Viral History Press, 2011. — 496 p. James Garfield’s 1880 dark horse nomination for president after the longest-ever Republican convention, his victory in the closest-ever presidential popular vote, his struggle against feuding factions once elected, and its climax of violence, all produced one of the most dramatic presidential odysseus of the Gilded Age. The era’s decency is...
New York: Active Service Auxiliary, 1917. - 31 pgs. The Active Service Auxiliary was created to care for the families of New York National Guardsmen on duty at the Mexican border and was active for eight months. The elected chairman was Mrs. Grace Vanderbilt, wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Most guardsmen had no savings so financial assistance had to be provided to thousands of...
University of Nevada Press, 2007. — 152 p. — ISBN - 13: 978-0-87417-698-8 America’s current "war on drugs" is not the nation’s first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West. Although China faced its own epidemic of opium addiction, only a very small minority of Chinese immigrants in America...
Chicago Review Press, 2012. — 255 p. An extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched exposé. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend's yacht and was not heard from for five days. During that time, a team of doctors removed a cancerous tumor from the president's palate along with much of his upper jaw....
University of Alaska Press, 2019. — 224 p. The growth of modern-day Alaska began with the Klondike gold discovery in 1896. Over the course of the next two decades, as prospectors, pioneers, and settlers rushed in, Alaska developed its agricultural and mineral resources, birthed a structure of highway and railroad transportation, and founded the Alaska cities we know today. All...
University of Alaska Press, 2019. — 224 p. The growth of modern-day Alaska began with the Klondike gold discovery in 1896. Over the course of the next two decades, as prospectors, pioneers, and settlers rushed in, Alaska developed its agricultural and mineral resources, birthed a structure of highway and railroad transportation, and founded the Alaska cities we know today. All...
Report of Benedict Crowell, the Assistant Secretary of War, Director of Munitions. — Washington: Government Printing Office, 1919. — 592 p. Ordnance. The ordnance problem. Gun production. Mobile field artillery. Railway artillery. Explosives, propellants, and artillery ammunition. Sights and fire-control apparatus. Motorized artillery. Tanks. Machine guns. Service rifles....
Washington: Government printing office, 1919. — 167 p. Of every 100 American soldiers and sailors who took part in the war with Germany, 2 were killed or died of disease during the period of hostilities. In the Northern Army during the Civil War the number was about 10. Among the other great nations in this war, between 20 and 25 in each 100 called to the. colors were killed or...
Litwin Books, 2013. — 168 р. Import of the Archive examines the role of archives in the United States' colonization of the Philippines between 1898 and 1916. During this period the archives played a critical part in the United States' entrenchment of a colonial state, exhibiting the flexibility and authority to enable arguments of the former colonial power's incompetence and...
Yale University Press, 2012. — 244 p. When the crated monument first arrived in New York Harbor, few could have foreseen the central place the Statue of Liberty would come to occupy in the American imagination. In this book, cultural historian and scholar of French history Edward Berenson tells the little-known stories of the statue’s improbable beginnings, transatlantic...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. — 416 p. — ISBN 978-1635572490. A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue, and two of American history's most colossal characters, struggling for mastery in an era of social upheaval and rampant inequality. It seemed like no force in the world could slow J. P. Morgan's drive to power. In the summer of 1901, the financier...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 352 p. The Spanish-American War marked the emergence of the United States as an imperial power. It was when the United States first landed troops overseas and established governments of occupation in the Philippines, Cuba, and other formerly Spanish colonies. But such actions to extend U.S. sovereignty abroad, argues Katharine Bjork, had a...
TwoDot, 2018. — 320 p. The Cowboy President: The American West and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt reveals how his time spent in the Western Dakota Territory helped him recover from an overwhelming personal loss, but more importantly, how it transformed him into the man etched onto Mount Rushmore, a man who is still rated as one of the top five Presidents in American history....
Crowell, 1960. — 328 p. In After the Civil War John Blay paints a vast portrait of America dining the years that followed the shattering conflict between the states. In these thirty-five years before the turn of the century, our country underwent a remarkable and profound transformation, and Mr. Blay depicts this with over four hundred illustrations taken from contemporary...
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 345 p. By the winter of 1916/17, World War I had reached a deadlock. While the Allies commanded greater resources and fielded more soldiers than the Central Powers, German armies had penetrated deep into Russia and France, and tenaciously held on to their conquered empire. Hoping to break the stalemate on the western front, the...
Little, Brown and Company, 2014. — 448 p. A vivid account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad -- available for the first time in trade paperback -- by the author of the bestselling The Admirals: "Borneman is masterly at writing seamless narrative. After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for grabs, and...
New York University Press, 1997. — 322 p. On May 29, 1917, Mrs. E. M. Craise, citizen of Denver, Colorado, penned a letter to President Woodrow Wilson, which concluded, We have surrendered to your absolute control our hearts' dearest treasures--our sons. If their precious bodies that have cost us so dear should be torn to shreds by German shot and shells we will try to live on...
