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Argersinger, Peter Hayes.
"Organizing the Farmers' Movement." Reviews in American
History. 4(4):565-70. 1976. Review
of McMath, Robert C. Jr. Populist Vanguard: A History of the Southern
Farmers' Alliance (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina P., 1975)
Bakken, Douglas A., ed. Guide to the
Microfilm Edition of the Nebraska Farmers' Alliance Papers 1887-1901.
10 p. Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society. 1966. Blocker, Jack S., Jr. "The Triumph
of Elites." Canadian Review of American Studies 1975 6(2):
210-216. Reviews J. Morgan
Kousser, The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the
Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910 (New Haven: Yale U.
Press, 1974) and James Edward Wright's The Politics of Populism:
Dissent in Colorado (New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1974). American
History and Life, 13A:5337
Bowers, Douglas E. and James B. Hoehn. A
List of References for the History of Agriculture in the Midwest,
1840-1900. 72 p. Davis: Agricultural History Center, May 1974. Buenger, Walter L. "Enduring Problems in the Interpretation of Post Annexation Texas Politics." West Texas Historical Association Year Book 1990 66: 77-89. A bibliographic study on the major publications of the last three decades that deal with the subjects of Reconstruction, Populism, Progressivism, and regionalism in Texas history. American History and Life, 29:7158 Carlson, Keith Thor. "Theodore
Roosevelt and the Winning of the West: Historian as History." Theodore
Roosevelt Association Journal 1994-95 20(3-4): 22-27. Reviews Theodore Roosevelt's four-volume epic history series The
Winning of the West (1889-96) and argues that the author employed
history as a forum for his contemporary concerns about Manifest Destiny,
Populism, and Indians.
Cherny, Robert W. "Lawrence
Goodwyn and Nebraska Populism: A Review Essay." Great Plains
Journal. 1(3):181-94. 1981. Collins, Robert M. "The
Originality Trap: Richard Hofstadter on Populism." Journal of
American History 1989 76(1): 150-167.
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR,
claims that the Populist movement did not come from "radical ideals
and real grievances" but from "irrational anxieties."
Critics claimed the work was based on inadequate research.
Norman Pollack criticized its anti-Semitic and nativistic emphasis.
The ambiguity of these points was both intended (to create originality)
and unintended (by overstating or misstating a point to maintain
originality). The danger of originality (even though it is fundamental to
historical research) is that it can blur both the truth, and the gap
between "intention and execution." Colwell, James L. "The Populist Image of Vernon Louis Parrington." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1962/63 49(1): 52-66. Vernon Louis Parrington, according to most accepted scholarship, was reared in Kansas Populism. The author argues that he was far from a radical in his Kansas period. His conversion to liberalism was far more complex and vacillating. America: History and Life, 0:5088
Crippen, Harlan R. "Conflicting
Trends in the Populist Movement." Science & Society.
6(2):133-149. 1942. Argues
that historical interpretation of Populist movement has been narrowly
rigid expression of sectionalism, etc. and must be treated as three
separate geographical movements, each with its own distinct character.
Wheat‑belt, Southern, and Western Populism.
Cunningham, Raymond J., ed. The
Populists in Historical Perspective. 90 p. Boston: Heath, 1968. Problems
book. Includes introduction,
Frederick Jackson Turner, John D. Hicks, Chester McArthur Destler, Richard
Hofstadter, Norman Pollack, Walter T.K. Nugent, C. Vann Woodward, Matthew
Josephson, Robert F. Durden, notes, and bibliographical essay.
DeSantis, Vincent P. "The
Political Life of the Gilded Age: A Review of the Recent Literature."
History Teacher. 9(1):73-106. 1975.
_____. "The Gilded Age in American
History." Hayes Historical Journal. 1988 7(2): 38-57.
Edwards, Everett E. A Bibliography
of the History of Agriculture in the United States. 307 p. Washington, DC: GPO, 1930. Reprinted by Detroit, Gale
Research Company. 1967.
_____. "Middle Western Agriculture
as a Field of Research." Mississippi Valley Historical Review.
24:315-328. December 1937.
