Readings and Discussions
NOTE: The number in parentheses after the reading indicates the chapter in the text where the reading is found.
Monday June 19: Introduction
Wednesday June 21: Industrial America
"Homestead and its Perilous Trades..."(1894)
Fink, "Class Consciousness..." (2)
Henry George dissects...(2)
The Reverend Alexander Lewis...(2)
Mark Twain satirizes...(2)
F.W. Taylor Recruits...(8)
Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management
"The Lords of Industry" (1884)
Discussion Questions for June 21
Monday June 26: Urban America
Population Growth in Select...(5)
Immigrant Distribution...(5)
A Visiting Rudyard Kipling...(5)
Klein and Kantor, "Technology and ..."(5)
Bodnar, "Families enter..."(5)
Socialist Reformer Robert Hunter...(12)
"The Life of Street Rats"(1872)
"The Tenement House Exhibit of 1899"
"Pullman: A Social Study" (1885)
Discussion questions for June 26
Wednesday June28: Ethnicity and America
Congress Takes Aim...(5)
An Advice Column...(5)
Oath of the American Protective Association
Chinese Exclusion Act (1892)
Howells, "An East Side Ramble" (1896)
Discussion questions for June 28
Wednesday July 5: Issues of Race
Gilmore, "Whiteness and..."(10)
W.E.B. Du Bois Denounces...(5)
The U.S. Supreme Court...(10)
Congressman Frank Clark...(10)
Discussion Questions for July 5
***** First Essay Due *****
Monday July 10: Class and Working Class
"The Gospel of Wealth "(1889)
The Gilded Age (1874)
"On Strike!" (1900)
Working Conditions at the Westinghouse Works
Westbrook, "Lewis Hine and the Two..."(12)
Caudill, "Social Darwinism: Adapting..."(8)
Discussion questions for July 10
Wednesday July 12: Labour and the Working Class
Historian Broadus Mitchell...(4)
Labour Organizer Mother Jones...(4)
The Purposes and Program of the Knights...(2)
Ayers, "Mill and Mine" (4)
John W. Holway, A Pinkerton Guard...(7)
Eugene V. Debs Denounces...(7)
"The Life of a Coal Miner" (1902)
"A Miner's Story" (1902
Discussion questions for July 12
Monday July 17: Imperialism/Anti-imperialism
Kennedy, "The United States..."(9)
Alfred T. Mahan Proclaims...(9)
The Open Door Note (1899)
"The Breakup of China..."(1899)
"The Chinese Boycott"(1906)
"Our Country"(1885)
Twain, "To the Person Sitting...."(1901)
William Jennings Bryan Opposes...(9)
Discussion questions for July 17
Wednesday July 19: Regions in America
Cronon, "Economic Gain..."(14)
President Chester A. Arthur...(3)
Black Elk Remembers...(3)
The Dawes Act (1887)
Atlantic Constitution Editor...(4)
Frederick Jackson Turner Praises...(3)
"The Rush to Oklahoma" (1889)
Questions for July 19 ***Don't forget the questions from July 12th for discussion**
Monday July 24: Gender; Image and Reality
"The Bicycle and Health" (1894)
"Why Women Do Not Wish the Suffrage"(1903)
"Why Women Should Vote"(1915)
"The Progress of Fifty Years"(1893)
"The Century's Progress...."(1901)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Demands...(6)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Justifies...(6)
Suffrage Poems (1915)
"Solitude of Self"(1892)
Muncy, "The Female Dominion..."(8)
Discussion questions for July 24
Wednesday July 26: Culture and Society
"Coney Island Frolics"(1883)
Barth, "Baseball and the Values..."(11)
Theodore Dreiser's Carrie...(11)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Seeks...(11)
Amusement Park Promoter...(11)
Democracy at the Movies (11)
Erenberg, "Steppin' Out"(11)
Discussion questions for July 26
******Final Essay Due*******
Monday July 31: Progressives and the Reform Impulse
The Bitter Cry of Children (1906)
The Boys in the Breakers (1906)
The Pros and Cons of the Great...(14)
Lincoln Steffens Exposes...(12)
New York City's Boss Plunkitt...(12)
The Supreme Court Accepts...(13)
Melosi, "Responding to the Urban...."(14)
McCormick, "Evaluating the Progressives"(12)
Discussion questions for July 31
Wednesday August 2: Final Examination