. 

Kraditor, Aileen. The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920. Columbia University Press, 1965.

Lears, Jackson. Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920. Harper, 2009.

Painter, Nell Irvin. Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877–1919. Norton, 1987.

Postel, Charles. The Populist Vision. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Harvard University Press, 1998.

Sanders, Elizabeth. Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877– 1917. University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Primary Source Excerpts Suitable for Classroom Adaptation

Knights of Labor Broadside including “Preamble and Declaration of Principles of the Knights of Labor of America” (1885) and Extract from the Journal of United Labor, from Chicago Historical Society, Haymarket Affair Digital Collection. https://www.chicagohistoryresources.org/hadc/visuals/V0010.htm.

“Omaha Platform of The People’s Party" (1892), The American Yawp. https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/16-capital-and-labor/the-omaha-platform-of-the-peoples-party-1892/.

“State Constitution of Louisiana,” excerpts on “Suffrage and Elections” (1898), Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance. https://glc.yale.edu/state-constitution-louisiana-1898-suffrage-and-elections.

NAACP. “Platform of the National Negro Committee” (1909). https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/detail/naacp-platform-adopted-by-national-negro-committee-new-york-national-negro-committee-1909.

Catt, Carrie Chapman, comments on class, race, and gender, Woman’s Journal, History Matters, December 15, 1894. https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5318.