_____. "Some Sources for Northwest
History, Agricultural Periodicals." Minnesota History.
9:21-33. March 1938.
_____. References on Agricultural
History as a Field for Research. 8 p. Washington, DC: GPO. 1937.
Edwards, Helen. A List of References
for the History of Agriculture in the Southern United States, 1865-1900.
89 p. Agricultural History Center, U of California, Davis. March 1971.
Emmons, David M. "The Making and
Unmaking of Western Radicalism, 1880-1905." Reviews in American
History 1996 24(2): 252-257. Reviews
David Brundage's The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's
Organized Workers, 1878-1905 (1994) and Peter H. Argersinger's The Limits
of Agrarian Radicalism: Western Populism and American Politics (1995). Folsom, Burton W., II. "The Collective Biography as a Research Tool." Mid-America 1972 54(2): 108-122. A bibliographical essay that analyzes the application of collective-biography techniques to the Jacksonian era, the Populist movement, and in status revolution theory. Ethnicity, occupation, and age are among significant variables recently applied to Populism. America: History and Life, 12A:5139
Freidel, Frank. "The Old Populism
and the New." Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings.
85:78-90. 1973. Going, Allen J. "Alabama Bourbonism and Populism Revisited." Alabama Review 1983 36(2): 83-109. Surveys literature of the 1950's-70's on the Redeemer and Populist periods in Alabama. America: History and Life, 21A:5156 _____. "Agrarian Revolt." In Writing Southern History: Essays in Historiography in Honor of Fletcher M. Green. pp. 362-82. Arthur S. Link and Rembert W. Patrick, eds. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U P, 1955. Interpretations of Populism during the past 70 years have swung full circle from distrust to approval and back to adverse criticism. America: History and Life, 3:1936 Green, James. "Populism, Socialism and the Promise of Democracy." Radical History Review 1980 (24): 7-40. Traces the histories of Populism and socialism in the United States since the 1890's in light of the recently growing appeal of Populism "among many socialists as the U.S. left seems more fragmented and isolated." Addresses Lawrence Goodwyn's Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America (1976) and the author's own Grass-Roots Socialism: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943 (1978). America: History and Life, 19A:3935
Hackney, Sheldon, ed. Populism: The
Critical Issues. 118 p. Boston: Little, 1971.
Problems book. Includes
introductory essay, Omaha Platform, William Allen White, C. Vann Woodward,
Robert Durden, Jack Abramowitz, Robert Saunders, Richard Hofstadter,
Walter T.K. Nugent, Victor C. Ferkiss, Norman Pollack, Irwin Unger,
Michael P. Rogin, Sheldon Hackney, notes, and Suggestions for Further
Reading.
Hardin, Charles M. "Farm Politics
and American Democracy." Journal of Politics.
17(4):651‑53. November 1955. Interesting
and informative. Review article of McConnell, Grant, The Decline of
American Democracy and, Griswold, A. Whitney, Farming and Democracy.
Hicks, John D. "Reform Cycles in
Recent American History." Idaho Yesterdays. 6(2):11‑15,
18‑21, illus. Summer 1962. Hicks
on agrarian myth, Turner hypothesis, Populism, Progressivism, the New
Deal, and revisionists. Higham, John. "America's Utopian
Prophets." Virginia Quarterly Review 1984 60(3): 507-513.
Reviews John L. Thomas, Alternative America: Henry George,
Edward Bellamy, Henry Demarest Lloyd and the Adversary Tradition
(1983). Bellamy and Lloyd
were Populists. Thomas
describes the different attacks made by these three authors upon the
economic injustice of the developing urban industrial society of
19th-century America and suggests they "opened a middle way between
modern capitalism and modern socialism."
Holmes, William F. American Populism.
Problems in American Civilization Series. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath & Co.,
1994. A problems book which includes an introduction, chronology, and
excerpts from works by John D. Hicks, Chester McArthur Destler, Lawrence Goodwyn, Steven Hahn, James Turner, Theodore R.
Mitchell, Michael Schwartz, Peter H. Argersinger, Mari Jo Buhle, Robert W.
