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Bibliography

Short bibliography of suggested readings
Bay, Mia.  To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells. New York: Macmillan. 2010.

Cahill, Cathleen. Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Edwards, Rebecca.  New Spirits: America in the Gilded Age, 1865–1905
. New York: Oxford University Press; second edition,  2006, 2011. New Spirits: America in the “Gilded Age,” 1865-1905.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Postel, Charles. The Populist Vision
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.


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


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


Short secondary source reading or citation suitable for teachers providing an overview of the topic


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.


Relevant primary source excerpts suitable for classroom adaptation


1885 Knights of Labor Broadside including “Preamble and Declaration of Principles of the Knights of Labor of America” 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 Lerhman 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

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