McFarland and Company, 2021. — 237 p. Two aging Civil War veterans mourned the death of their sons at a joint funeral in Knoxville National Cemetery. One, a cavalry general, had fought for the Union. The other had served as surgeon/major of a Confederate cavalry regiment. They met for the first time at the graves of their sons--two army lieutenants and University of Tennessee...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 256 p. This book demonstrates that during the early twentieth century, the Monroe Doctrine served the role of a national security framework that justified new directions in United States foreign relations when the nation emerged as one of the world’s leading imperial powers. As the United States’ overseas empire expanded in the wake of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 256 p. This book demonstrates that during the early twentieth century, the Monroe Doctrine served the role of a national security framework that justified new directions in United States foreign relations when the nation emerged as one of the world’s leading imperial powers. As the United States’ overseas empire expanded in the wake of the...
Publisher: Chelsea House: 2010 - 113 p. ISBN: 1604134488 2 edition
Sports In America is much more than a compilation of names, dates, and facts. Each volume chronicles accomplishments and expansions of the possible. Not just in the physical ability to perform, but in the ability to create goals and determine methods to achieve them. In this way, sports, the sweaty offspring of...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 1412 p. — ISBN: 978-0-195116-34-8. To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 590 p. In the years after the Civil War, the banks, railroads, and industrial corporations of Gilded‑Age America, abetted by a corrupt political system, concentrated vast wealth in the hands of the few and made poverty the fate of many. In response, a group of hard‑pressed farmers and laborers from Texas organized a movement for economic justice...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 697 p. — (The A to Z Guides). The Progressive Era, the period in the United States between 1898 and 1917, was a time of great social, political, and industrial change. Following the Spanish-American War of 1898, an event that signaled the emergence of the United States as a great power, the country soon was involved in its first overseas guerrilla war, in...
Lyons Press, 2010. — 253 p. King of Heists is a spellbinding and unprecedented account of the greatest bank robbery in American history, which took place on October 27, 1878, when thieves broke into the Manhattan Savings Institution and stole nearly $3 million in cash and securitiesaround $50 million in todays terms. Bringing the notorious Gilded Age to life in a thrilling...
Praeger, 1970. — 282 p. Prelude to an Isolationist Position. Formulation of Isolationist Doctrines. Support for Isolationist Policies. Beginnings of an Isolationist Coalition. Coalescence of the Isolationist Position. Bibliographical Essay.
Second Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2003. — xiv+337 p. — ISBN: 0-521-83394-9; ISBN: 0-521-54175-1. Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives, more people than those perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is...
W.W. Norton & Co., 2023. — 384 p. The epic road trips—and surprising friendship—of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age In 1913, an unlikely friendship blossomed between Henry Ford and famed naturalist John Burroughs. When their mutual interest in Ralph Waldo Emerson led them to set out in one of Ford’s...
University Press of Kentucky, 2011. — 398 p. When war broke out in Europe in 1914, political leaders in the United States were swayed by popular opinion to remain neutral; yet less than three years later, the nation declared war on Germany. In Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America's Entry into World War I, Justus D. Doenecke examines the clash of opinions over the war...
Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. — 208 p. In a bold departure from previous scholarship, Le'Trice D. Donaldson locates the often overlooked era between the Civil War and the end of World War I as the beginning of black soldiers' involvement in the long struggle for civil rights. Donaldson traces the evolution of these soldiers as they used their military service to...
UNC Press Books, 2017. — 359 p. In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American "new woman," Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, women's impact on the war. Telling the stories of a diverse group of women, including African Americans, dissidents, pacifists, reformers, and industrial workers, Dumenil analyzes both the roadblocks and...
Mariner Books, 2009. — 349 p. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest...
Stanford University Press, 2009. — 344 p. Focusing on the political culture forged by Rocky Mountain workers from the 1870s through the 1920s, this book shows how the unique working-class politics of the region led to remarkable successes in securing progressive labor legislation. These successes―especially in improving workers' hours, wages, and safety―in turn played a central...
Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2014. — 258 p. In the autumn of 1871, Alexis Romanov, the fourth son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, set sail from his homeland for an extended journey through the United States and Canada. A major milestone in U.S.-Russia relations, the tour also served Duke Alexis's family by helping to extricate him from an unsuitable romantic entanglement with the...
Texas A&M University Press, 2001. — 217 p. During the First World War, nearly half a million immigrant draftees from forty-six different nations served in the U.S. Army. This surge of Old World soldiers challenged the American military's cultural, linguistic, and religious traditions and required military leaders to reconsider their training methods for the foreign-born troops....
Dundurn, 2020. — 434 p. — ISBN13: 9781459747364 A first-hand chronicle of Wolseley’s expedition to end Riel’s Red River Rebellion by a remarkable trio embedded on the mission. In the spring of 1870, two reporters set off from Toronto to cover one of the biggest stories in Canadian history: Colonel Garnet Wolseley’s 1870 expedition to Red River. Over the course of six months,...
Duke University Press Books, 2008. — 392 p. When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government and the ways of American-style democracy. In both territories, U.S. colonial officials built extensive public school systems, and they...