Larson, Gene Clanton, Carl N. Degler, Barton C. Shaw, Gregg Cantrell, D.
Scott Barton, Richard Hofstadter, Bruce Palmer, Robert W. Cherny, Worth
Robert Miller, and suggestions for additional reading. _____. "Lawrence Goodwyn's Democratic Promise: An Essay-Review." Georgia Historical Quarterly 1977 61(2): 169-176. Reviews Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America (New York: Oxford U. Pr., 1976). Includes a brief survey of Populist historiography. Discusses the relationship between Populism and the Southern Alliance. America: History and Life, 15A:7429 _____. "Populism: in Search of
Context." Agricultural History 1990 64(4): 26-58.
Historians and other social scientists have used new sources and
new methods but have reached no consensus.
After an exhaustive examination of the literature, the author
concludes that Populism marked an important transition in American history
and was the last stand of the small, independent farmer against corporate
capitalism.
_____. "The Roots of Southern
Populism." Georgia Historical Quarterly 1983 67(4): 489-502.
Reviews Steven Hahn's The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman
Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (1983).
Commends many of Hahn's findings but criticizes his interpretation of
class struggle conflict and the supposed change from pre-capitalist to
capitalist society. _____. "Why Populism Did Not
Flourish in Iowa." Reviews in American History 1994 22(4):
608-613. Reviews Jeffrey
Ostler, Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas,
Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892 (1993), which explains how the
nonpartisan strategy of the Farmers' Alliance in Iowa repressed organized
populism despite the strong growth of populism in Kansas and Nebraska. Hughes, John F. "The Jacksonians, the Populists and the Governmental Habit." Mid-America 1994 76(1): 5-26. Jacksonian political philosophy was essentially pre-capitalist and agrarian. The Populist movement was also agrarian. Both movements believed in the labor theory of value, both were opposed to the concentration of wealth, and both Jacksonian Democrats and Populists regarded themselves as outsiders opposed by money interests and the press. The Populists differed from the Jacksonians, however, because they advocated government intervention in the economy. America: History and Life, 34:1106 Hunt, David. "The Measure of Popular Culture: A Review Article." Comparative Studies in Society and History 1989 31(2): 363-371. Reviews Steven Hahn's The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (1983). America: History and Life, 27:10249
Johnson, Robert Andrew. "Political
Ideology and Political Historiography: Reporting the Populists."
Ph.D. Dissertation (Political Science), 1981 University of California,
Berkeley. Dai, 42, no. 12A, (1981): 5232.
Identifies three schools of thought: romantics, who found Populist
grievances legitimate; revisionists, who focus almost entirely on
Populism's blemishes; and balancers, who were able to understand the
Populists as having a thorough-going critique of the polity, along with
several distinct flaws. Kirkendall, Richard S.
"Agrarianism and Modernization in History and Historians." Reviews
in American History 1986 14(1): 97-103. Reviews Donald J. Pisani's From
the Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in California and
the West, 1850-1931 (1984) and Pete Daniel's Breaking the Land: The
Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures since 1880
(1985), which show the triumph in American agriculture of modernization
over the more human agrarian tradition. Knee, Stuart E. "Roosevelt and Turner: Awakening in the West." Journal of the West 1978 17(2): 105-112. Theodore Roosevelt's Winning of the West and Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" both reached essentially the same conclusions. Both men were hostile to industrialism, but while Turner took the Populist view that looked back to a golden age of agrarianism, Roosevelt, the progressive, looked forward to a stage beyond agrarianism where the nation would be equal with the world's great powers. America: History and Life, 16A:6647 Kourvetaris, George A. "Agrarian Rebellion in 19th Century America: A Review Essay." International Social Science Review 1991 66(1): 29-32. Review of Scott G. McNall, The Road to Rebellion, Class Formation, and Kansas Populism, 1865-1900 (1988). America: History and Life, 31:7954 Kovenock, Elizabeth. "Populism: A
