The Gilded Age and
Progressive Era
TTh 11:00-12:15 BO 216 BO 426; x2565
dmoore@loyno.edu
COURSE PROCEDURES:
1. Attendance: Ten percent of your final grade is based on class participation,
including attendance. If you miss four classes you will receive a zero
in five percent of your final grade; if you miss five or more classes you
will receive a zero in ten percent. Also, each late arrival will count
as half an absence.
2. Testing: We will have three scheduled quizzes and a Final Exam. In general, each is made up of "Identification" and "Essay" questions. The material being tested will come from the CLASS LECTURES and the ASSIGNED READINGS. Do not miss taking a scheduled quiz. Make-ups are possible, but will be more difficult than the missed quiz. A request to make up a quiz must be made before or immediately after a scheduled quiz.
3. Written work: Choose to do either three book reports and a
short (8-10 pages) research paper (Option "a"), OR five book reports (Option
"b"). These reports and papers should be typed and proofread carefully.
A carelessly written paper will be penalized at least one grade level.
A plagiarized paper will, at minimum, receive an "F."
See "Guidelines" on the History Dept. Home Page at <http://www.loyno.edu/history/research.htm>
NB: A book report consists of a summary of the book, a critique of the thesis, and a commentary on the book's merits.
4. Grading: A=92-100; B=80-91; C=70-79; D=60-69; F=0-59.
REQUIRED TEXTS:
1. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes,
(1912)
2. Ballard C. Campbell, ed., The Human Tradition
in the Gilded Age & Progressive Era, (2000)
COURSE STRUCTURE AND READING SCHEDULE:
| DATE | TOPIC | CAMPBELL | REPORT |
| JANUARY 17 | INTRODUCTION | ||
| JANUARY 22 | OVERVIEW | CHAPTER 1 | |
| JANUARY 24 | THE FARMER (70s-80s) | ||
| JANUARY 29 | THE RISE OF INDUSTRY (70s) | CHAPTER 2 | |
| JANUARY 31 | THE RISE OF INDUSTRY (80s) | REPORT (B) |
| DATE | TOPIC | CAMPBELL | REPORT |
| FEBRUARY 5 | THE LABORER (70s-80's) | CHAPTER 3 | REPORT (A) |
| FEBRUARY 7 | THE RISE OF THE CITY | ||
| FEBRUARY 14 | QUIZ | ||
| FEBRUARY 19 | POLITICS & PRESIDENTS (70s) | CHAPTER 4 | |
| FEBRUARY 21 | POLITICS & PRESIDENTS (80s) | REPORT (B) | |
| FEBRUARY 26 | SOCIAL THOUGHT (70s-80s) | CHAPTER 5 | |
| FEBRUARY 28 | REFORM THOUGHT | RESEARCH PAPER TOPIC DUE (A) |
| DATE | TOPIC | CAMPBELL | REPORT |
| MARCH 5 | THE GAY NINETIES | CHAPTER 6 | REPORT (A) |
| MARCH 7 | THE NOT-SO GAY NINETIES | ||
| MARCH 12 | THE PEOPLE'S PARTY | CHAPTER 7 | REPORT (B) |
| MARCH 14 | QUIZ | ||
| MARCH 19 | AMERICAN IMPERIALISM | RESEARCH PAPER OUTLINE, BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE (A) | |
| MARCH 21 | MUCKRAKERS | CHAPTER 8 |
| DATE | TOPIC | CAMPBELL | REPORT |
| APRIL 2 | LOCAL AND STATE REFORM | REPORT (A) | |
| APRIL 4 | THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT | CHAPTER 9 | REPORT (B) |
| APRIL 9 | ROOSEVELT THE FIRST | ||
| APRIL 11 | THE BIG STICK | CHAPTER 10 | |
| APRIL 16 | QUIZ | ||
| APRIL 18 | REGULATION AND REFORM | CHAPTER 11 | |
| APRIL 23 | CONSERVATION AND CONSERVATISM | REPORT (B) | |
| APRIL 25 | TAFT | RESEARCH PAPER | |
| APRIL 30 | NEW FREEDOM/NEW NATIONALISM | CHAPTER 12 |
| DATE | TOPIC | CAMPBELL | REPORT |
| MAY 2 | WOODROW WILSON | TARZAN OF THE APES | |
| MAY 7 | PROGRESSIVE REVISITED | CHAPTER 13 | |
| SATURDAY MAY 16 | FINAL EXAM | 11:30-1:30 | BRING BLUE BOOKS |
REPORT BOOKS
[choose three (Option "a") or five (Option "b")]
{+ counts as two books}
| History/Journalism: | |
| · Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, (1890, 1971) | (05) |
| · Arthur G. Burgoyne, The Homestead Strike of 1892, (1979) [HD 5325.15 1892 H42] | (LIB) |
| · Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct, (1985) [HQ1419.S58] | (LIB) |
| · Robert G. McCloskey, American Conservatism in the Age of Enterprise, (1951) | (LIB) |
| · Lawrence Goodwin, The Populist Moment, (1978) [E661.G672 1978] | (LIB) |
| · L. Schlissel, et al., Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey, (1989) | |
| · Joanna Stratton, Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier, (1981) | |