Virginia: Brassey’s, 2004. - 172 p.
Although America entered the war relatively late, it played a critical role in tipping the scales against Germany and its allies and in shaping the war’s aftermath. The book’s hundreds of photos tell the stories of the U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, politicians, and citizens on the home front who helped the Allies win the war. Donald...
Simon & Schuster, 2013. — 928 p. — ISBN: 978-1416547860. The gap between rich and poor has never been wider…legislative stalemate paralyzes the country…corporations resist federal regulations…spectacular mergers produce giant companies…the influence of money in politics deepens…bombs explode in crowded streets…small wars proliferate far from our shores…a dizzying array of...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 311 p. Scholarship on American labor politics has been dominated by the view that the American Federation of Labor, the leading labor organization in the early twentieth century, rejected political action in favor of economic strategies. Based on extensive research into labor and political party records, this study demonstrates that, in fact the...
LSU Press, 2020. — 740 p. Manipulating the Masses tells the story of the enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishment of pervasive, systematic propaganda as an instrument of the state. During the Great War, the federal government exercised unprecedented power to shape the views and attitudes of American citizens. Its agent for this was...
Routledge, 2006. — 217 p. This second volume of President McKinley, War and Empire assesses five theories that have dominated analysis of modern societies in the last century--liberalism, Marxism, mass society, pluralism, and elitism--in accounting for an aberrant event in American history: the Spanish-American War. President McKinley and the Coming of the War 1898, volume 1 of...
Routledge, 2017. — 234 p. In this volume, Hamilton deals with some of the antecedents and the outcome of the Spanish-American war, specifically, the acquisition of an American empire. It critiques the "progressive" view of those events, questioning the notion that businessmen (and compliant politicians) aggressively sought new markets, particularly those of Asia. Hamilton shows...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. — 576 p. On June 18, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called up virtually the entire army National Guard, some 150,000 men, to meet an armed threat to the United States: border raids covertly sponsored by a Mexican government in the throes of revolution. The Great Call-Up tells for the first time the complete story of this unprecedented...
The History Press, 2007. — 128 p. Elite Americans came to Long Branch to stroll along the shore, dance in the hotel ballrooms, gamble a fortune at the casinos, build magnificent mansions and socialize with the day's most powerful players in entertainment, industry and politics. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, summers at the shore meant Long Branch, New Jersey,...
Northern Illinois University Press, 1982. — 191 p. This book ought to be required reading for undergraduate students of economics in their first year. The focus is on the South's efforts after the Civil War to create an economy based on the manufacture of cotton (i.e., making cloth) versus having an agrarian economy based on the growing of cotton. The book discusses sectional...
The Lyons Press, 2018. — 288 p. — ISBN: 9781493025770. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Theodore Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan were the two most powerful men in America, perhaps the world. As the nation’s preeminent financier, Morgan presided over an elemental shift in American business, away from family-owned companies and toward modern corporations of unparalleled...
Mitchell Kennerley, 1917. — 199 p. Woodrow Wilson and the World`s peace. The man and the President. His initial effort. The Pro-German morality of the pacifist. Pro-America. An Apologia.
University Press of Mississippi, 2015. — 304 p. When Theodore Roosevelt entered national politics as the Republicans' nominee for the vice presidency in 1900, he was only forty-one years old. However, he had caught the public's attention with the popular version of his life story. Child of East Coast privilege. Sickly, bespectacled youth. Naturalist and author. Harvard...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 408 p. The gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their homelands. In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City. At an immigrant educational society...
Yale University Press, 2000. — 320 p. This groundbreaking book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Kristin L. Hoganson shows how gendered ideas about citizenship and political leadership influenced jingoist political leaders` desire to wage these conflicts, and she traces how they...
University of Chicago Press, 2017. — 368 p. From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. A host of financial entities sought to control banking, trade, and finance in the region. In the process, they not only trampled local...
Wiley-Blackwell, 1997. — 140 p. In America and the Great War, 1914-1920, the accomplished writing team of D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells provides a succinct account of the principal military, political, and social developments in United States History as the nation responded to, and was changed by, a world in crisis. A forthright examination of America's unprecedented...
Bennington, VT: Merriam Press, 1986. — 33 p.
Merriam Press Monograph No. M-51 This short booklet details the operations of the United States Marine Corps in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. Eventually, Marine detachments from several places combined into a battalion which fought alongside European units to suppress the revolt and relieved besieged legations in Peking. Incorporates...
Facts on File, 2007. — 689 p. — (Eyewitness History Series). During the three decades between 1890 and 1920, the United States entered the modern era and considered how to meet its new realities—its diverse urban industrial society and its enlarged world power. On many measures, events that occurred in the Progressive Era mark a watershed in American historical development....
Routledge, 2018. — 210 p. This book places the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing within the broader context of American radicalism and isolationism during the Progressive Era. A concise narrative and key primary documents offer readers an introduction to this episode of domestic violence and the subsequent, sensationalized trial that followed. The dubious conviction...
