{"product_id":"the-gilded-age-and-progressive-era-isbn-9781444331394","title":"The Gilded Age and Progressive Era","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes nearly 70 documents which cover the period from the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the 1870s through World War I\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCharts the nationalization of American life and the establishment of the United States as a global power\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroduces students to historical analysis and encourages them to engage critically with primary sources\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroductory materials from the editors situate the documents within their historical context\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA bibliography provides essential suggestions for further reading and research\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments to Sources xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrelude: Mark Twain and the Gilded Age \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e11\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, from \u003ci\u003eThe Gilded Age \u003c\/i\u003e, 1873\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I New Frontiers 17\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The New South 19\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Henry W. Grady, “The New South,” 1886 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Henry McNeal Turner on African American Civil Rights, 1889 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 William D. Kelley, from \u003ci\u003eThe Old South and New \u003c\/i\u003e, 1888 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Lewis Hine, Photographs of Southern Textile Workers, 1908–09 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The New West 34\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 T.S. Kenderdine, from \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Revisited, 1858–1897 \u003c\/i\u003e, 1898 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Theodore Roosevelt, from \u003ci\u003eRanch Life and the Hunting‐Trail \u003c\/i\u003e, 1888 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, from \u003ci\u003eThe Squatter and the Don \u003c\/i\u003e, (1885) 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Workingmen’s Party, An Address from the Workingmen of San Francisco to Their Brothers throughout the Pacific Coast, 1878 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Native Americans 51\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Zitkala‐Sa, Native Americans and White Attempts to Assimilate, from “The School Days of an Indian Girl,” 1900 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Chief Joseph, Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perce Chief, 1877–79 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 \u003ci\u003eLakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee \u003c\/i\u003e, 1896 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Photographs and Images from Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 1896–99 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Industrial Society 65\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Big Business 67\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Andrew Carnegie, “The Gospel of Wealth,” 1889 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Herbert Spencer, “The Coming Slavery,” 1884 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Henry Demarest Lloyd, “The Lords of Industry,” 1884 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 US Supreme Court, \u003ci\u003eSlaughterhouse Cases \u003c\/i\u003e, 1873 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Frederick Winslow Taylor, from \u003ci\u003eThe Principles of Scientific Management \u003c\/i\u003e, 1911 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Russell Conwell, from \u003ci\u003eAcres of Diamonds \u003c\/i\u003e, 1915 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Gilded Age Society 98\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Thorstein Veblen, from \u003ci\u003eThe Theory of the Leisure Class \u003c\/i\u003e, 1899 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from “The Yellow Wall‐Paper,” 1892 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Henry George, from \u003ci\u003eProgress and Poverty \u003c\/i\u003e, 1879 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Photographs of Gilded Age Mansions 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Woman’s Building, from \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Fair \u003c\/i\u003e, 1893 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Working People 120\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Stephen Crane, “In the Depths of a Coal Mine,” 1894 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Walter A. Wyckoff, from \u003ci\u003eThe Workers: An Experiment in Social Reality \u003c\/i\u003e, 1899 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Image from The \u003ci\u003eNational Police Gazette \u003c\/i\u003e, 1879 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Edward Eggleston, Hardshell Preacher, from \u003ci\u003eThe Hoosier Schoolmaster \u003c\/i\u003e, 1871 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Leon Ray Livingston, Tramping in America, 1910 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Upton Sinclair, from \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle \u003c\/i\u003e, 1906 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Immigrants in the Industrial Age 147\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Abraham Cahan, “The Russian Jew in America,” 1898 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Treaty Regulating Immigration from China, 1880 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Samuel Bryan, “Mexican Americans and Southwestern Growth,” 1912 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Jacob Riis, Photographs from \u003ci\u003eHow the Other Half Lives, 1890 \u003c\/i\u003e163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Theodore Roosevelt, Hyphenated Americanism, 1915 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Emergence of Reform Judaism, 1883 and 1885 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Social Conflict 175\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Populism 177\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Annie L. Diggs, “The Women in the Alliance Movement,” 1892 