Syllabus History 75300: Topics in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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Kessner GAPE Syllabus Final

1. GAPE: An Overview

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Campbell Comparative Perspectives on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Edwards Politics, Social Movements, and the Periodization of U. S. History

Miller The Lost World of Gilded Age Politics

Perry Men Are from the Gilded Age, Women Are from the Progressive Era

Schneirov Thoughts on Periodizing the Gilded Age

2. An Age of Excess

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Edwards New Spirits

Ginger Age of Excess

Stiles First Tycoon

Strouse Morgan

3. Making Business Big

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Wolff Western Union

White Railroaded

John Elaborations, Revisions, DissentsRosen The Role of Pollution Regulation and Litigation

Rosen The Role of Pollution Regulation and Litigation

Lamoreaux Partnerships, Corporations, and the Theory of the Firm

4. The Populist Movement

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Goodwyn Populist Moment

Johnston “The Age of Reform” A Defense of Richard Hofstadter Fifty Years On

5. Working Class Life and Labor

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White Railroaded

O’Donnell Henry George

Andrews Killing for Coal

Garraty Labor and Capital in the Gilded Age

Currarino The Politics of More

6. The Rise of the Modern Metropolis

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7. Immigration

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Higham Strangers in the Land

Lee At America’s Gates

Jacobson Whiteness of a Different Color

Kessner Golden Door

Gerber Immigration History at the Crossroads

Bukowczyk Forum Future Directions in American Immigration and Ethnic History Introduction

Ngai The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law

8. Race

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Gilmore Gender and Jim Crow

Hale Making Whiteness

Goings and Mohl Toward a New African American Urban History

Arnesen Up from Exclusion

Osofsky Harlem

9. Women and Gender

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O’Bryan Historiography of Gender in Women’s History

Bederman Manliness and Civilization

D’Emilio Intimate Matters

Kerber Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman’s Place

Intro to Scott

Scott Unanswered Questions