Routledge, 2013. — 176 p. On July 6, 1892, three hundred armed Pinkerton agents arrived in Homestead, Pennsylvania to retake the Carnegie Steelworks from the company's striking workers. As the agents tried to leave their boats, shots rang out and a violent skirmish began. The confrontation at Homestead was a turning point in the history of American unionism, beginning a rapid...
Arcadia Publishing, 2021. — 224 p. The Progressive Era ushered in one of the most transformational periods in New York's history. The excesses of the Gilded Age led to the rise of numerous social and political reform movements. These justice-seeking endeavors reached all corners of the state, including women's suffrage meetings in Seneca Falls, civil rights efforts in Niagara...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2021. — 176 p. Now in its second edition, The United States and the First World War draws on the most recent scholarship to examine the significance of the First World War in American history. Written in a lively style that brings the era and historical actors alive, this concise and accessible text gives students the resources they need to grapple with...
St. Martin's Press, 2019. — 304 p. The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America. The Edge of Anarchy by Jack Kelly offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 680 p. — (Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History). A Companion to Woodrow Wilson presents a compilation of essays contributed by various scholars in the field that cover all aspects of the life and career of America’s 28th president. - Represents the only current anthology of essays to introduce readers to the scholarship on all aspects of...
Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2009. - 128 pgs. This period of national guard history was typified by turbulent social and economic unrest, and the guard had to keep peace between striking miners and mine security guards. Many of these photographs are from the collection of the late Fred Cochran of Parkersburg, West Virginia. He was an officer in Company E, 2nd...
Henry Holt and Company, 2017. — 320 p. The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America’s interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond. How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 282 p. This examination of the relationship of the economy to political process in the United States from 1877 to 1916 shows how the railroad industry encouraged and relied on national politics to solve its economic problems, and created a precedent for government regulation of the economy in the twentieth century. The continuity in...
Crown, 2015. — 448 p. From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city’s elite “better half” against...
Penguin Publishing, 2021. — 672 p. The fascinating story of how the three most influential American progressives of the early twentieth century split over America’s response to World War I. In the early years of the twentieth century, the most famous Americans on the national stage were Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jane Addams: two presidents and a social worker....
New York: Chelsea House, 2008. – 112 pp. — (Great historic disasters). The date was Saturday, March 25, 1911. The warm, spring day began just like any other workday for hundreds of thousands of working-class people in New York City. But it would end in tragedy for 146 victims of one of the city’s worst workplace disasters and their families. And it would set the wheels in...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 361 p. The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration policies incited this violence and how...
University of North Carolina Press, 1992. — 637 p. Localism in transition The contours of social policy Governance and the moral crisis Paternalism and reform The reform crusade Social purity Schools and Health Family Social policy and community resistance Building the social efficiency state The limits of paternalism Schools Health and popular resistance The family and the...
Routledge, 2017. — 412 p. Walter Lord writes concise and interesting histories. This book focuses mostly on the USA between 1900 to 1914. Each year focuses mostly on one big story like the race to the North Pole or the Presidential Campaign. Lord is a very good writer. This is a very broad-brush historical book with no in-depth coverage of any given topic. A fun read for those...
University Press of Colorado, 2019. — 312 p. Hidden Out in the Open is the first English-language volume on Spanish migration to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This panoramic study covers a period defined by the crucial transformations of the Progressive Era in the United States, and by similarly momentous changes in Spain following the...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2014. — 218 p. The Cross of War documents the rise of “messianic interventionism”―the belief that America can and should intervene altruistically on behalf of other nations. This stance was first embraced in the Spanish-American War of 1898, a war that marked the dramatic emergence of the United States as an active world power and set the stage...
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1939. — 365 p. IN THE saga of the States the chapter that is California has long fascinated the credulous and charmed the romantic. A fabled land, California, rich in the stuff of which legends are made. Proverbially it is a wealthy and indolent province, blessed with a miraculous climate and steeped in beauty. Here gold was discovered and the...
University of North Carolina Press, 2015. — 320 p. In the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish-American War, Americans celebrated their nation's triumph by eating sugar. Each of the nation's new imperial possessions, from Puerto Rico to the Philippines, had the potential for vastly expanding sugar production. As victory parties and commemorations prominently featured...
Simon and Schuster, 2023. — 600 p. In this great American story, acclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley, which loses out to the brilliant and flamboyant Theodore Roosevelt who succeeded him after his assassination. He portrays McKinley as a chief executive of consequence whose low place in the presidential rankings does not...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. — 344 p. The American people overwhelmingly supported the nation’s entry into the Spanish-American War of 1898, which led to U.S. imperial expansion into the Caribbean and Pacific. In this book, Bonnie M. Miller explores the basis of that support, showing how the nation’s leading media makers—editorialists, cartoonists, filmmakers,...
Random House, 2011. — 448 p. In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin’s bullet shattered the nation’s confidence. The shocking murder of President William McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging new world order of what would come to be known as the American Century. The President and the Assassin is the story of...