| · Stephen Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer, (1975, 1986) [E99.03C7215] | (LIB) |
| · Ralph Andrist, Long Death: Last Days of the Plains Indians, (1964) [E78.G73A55] | (LIB) |
| · David Dary, Cowboy Culture, (1981) [F596.D29] | (LIB) |
| · Joy S. Kasson, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, & Popular History, (2000) | |
| · John Higham, Strangers in the Land, (1955, 1963) [E184.A1H54] | (LIB) |
| · Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities, (1904) | (05) |
| · W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, (1903) [HT1611D84] | (05) |
| · Aileen Kraditor, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, (1965, 81) [JK1896K89] | (LIB) |
| · David W. Noble, The Progressive Mind, rev. ed., (1969, 1981) [E169.1.N72] | (LIB) |
| · Robert M. Crunden, Ministers of Reform, (1982) [E661.C945] | (LIB) + |
| · Glenn C. Altschuler, Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Am. Social Thought, (1982) | |
| · Alan M. Kraut, The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in Am. Society, (1982) [JV6450.K7] | (LIB) |
| · Raymond A. Mohl, The New City: Urban Am. in the Industrial Age, (1985) [HT123.M58] | (LIB) |
| · Jas. Norris, Advertising & the Transformation of Am. Society, 1865-1920, (1990) | |
| · David Nasaw, Going Out: The Rise & Fall of Public Amusements, (1993) [GV53.N248] | (LIB) |
| · M.H. Dunlop, Gilded City: Scandal & Sensation in Turn-of-the-Century New York (2001) | (LIB) |
| · Steven Pope, Patriotic Games: Sporting Traditions in the Am. Imagination, 1876-1926, (1996) | (LIB) |
| · George Cotkin, Reluctant Modernism: Am. Thought & Culture, 1880-1900, (1993) [E169.1.C785] | (LIB) |
| · Christine Stansell, American Moderns: Bohemian New York & the Creation of a New Century, (2000) | |
| · David Brownstone, et al., Island of Hope, Island of Tears, (1979) | (LIB) |
| · Richard Schneirov, ed., The Pullman Strike & the Crisis of the 1890s, [HD5325 .R12 1894 .P85 1999] | |
| · J. Anthony Lukas, Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town . . . (1997) | (LIB) + |
| · C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, 3rd ed. (1974) [E185.61.W86] | (LIB) |
| Biography/Autobiography: | |
| · Samuel Spencer, Booker T. Washington, (1955) [HT1791.W27 S74] | (LIB) |
| · Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery, (1901) [E185.61.T47] | (LIB) |
| · Neil Baldwin, Edison, Inventing the Century (1995) [TK140 .E3 B25 1995] | (LIB) + |
| · Joseph F. Wall, Andrew Carnegie, (1995) [CT275 .C3 W33 1989] | (LIB) + |
| · Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1998) [CT275 .R75 C47 1998] | (LIB) + |
| · Samuel Gompers, Seventy Years of Life and Labor, (1924) [HD8073.G6A3] | (LIB) |
| · Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex, (2001) | (LIB, on order) + |
| · Manning Marable, W. E. B. DuBois: Black Radical Democrat, (1986) [E185.97.D73M37] | (LIB) |
| · Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House, (1910) [HV4196.C4H71] | (LIB) |
| · William Allen White, The Autobiography of William Allen White, (1946) | (LIB) |
| · Lincoln Steffens, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, (1931) [PN4874.S68A3 1968] | (LIB) |
| Novels: [Maximum of ONE] | |
| · Mark Twain, The Gilded Age, (1873) | |
| · Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, (1920) [PS3545.H16D44] | (LIB) |
| · Abraham Cahan, The Rise of David Levinsky, (1917) | (LIB) |
| · Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, (1905), Barnes & Noble [ISBN 1566195667] $4.95 | (LIB) |
| · Ann Lane, ed. The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader, (1980) | (LIB) |
| · Jack London, The Iron Heel, (1908) | (LIB) |
| · Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, (1900) | (LIB) |
| · Frank Norris, The Octopus, (1901) | (LIB) |
| · Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, (1888) | (LIB) |
| · William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham, (1885) [PS2025.R52H6] | (LIB) |
| · William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes, (1890) | (LIB) |