SUGGESTED READING ★ A-5Examines the enduring connections between Chinese immigrants in the
United States and their home communities.
Krause, Paul. The Battle for Homestead, 1880–1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel (1992).
An account of the era’s most celebrated conflict between capital and labor.
LaFeber, Walter. The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion,
1860–1898 (1963). A classic examination of the forces that led the United
States to acquire an overseas empire.
Lake, Marilyn, and Henry Reynolds. Drawing the Global Color Line (2008).
Traces the global transmission of ideas about white supremacy in the late
nineteenth century.
Linn, Brian M. The Philippine War, 1899–1902 (2000). A detailed history of
America’s “forgotten war.”
McClain, Charles J. In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle against Discrimina-
tion in Nineteenth- Century America (1994). Explores how Chinese- Americans
worked to combat the discrimination to which they were subjected and to
assert their rights.
McMillen, Neil R. Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow
(1989). A powerful account of black life in the segregation era and the
boundaries within which it operated.
Perez, Louis A. The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and His-
toriography (1998). Presents the Cuban side of the Spanish- American War,
including a detailed discussion of the Cuban movement for independence
and how American intervention affected it.
Postel, Charles. The Populist Vision (2007). A history of the Populist movement that
stresses how it anticipated many public policies of the twentieth century.
Sanders, Elizabeth. Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State,
1877–1917 (1999). Emphasizes the role of farmers’ movements in putting
forth many of the proposals associated with political reform in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South, 1877–1913 (1951). A classic
treatment of the New South, emphasizing how its rulers failed to meet the
needs of most southerners, white as well as black.
WEBSITES
1896: The Presidential Campaign: http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/1896home.html
The Chinese in California, 1850–1920: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu
/collections/chineseinca
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow
The World of 1898: The Spanish- American War: http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898