About the Course

The previous Course Syllabus, including links to sites used for course assignments.

The Spring 1998 Semester Syllabus (currently in draft form) with dates and reading assignments.

Readings:

Nell Irvin Painter, Standing At Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919 (Norton, 1987)

Michael Kazin, Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era (University of Illinois, 1989)

Lawrence Goodwyn, The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America (Oxford University Press, 1978)

Neil R. McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow (University of Illinois, 1990)

Peggy Pascoe, Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939 (Oxford University Press, 1990)

Glenda G. Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (University of North Carolina Press, 1995)

Jacob Riis, How The Other Half Lives (Bedford, 1996)

Ida B. Wells, Passion for Justice (documentary)

Ellen F. Fitzpatrick, ed., Muckraking: Three Landmark Articles (Bedford, 1994)

Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

William Riordan, Plunkett of Tammany Hall

A Battle for Wilderness (documentary)

Jim Zwick's "The White Man's Burden"

Resources Available

Gilded Age Page, with etexts of works written during the era

A collection of etexts of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era

A general collection of African-American history sources

The American South Home Page

Voice of the Shuttle: History Page

Other History and Archaeology Resources

A Celebration of Women Writers

Gender & Race in Media

African-American History and Culture (Library of Congress Manuscripts: An Illustrated Guide)

Other Immigration Related Links

Immigration, Ellis Island

"Triangle Strike and Fire" Table of Contents

Black American West Museum Calendar of Events

New Perspectives on THE WEST

Other Sites of Interest

University of Virginia List of Links

Crossroads Site @ Georgetown University

Valley of the Shadow

American Memory Project of the Library of Congress

Jim Zwick's Anti-Imperialism in the United States Site

Useful Search Engines

Welcome to Lycos

Open Text Index - Power Search

Prepared by Professor Catherine Lavender for History 338 (Themes in US History, 1877-1914), The Department of History, The College of Staten Island of The City University of New York, Spring Semester 1998.
Last modified: Saturday 20 December 1997.