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Anderson, David D. Ignatius
Donnelly. 129 p. Boston: Twayne, 1980.
Chrislock, Carl H. "A Cycle
in the History of Minnesota Republicanism." Minnesota History.
39:93-110, illus. Fall 1964.
_____. "Sidney M. Owen: An
Editor in Politics." Minnesota History. 36(4):109-26. December
1958. Important Minnesota
Alliance member and Populist opponent to leadership of Donnelly.
_____. "The Alliance Party
and the Minnesota Legislature of 1891." Minnesota History.
35(7):297-312. September 1957.
_____. "The Politics of
Protest in Minnesota, 1890‑1901, from Populism to
Progressivism." 365 p. Ph.D. dissertation, U of Minnesota, 1955.
Dissertation Abstracts, 15:1055. June 1955.
Christie, Jean. "'An Earnest
Enthusiasm for Education': Sarah Christie Stevens, Schoolwoman." Minnesota
History. 48(6): 245-54.
Crawford, Paul. "Ignatius
Donnelly, Agrarian Agitator." Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern U,
1950. Doermann, Humphrey. "All My Immense Labor for Nothing...." American Heritage 1961 12(4): 60-64 and 104-107. Biography of Ignatius Donnelly, an noted national figure in the People's Party. America: History and Life, 0:2813 Gilman, Rhoda R. "Eva McDonald Valesh: Minnesota Populist." Women of Minnesota: Selected Biographical Essays (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1977): 55-76. Eva McDonald Valesh was a leading figure in Minnesota's labor and agrarian political movements. She supported the Knights of Labor, the Farmers' Alliance, and the People's Party as a journalist and lecturer. She was elected State Lecturer of the Minnesota Alliance, was a national organizer for the People's Party, and worked for William Jennings Bryan in 1896. That same year, she moved to New York City where she worked as a journalist and became involved with the Women's Trade Union League. America: History and Life, 16A:5403
Hicks, John D. "The Origin
and Early History of the Farmers' Alliance in Minnesota." Mississippi
Valley Historical Review. 9(3):203-226. December 1922.
_____. "The People's Party
in Minnesota." Minnesota Historical Bulletin. 5(8):531-60.
November 1924.
_____. "The Political Career
of Ignatius Donnelly." Mississippi Valley Historical Review.
8(1‑2):80‑132. June‑September 1921.
Donnelly in Minnesota and national politics, 1863-1900. Huch, Ronald K. "'Typhoid' Truelsen, Water and Politics in Duluth, 1896-1900." Minnesota History 1981 47(5): 189-199. Caspar Henry Truelson rose in Democratic and Populist politics from his Danish-German immigrant background to become a two-term mayor on the popular support of his stand against a sudden purchase of Duluth's privately-owned water utility. America: History and Life, 19A:6096
Hudson, Edwin E. "A
Comparison of the Farmers' Alliance and the Non‑partisan League in
Minnesota." U of Minnesota, 1924.
Unpublished manuscript.
Jarchow, Merril E. "King
Wheat." Minnesota History. 29(1):1‑28. March 1948. Wheat as it affected the lives and well‑being of
Minnesota farmers. Populists
mentioned by inference.
Keillor, Steven James.
"Democratic Coordination in the Marketplace: Minnesota's Rural
Cooperatives, 1865-1917." PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota,
1992. DAI, v. 53-11A, p. 4057, 816 pages. Kennedy, Roger G. "Ignatius Donnelly and the Politics of Discontent: An Inquiry into the Career of a Populist." American West 1969 6(2): 10-14, 43, 46-48. A son of anticlerical Irish immigrants, Ignatius Donnelly moved to Minnesota in 1856. The Panic of 1857 broke his land-speculation bubble and drove him into farming and politics. He became Lieutenant Governor, Governor, and a three-term Congressman. He gradually he assumed the role of the champion of the downtrodden farmer. He authored the most pungent of the Populist Party's revolt documents. He was a principled man in a remarkably unprincipled age, contending for justice against the hosts of error and indifference. America: History and Life, 6:1981
Kennedy, Roger G. "Ignatius
Donnelly and the Politics of Discontent: An Inquiry into the Career of a
Populist." American West. 6(2):10-14, 43, 46‑48. March
1969.
