American History Since 1877

Chapter 19
Politics in the Age of Enterprise, 1877-1896

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These resources have been selected by librarians to supplement HSTY202 classes (American History from 1877) at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

• Gale Virtual Reference Collection
• Books and eBooks in TC3 Collection
• Subject Headings
• Multimedia
• Locating Journal Articles in Databases
• Web Resources

Gale Virtual Reference Collection

TC3 students and staff have access to the Gale Virtual Reference Library which has over 250 academic reference encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. This is a good place to start your research because it provides useful background information.

Books and eBooks in the TC3 Collection

• The Age of Reform; from Bryan to F. D. R. by Richard Hofstadter [E743 .H63]. Also available online via ACLS Humanities E-Book.
• The Battle of 1900; An Official Hand-book for Every American Citizen ... Republican issues by L. White Busbey, Prohibition issues by Oliver W. Stewart, Democratic issues by Willis J. Abbot, Populist issues by Dr. Howard S. Taylor. Endorsed by the parties. [JK2263 1900 .B33]
• Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work by Kathryn Kish Sklar [HQ1413.K45 S58 1995]
• Origins of the new South, 1877-1913 by C. Vann Woodward. Online via ACLS Humanities E-Book.
• The Populist Persuasion: an American History by Michael Kazin [E661 .K25 1995]
• The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction by Edward L. Ayers [F215 .A94 1993]
• Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight. Online via ACLS Humanities E-Book.
• Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History [KF385.A4 R33 2002] - Series "Viewpoints on American Culture."
• Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South [E185.61 .R4 2001]
• The Right to Vote: the Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar [JK1846 .K48 2000]. Also available online via ACLS Humanities E-Book.
• Thomas Nast: Cartoons and Illustrations by Thomas Nast (1840-1902) [O-SIZE NC1429.N3 S34 1974]
• Th. Nast, His Period and His Pictures by Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937) [NC1429.N3 P3 1971]
• William Jennings Bryan and the Campaign of 1896 [E664.B87 W6]

Don't hesitate to ask a reference librarian for help in locating other books owned by us or for help in using WorldCat, the wordwide database of library books and materials that you can use to interlibrary books owned by other libraries.

Subject Headings

Try these suggested subject headings to find books in the TC3 Library Catalog and/or WorldCat.

• Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
• Populist Party
• Prohibition Party
• United States, Politics and government, 1865-1918
• United States, Economic conditions, 1865-1918

Multimedia

• Remembering Jim Crow [sound recording]: Voices from Behind the Veil produced by Stephen Smith of American RadioWorks in collaboration with the Behind the Veil Project

Locating Journal Articles in Databases

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals by title & Subject.

Web Resources

• Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech
• Clash of Cultures
• Plessy v Ferguson
• Temperance and Prohibition
• W.E.B. DuBois Address to the Nation - Delivered at the Second Annual Meeting of the Niagara Movement, Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, 16 August 1906