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1. Introducing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era ESSAYS Sean DennisCashman, Industrial Spring: America in the Gilded Age John Milton Cooper,Jr., Pivotal Decades, 1900-1920 2. The Price of Progress: Capitalism and ItsDiscontents DOCUMENTS 1. Andrew Carnegie Hails the Triumph of America, 18852. Henry George Dissects the Paradox of Capitalist Growth, 1879 3. TheReverend Alexander Lewis Offers an Ode to Upward Mobility, 1902 4. Mark TwainSatirizes the Great American Myth, 1879 5. The Purposes and Program of theKnights of Labor, 1878 6. A Trade Union Official Enunciates a Restrictive AFLPolicy Toward Women Workers, 1897 ESSAYS Alan Trachtenberg, The Machine asDeity and Demon Leon Fink, Class Consciousness American-Style 3. Behind theBravura of the Wild West DOCUMENTS 1. A Buffalo Hunter Describes HisBusiness, c. 1875 2. President Chester A. Arthur Aims to Turn Indians intoU.S. Citizens, 1881 3. A Popular Account of the Death of Jesse James, 1882 4.Miguel Antonio Otero Remembers the Land Wars of the 1880s 5. Black ElkRemembers the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 6. Frederick Jackson TurnerPraises the Frontier as the Source of American Democracy, 1893 7. CatharineCalk McCarty Meets Her Cattlemen Neighbors, 1916 ESSAYS Richard White, OutlawGangs and Social Bandits Robert L. Griswold, Western Women and the Uses ofDomestic Ideology David Rich Lewis, Farming and the Northern Ute Experience4. Trials of the New South DOCUMENTS 1. Sharecroppers' Contracts, 1876-18862. Atlanta Constitution Editor Henry W. Grady Heralds the New South, 1886 3.Historian Broadus Mitchell Describes a Benevolent Cotton-Mill Campaign of the1880s 4. Labor Organizer Mother Jones Compares Southern Mill Life to Serfdom,1901 5. Frederick Douglass Describes a Legacy of Race Hatred, 1883 6. ATeacher and Two Pupils Outline the Problems of a "Colored" School, 1883ESSAYS Edward L. Ayers, Mill and Mine Jacqueline Jones, Bent Backs in theRural South 5. Rise of the Industrial City: New Places, New Peoples DOCUMENTS1. Population Growth in Select U.S. Cities, 1870-1920 2. ImmigrantDistribution in Six Cities, 1870-1920 3. A Visiting Rudyard Kipling Returns,Unimpressed, from Chicago, 1899 4. Poet Carl Sandburg Extols the City of BigShoulders, 1916 5. Congress Takes Aim at the "Chinese Menace," 1892 6. HuangZunxian Expresses the Chinese Perspective in Poetry, c. 1884 7. W.E.B. DuBois Denounces Racial Prejudice in Philadelphia, 1899 8. An Advice Column forJewish Immigrants, 1906,1907 ESSAYS Maury Klein and Harvey A. Kantor,Technology and the Treadmill of Urban Progress John Bodnar, Families EnterAmerica George J. Sanchez, Americanization of the Mexican Immigrant 6.Politics in the Gilded Age: Mainstream and Periphery DOCUMENTS 1. ThreeCartoonists Interpret the Political Scene, 1880, 1888: Thomas Nast Attacksthe Democrats, 1880; Joseph Keppler Ridicules the Third-Term Aspirations ofPresident Grant, 1880; Watson Heston Lampoons Parties and Their CorporatePatrons, 1888 2. Free-Thinker Robert G. Ingersoll Waves the Bloody Shirt, c.1880 3. Virginia Activist Live Pryor Seeks Help for Her Downtrodden BlackSisters, 1880 4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Demands Suffrage as the Protection ofSelfhood, 1892 5. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Justifies the Woman's Bible, 1895ESSAYS Charles W. Calhoun, Political Culture: Public Life and the Conduct ofPolitics Ellen Carol DuBois, The Limitations of Sisterhood 7. The 1890s:Economic Depression and Political Crisis DOCUMENTS 1. John W. Holway, aPinkerton Guard, Views the Battle of Homestead, 1892 2. Eugene V. DebsDenounces the Role of Corporations and the Courts in the Pullman Strike, 18953. Populist Principles: The Omaha Platform, 1892 4. William Jennings BryanScorns Advocates of the Gold Standard: The "Cross of Gold" Speech, 1896 5.The Republican Party Platform, 1896 6. Puck Assails William Jennings Bryanand the "Popocrats," 1896 7. McKinley Takes Credit for New Prosperity, 1900ESSAYS Nell Irvin Painter, The Depression of the 1890s Michael Kazin, TheRighteous Commonwealth of the Late Nineteenth Century 8. Professionalism andthe Uses of New Knowledge DOCUMENTS 1. John Fiske Reconciles Evolutionism andChristian Doctrine (1882), 1902 2. William Graham Sumner Elaborates thePrinciples of Social Darwinism, 1885 3. Lester Frank