Kimmel, Bruce Ira. "The
Political Sociology of Third Parties in the United States: A Comparative
Study of the People's Party in North Carolina, Georgia and
Minnesota." Ph.D. Dissertation (Sociology), Columbia University,
1981. Focuses on the reactions of major parties to the instability
created by a third party. In
North Carolina, Minnesota, and Georgia, the instability is attributed to
the social strains generated by rapid industrialization.
Kolnick, Jeffrey. "Rural-Urban Conflict and Farmer-Labor Politics: Blue Earth County, 1885-1886." Minnesota History 1994 54(1): 32-45. Blue Earth County's Farmer-Labor Party, in conjunction with the Farmers' Alliance and the Knights of Labor, had remarkable success in rallying voters and in influencing the major parties on local and state issues during 1885-86. This tradition of radicalism reemerged in the 20th century when, during the height of Franklin D. Roosevelt's popularity, the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party was able to overshadow the state's Democratic Party. America: History and Life, 32:8471
Kolnick, Jeffrey David, "A
Producer's Commonwealth: Populism and the Knights of Labor in Blue Earth
County, Minnesota, 1880-1892." Ph.D. dissertation, University of
California, Davis, 1996. DAI,
57, no. 04A, (1996). Blue
Earth farmers and workers formed one of the first Farmer-Labor parties in
the nation in 1886. Farmers
and workers were drawn together by their common experience fighting to
survive in the intensely competitive economy of the Gilded Age.
Knights and Populists spoke the same language of reform politics
and shared the same vision of a cooperative commonwealth.
Kremenak,
Nellie Wilson. "Urban Workers in the Agricultural Middle West,
1856-1893: With A Case Study of Fort Dodge and Webster County, Iowa."
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 1995.
DAI, 56, no. 07A, (1995): 2838.
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 signaled the close of a period of
more open opportunity and generated a reappraisal of community values by
both working people and local elites.
For many working people, that reevaluation led to affiliation with
the Knights of Labor, which challenged economic and political power
structures. The Knights
forged political alliances with reform-minded middle class neighbors.
Working class political activism contributed to the great political
realignment of the late nineteenth century. Kreuter, Gretchen. "Kate Donnelly Versus the Cult of True Womanhood." Women of Minnesota: Selected Biographical Essays (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Pr., 1977): 20-33. Traces the life of Katharine McCaffrey Donnelly (1833-94), the wife of Ignatius Donnelly. Her letters to her husband reveal her political acumen, concern for their family, events in their daily lives, and their financial circumstances. America: History and Life, 16A:3579
Lampere, George N. "History
of Wheat Raising in the Red River Valley." Collections of the
Minnesota Historical Society. 10(1):1‑33.
Lawson, Victor E. "The
Farmers' Alliance in Kandiyohi County." Minnesota History Bulletin.
4(7‑8):337‑39. August‑November 1922.
