Reading Discussion for September 30: Populism and Radicalism
Readings: Charles Postel, “The American Populist and Anti-Populist Legacy,” in Transformations of Populism in Europe and the Americas: History and Recent Tendencies, John Abromeit, et al, eds. (Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2015). Lawrence C. Goodwyn, “Populist Dreams and Negro Rights- East Texas as a Case Study.” The American Historical Review 76.5 (1971): 1435–1456. Leon Fink, “The Great […]
Reading Discussion for September 23: The Work of Conquest and Development
Readings: Manu Karuka, Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (Oakland, 2019), Chapters 3-5 (chapters 6 and 7 now “optional”) For Chapter 3, read the first half closely and skim the rest of the chapter. Don’t get bogged down in the particulars. For all three chapters, think about these questions: What is the relationship […]
Reading Discussion for September 16: Slavery and Freedom
Head posters will write a summary and interpretation of at least one of this week’s readings: W.E.B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (New York, 1935, 1962, 1992), Chapters 1-4. Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (New York, 2008), Chapter 6. Barbara Fields, “Slavery, Race and Ideology […]
Reading Discussion for September 9: Varieties of Non-Slave Labor
Head posters will write a summary and interpretation of at least one of this week’s readings: Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (New York, 1984, 2004), Introduction and Chapters 1-2. Herbert Gutman, “Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America,” The American Historical Review, Vol. 78, No. 3 (June […]
Reading Discussion September 2: Work and the Origins of American Capitalism
[Please write your responses and questions in the comments to this post] Hulya Kartal wrote: Naomi R. Lamoreaux refuses to settle in a binary argument for the timeline of the American farmers utilizing capitalism. During the late 1970s, so-called moralist economists, M. Merrill, J. Henretta, and C. Clark claimed that the American economy was not […]
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