HST 3424 Spring 1995 Professor Ballard C. Campbell 233 Meserve Hall email: Campbell@neu.edu Northeastern University 617 373 4448 (with recorder) version: ascii FAX 373 2661
This graduate course is formatted for one quarter (11 weekly classes)
Books available in the bookstore
William Cronon, NATURE'S METROPOLIS: CHICAGO AND THE GREAT WEST
(NY: W. W. Norton, 1991)
Glenn Porter, THE RISE OF BIG BUSINESS (Harlan Davidson, 1992 2e)
Nell Irvin Painter, STANDING AT ARMAGEDDON: THE UNITED STATES, 1877-
1919 (NY: W. W. Norton, 1987)
Jon Teaford, THE UNHERALDED TRIUMPH:CITY GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA,
1870-1900 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984)
Arthur Link and Richard L. McCormick, PROGRESSIVISM (H Davidson, 1983)
PAC This symbol designates items contained in the photopac,
which is available at Gnomon Copy, 325 Huntington Ave. RES This symbol designates items placed on library reserve CONF Designates that the material is placed in the History Conf. room;
JR: journal (entire volume) REC Recommended reading but not among the primary assignments
Topics and Weekly Assignment
l. Introduction
2. Economic development: metroeconomy in the heartland
Cronon, METROPOLIS, ch. 1-5
3. Economic development: corporate capitalism
Cronon, METROPOLIS, ch. 6-8
Porter, BIG BUSINESS
Gary D. Libecap, "The Rise of the Chicago Packers and the Origins
Of Meat Inspection and Antitrust," NBER Paper no. 29 (1991). REC/CONF
4. Labor
Painter, ARMAGEDDON, Introduction, ch. 1,2,12, Epilogue
Read at least 2 of the following:
Danield R. Fusfeld, "Government and the Supression of Radical
Labor, 1877-1918," in Bright and Harding, STATEMAKING AND
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (1984) PAC
Samuel Rezneck, "Distress, Relief, and Discontent in the U.S.
during the Depression of 1873-78," JEH (1950), 494-512. PAC
Amy D. Stanley, "Beggars Can't Be Choosers," JAH 78 (1992). CONF/JR
5. Interpretations of Gilded Age Politics
Richard Hofstader, AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITION (1948), ch.7 PAC
Charles W. Calhoun, "The Political Culture: Public Life and the
Conduct of Politics," in Calhoun, THE ORIGINS OF MODERN
AMERICA (1995). PAC
Richard L. McCormick, "The Party Period and Public Policy,"
JAH 66 (1979). CONF/BOOK
Ballard Campbell, THE GROWTH OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT (1995)
Introduction and ch. 1. PAC
Painter, ARMAGEDDON, ch. 3, 4
REC:
Stephen Skowronek, BUILDING A NEW AMERICAN STATE (1982) 3-31. RES
Charles W. Calhoun, "Civil Religion and the Gilded Age Presidency:
The Case of Benjamin Harrison," PRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY
(1933). CONF/JR
6. Policy Patterns in the Gilded Age
Ballard Campbell, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY (1980) Chs. 3,5. CONF & RES
Ballard Campbell, "Did Democracy Work: Prohibition in Late
Nineteenth Century Iowa as a Test Case," JIH (1977), 87-116. PAC
Ballard Campbell, "Federalism, State Action, and 'Critical Episodes'
in the Growth of American Government," SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY
(1992), 561-77. PAC
Keller, AFFAIRS OF STATE, ch. 11 (409-38). PAC
7. Urban Governance
Teaford, TRIUMPH, especially chapters 1, 4-6, 8-10.
8. Society
Painter, ARMAGEDDON, chs. 5,7,8
Read any 3 of the following:
Walter Nugent, "Tocqueville, Marx, and American Class Structure,"
SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY (1988), 327-47. PAC
Eileen L. McDonagh, "Gender Politics and Political Change," in
Dodd and Jillson, NEW PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN POLITICS (1994) PAC
Theda Skocpol, "Early U.S. Social Policies," in NEW PERSPECTIVES
ON AMERICAN POLITICS (1994) CONF/PAPER
William Cohen, "Negro Involuntary Servitude in the South, 1865-1940,"
JR OF S. HIST, 42 (1976) CONF
9. The Progressive Era
Link and McCormick, PROGRESSIVISM
Richard Hofstadter, THE AGE OF REFORM (1955), ch. 4. PAC
Ballard Campbell, THE GROWTH OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT (1995),
"The Transition Era," ch. 3. PAC
REC:
Jack Reynolds, TESTING DEMOCRACY: ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR AND
PROGRESSIVE REFORM IN NEW JERSEY (1988), ch. 4. RES
10.Policy Patterns in the Progressive Era
Painter, ARMAGEDDON, chs. 6,9-11. Morton Keller, REGULATING A NEW ECONOMY, two chs. from 2-5,7,9. RES William Link, SOUTHERN PROGRESSIVISM (1992), ch. 5,9 or 10. RES
REC
Garrison Nelson, "The Modernizing Congress, 1870-1930," in
Silbey, ed. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
(1994), pp. 131-32, 140-49. CONF
Media assignment
Every student will present an oral report and file a written report on an aspect of one of the following interactive (computer-assisted) materials (located in the Media Room, 2d floor, Snell Library):
19th and 20th century U.S. Social and Political History
the Great War of 1914. (multi-media hypertext) Both sources are described in the PAC. Detailed instructions to follow.
Graded assignments
Grading is based on weekly discussions of the reading, three analytic reviews of the reading, and the media assignment. The weight of the assignments are listed below:
essay 1 on reading no. 2-4. 5-8 pages. 100 due 4/26
essay 2 on reading no. 5-7. 5-8 pages. 100 due 5/17
essay 3 on reading no. 8-10.5-8 pages. 100 due 6/7 seniors 5/31
media presentation. 5-8 pages. 100 due tba
class discussion on reading 300
H-SHGAPE recommendation
Students are encouraged to join the discussion network on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era on the internet (computer mail). Your first step is to open an account (free) on the Vax or Lynx computer systems at the Department of Academic Computing (DAC) in 39 Richards, or call them 373 3300. The second step is to subscribe to H-SHGAPE, as follows: login to vax or lynx. Send an internet message: in%"listserv @msu.edu" leave the subject header blank; your message is: subscribe h-shgape firstname lastname yourinstitution. Please remember to unsubscribe at the end of the quarter.
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