Bibliographical Essay." Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines
[France] 1976 (2): 57-61. A
broad view of populism in America, based on interpretations written from
1892 to 1974. America:
History and Life, 17A:4102
Kuehl, Warren F. Dissertations in
History: An Index to Dissertations Completed in History Departments of
United States and Canadian Universities, 1873-1960. 249 p. Lexington:
U of Kentucky P. 1965. Subject
index pp. 211-249. Listed by author. Launius, Roger D. "The Nature of the Populists: An Historiographical Essay." Southern Studies 1983 22(4): 366-385. Between 1900 and the 1940s, historians saw Populism as a progressive reform movement. In the 1950's, revisionists found the movement to be anti-Semitic, fascist, and irrational. In the 1960s and 1970s, scholars again saw Populism as positive and a rational response to grievances. Populism was a political response to economic distress. America: History and Life, 22A:5751
LeDuc, Thomas. "Recent
Contributions to Economic History: The United States,
1861‑1900." Journal of Economic History. 1:44-63. March
1969. A bibliographic
study of some use. Essentially
economic. Lichtenstein, Alex. "Origins of a new synthesis." Reviews in American History 1993 21(2): 231-238. Reviews Edward L. Ayers's The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction (1992), a comprehensive study of post-bellum Southern history that treats a variety of topics including Populism. America: History and Life, 31:15759
Malin, James C. "Notes on the
Literature of Populism." Kansas Historical Quarterly. 1:160‑164. February 1932.
A good basic bibliography, fully annotated.
McKenzie, Robert H. "Clio's
Partners: The Significance of Alabama History and the Contributions of its
Contemporary Historians." Alabama Review 1975 28(4): 243-259.
McLear, Patrick E. "The Agrarian
Revolt in the South: A Historiographical Essay." Louisiana Studies
1973 12(2): 443-463. Surveys
and analyzes the literature on the Agrarian Revolt in the South and notes
the shortcomings of the theses. Examines economic, political, religious,
and social forces to understand the Populist movement.
Miller, Robert Moats. "One Bible
Belt State's Encounter with Populism and 'Progressive Capitalism.'" Reviews
in American History. 4(4):571-76. 1976.
Review of Frederick A. Bode, Protestantism and the New South. Miller, Worth Robert. "A Centennial Historiography of American Populism." Kansas History 1993 16(1): 54-69. From Frank L. McVey in 1896 to Robert C. McMath, Jr. in 1993. Some see the populists as forward-looking liberal reformers. Others view them as reactionaries trying to recapture an idyllic and utopian past. For some they are radicals out to restructure American life, and for others they are economically hard-pressed agrarians seeking government relief. The majority of recent scholarship emphasizes populism's debt to early American republicanism. Online at http://clio.missouristate.edu/wrmiller/.
_____. "The Populist
Vision: A Roundtable Discussion." Kansas History. 32,
no. 1 (Spring 2009):
Montgomery, David. "On Goodwyn's
Populists." Marxist Perspectives 1978 1(1): 166-173. Review
article on Lawrence Goodwyn's Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement
in America (Oxford U. Pr., 1976).
Morrison, Denton E., ed. Farmers'
Organizations and Movements: Research Needs and a Bibliography of the
United States and Canada. 116 p. Agricultural Experiment Station,
Research Bulletin 24. East Lansing, Michigan. 1970.
Essays and 998 bibliographical entries from the Grange to the
Farmers' Union.
Nordin, Dennis S. A Preliminary List
of References for the History of the Granger Movement. 21 p. Davis,
Agricultural History Center. November 1967.
Nugent, Walter. "The Disappearance
of the Producing Classes." Reviews in American History.
9(2):196-200. Review of
Palmer, "Man Over Money". O'Brian, Michael. C. "Vann Woodward and the Burden of Southern Liberalism." American Historical Review 1973 78(3): 589-604. C. Vann Woodward attempted to redefine Southern history in terms of Populism with Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 (1951; Reprint, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972). America: History and Life, 12A:4447
Orsi, Richard J. A List of
References for the History of Agriculture in California. 141 p. Davis:
Agricultural History Center, June 1974.
