The Civil War Era to the Gilded Age

Editor's note: In its October 2004 issue, this journal published a vivid account by Lewis Saum, the well-known historian of the nineteenth-century press, of the dispatches and misadventures of Chicago reporter James “Phocion” Howard during the Black Hills gold rush of 1875. A complete product of an age when news correspondents made no pretence of detachment and no effort to avoid becoming part of their stories, Howard, through what he wrote and what he did, was the sort of reporter who contributed mightily to the image of the post-Civil War era as a Gilded Age. This brief account follows Howard back a little in time, to 1873, when he was noisily bursting illusions along the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad just at the moment when that line's bankruptcy hurled the country into its worst economic collapse in decades.

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Book Review: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Historical Exploration of Literature

Reference & User Services Quarterly ◽

10.5860/rusq.56n1.59b ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 56 (1) ◽

pp. 59

Author(s):

Jennifer A. Bartlett

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

Progressive Era ◽

Gilded Age ◽

Historical Context ◽

Chicano Movement ◽

Jazz Age ◽

Literary Works ◽

Time Period ◽

Civil War Era

One of the latest volumes in ABC-CLIO/Greenwood’s “Historical Explorations of Literature” series, The Gilded Age and Progressive Era is a useful and interesting introduction to framing key literary works of this time period in their historical context. Each volume in the series presents a discussion of four or five representative works of a historical era, such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicano Movement, the Jazz Age, and the Civil War Era.

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Writing African American Migrations

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era ◽

10.1017/s1537781410000150 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 3-22

Author(s):

Jack S. Blocker

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Civil War ◽

Progressive Era ◽

Gilded Age ◽

Future Research ◽

History Of ◽

The 1950S ◽

Civil War Era ◽

The Philadelphia Negro

Efforts to write the history of the African American migrations of the Civil War era, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era began soon after the start of these historically significant movements. Early scholarship labored to surmount the same methodological obstacles faced by modern scholars, notably scarce documentation, but still produced pathbreaking studies such as W. E. B. Du Bois'sThe Philadelphia Negro, Carter Woodson'sA Century of Negro Migration, and Clyde Kiser'sSea Island to City. Modern scholarship since the 1950s falls into eight distinct genres. An assessment of representative works in each genre reveals a variety of configurations of strengths and weaknesses, while offering guidelines for future research.

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T. M. HAYGOOD. Henry William Ravenel, 1814–1887, South Carolina scientist in the Civil War era. (History of American Science and Technology series). The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa and London: 1987. Pp xiv, 205; illustrated. Price: not stated. ISBN 0-8173-0297-2.

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.1990.17.3.386 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 386-387

Author(s):

MICHAEL T. STIEBER

Keyword(s):

South Carolina ◽

Civil War ◽

Science And Technology ◽

University Of Alabama ◽

American Science ◽

History Of ◽

Civil War Era ◽

The University

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Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union

10.23943/princeton/9780691151991.001.0001 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Fred I. Greenstein ◽

Dale Anderson

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

Organizational Capacity ◽

The United States ◽

Abraham Lincoln ◽

George Washington ◽

Personal Strengths ◽

History Of ◽

Civil War Era ◽

American Leader ◽

Policy Vision

The United States witnessed an unprecedented failure of its political system in the mid-nineteenth century, resulting in a disastrous civil war that claimed the lives of an estimated 750,000 Americans. This book assesses the personal strengths and weaknesses of presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama. The book evaluates the leadership styles of the Civil War-era presidents. The book looks at the presidential qualities of James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln. For each president, the book provides a concise history of the man's life and presidency, and evaluates him in the areas of public communication, organizational capacity, political skill, policy vision, cognitive style, and emotional intelligence. The book sheds light on why Buchanan is justly ranked as perhaps the worst president in the nation's history, how Pierce helped set the stage for the collapse of the Union and the bloodiest war America had ever experienced, and why Lincoln is still considered the consummate American leader to this day. The book reveals what enabled some of these presidents, like Lincoln and Polk, to meet the challenges of their times—and what caused others to fail.

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