A-4 ★ SUGGESTED READING
railroad and how it epitomized the political corruption and financial mis-
management so widespread in the Gilded Age.WEBSITES
First- hand Accounts of California 1849–1900: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem
/cbhtml/cbhome.html
Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains: http://arc.lib.montana.edu
/indian-great-plains
The Dramas of Haymarket: http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/overview/over.htm
CHAPTER 17
BOOKS
Aleinikoff, Alexander. Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State,
and American Citizenship (2002). Includes a careful discussion of the
citizenship status of American minorities and residents of overseas
possessions.
Blight, David. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001).
Examines how a memory of the Civil War that downplayed the issue
of slavery played a part in sectional reconciliation and the rise of
segregation.
Blum, Edward. Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nation-
alism, 1865–1898 (2005). Explores the development of a shared religious
culture that united northern and southern Protestants in support of white
supremacy and overseas expansion.
Factor, Robert L. The Black Response to America: Men, Ideals, and Organization
from Frederick Douglass to the NAACP (1970). Discusses black social and
political thought, including that of Booker T. Washington and his critics.
Goodwyn, Lawrence. The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt
in America (1978). A sympathetic account of the rise and fall of Populism.
Higginbotham, Evelyn. Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black
Baptist Church, 1880–1920 (1993). Explains how black women developed
ways of exerting their influence in public life even as black men were
losing the right to vote.
Hoganson, Kristin L. Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American
Domesticity, 1865–1920 (2007). Shows how the consumer desires of middle-
class women helped to spur the consolidation of an American empire.
Hsu, Madeline. Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and
Migration between the United States and South China, 1882–1934 (2000).