Bill Gates
From the Edith Hamilton Library
Current Biography, 1991. Gates, William H. [Ref 920 C ]
Encyclopedia of World Biography [Ref 920 E]
Gates, Bill. The Road Ahead. [004.67 G]
Geisst, Charles R. Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates. [338.82 G]
Brands, H. W. Masters of Enterprise: Giants of American Business from John Jacob Astor and J. P. Morgan to Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey. [920.073 B]
Northrup, Mary. American Computer Pioneers. [004 N]
Crossen, Cynthia. The Rich and How They Got That Way. [332 C]
Northrup, Mary. American Computer Pioneers. [004 N]
Web Sites:
Bill Gates' Web Site - the official site
U.S. vs Microsoft - a Washington Post series of special reports.
Getting Away with It - Salon.com technical report by Scott Rosenberg (bringing litigation up-to-date, with comments)
Periodicals:
Rockefeller and Gates: Playing Monopoly
Linda Grant. Fortune. New York: Jun 22, 1998. Vol. 137
Echoes of history in Microsoft case
Patrick Thibodeau. Computerworld. Framingham: May 18, 1998. Vol. 32
Andrew Carnegie
American Experience - The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
Bridging the Urban Landscape: Andrew Carnegie: A Tribute
Books
Morris, Charles R. The tycoons: how Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockerfeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan invented the American supereconomy (920 M)
Harlow, Alvin E. Andrew Carnegie. (921 Carnegie)
Shippen, Katherine Binney. Andrew Carnegie and the age of
steel. (921 Carnegie)
Journal Articles:
Note: To locate more articles search the Proquest and JStor periodical databases. They are available at school and at home. For a list of user names and passwords to the library databases ask at the library desk for a hard copy, or go to the BMS Community Website.
Andrew Carnegie's Quest for World Peace David S. Patterson Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 114, No. 5. (Oct. 20, 1970), pp. 371-383.
Andrew Carnegie T E Sullivan. Choice. Middletown: May 2007. Vol. 44, Iss. 9; p. 1575
Andrew Carnegie Richard S Tedlow. The Journal of American History. Bloomington: Sep 2007. Vol. 94, Iss. 2; p. 595
The Gilded Age
Books
Kobre, Sidney. The yellow press, and gilded age journalism. (071.3 K)
Cable, Mary. Top drawer: American high society from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties.(305.5 C)
Who built America? working people and the nation's economy, politics, culture, and society. (305.5 W)
Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Gilded Age: treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. (709.73 S)
Greenwood, Janette Thomas. The Gilded Age: a history in documents. (973.8 G)
Websites
Gilded Age (1878-1889)
The American Experience | Gilded Age
The Gilded Age
Websites for the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
The Museum of the Gilded Age at Ventfort Hall
Journal Articles
The Gilded Age Reconsidered Once Again (in The Quest for Unity: Papers from a Symposium) Neil Harris Archives of American Art Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4. (1983), pp. 8-18.
Gifts From the Gilded Age Lisa W. Foderaro. New York Times (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Sep 28, 2007.
Symbols of the Gilded Age, With a 21st-Century Luster Tracie Rozhon. New York Times (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Nov 24, 2006.
Radicalism in America
Emma Goldman
If you have time, see the video Reds (VC 791.43 R), which has an excellent portrayal of Emma Goldman in Russia. She is played by Maureen Stapleton. It is not on reserve.
From the Edith Hamilton Library
Goldman, Emma. Anarchism, and Other Essays [335.83 B]
Goldman, Emma. Living My Life [921 Goldman] 2 vols.
Wexler, Alice. Emma Goldman in Exile, from the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War. [921 Goldman]
Falk, Candace. Love, Anarchy,& Emma Goldman. [921 Goldman]
Goldman, Emma, in American National Biography, v.9, p.191-194. The ANB is an authoritative source for biographical information on deceased Americans. It largely supplants, certainly supplements the Dictionary of American Biography (DAB). Both resources are available in most libraries and all college libraries.
Journal Articles:
Note: To locate more articles search the Proquest and JStor periodical databases. They are available at school and at home. For a list of user names and passwords to the library databases ask at the library desk for a hard copy, or go to the BMS Community Website.
"The Quagmires of Necessity": American Anarchists and Dilemmas of Vocation Blaine McKinley American Quarterly, Vol. 3
Anarchism and the Assassination of McKinley Sidney Fine The American Historical Review, Vol. 60
Websites
The Emma Goldman Papers (Berkeley)
Emma Goldman Archive - Anarchy Archives, an online research center on the history and theory of anarchism.
Emma Goldman Reference Archive, 1869-1940
IWW
Industrial Workers of the World | One Big Union!
Historic I. W. W. Literature On Line Pamphlets and other Publications of the I. W. W.
