Books.

General Histories. Sean Dennis Cashman, America and the Gilded Age (1984). Carl N. Degler, The Age of the Economic Revolution, 1876--1900, 2nd. ed. (1977). John H. Dobson, Politics in the Gilded Age (1972). Harold U. Faulkner, Politics, Reform, and Expansion (1959). John A. Garraty, The New Commonwealth (1969). Samuel P. Hays, The Response to Industrialism, 1885--1914 (1957). Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877--1919 (1987). Alan Trachtenberg, The Intercorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (1982). Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877--1920 (1967). R. Hal Williams, Years of Decision: American Politics in the 1890s (1978).

Politics, Reform, and the State. Geoffrey Blodgett, The Gentle Reformers (1966). Ruth Bourdin, Women and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty, 1873--1900 (1980). James Bryce, The American Commonwealth, 2 vols. (1888). Tony Freyer, Regulating Big Business: Antitrust in Great Britain and America, 1880-1990 (1992). Ari Hoogenboom, Outlawing the Spoils: The Civil Service Movement (1961). Richard Jensen, The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888--1896 (1971). Matthew Josephson, The Politicos (1963). Morton Keller, Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth-Century America (1977). Paul Kleppner, The Cross of Culture: A Social Analysis of Midwestern Politics, 1850--1900 (1970); The Third Electoral System, 1853-1892 (1979). J. Morgan Kousser, The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880--1910 (1974). Michael P. Malone, The Battle for Butte: Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864--1906 (1981). Robert D. Marcus, Grand Old Party (1971). Gerald W. McFarland, Mugwumps, Morals, and Politics, 1884--1920 (1975). Michael E. McGerr, The Decline of Popular Politics (1986). H. Wayne Morgan, From Hayes to McKinley (1969). Walter T. K. Nugent, Money and American Society, 1865--1880 (1968). David J. Rothman, Politics and Power: The United States Senate, 1869--1901 (1966). Elizabeth Sanders, Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 (1999). Martin J. Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916 (1988). Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (1992); Stephen Skowronek, Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877--1920 (1982). John Sproat, "The Best Men": Liberal Reformers in the Gilded Age (1968). Mark Wahlgren Summers, Rum, Romanism and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884 (2000). Tom E. Terrill, The Tariff, Politics, and American Foreign Policy, 1874--1901 (1973). Irwin Unger, The Greenback Era (1964). Leonard D. White, The Republican Era (1958).

Party Leaders. Harry Barnard, Rutherford B. Hayes and His America (1954). Herbert Croly, Marcus Alonzo Hanna (1912). Kenneth Davison, The Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes (1972). Lewis L. Gould, The Presidency of William McKinley (1981). David Jordan, Roscoe Conkling of New York (1971). Margaret Leech, In the Days of McKinley (1959). Margaret Leech and Harry J. Brown, The Garfield Orbit (1978). Horace Samuel Merrill, Bourbon Leader: Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Party (1957). H. Wayne Morgan, William McKinley and His America (1963). Allan Nevins, Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage (1933). Allan Peskin, Garfield (1978). Thomas C. Reeves, Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur (1975). Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982). Harry J. Sievers, Benjamin Harrison, 3 vols. (1952-1968).

The Depression. Gene Clanton, Congressional Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s (1998). Ray Ginger, Altgeld's America (1958); The Bending Cross (1949). Almot Lindsey, The Pullman Strike (1942). Donald McMurray, Coxey's Army (1929). Samuel McSeveney, The Politics of Depression (1972). Carlos A. Schwantes, Coxey's Army (1955).

Populism. Peter Argersinger, Populism and Politics: William Alfred Peffer and the People's Party (1974); The Limits of Agrarian Radicalism: Western Populism and American Politics (1995). O. Gene Clanton, Congressional Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s (1998); Kansas Populism: Ideas and Men (1969); Populism: The Humane Preference in America, 1890-1900 (1991). Robert F. Durden, The Climax of Populism: The Election of 1896 (1965). Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise (1976); The Populist Moment (1978), an abridgement of Democratic Promise. Sheldon Hackney, Populism to Progressivism in Alabama (1969). Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850--1890 (1983). John D. Hicks, The Populist Revolt (1931). Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR (1955). Michael Kazin. The Populist Persuasion: An American History (1995). Robert McMath, Populist Vanguard (1975); American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898 (1993). Theodore R. Mitchell, Political Education in the Southern Farmers Alliance, 1887--1900 (1987). Walter T. K. Nugent, The Tolerant Populists (1960). Bruce Palmer, Man over Money (1980). Stanley Parsons, The Populist Context: Rural Versus Urban Power on a Great Plains Frontier (1973). Norman Pollack, The Populist Response to Industrial America (1962); The Just Polity: Populism, Law, and Human Welfare (1987). Martin Ridge, Ignatius Donnelly: Portrait of a Politician (1962). Theodore Saloutos, Farmer Movements in the South, 1865--1933 (1960). Elizabeth Sanders, Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 (1999). Fred Shannon, The Farmer's Last Frontier (1945). Barton C. Shaw, The Wool-Hat Boys: Georgia's Populist Party (1984). Francis B. Simkins, Pitchfork Ben Tillman (1944). Allan Weinstein, Prelude of Populism: Origins of the Silver Issue (1970). C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South (1972); Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel (1938). Victoria Saker Woeste, The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945 (1998). James E. Wright, The Politics of Populism: Dissent in Colorado (1974).

The "Battle of the Standards" and the Election of 1896. Paolo Coletta, William Jennings Bryan, 3 vols., (1964--1969). Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States (1963). Paul Glad, McKinley, Bryan, and the People (1964); The Trumpet Soundeth (1960). J. Rogers Hollingsworth, The Whirligig of Politics: The Democracy of Cleveland and Bryan (1963). Stanley Jones, The Presidential Election of 1896 (1964).

Films.

The Populist Challenge (RMI Media Productions, 1991). The Wright Stuff (PBS Video, American Experience, 1989).

Internet Resources.

Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era - http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/uscartoons/GAPECartoons.htm
The Populist Reader - http://www.populist.com/Populist.Reader.html
The World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma96/wce/title.html