New York, Chicago, London: 1899. — 63 p. Wonderful reproductions of living scenes in natural colors. They are not merely "Lifelike," but actual Life. These matchless views, caught by the camera in NATURAL COLORS, show the natives in the most romantic scenes of every-day life, and reproduce the soldiers in their most exciting action. The familiar faces of heroes in all ranks appear...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 336 p. When war broke out in Europe in August of 1914, it seemed, to observers in the United States, the height of madness. The Old World and its empires were tearing each other apart, and while most Americans blamed the Germans, pitied the Belgians, and felt kinship with the Allies, they wanted no part in the carnage. Two years into war...
Routledge, 2017. — 173 p. The Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918 mark one of the most controversial moments in American history. Even as President Woodrow Wilson justified US entry into World War I on the grounds that it would 'make the world safe for democracy,' civil liberties at home were curtailed by these laws, which suppressed anti-war sentiment by making it illegal...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 528 p. Characterized by social upheavals, rapid industrialization, and unprecedented economic growth, the long Gilded Age and Progressive Era represents one of the most fascinating and instructive times in American history. A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era presents a collection of new historiographic and historical essays covering the...
University of Chicago Press, 2013. — 248 p. A political movement rallies against under regulated banks, widening gaps in wealth, and gridlocked governments. Sound familiar? More than a century before Occupy Wall Street, the People’s Party of the 1890s was organizing for change. They were the original source of the term “populism,” and a catalyst for the later Progressive Era...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 317 p. — ISBN10: 022637999X; ISBN13: 978-0226379999 — (Historical Studies of Urban America) It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln’s. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the...
University of Washington Press, 2016. — 306 p. — ISBN 978-0-295-99833-6 This compelling study of a previously overlooked vice industry explores the larger structural forces that led to the growth of prostitution in Japan, the Pacific region, and the North American West at the turn of the twentieth century. Combining very personal accounts with never before examined Japanese...
Center of military history United States Army, Washington D.C., 1988, First Printed 1937-CMH Pub 23-1, - 412 pages. Order of battle of the United States land forces in the World War. Volume 1. American Expeditionary Forces: General Headquarters. Armies, Army Corps. Services of Supply. Separate Forces. General headquarters, american expeditionaryforces. American services of...
Center of military history United States Army, Washington, D.C., 1988, First Printed 1937-CMH Pub 23-1, 463 pages. Regular army divisions. National guard divisions. National army divisions. Composition of divisions. Tables of organization of divisions. Calendar. Abbreviations.
Abrams Books, 2017. — 180 p. On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany and joined World War I. German submarine attacks on American ships in March 1917 were the overt motive for declaring war, but the underlying reasons were far more complex. Even after the United States officially joined, Americans were divided on whether they should be a part of it....
McFarland and Company, 2020. — 228 p. The clashes between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan during the 1896 and 1900 presidential elections changed the course of American politics. Prior to Bryan's candidacy, the Democratic Party was slightly more conservative than the Republican Party. At the 1896 Democratic National Convention, Bryan's dramatic "Cross of Gold"...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 368 p. Gentlemen Bankers investigates the social and economic circles of one of America’s most renowned and influential financiers to uncover how the Morgan family’s power and prestige stemmed from its unique position within a network of local and international relationships. At the turn of the twentieth century, private banking was a personal...
University of Illinois Press, 2010. — 575 p. Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. Cannon's early years (1890-1928) details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era. This historical drama unfolds alongside the life experiences of a native son of United States radicalism, the narrative moving...
Greenwood Press, 1957. — 401 p. This is an excellent over-all summary of various types of American opposition to World War I and the public response to that opposition in the form of hysteria, intolerance, and even violence. Opponents shows and then acknowledges that World War I was a half-hearted effort by many doubting Americans, leaving “super patriots” with more reason and...
New York: The Academy Press, 1920. — 445 p. The American people should know the truth about American public life. They have been lied to so much and hoodwinked so often that it would seem only fair for them to have at least one straight-from-the-shoulder statement concerning this government of the people, by the people and for the people, about whose inner workings the people...
Cambridge University Press, 1915. — 442 p. 1865. The Dawn of Brighter Days Changes in Population 1866. A Counsel of Moderation The Austro-Prussian War and the Rights of Private Property The Atlantic Cable 94 1867. The First Civil Service Reform Bill The Meaning of American Naturalization 1868. American Diplomats Abroad The Result of the Impeachment Trial 1869. David A. Wells...
The Crown Publishing Group, 2007. — 208 p. The fateful blunder that radically altered the course of the twentieth century—and led to some of the most murderous dictators in history President Woodrow Wilson famously rallied the United States to enter World War I by saying the nation had a duty to make “the world safe for democracy.” But as historian Jim Powell demonstrates in...
Columbia University Press, 2021. — 304 p. In the eyes of both contemporaries and historians, the United States became an empire in 1898. By taking possession of Cuba and the Philippines, the nation seemed to have reached a watershed moment in its rise to power―spurring arguments over whether it should be a colonial power at all. However, the questions that emerged in the wake...
