5. Mon 9/14 Overthrowing Reconstruction
Reading: GML Ch 15 (548-555) “The Overthrow of Reconstruction”
PS = Uncivil Liberty, Oration by Frederick Douglass
6. Wed 9/16 Industry, Corporate Capitalism, Sunshine & Shadow
Reading: GML Ch 16 (556-568) “The Second Industrial Revolution”
PS = Story of a Monopoly (1881); “Sunshine and Shadow in New York”
Andrew Carnegie, Wealth (1889)
7. Fri 9/18 Questions of Politics and Freedom
Reading: GML Ch 16 (579-596) “Politics in a Gilded Age,” “Freedom in the Gilded Age,” and “Labor in the Republic”
PS = excerpt from Mark Twain, The Gilded Age – read Ch 28, on Google Books (pages 301-315); and on Norton StudySpace, City Slave Girls, Riis “How the Other Half Lives”
By the way, the full text of Riis’s book is (or was – there may be a problem with the link) online at: http://www.authentichistory.com/postcivilwar/riis/contents.html . I have also put the text on 2-hour library reserve at the circulation desk.