LeSueur, Meridel. Crusaders:
The Radical Legacy of Marian and Arthur LeSueur. 109 p. Reprint of
1955 ed. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1984. Lief, Julia Wiech. "A Woman of Purpose: Julia B. Nelson." Minnesota History 1981 47(8): 302-314. After 19 years teaching in black schools in Texas and Tennessee, she returned to Minnesota in 1888. She became a Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) organizer, a National Woman Suffrage Association lecturer, and then editor of the state WCTU monthly paper. She also participated in the local affairs of Red Wing. She was the Populist candidate for superintendent of schools in 1896. She bequeathed her estate to a black former student. America: History and Life, 20A:5706 Mickelson, Peter. "Nationalism in Minnesota During the Spanish-American War." Minnesota History 1968 41(1): 1-12. Older traditionalists as well as the business community were, at first, strongly opposed to the war. Populists, on the other hand (as exemplified by Ignatius Donnelly), were willing to fight for "human liberty" and to thwart the Spanish "moneyed interests." Once the war actually began, most opposition evaporated in a wave of newly discovered patriotism. America: History and Life, 6:514
Nelsen, Jane Taylor. ed. A
Prairie Populist: The Memoirs of Luna Kellie. Iowa City: University of
Iowa Press, 1992. Nielsen, Kim E. "'We All Leaguers By Our House': Women, Suffrage, and Red-Baiting in the National Nonpartisan League." Journal of Women's History 1994 6(1): 31-50. The National Nonpartisan League, a strongly populistic farmers' organization in North Dakota and Minnesota between 1915 and 1922, attracted accusations of socialism, disloyalty, and sexual immorality. Its women were often involved in public protests and organizing activities, pushing the gender boundaries they simultaneously used for their own protection. America: History and Life, 34:7861
Nydahl, Theodore L. "The
Diary of Ignatius Donnelly, 1859-1884." Ph.D. dissertation, U of
Minnesota, 1942.
Parsons, E. Dudley.
"Ignatius Donnelly, Novelist Scholar." Farmer. 47:16-17.
March 16, 1929. Peterson,
John M. "From Yeoman to Beast: Images of Blackness in Caesar's
Column." American Studies 1971 12(2): 21-31.
Examines the place of prejudice in Ignatius Donnelly's Caesar's
Column, his attitudes toward rapid change in the United States,
and his place in American literary history. An early opponent of slavery,
Donnelly long remained interested in possibilities for black-white
cooperation amid continued repression.
His images of black revolt connect the book with the appeals of
southern white supremacists in the Gilded Age.
Peterson, Larry. Ignatius
Donnelly: A Psychohistorical Study in Moral Development Psychology.
Dissertation in American Biography. Ayer, 1981.
Ridge, Martin. "Ignatius
Donnelly and the Granger Movement in Minnesota." Mississippi
Valley Historical Review. 42(2):693-709. March 1956.
_____.
"Ignatius Donnelly and the Greenback Movement." Mid-America
1957 39(3): 156-168. Greenbackism
in Minnesota, and probably elsewhere, was not radical. It simply served as a vehicle of social criticism.
_____. "Ignatius Donnelly,
Minnesota Congressman, 1863-1869." Minnesota History.
36:173‑83. March 1959.
_____. Ignatius Donnelly: The
Portrait of a Politician. 427 p. Chicago, U of Chicago P, 1962.
Derived from Ridge's 1951 Ph.D. Northwestern University dissertation,
"Ignatius Donnelly: The Making of a Tribune."
Pollack, Norman. "Ignatius
Donnelly on Human Rights: A Study of Two Novels." Mid-America
1965 47(2): 99-112. Donnelly's
novels, Doctor Huguet (1891) and The Golden Bottle (1892)
were affirmations of man irregardless of race, religion, or ethnicity. Schlup,
Leonard. "Charles A. Towne and the Vice-Presidential Question of
1900." North Dakota History 1977 44(1): 14-20.
Populist Towne was William Jennings Bryan's choice for running mate
on the Democratic ticket in 1900. Following the Populists' nomination the
conservative eastern wing of the Democratic Party successfully pushed for
Adlai E. Stevenson.
Soike, Lowell Jerome. "The
People's Party in Minnesota: A Midwestern Populist Aberration?"
Master's thesis, St. Cloud State College, 1970. 274 pp. Warner, Donald F. "Prelude to Populism." Minnesota History. 32(3):129-46. September 1951.
Warren,
Sidney. "Ignatius Donnelly and the Populists." Current
History 1955 28(166): 336-342. Populists
were political realists, rather than radicals or revolutionaries.
They understood that repudiation of laissez-faire principles was
essential to agrarian economic interests. |