Ward Attacks LaissezFaire in the Name of Reform Darwinism, 1884 4. A Day in the Life of ThomasAlva Edison, 1885 5. Jane Addams Explains the Need for Social Settlements,1892 6. F. W. Taylor Recruits the Ideal Worker with the Principles ofScientific Management, 1910 ESSAYS Burton J. Bledstein, The Culture ofProfessionalism Robyn Muncy, The Female Dominion of Professional ServiceEdward Caudill, Social Darwinism: Adapting Evolution to Society 9. TheLanguage of Empire DOCUMENTS 1. Alfred T. Mahan Proclaims the Importance ofSea Power, 1890 2. Theodore Roosevelt Links War in the Philippines to theIdeal of the Strenuous Life, 1899 3. William Jennings Bryan Opposes U.S.Occupation of the Philippines, 1900 4. Alfred Beveridge Defends U.S.Imperialism, 1900 5. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904ESSAYS Paul Kennedy, The United States as New Kid on the Block, 1890-1940Louis A. Perez, 1898: The Meaning of the Maine Gail Bederman, TheodoreRoosevelt and the Strenuous Life 10. Race and Power Under Jim Crow DOCUMENTS1. The U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Segregation: Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 2.Congressman Frank Clark Praises Segregation, 1908 3. Booker T. WashingtonAdvocates Self-Help, 1895 4. W.E.B. Du Bois Rejects Washington's Strategy ofAccommodation, 1903 5. Mary Church Terrell Praises the Club Work of ColoredWomen, 1901 ESSAYS Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Whiteness and Manhood Kevin K.Gaines, Uplift and the Decline of Black Politics 11. Consumer Culture andCommercialized Leisure DOCUMENTS 1. Theodore Dreiser's Carrie Discovers theDepartment Store, 1900 2. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Seeks to Extricate Womenfrom the Trap of Consumption, 1899 3. Amusement Park Promoter FredericThompson Creates the Carnival Spirit, 1908 4. Democracy at the Movies, 19105. Ring Lardner's Baseball "Busher" Writes Home, 1914 ESSAYS Gunther Barth,Baseball and the Values of Industrial America Lewis A. Erenberg, Steppin' Out12. Progressivism: The Roots of the Reform Vision DOCUMENTS 1. John DeweyAdvocates a Democratic Schoolroom, 1900 2. Lincoln Steffens Exposes theCorruption of Municipal Politics, 1904 3. New York City's Boss PlunkittDefends "Honest" Graft, 1905 4. Socialist Reformer Robert Hunter DecriesMurder by Tenement, 1907 5. Baptist Clergyman Walter Rauschenbusch Seeks aSocial Christianity, 1912 6. Two Suffrage Cartoons: "The Corn or theCob--Which?" 1911; "Double the Power of the Home," 1915 ESSAYS Richard L.McCormick, Evaluating the Progressives Robert Westbrook, Lewis Hine and theTwo Faces of Progressive Photography 13. Progressivism: Foundations for a NewAmerican State DOCUMENTS 1. The Supreme Court Accepts Limits on WorkingWomen's Hours: Muller v. Oregon, 1908 2. Charles McCarthy InventoriesWisconsin's La Follette-Era Reforms (1909-1911), 1911 3. Theodore RooseveltAnnounces the New Nationalism, 1910 4. Woodrow Wilson Proclaims the NewFreedom, 1913 5. The Clayton Anti-Trust Act, 1914 ESSAYS Alan Dawley,Progressive Statecraft Eric Foner, Freedom and the Progressive State 14.Nature Without Nurture: Progressives Confront Environmental DestructionDOCUMENTS 1. President Theodore Roosevelt's Conservation Message, 1907 2. ALumberer's Perspective on the California Redwoods, 1884 3. Enos Mills Mournsthe Death of a One-Thousand-Year-Old Pine, 1914 4. The Pros and Cons of theGreat Hetch Hetchy Dam Debate, 1913 5. Jane Addams Offers an Example ofMunicipal Housekeeping in Chicago, 1910 ESSAYS William J. Cronon, EconomicGain and Environmental Loss: Lumber Roderick Nash, The Hetch HetchyControversy Martin V. Melosi, Responding to the Urban Environmental Crisis15. America and the Great War DOCUMENTS 1. President Woodrow Wilson's WarMessage, 1917 2. Senator Robert M. La Follette's Antiwar Dissent, 1917 3.George Creel Looks Back on the Selling of the War, 1920 4. A Wobbly Testifiesto Vigilante Attack, 1917 5. The U.S. Government Punishes War Protesters: TheEspionage Act, 1918 6. Two Treatments of the Color Question During Wartime,1918: A U.S. Divisional Commander in Kansas Counsels Against RaceDiscussions; German Propaganda Circular Targes the African-American Soldier7. Wilson's Fourteen Points for World Peace, 1918 ESSAYS Barry D. Karl,Managing War David M. Kennedy, Over There: Interpreting Wartime ExperiencesAbroad Arthur S. Link, Wilson and the War for Democracy