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Omaha Platform: Launching the Populist Party, 1892 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Thomas E. Watson, “The Negro Question\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ein the South,” 1892 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 William Jennings Bryan, “Cross of Gold” Speech, 1896 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 The Coming of Jim Crow 201\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America,” 1900 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 U.S. Supreme Court, \u003ci\u003ePlessy v. Ferguson \u003c\/i\u003e, 1896 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Compromise, 1895 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 W.E.B. Du Bois, “Of Booker T. Washington and Others,” from \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk \u003c\/i\u003e, 1903 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Images from the North Carolina White Supremacy Campaign, 1898 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Mary Church Terrell, “What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States,” 1906 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Labor Protest 223\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Roger O’Mara, Testimony on Railroad Labor Strikes, 1878 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 United States Strike Commission, Report on the Chicago Pullman Strike, 1894 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Constance D. Leupp, “The Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike,” 1909 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Photographs of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Reform 241\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Rebuilding American Institutions 243\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 John Dewey, from \u003ci\u003eThe School and Society \u003c\/i\u003e, 1899 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Walter Rauschenbusch, from \u003ci\u003eChristianity and the Social Crisis \u003c\/i\u003e, 1907 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Charles Davenport, from \u003ci\u003eHeredity in Relation to Eugenics \u003c\/i\u003e, 1915 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Margaret Sanger, “ \u003ci\u003eMorality and Birth Control \u003c\/i\u003e,” 1918 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Frances E. Willard, from \u003ci\u003eWomen and Temperance \u003c\/i\u003e, 1883 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Chicago Vice Commission, The Social Evil in Chicago, 1911 260\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 The Political System 266\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Robert M. La Follette, “Peril in the Machine,” 1897 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Isaac F. Marcosson, The Dayton Plan, 1914 274\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Helen Valeska Bary, The Suffrage Movement in Southern California, 1910–11 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Seventeenth Amendment to the US Constitution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(direct election of senators), 1913 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Marie Jenney Howe on Women’s Public Role, 1910 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Imperialism and War 291\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 Imperialism and Anti‐imperialism 293\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Mayo W. Hazeltine, “What Shall Be Done about the Philippines?” 1897 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Platt Amendment, 1901 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Jane Addams, “Democracy or Militarism,” 1899 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Photograph from the Tour of the Great White Fleet, 1907–09 304\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 The Debate about World War I 306\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 W.E.B. Du Bois on the Postwar Peace, 1918 306\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Eugene V. Debs, The Canton, Ohio, Anti‐War Speech, 1918 307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Espionage Act, 1917 311\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points Address, 1918 315\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 325\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eWilliam A. Link\u003c\/b\u003e is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. His publications include \u003ci\u003eRoots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and \u003ci\u003eRighteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern American Conservatism\u003c\/i\u003e (2008). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusannah J. Link\u003c\/b\u003e is instructor in American history at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.  “This treasure trove of documents is a terrific classroom resource.  The Links chose carefully to achieve geographic, chronological, and thematic balance.  The book's organization represents all aspects of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and ties them together interpretatively. Professors will find themselves assigning documents from the reader week after week.  This is one of the most useful teaching books I've seen.” – \u003ci\u003eGlenda Gilmore, Yale University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e“Three cheers for William and Susannah Link, whose documentary reader offers interpretive structure and focus alongside its thoughtfully-chosen collection of primary sources.  This reader is authoritative while still compact, giving enough points of view to spark controversy without closing down conversation.  It is the perfect companion to the U.S. survey or more specialized courses in modern American history.” – \u003ci\u003eJane Dailey, University of Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Wisely selected first-person accounts coupled with the author's trenchant introductions bring to life civics and society at the dawn of modern America.  It is a valuable resource that will engage students.” – \u003ci\u003eAndrew Haley, University of Southern Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990240346341,"sku":"NP9781444331394","price":35.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444331394.jpg?v=1761787027","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-gilded-age-and-progressive-era-isbn-9781444331394","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}