Palmer, Bruce Edward. "American
History's Hardy Perennial: Populism From the 1970s." American
Quarterly. 30(4):557-66. 1978. Reviews
of Argersinger, Populism and Politics, Goodwyn, Democratic
Promise, Parsons, The Populist Context and Youngsdale, Populism:
A Psychohistorical Perspective. _____. "The Politics of Money in Industrializing America, 1865-1896." Reviews in American History 1997 25(4): 583-588. Reviews Gretchen Ritter's Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America, 1865-1896 (1997), which traces the history of antimonopoly theory and political agitation associated with Populism and the Greenback Party between 1865 and 1896. America: History and Life, 35:13764
Peiser, Andrew Curt. "An Analysis
of the Treatment Given to Selected Aspects of Populism and the Populist
Party in American History High School Textbooks." Ph.D. dissertation
(Education), New York University, 1971.
DAI, 32, no. 05A, (1971): 2406.
Pickens, Donald A. "Oklahoma Populism and Historical Interpretation." Chronicles of Oklahoma 1965 43(3): 275-283. During the 1930's historians explained Populism as the forerunner of the New Deal. Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. (New York: Vintage Press, 1955), characterized Populists as anti-Semites, militant racists, and superpatriots, the political ancestors of McCarthyism. Some have criticized Hofstadter's judgment, including C. Van Woodward and Walter T. K. Nugent. Populism in the Middle West and particularly in Oklahoma is examined, and the conclusion is that Populism was a response to a very real need of the farmer. He then traces the transfer of many Populists in Oklahoma from Populism to Socialism. America: History and Life, 5:578 Pollack, Norman. "Hofstadter on Populism: A Critique of 'The Age of Reform.'" Journal of Southern History 1960 26(4): 478-500. Disagrees with the methodology of Richard Hofstadter The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. (New York, 1955). Hofstadter's assumptions, in less capable hands, can lead only to a denial that protest ever existed in American society. Radicalism then becomes wholly discredited as a rational alternative. America: History and Life, 0:3497 Pope, Billy. "Down on the Farm:
The Agrarian Revolt in American History," Radical America.
16(1-2):139-47. 1982. Reviews
of Green, Grass-Roots Socialism, Goodwyn, The Populist Moment,
Palmer, "Man Over Money" and Robert Rosenbaum, Mexicano
Resistance in the Southwest: The Sacred Right of Self-Preservation.
America: History and Life,
20A:3876 Pratt, William C. "Historians and the Lost World of Kansas Radicalism." Kansas History Winter 2007 / 2008 30(4): 270-291. Historiography of Knights of labor, Populists, Socialists, Wobblies, the Farmers' Union, and Nonpartisan League.
_____. "South Dakota Populism and
Its Historians." South Dakota History 1992 22 (Winter): 309- "Radicals,
Farmers and Historians: Some Recent Scholarship About Agrarian Radicalism
in the Upper Midwest." North Dakota History. 52(4):12-25.
1985. Discusses Farmers' Alliance, Populist party, Non-Partisan League and
Communist party. Farmers were
co-opted from radicalism by many factors, especially the New Deal. America:
History and Life, 24A:7786
_____. "Where Do We Go From Here?
Historians and Farm Movements on the Northern Plains." Journal of
the West 1992 31(4): 59-70. Scholars
have yet to explain how the nation's farm rebels from the northern Plains
actually helped to shape American society during 1880-1960. Ridge, Martin. "In Retrospect: Populism Redux: John D. Hicks and the Populist Revolt." Reviews in American History 1985 13(1): 142-154. Reviews the state of scholarship on populism, focusing on the impact, continuing vitality, and criticism of Hicks's The Populist Revolt (1931). America: History and Life, 23A:5458 Ridge, Martin. "Two Bogueymen: Populism Revisited." Reviews in American History 1975 3(4): 472-476. Reviews of Peter H. Argersinger Populism and Politics: William Alfred Peffer and the People's Party (Lexington: U. Pr. of Kentucky, 1974) and James Edward Wright The Politics of Populism: Dissent in Colorado (New Haven, Conn.: Yale U. Pr., 1974). America: History and Life, 14A:8769
Rock, Virginia J. "Agrarianism:
Agrarian Themes and Ideas in Southern Writing." Mississippi
Quarterly. 21:145-56, bib.