Harvard University Press, 2019. — 305 p. How women in turn-of-the-century Chicago used their consumer power to challenge male domination of public spaces and stake their own claim to downtown. Popular culture assumes that women are born to shop and that cities welcome their trade. But for a long time America’s downtowns were hardly welcoming to women. Emily Remus turns to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 132 p. At the foundations of our modern conception of open government are a handful of disgruntled citizens in the Progressive Era who demanded accountability from their local officials, were rebuffed, and then brought their cases to court. Drawing on newspaper accounts, angry letters to editors, local histories, and court records, David Ress...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 286 p. During the nineteenth century American political parties selected their candidates for elective offices in conventions. Around 1910 most states established a system of direct primaries whereby the voters selected their parties’ nominees for public office. The current study examines the transition from the indirect to the direct primary,...
New York: International Publishers, 1943. — 128 p. The author has provided a useful sketch of the populist movement from the socialist point of view drawn from the best secondary sources; no pretense is made at originality of investigation. The book is offered as a reminder that our political democracy will be stronger "if we remember the internal struggles through which our...
New York: International Publishers, 1943. — 128 p. The author has provided a useful sketch of the populist movement from the socialist point of view drawn from the best secondary sources; no pretense is made at originality of investigation. The book is offered as a reminder that our political democracy will be stronger "if we remember the internal struggles through which our...
University of Missouri Press, 2013. — 216 p. In the midst of the Philippine-American War, twenty-two-year-old Robert Dexter Carter served in Manila as a civilian quartermaster clerk. Through his letters to his family, he provided a vivid picture of army life in Manila—the sights, the smells, and his responses to the native culture. In addition to his letters, his diary and...
Potomac Books, 2022. — 295 p. Though largely forgotten today, one of the most destructive terrorist groups in the United States was the Galleanists, a fiery band of Italian anarchists active during the early 1900s. In America’s Forgotten Terrorists, Jeffrey D. Simon shows how alienation and frustration among segments of a community were transformed into a militant extremist...
New York: Chelsea House, 2008. — 128 pp. — (Great historic disasters). At approximately 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, april 18, 1906, the city of San Francisco began to shudder. Roadways rose and fell like ocean waves. Crumbling walls and chimneys rained glass and bricks onto sidewalks and streets. In those parts of the city built on loose, mushy landfill, the shaken soil turned to...
The History Press, 2014. — 176 p. Stroll down Norwich's most fashionable mile of millionaires' mansions and mingle with the extraordinary people who lived and played behind their elegant facades during the glamorous Gilded Age. Wealthy manufacturers and merchants constructed magnificent mansions, many of which survive today, along this trendiest triangle in the glitzy Rose of...
The History Press, 2021. — 192 p. A catastrophic depression engulfed Colorado in 1893. The government's decision to adopt the gold standard and stop buying silver hit the mining industry like a cave-in. Unemployment reached 90 percent in Leadville, a city built on silver. Strikes by union miners in Cripple Creek and Leadville led to destruction and death. Political parties...
Liveright Publishing, 2019. — 312 p. Before Rachel Carson, there was George Bird Grinnell - the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation. George Bird Grinnell, the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds...
Cambridge University Press, 1987. — 312 p. The subject of this book is the confrontation between the American reform tradition, historically inward-looking, and the first of the world conflicts in which the United States has been involved in the twentieth century. It focuses upon those writers and journals most prominently associated with 'the progressive movement' and examines...
Doubleday Page and Company Ltd., 1921. — 358 p. Political laboratory. Doing the political shores. The New Jersey silent. Something new in political campaignes. Wilson the warrior. Wilson the human being. The last day.
Greenwood Press, 1987. — 192 p. The joint efforts of Roosevelt and Mahan to secure U.S. prominence in the Western Hemisphere through sea power and to develop a navy capable of confronting powerful enemies in the Atlantic and Pacific altered hemispheric relations irrevocably and had important consequences for the conduct and outcome of both world wars. The author describes the...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 317 p. The Historical A-Z Dictionary of the Gilded Age relates the history of the major events, issues, people, and themes of the American Gilded Age (1869-1899). The Gilded Age was a time of nationalism, unprecedented economic growth, and technological advancement. T. Adams Upchurch does this through a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, an...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 1196 p. — ISBN: 0195116356, 9780195116359 In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving from national...
Da Capo Press, 2013. — 288 p. In Young Mr. Roosevelt, preeminent historian Stanley Weintraub examines Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political and wartime apprenticeship, where he learned the ropes in politics, war, and love. Told against the backdrop of America's first reluctant entry into world war, its tentative efforts to build a modern navy, Washington's gossip-ridden society...
Hachette Books, 2022. — 304 p. From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms. For a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls,...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 968 p. — (Oxford History of the United States). During Reconstruction Northerners attempted to remake the United States in their own image. They would make incarnate the new world Republicans imagined at the end of the Civil War. That new world seemed possible because the Republican Party controlled the Union in 1865 as fully as any political...
University Press of Kansas, 2010. — 264 p. The presidential election of 1896 is widely acknowledged as one of only a few that brought about fundamental realignments in American politics. New voting patterns replaced old, a new majority party came to power, and national policies shifted to reflect new realities. R. Hal Williams now presents the first study of that campaign in...
