Genres: Books Biographies & Memoirs

1860–1877

Marital Power Exemplified

Source: Elizabeth Packard, Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard’s Trial . . . (Chicago: Clarke & Co., 1870), available at https://archive.org/details/maritalpowerexem00pack/page/n5/mode/2up. . . . It was in a Bible-class in

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1877–1917

Plenty Horses Kills Lieutenant Casey

Source: Julia B. McGillycuddy, McGillycuddy Agent: A Biography of Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1941), 258–60, 271–72. In the autumn of 1890 obvious restlessness prevailed among

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1877–1917

My Story

Source: Rachel Calof, Rachel Calof’s Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains, J. Sanford Rikoon, volume editor (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), 23, 25, 67, 68–69, 75–77, 81, 85–87, 90–91.

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1860–1877

Progress and Poverty

Source: Henry George, Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth. The Remedy (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1879),

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1877–1917

Introductory History

Source: The Farmers’ Alliance and Agricultural Digest, editor-in-chief Nelson A. Dunning (Washington, D.C.: Alliance Publishing Company, 1891), 1–9, available online at the Hathi Trust Digital Library: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t1wd3s276;view=1up;seq=5. . . .

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1877–1917

A Call to Action

Source: James B. Weaver, A Call to Action: An Interpretation of the Great Uprising, Its Source and Causes (Des Moines: Iowa Printing Company, 1892), 5–7, 441–45, available online at the

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1917–1929

Progressive Democracy

Source: Herbert Croly, Progressive Democracy (New York: Macmillan, 1914), 262–66, 268–83, available online at the Hathi Trust Digital Library: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005355550;view=1up;seq=9. If economic, social, political, and technical conditions had remained very

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