Rockwood, D. Stephen and Geoffrey Cocks, "The Use and Abuse of Psychohistory." Journal of Psychohistory. 5(1):131-38. 1977. Review of Youngsdale, Populism: A Psychohistorical Perspective. "Unfortunately, the work itself neither furthers our understanding of populism nor advances the methodology of psychohistory." Problems include lack of definition, misapplication of psychological insight, weak primary research, and lack of focus. America: History and Life, 16A:2769
Rogers, Earl M. A List of References
for the History of Agriculture in the Great Plains. 90 p. Davis:
Agricultural History Center, May 1976.
_____. A List of References for the
History of Agriculture in the Mountain States. 91 p. Davis:
Agricultural Center, June 1972. Rosengarten, Theodore. "'I Stand Where My Boyhood Put Me': Reconsidering Woodward's Tom Watson." Georgia Historical Quarterly 1988 72(4): 684-697. Discusses C. Vann Woodward, Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel (1938). The book appeared when interest in Southern history was increasing. But, the book's theme dissented from the current historiography on the New South. America: History and Life, 27:6506
Ross, Dorothy. "The Liberal
Tradition Revisited and the Republican Tradition Addressed," in John
Higham and Paul K. Conkin (eds.), New Directions in American
Intellectual History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. Addresses the emerging recognition of a dualistic
intellectual tradition in late nineteenth century America--classical
liberalism versus neo-Republicanism. Saloutos, Theodore. "A Dedication to the Memory of John D. Hicks, 1890-1972." Arizona and the West 1980 22(1): 1-4. About the author of The Populist Revolt (1931), the progressive historian's magnum opus on Populism. America: History and Life, 18A:6177 _____. "The Professors and the
Populists." Agricultural History 1966 40(4): 235-254.
In seeking to bring about a reevaluation of the Populists, the
revisionists have helped revive interest in Populism.
Revisionists have not been successful in bringing about an
acceptance of their views. They
have failed to document their assertions with primary research.
_____. ed. Populism; Reaction or
Reform? 121 p. New York: Holt, 1968.
Problems book. Includes
introduction, Eric F. Goldman, John D. Hicks, David Saposs, Jack
Abramowitz, Frank LeRond McVey, Anna Rochester, Richard Hofstadter, Victor
C. ferkiss, C. Vann Woodward, William P. Tucker, Walter T.K. Nugent, John
D. Hicks, Theodore Saloutos, and Suggested readings.
Saunders, Robert Miller.
"Progressive Historians and the Late Nineteenth-Century Agrarian
Revolt: Virginia as a Historiographical Test Case." Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography. 79(4):484-492. October 1971.
Schlebecker, John T. Bibliography of
Books and Pamphlets on the History of Agriculture in the United States,
1607-1967. 183 p. 1-102 bib., 103-83, index. Santa Barbara, Ca:
American Bibliographical Center Press, 1969.
Schmidt, Louis B. "Topical Studies
and References on the Farmers' Movement in the United States, 1650-1948."
Ames, Iowa: Department of History and Government, Iowa State College,
1948. [mimeographed.]
Schor, Joel and Cecil Harvey. A List
of References for the History of Black Americans in Agriculture, 1619-1974.
116 p. Davis: Agricultural History Center, June 1975. Schwartz, Edward. "Populism: a Tradition in Search of a Movement." Social Policy. 10(5):14-20. 1980. Populism was a progressive, potentially effective way to diminish the power of corporations and further economic democracy and social justice. America: History and Life, 18A:4740 Shapiro, Herbert. "Pollack on Populism (Review)." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 1968 27(3): 321-334. A review of Norman Pollack, The Populist Response to Industrial America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U. Press, 1962). America: History and Life, 11A:4729
Sheehan, Donald and Harold C. Syrett,
eds. Essays in American Historiography: Papers Presented in Honor of
Allan Nevins. 320 p. New York: Columbia UP, 1960.