University Press of Florida, 1976. — 244 p. List of Maps. Reconstruction Doldrums. The Redemption and the Old Problems. A Period of Political and Economic Uncertainty. Republican Intrigue and Democratic Unrest. Land, Politics, and Lynchings. The Independent Revolt. The Bourbons Triumphant. Afterglow of the Independent Fire. Strange Bedfellows. The Populist Fiasco. Notes.
Ashgate, 2014. — 259 p. The First World War constitutes a point in the history of New York when its character and identity were challenged, recast and reinforced. Due to its pre-eminent position as a financial and trading centre, its role in the conflict was realised far sooner than elsewhere in the United States. This book uses city, state and federal archives, newspaper...
Louisiana State University Press, 1971. — 672 p. As part of the History of the South Series for Louisiana State University the Trustees of the Littlefield Fund for Southern History at the University of Texas, C. Vann Woodward's Origins of the New South covers the time period of 1877 until 1913. Written to counter popular assumptions that the South folded into a uniform Union...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001. — 320 p. Much has been written on World War I, but few books focus solely on America's involvement in the war as successfully as Robert H. Zieger. In America's Great War, Zieger concentrates his attention on five broad themes that affected Americans: Woodrow Wilson's role in shaping world order; America's familial connection to Europe;...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. — 575 p. Americans like to think they have no imperial past. In fact, the United States became an imperial nation within five short years a century ago (1898-1903), exploding onto the international scene with the conquest of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, and (indirectly) Panama. How did the nation become a player in...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020. — 336 p. By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina’s largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists that included black aldermen, police officers and magistrates. There were successful black-owned...
Курск: Курск. гос. ун-т, 2019. — 300 с. — ISBN: 978-5-88313-936-8. В монографии впервые рассматривается эволюция американской политической карикатуры в последней трети XIX века как важнейший фактор пропаганды и агитации, как мощное оружие в партийно-политической борьбе. Еще просветители XVIII столетия утверждали, что смех является грозным оружием, а человечество, смеясь,...
Одесса: Типография Е. И. Фесенко, 1907. — 140 с. Анатолий (в миру Алексей Васильевич Каменский, 1863-1925) — деятель Русской Православной церкви, в 1895-1903 годах служил в Соединённых Штатах, в том числе с 1899 года был законоучителем Миннеаполисской миссионерской школы, а с июня 1899 года ещё и её смотрителем. В 1903 вернулся в Россию и был назначен ректором Одесской духовной...
М.: Наука, 1978. — 310 с. На фоне панорамы общественной и политической жизни США второй половины XIX—начала XX в. прослеживается становление личности и жизнь Теодора Рузвельта (1858-^1918), президента США в 1901—1908 гг. Профессиональный политик, Рузвельт проявил себя как идеолог и практик американского империализма и как гибкий государственный деятель, обратившийся к политике...
М.: Наука, 1978. — 310 с. На фоне панорамы общественной и политической жизни США второй половины XIX—начала XX в. прослеживается становление личности и жизнь Теодора Рузвельта (1858-^1918), президента США в 1901—1908 гг. Профессиональный политик, Рузвельт проявил себя как идеолог и практик американского империализма и как гибкий государственный деятель, обратившийся к политике...
Перевод с английского В. Н. Неведомского. — СПб.: Типография В. Ф. Рихтера, 1889. — 503 с. Джеймс Брайс (1838-1922) — британский государственный деятель, историк, юрист, дипломат. Брайс был широко известен благодаря своей книге «The American Commonwealth» (1888 г., 3 тома; в русском переводе «Американская республика»), тщательному исследованию общественно-политических...
Перевод с английского В. Н. Неведомского. — СПб.: Типография В. Ф. Рихтера, 1890. — 515 с. Джеймс Брайс (1838-1922) — британский государственный деятель, историк, юрист, дипломат. Брайс был широко известен благодаря своей книге «The American Commonwealth» (1888 г., 3 тома; в русском переводе «Американская республика»), тщательному исследованию общественно-политических...
Перевод с английского В. Н. Неведомского. — СПб.: Типография В. Ф. Рихтера, 1890. — 567 с. Джеймс Брайс (1838-1922) — британский государственный деятель, историк, юрист, дипломат. Брайс был широко известен благодаря своей книге «The American Commonwealth» (1888 г., 3 тома; в русском переводе «Американская республика»), тщательному исследованию общественно-политических...
М.: Издательство Московского университета, 1973. — 370 с. Исследование общей картины идейной борьбы в США по вопросам империалистической экспансии составляет задачу настоящей работы. В плане хронологическом она охватывает в основном события на рубеже XIX—XX вв., эпицентром которых является испано-американская война. Однако сам предмет — история идей, как и логика фактического...
М.: Издательство Московского университета, 1973. — 370 с. Исследование общей картины идейной борьбы в США по вопросам империалистической экспансии составляет задачу настоящей работы. В плане хронологическом она охватывает в основном события на рубеже XIX—XX вв., эпицентром которых является испано-американская война. Однако сам предмет — история идей, как и логика фактического...
