REQUIRED READINGS

Books available at SBX:

1.      Samuel P. Hays, The Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914 (2^nd ed.)
2.      Alan M. Kraut, The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921(2^nd ed.)
3.      Harold C. Livesay, Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business (2^nd ed.)  

Other reading assignments are available for you on the World Wide Web or through the Reserve Desk in the Main Library, and are listed in the Course Calendar.  Please have these assignments completed before the class meeting.

Primary Source Assignments are part of the required readings for the course.  These assignments are available on the World Wide Web, linked through the course home page.  You must also read the entry on the individual in the American National Biography available on-line through a University IP address or in print in the University Library.

1.      Jane Addams, “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements” and “The Objective Value of Social Settlements”

2.      Henry George, Progress and Poverty, vii-xi, 1-13

3.      Washington Gladden, “Christianity and Wealth”

4.      Robert Hunter, Poverty (chapter on Immigration and the Conclusion)

5.      Henry Demarest Lloyd, “The Lords of Industry,” North American Review CCCXXXI(June 1884)

6.      Frances Kellor, Out of Work: A Study of Unemployment, 1-57

7.      Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis, 230-86

8.      Frances Willard, Address of Frances E. Willard, president of the Woman’s national council of the United States ... at its first triennial meeting, Albaugh’s opera house, Washington , D.C. , February 22-25, 1891

In reading these eight sources, you should consider the following questions:

·         Who was this person?

·         When and where did he or she live?

·         What were his or her main contributions to society?

·         What was the historical significance of this person?

·         What were his or her principal experiences in life that shaped his or her ideology?

·         With what other significant individuals, groups, or institutions did the person associate?

·         What gave rise to the particular writing on hand?

·         What was the significance of this particular writing in American history?  How does better understanding this person, and this writing, contribute to an understanding of the period under study, 1877-1917?