See Edwards, Everett E. essay on Populism. Socolofsky, Homer E. Kansas History in Graduate Study: A Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations. Manhattan, Kansas: Kansas State U Agriculture and Applied Science, 1959. "Political Parties" pp. 44. Summers, Mary. "Putting Populism Back In: Rethinking Agricultural Politics and Policy." Agricultural History 1996 70(2): 395-414. Agricultural political interest groups cluster around ideology rather than pure economic self-interest according to Grant McConnell, Theodore Lowi, and Lawrence Goodwyn. These critics presented an oversimplified picture of populism as a democratic movement opposed to economic elites or an overly harsh judgment of 20th-century politics as the triumph of special interest groups over agrarian democracy. Populism was more complex than grass-roots democracy. America: History and Life, 34:13488 Suponitskaia, I. M. "Sovremennaia Amerikanskaia Istoriografiia Populizma." Transl/Info: [Modern American Historiography on Populism]. Voprosy Istorii [USSR] 1986 (6): 155-164. Populism was a social utopian, middle-class movement rather than a radical alternative to capitalism, and it aspired for reforms within the existing bourgeois capitalist system. America: History and Life, 25A:663
Thompson,
J.A. "The 'Age of
Reform' in America." Historical Journal (Great Britain).
19(1):257-74. 1976. Reviews
of Argersinger, Politics and Populism, Wright, The Politics of
Populism and five other books on reform between 1890s and 1930s. Tindall, George B. "Populism: A Semantic Identity Crisis." Virginia Quarterly Review 1972 48(4): 501-518. Briefly defines the traditional meaning of populism as applied to the People's Party of the 1890's. Traces various current uses of "populism" and concludes that until the users define what they mean we may have to rely on Louis Rubin's definition: "A populist is a rabblerouser you like. If you don't like him, he's a demagogue." America: History and Life, 11A:4225
Todd, Ronald. "Theses Related to
the Pacific Northwest." Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 35:55-64.
January 1944.
Unger, Irwin, ed. Populism:
Nostalgic or Progressive? 60 p. Berkeley Series in American History.
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964. Includes
introduction, John D. Hicks, Richard Hofstadter, Sarah E.V. Emery,
Ignatius Donnelly, N.B. Ashby, William A. Peffer, J. Lawrence Laughlin,
William Allen White, Samuel Gompers, Henry Demarest Lloyd, and For Further
Reading.
Vaudagna, Maurizio. "Il Populismo
Americano" (American Populism). Rivista Storica Italian.
[Italy]. 9(4):675-86. 1979. Review
of Goodwyn, The Populist Moment. Walters, Donald E. "Populism: Its Significance in American History." Essays in American Historiography, Papers Presented in Honor of Allan Nevins, Donald Sheehan and Harold C. Syrett, eds. (New York and London: Columbia U. Press, 1960) pp. 217-230. Examines some of the major interpretations of the Populist movement, stressing the conflict between those who view it as conservative and those who see it as Socialistic. The author believes Populism was an emotional and pragmatic movement. America: History and Life, 0:6014 Wang, Yin. "Huofushitate YU Meiguo
Gaige Shiguan." Transl/Info: [Hofstadter and the American Revisionist
Historical View]. Shijie Lishi (World History) [China] 1992 (2):
93-100. Review of Richard
Hofstadter, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR (1955).
Hofstadter explains history from a conservative point of view. He
underestimates the influence of economic and material forces on history,
and his arguments suffer from a lack of evidence. America:
History and Life, 32:6821
Watson, Richard L., Jr. "From
Populism Through the New Deal: Southern Political History." in Interpreting
Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W.
Higginbotham. John B. Boles and Evelyn Thomas Nolen, eds. Baton Rouge:
LSU Press, 1987.
White, Helen McCann. Guide to a
Microfilm Edition of the Ignatius Donnelly Papers. 34 p. St. Paul, Minnesota Historical Society, 1968.
Wright, James. "A Populist
Ideology." Reviews in American History. 6(3):365-69. 1978.
Review of Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in
America (New York: Oxford U. Pr., 1976). |