Aug.

1

Class Orientation

Course overview

MP1. Introducing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Read it as soon as you can.)

PPT The Gilded Age

2

MP 2. The Price of progress: Capitalism and Its Discontents

3

MP 3. Behind the Bravura of the Wild West

HT7. Francis G. Newlands, Water for the West, and Progressivism

PPT The West

5

6

MP 5. Rise of the Industrial City: New Places, New Peoples

HT10. James Michael Curley and the Politics of Ethnic Resentment

PPT City Development; Immigration

8

MP 6. Politics in the Gilded Age: Mainstream and Periphery 

HT 2 James G. Blaine and the Republican Party Vision

PPT National Politics

10

MP 7. The 1890s: Economic Depression and Political Crisis

11

Oct.

12

MP 9. The Language of Empire

PPT Imperialist Expansion

14

15

16

HT1. Carroll D. Wright, L’Abbe Jean-Baptiste Primeau, and French Canadian Families

HT4. Mary Lease and the Sources of Populist Protest

HT5. Richard Olney and the Pullman Strike

HT6. Mary Harris Jones: Immigrant and Labor Activist

HT8. Clelia Duel Mosher and the Change in Women’s Sexuality

PPT Populists

18

MP 10. Race and Power Under Jim Crow

HT3. Ida B. Wells, Higher Law, and Community Justice

PPT Progressive Social Reform

Oct.-Nov.

20

MP 12. Progressivism: Roots of the Reform Vision

22

MP 13. Progressivism: Foundations for a New American State

PPT Progressive Political Reform

24

HT11. Hiram Johnson and the Dilemmas of California Progressivism

MP 14. Nature Without Nurture: Progressives Confront Environmental Destruction

26

MP 11. Consumer Culture and Commercialized Leisure

HT9. Christy Mathewson and the National Pastime

27/29

27

MP 15. America and the Great War

HT12. William S. Sims: Naval Insurgent and Coalition Warrior

HT13. Edith Wharton and the Spirit of Noblesse Oblige

Dec.

29

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