Paper 24 reading list

G. R. Andros, “Social History and the Populist Movement: Contesting the Political Terrain,” Journal of
Social History (1995)
Peter H. Argersinger, The Limits of American Radicalism: Western Populism and American Politics
(1995)
Pete Daniel, “The Metamorphosis of Slavery,” JAH (1979)
Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America (1976)
——, The Populist Moment (1978)
William F. Holmes, “Populism: In Search of a Context,” Agricultural History (1990)
Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History (1995; 1998)
Robert C. McMath, Jr., American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898 (1993)
Bruce Palmer, “Man Over Money”: The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism (1980)
Stanley B. Parsons, et al, “The Role of Cooperatives in the Development of the Movement Culture of
Populism,” JAH (1983) [a critique of Goodwyn]
Charles Postel, The Populist Vision (2007)
Gretchen Ritter, Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in
America, 1865-1896 (1997)
Elizabeth Sanders, Root of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917
R. Hal Williams, Years of Decision: American Politics in the 1890s (1978)
14. SEGREGATION AND ITS CULTURE
Topics include: the origins of segregation in antebellum culture, North and South; the controversy over the
Woodward thesis; bi-racial politics in the South and their demise; black ideological adaptation and
resistance to segregation; the role of violence, especially lynching; the place of segregation in the politics
and ideology of the New South; the sexual politics of racial division; black survival strategies.
a. General
Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (1992)
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia. 1880-1930 (1993)
——, ed., Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South (1997)
——, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (2005)
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