Walter P. Reuther Library/Industrial Workers of the World
Industrial Workers of the World While the Industrial Workers of the World still is a going enterprise, the Marxists Internet Archive wanted to celebrate this organizations coming 100th anniversary.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn - Rebel Girl a Geocities site, but with a lot of good stuff.
From the Edith Hamilton Library
Preston, William. Aliens and dissenters: Federal suppression of radicals, 1903-1933. (323.67 P)
Renshaw, Patrick. The Wobblies: the story of syndicalism in the United States. (331.88 R)
Renshaw, Patrick. The Wobblies: the story of the IWW and syndicalism in the United States (331.88)
United States history origins to 2000: progressive movement. (DVD 973 U v.14)
Journal Articles
The IWW and the Red Scare 1917-24 Patrick Renshaw Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1918-19: From War to Peace. (Oct., 1968)
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- The I. W. W. and the Brainworkers Robert L. Tyler American Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 1. (Spring, 1963)
- The IWW Free Speech Fights and Popular Conceptions of Free Expression before World War IDavid M. Rabban Virginia Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 5. (Aug., 1994), pp. 1055-1158
Socialist Party
Websites
Socialist Party USA
socialist.org: socialists on the internet
Socialist National Committee
Socialist Party of Oregon
Freedom Socialist Party-Revolutionary Feminist Internationalists
Socialist Party
From the Edith Hamilton Library
Engels, Friedrich. Socialism, Utopian and scientific. (335 E)
Lipset, Seymour Martin. It didn't happen here: why socialism failed in the United States. (335.009 L)
Salvadori, Massimo, ed. Modern socialism. (335.009 S)
Djilas, Milovan. The unperfect society: beyond the new class. (335.43 D)
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich. Two tactics of social-democracy in the democratic revolution (335.43 L)
Terts, Abram. The trial begins, & On socialist realism. (891.7 S)
Journal Articles
Christianity and Socialism in America, 1900-1920 Robert T. Handy Church History, Vol. 21, No. 1. (Mar., 1952)
Farewell to Socialism? A Comment on Recent Debates (in Commentary) Ronaldo Munck Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 17, No. 2, Post-Marxism, the Left, and Democracy. (Spring, 1990)
- Economic Democracy: America's Answer to Socialism and Communism. Robert S. Brookings The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 36, No. 3. (Nov., 1930),
Communist Party
Websites
Communist Party USA
Manifesto of the Communist Party
About the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
From the Edith Hamilton Library
Hoffer, Eric. The ordeal of change. (301.24 H)
Pipes, Richard. Communism: a history. (320.532 P)
Hoover, J. Edgar. A study of communism. (335 H)
Childs, David. Marx and the Marxists: an outline of practice and theory. (335.4 C)
Chambers, Whittaker. Witness. (921 Chambers)
Journal Articles
Race, Deprivation and Attitude toward Communism John Kosa; Clyde Z. Nunn Phylon (1960-), Vol. 25, No. 4. (4th Qtr., 1964)
Study Attitudes toward Communism and Fascism The Science News-Letter, Vol. 31, No. 822. (Jan. 9, 1937)
Charles Coughlin
Websites
Father Charles E. Coughlin, The Radio Priest
Charles E. Coughlin
Social Security Online History Pages
Father Coughlin & The Search For "Social Justice"
From the Edith Hamilton Library
Brinkley, Alan. Voices of protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression. (973.91 B)
Great American speeches: 80 years of political oratory. (VC 973.9 G)
Journal Articles
A New Perspective on Father Charles E. Coughlin Mary Christine Athans Church History, Vol. 56, No. 2. (Jun., 1987)
- Father Coughlin and the New Deal Charles J. Tull Review author[s]: Ralph E. Ellsworth Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 360, Latin America Tomorrow. (Jul., 1965),
Comparative Biography as Political History: Huey Long and Father Coughlin (in The Craft of Teaching) Alan Brinkley The History Teacher, Vol. 18, No. 1. (Nov., 1984)
Betty Friedan
Websites
Betty Friedan, Who Ignited Cause in 'Feminine Mystique,' Dies at ...
National Women's Hall of Fame: Betty Friedan
American Writers: Betty Friedan
Voice of Feminism's 'Second Wave'
Betty Friedan and the Radical Past of Liberal Feminism
From the Edith Hamilton Library
Friedan, Betty. The feminine mystique. (301.412 F)
Friedan, Betty. The fountain of age. (305.26 F)
Felder, Deborah G. The 100 most influential women of all time: a ranking past and present. (920.72 F)
Journal Articles
'The Problem with No Name': Rereading Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" Rachel Bowlby Feminist Review, No. 27. (Autumn, 1987)
Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan: The Politics of Omission (in A Symposium: In Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the Publication of Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex") Sandra Dijkstra Feminist Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2. (Summer, 1980)
Beyond the Feminine Mystique: A Reassessment of Postwar Mass Culture, 1946- 1958 Joanne Meyerowitz The Journal of American History, Vol. 79, No. 4. (Mar., 1993)
