Assignments
~~ Weekly 2 pp. response to readings
~~ Two 8-10 page historiographical essays ("Plan A")

or,
One 15-20 pp. historiographical essay ("Plan B")

Texts
E. J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 Olivier Zunz, Making America Corporate, 1870-1920 David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace,

the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 Susan Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl
Peggy Pascoe, Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral

Authority in the American West, 1874-1939 C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 Robert C. McMath, Jr., American Populism: A Social History,

1877-1898
C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow Robert W. Rydell, All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at

American International Expositions, 1876-1916 Michael E. McGerr, The Decline of Popular Politics: The American

North, 1865-1928
Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibilities and

the Liberal State
James R. Grossman, Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners,

and the Great Migration
*Assorted articles and chapters in reader **Articles and chapters to be made available for reading or copying in week before class

Background Texts (Recommended)
Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armaggedon: The United States,

1877-1919
Robert H. Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 Leon Fink, ed., Major Problems in the Gilded Age and Progressive

Era: Documents and Essays

Schedule
Week 1 (Jan. 12): Introduction

Week 2 (Jan. 19): World Developments

     Reading
     E. J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire, 1875-1914

Week 3 (Jan. 26): Industrialization

     Reading
     Olivier Zunz, Making America Corporate, 1870-1920

     *H. Wayne Morgan, "Toward National Unity," and John Tipple,
          "Big and a New Economy," in H. Wayne Morgan, ed., The
          Gilded Age, 1-30.

Week 4 (Feb. 2): The New American Working Class

     Reading
     David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The
          Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism,
          1865-1925, 1-213

     *Carl N. Degler, Out of Our Past, 259-68

     *Herbert G. Gutman, "Work, Culture, and Society in
          Industrializing America, 1815-1919," in Work, Culture,
          and Society in Industrializing America, 3-78

     *Richard Oestreicher, "Terence V. Powderly, the Knights
          of Labor, and Artisanal Republicanism," in Melvyn
          Dubofsky and Warren van Tine, eds., Labor Leaders
          in America, 30-61

     *Leon Fink, Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor
          and American Politics, 3-37, 219-33

Week 5 (Feb. 9): Immigration

     Reading
     Susan Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl

     *James P. Shenton, "Ethnicity and Immigration," in Foner,
          ed., The New American History, 251-70

Week 6 (Feb. 16): The New West

     Reading
     Peggy Pascoe, Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female
          Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939

     *Robert L. Griswold, "Anglo Women and Domestic Ideology in
          the American West in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
          Centuries," in Lillian Schlissel, Vicki L. Ruiz, and
          Janice Monk, eds., Western Women: Their Land, Their
          Lives, 15-33.

Week 7 (Feb. 23): The New South

     Reading
     C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913

     *Numan V. Bartley, "In Search of the New South: Southern
          Politics After Reconstruction," in Reviews in American
          History 10 (Dec. 1982), 150-63.

Week 8 (Mar. 2): Populism

     Reading
     Robert C. McMath, Jr., American Populism: A Social History,
          1877-1898

     *Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform, 60-93

     *Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers
          and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-
          1890, 269-89
     *Lawrence Goodwyn, The Populist Moment: A Short History of
          the Agrarian Revolt in America, 20-54

                  ***1st 8-10 page paper due (Plan A)***

Week 9 (Mar. 9): No Class

Week 10 (Mar. 16): The Rise of Jim Crow

     Reading
     C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow

     **Howard Rabinowitz, "From Exclusion to Segregation:
          Southern Race Relations, 1865-1890," in Journal of
          American History 63:2 (September 1976), 325-50

     **John W. Cell, The Highest Stage of White Supremacy: The
          Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the American
          South, 82-170

     **Howard Rabinowitz, "More Than the Woodward Thesis:
          Assessing The Strange Career of Jim Crow," and C. Vann
          Woodward, "Strange Career Critics: Long May They
          Persevere," in Journal of American History 75:3
          (December 1988), 841-68

Week 11 (Mar. 23): Race, Class, and Gender in the Age of Jim Crow

     Reading
     *Barbara J. Fields, "Ideology and Race in American History,"
          in J. Morgan Kousser and James M. McPherson, Region,
          Race, and Reconstruction, 143-77

     *Herbert G. Gutman, "The Negro and the United Mine Workers
          of America: The Career and Letters of Richard L. Davis
          and Something of Their Meaning, 1890-1900," in Gutman,
          Work, Culture, and Society, 121-208

     *Herbert Hill, "Myth-Making as Labor History: Herbert
          Gutman and the United Mine Workers of America,"
          International Journal of Politics, Culture, and
          Society 2 (1988), 132-200

     *Stephen Brier, "In Defense of Gutman: The Union's Case,"
          International Journal of Politics, Culture, and
          Society 2 (1989), 382-95

     *Daniel Letwin, "'Pluralism in the Sex of Devils':
          Interracial Unionism and 'Social Equality' in the
          Alabama Coal Fields, 1878-1908," in Journal of Southern
          History (forthcoming)

     *Dolores Janiewski, "Southern Honor, Southern Dishonor:
          Managerial Ideology and the Construction of Gender,
          Race, and Class Relations in Southern Industry," in Ava
          Baron, ed., Work Engendered: Towards a New History of
          American Labor, 70-91

     *Eric Arnesen, "Following the Color Line of Labor: Black
          Workers, and the Labor Movement Before 1930," in
          Radical History Review 55 (Winter 1993), 53-87

Week 12 (Mar. 30): Ideologies of Empire

     Reading
     Robert W. Rydell, All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire
          at American International Expositions, 1876-1916

Week 13 (Apr. 6): Party Politics

     Reading
     *Richard L. McCormick, "Public Life in Industrial America,
          1877-1919," in Eric Foner, ed., The New American
          History, 93-117

     Michael E. McGerr, The Decline of Popular Politics: The
          American North, 1865-1928

Week 14 (Apr. 13): The Progressive Era

     Reading
     Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibilities
          and the Liberal State, 1-171

     Montgomery, Fall of the House of Labor, 214-329

     *Daniel T. Rodgers, "In Search of Progressivism," in Reviews
          in American History 10 (Dec. 1982), 113-132

     *Dewey W. Grantham, "The Contours of Southern
          Progressivism," in American Historical Review 86 (Dec.
          1981), 1035-59

Week 15 (Apr. 20): World War I and its Aftermath

     Reading
     Dawley, Struggles for Justice, 172-294

     Montgomery, Fall of the House of Labor, 330-464

     **George Chauncy, Jr., "Christian Brotherhood or Sexual
          Perversion?  Homosexual Identities and the Construction
          of Sexual Boundaries in the World War I Era," in Martin
          Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and Goerge Chauncey,
          Jr., eds., Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay &
          Lesbian Past, 294-317

Week 16 (Apr. 27): The Great Migration

     Reading
     James R. Grossman, Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners,
          and the Great Migration

                  ***2nd 8-10 page paper due (Plan A)***

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