A Righteous Cause
A Righteous Cause

Author: Robert W. Cherny

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780806126678

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Three times the Democratic Party’s nominee for president (1896, 1900, and 1908), and Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan voiced the concerns of many Americans left out of the post-Civil War economic growth. In this book, Robert W. Cherny traces Bryan’s major political crusades for a new currency policy, prohibition, and women’s suffrage, and against colonialism, monopolies, America’s entry into World War I, and the teaching of evolution in the public schools. Drawing on Bryan’s writings and correspondence, Cherny presents Bryan’s key role in the Democratic Party’s transformation from a proponent of minimal government to an advocate of active government.

The Search for Order, 1877-1920
The Search for Order, 1877-1920

Author: Robert H. Wiebe

Publisher: Hill and Wang

Published: 2022-12-06

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0374611858

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At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search for Order, 1877-1920, Robert H. Wiebe shows how, in subsequent years, during the Progressive Era of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, Americans sought the organizing principles around which a new viable social order could be constructed in the modern world. This subtle and sophisticated study combines the virtues of historical narrative, sociological analysis, and social criticism.

America's Three Regimes
America's Three Regimes

Author: Morton Keller

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-03-11

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 0199705798

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Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the single best book written in recent years on the sweep of American political history," this groundbreaking work divides our nation's history into three "regimes," each of which lasts many, many decades, allowing us to appreciate as never before the slow steady evolution of American politics, government, and law. The three regimes, which mark longer periods of continuity than traditional eras reflect, are Deferential and Republican, from the colonial period to the 1820s; Party and Democratic, from the 1830s to the 1930s; and Populist and Bureaucratic, from the 1930s to the present. Praised by The Economist as "a feast to enjoy" and by Foreign Affairs as "a masterful and fresh account of U.S. politics," here is a major contribution to the history of the United States--an entirely new way to look at our past, our present, and our future--packed with provocative and original observations about American public life.

Wisconsin
Wisconsin

Author: Robert Carrington Nesbit

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 9780299108045

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Robert Nesbit's classic single-volume history of Wisconsin was expanded by Wisconsin State Historian William F. Thompson to include the period from 1940 to the late 1980s, along with updated bibliographies and appendices. First paperback edition.

Wisconsin Votes
Wisconsin Votes

Author: Robert Booth Fowler

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780299227449

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This is the first full history of voting in Wisconsin from statehood in 1848 to the present. Fowler both tells the story of voting in key elections across the years and investigates electoral trends and patterns over the course of Wisconsin's history. He explores the ways that ethnic and religious groups in the state have voted historically and how they vote today, and he looks at the successes and failures of the two major parties over the years. Highlighting important historical movements, Fowler discusses the great struggle for women's suffrage and the rich tales of many Wisconsin third parties--the Socialists, Progressives, the Prohibition Party, and others. Here, too, are the famous politicians in Wisconsin history, such as the La Follettes, William Proxmire, and Tommy Thompson. Winner, Award of Merit for Leadership in History, American Association for State and Local History

Charles Jonas (1840-1896)
Charles Jonas (1840-1896)

Author: Winston Chrislock

Publisher: Balch Institute Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780944190111

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This work depicts the life and times of nineteenth-century Czech-America's most important political and cultural leader -- Charles Jonas. Included are details about Czech attitudes toward American issues.