Series Editors' Preface ix
Acknowledgments to Sources xii
Introduction 1
Prelude: Mark Twain and the Gilded Age 11
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, from The Gilded Age , 1873
Part I New Frontiers 17
1 The New South 19
1 Henry W. Grady, The New South, 1886 19
2 Henry McNeal Turner on African American Civil Rights, 1889 22
3 William D. Kelley, from The Old South and New , 1888 26
4 Lewis Hine, Photographs of Southern Textile Workers, 1908-09 31
2 The New West 34
1 T.S. Kenderdine, from California Revisited, 1858-1897 , 1898 34
2 Theodore Roosevelt, from Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail , 1888 39
3 Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, from The Squatter and the Don , (1885) 42
4 Workingmen's Party, An Address from the Workingmen of San Francisco to Their Brothers throughout the Pacific Coast, 1878 48
3 Native Americans 51
1 Zitkala-Sa, Native Americans and White Attempts to Assimilate, from The School Days of an Indian Girl, 1900 51
2 Chief Joseph, Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perce Chief, 1877-79 54
3 Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee , 1896 57
4 Photographs and Images from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, 1896-99 62
Part II Industrial Society 65
4 Big Business 67
1 Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth, 1889 67
2 Herbert Spencer, The Coming Slavery, 1884 70
3 Henry Demarest Lloyd, The Lords of Industry, 1884 72
4 US Supreme Court, Slaughterhouse Cases , 1873 77
5 Frederick Winslow Taylor, from The Principles of Scientific Management , 1911 83
6 Russell Conwell, from Acres of Diamonds , 1915 89
5 Gilded Age Society 98
1 Thorstein Veblen, from The Theory of the Leisure Class , 1899 98
2 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from The Yellow Wall-Paper, 1892 104
3 Henry George, from Progress and Poverty , 1879 109
4 Photographs of Gilded Age Mansions 112
5 Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Woman's Building, from The Book of the Fair , 1893 114
6 Working People 120
1 Stephen Crane, In the Depths of a Coal Mine, 1894 120
2 Walter A. Wyckoff, from The Workers: An Experiment in Social Reality , 1899 125
3 Image from The National Police Gazette , 1879 129
4 Edward Eggleston, Hardshell Preacher, from The Hoosier Schoolmaster , 1871 130
5 Leon Ray Livingston, Tramping in America, 1910 135
6 Upton Sinclair, from The Jungle , 1906 141
7 Immigrants in the Industrial Age 147
1 Abraham Cahan, The Russian Jew in America, 1898 147
2 Treaty Regulating Immigration from China, 1880 153
3 Samuel Bryan, Mexican Americans and Southwestern Growth, 1912 157
4 Jacob Riis, Photographs from How the Other Half Lives, 1890 163
5 Theodore Roosevelt, Hyphenated Americanism, 1915 165
6 The Emergence of Reform Judaism, 1883 and 1885 169
Part III Social Conflict 175
8 Populism 177
1 Annie L. Diggs, The Women in the Alliance Movement, 1892 177
2 The Omaha Platform: Launching the Populist Party, 1892 183
3 Thomas E. Watson, The Negro Question
in the South, 1892 188
4 William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold Speech, 1896 194
9 The Coming of Jim Crow 201
1 Ida B. Wells, Lynch Law in America, 1900 201
2 U.S. Supreme Court, Plessy v. Ferguson , 1896 204
3 Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Compromise, 1895 209
4 W.E.B. Du Bois, Of Booker T. Washington and Others, from The Souls of Black Folk , 1903 212
5 Images from the North Carolina White Supremacy Campaign, 1898 216
6 Mary Church Terrell, What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States, 1906 218
10 Labor Protest 223
1 Roger O'Mara, Testimony on Railroad Labor Strikes, 1878 223
2 United States Strike Commission, Report on the Chicago Pullman Strike, 1894 227
3 Constance D. Leupp, The Shirtwaist Makers' Strike, 1909 231
4 Photographs of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911 236
Part IV Reform 241
11 Rebuilding American Institutions 243
1 John Dewey, from The School and Society , 1899 243
2 Walter Rauschenbusch, from Christianity and the Social Crisis , 1907 247
3 Charles Davenport, from Heredity in Relation to Eugenics , 1915 250
4 Margaret Sanger, Morality and Birth Control , 1918 253
5 Frances E. Willard, from Women and Temperance , 1883 256
6 Chicago Vice Commission, The Social Evil in Chicago, 1911 260
12 The Political System 266
1 Robert M. La Follette, Peril in the Machine, 1897 266
2 Isaac F. Marcosson, The Dayton Plan, 1914 274
3 Helen Valeska Bary, The Suffrage Movement in Southern California, 1910-11 278
4 Seventeenth Amendment to the US Constitution
(direct election of senators), 1913 283
5 Marie Jenney Howe on Women's Public Role, 1910 284
Part V Imperialism and War 291
13 Imperialism and Anti-imperialism 293
1 Mayo W. Hazeltine, What Shall Be Done about the Philippines? 1897 293
2 Platt Amendment, 1901 299
3 Jane Addams, Democracy or Militarism, 1899 301
4 Photograph from the Tour of the Great White Fleet, 1907-09 304
14 The Debate about World War I 306
1 W.E.B. Du Bois on the Postwar Peace, 1918 306
2 Eugene V. Debs, The Canton, Ohio, Anti-War Speech, 1918 307
3 Espionage Act, 1917 311
4 Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points Address, 1918 315
Further Reading 321
Index 325