М.: РГГУ, 2012. — 1136 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7281-1366-9
Междисциплинарное по своему характеру исследование нацелено на разноуровневый и многофакторный анализ представлений о Российской империи, бытовавших в США в 1880-1910-е годы. Смысловой конструкцией книги становятся дискурсы, заданные текстом о России и обусловленные внутри- и внешнеполитической "повесткой дня" американского...
М.: Госполитиздат, 1956. — 607 с. В монографии сделана попытка дать общий обзор политической истории Соединённых Штатов Америки за период с 1877 до 1918 г.
М.: Наука, 1975. - 368 с.
Монография освещает основные проблемы экономической и социально-политической жизни США, исследует процесс зарождения и развития американского империализма от 90-х годов прошлого века до первой мировой войны.
Одесса: Новая Заря, 1905. — 40 с. В брошюре рассказано о борьбе американских социалистов за права трудящихся США в конце XIX века, анализируются причины подъемов и спадов революционного движения.
Петроград: Гос. изд-во, 1923. — 137 с. Увлекательная и редкая книга о нелегком положении чернокожего населения в Америке в начале XX в., описанная очевидцем. Автор приводит много реальных фактов о притеснении прав и даже физической расправы над неграми. От переводчика. Общий обзор. Рабочие вожди и негры. Рабочая партия и негры. Хозяева за работой. Негры в спорте. Негры в...
Пер. с англ. Охрименко П. — Москва; Петроград: Государственное издательство, 1923. — 135 с. Увлекательная и редкая книга о нелегком положении чернокожего населения в Америке в начале XX в., описанная очевидцем. Автор приводит много реальных фактов о притеснении прав и даже физической расправы над неграми. От переводчика Общий обзор Рабочие вожди и негры Рабочая партия и негры...
Издательство: "Иктоми", 1996. - 97 с.
Книга представляет собой историко-научное исследование религиозного движения на западе Соединенных Штатов, возникшего во второй половине XIX века в племени пайютов и проповедуемое пророком Вовокой. Автор также описывает развитие Пляски Духов среди различных племен, реакцию белых на эту религию. Особый интерес представляют события, связанные...
СПб, Типо-литография „Энергия“, 1904 — 188 с. В 1902 году известный немецкий писатель Вильгельм фон Поленц (1861-1903) посетил США. Свои впечатления, вынесенные из путешествия по Америке, он изложил в книге «Das Land der Zukunft» («Страна будущего»), оформленной в виде социально-критических эссе; книга вышла в 1903 году, в 1904 году была переведена на русский язык и издана в...
СПб.: Издательство О. Н. Поповой, 1906 — 323 с. Донской казак Пётр Иванович Попов (1852 - после 1924) поселился в США в начале 1870-х годов, после того как, по его словам, был оправдан по обвинению в революционной деятельности в связи с делом С. Г. Нечаева. В США работал в русском консульстве в Нью-Йорке, занимался врачебной практикой, работал корреспондентом ряда газет и...
Санкт-Петербург: Типография И.Н. Скороходова, 1895. — 461 с. Тверской (П. А.) - литературный псевдоним тверского помещика Петра Алексеевича Дементьева, в конце 1870-х годов оставившего Россию и поселившегося в Соединённых Штатах Северной Америки. С 1880-х годов он помещает, преимущественно в "Вестнике Европы" и "Неделе", ряд очерков и корреспонденций из американской жизни,...
Санкт-Петербург: Типография И.Н. Скороходова, 1895. — 461 с. Тверской (П. А.) - литературный псевдоним тверского помещика Петра Алексеевича Дементьева, в конце 1870-х годов оставившего Россию и поселившегося в Соединённых Штатах Северной Америки. С 1880-х годов он помещает, преимущественно в "Вестнике Европы" и "Неделе", ряд очерков и корреспонденций из американской жизни,...
Американский ежегодник. Год I. — Нью-Йорк: Издание А.М.Еваленко, 1907. — 574 с. В книге излагается история США с начала европейской колонизации до второй половины XIX в., а также подробно описывается государственное устройство США. Изучены также демографические процессы и экономическое развитие Америки. Книга снабжена обширным справочным материалом.
СПб.: Типография М.М. Стасюлевича, 1895. — 459 с.
Иван Иванович Янжул (1846—1914) — экономист и статистик, педагог, деятель народного образования, один из первых в России фабричных инспекторов. В 1876—1898 гг. профессор Московского университета. Академик Петербургской Академии наук (1895). Член Русского технического общества. Автор мемуаров.
И. И. Янжул — автор исследования...
СПб.: Типография М.М. Стасюлевича, 1895. — 459 с. В 1893 году Министерство Финансов, командируя меня в Америку, по случаю Всемирной Выставки в Чикаго, тем самым доставило мне возможность исполнить мое давнишнее намерение и познакомиться лично с некоторыми любопытными сторонами экономической жизни Соединенных Штатов. На первом месте моей программы занятий, одобренной г....
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