I. Federal Native American Policy
Websites
USDOJ: OTJ: Native American Policies
Dawes Act
PBS - THE WEST - The Dawes Act (1887)
Our Documents - Dawes Act (1887)
usnews.com: The People's Vote: Dawes Act (1887)
Wheeler-Howard Act (Indian Reorganization Act) 1934
June 18, 1934 Indian Reorganization Act
ASU Libraries: Bibliography of Indian Boarding Schools
Indian Country Diaries . History . Indian Boarding Schools | PBS
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection
It Had a Lot of Advantages"Alfred DuBray Praises the Indian ...
"It Didn't Pan Out as We Thought It Was Going To" Amos Owen on the ...
From the Edith Hamilton Library
Cooper, Michael L. Indian school: teaching the white man's way. (305.897 C)
Washburn, Wilcomb E. The assault on Indian tribalism: the General allotment law (Dawes act) of 1887. (343.73 W)
Native American testimony: a chronicle of Indian-white relations from prophecy to the present, 1492-1992. (970 N)
Foreman, Grant. Indian removal: the emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. (973.0497 F)
A race at bay: New York times editorials on "the Indian problem," 1860-1900. (973.0497 R)
Waldman, Carl. Encyclopedia of Native American tribes. (Ref 970.004 W)
Journal Articles
Tribal Courts' Failure to Protect Native American Women: A Reevaluation of the Indian Civil Rights Act (in Notes) Carla Christofferson The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 101, No. 1. (Oct., 1991)
The Dawes Act and the Decline of Indian Farming (in Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations)Leonard A. Carlson The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 38, No. 1, The Tasks of Economic History. (Mar., 1978)
Problematic Panacea: Presbyterian Missionaries and the Allotment of Indian Lands in the Late Nineteenth Century Michael C. Coleman The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 54, No. 2. (May, 1985)
The Federal Government and the Education of Indians and Eskimos (in Past Relations of the Federal Government to Education) Willard W. Beatty The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 7, No. 3, The Purpose and Scope of the Seventh Yearbook. (Jul., 1938)
Domesticity in the Federal Indian Schools: The Power of Authority over Mind and Body K. Tsianina Lomawaima American Ethnologist, Vol. 20, No. 2. (May, 1993)
The Indian Reorganization Act: The Dream and the Reality Lawrence C. Kelly The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 44, No. 3. (Aug., 1975)
An Appraisal of the Indian Reorganization Act Scudder Mekeel American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 46, No. 2, Part 1. (Apr. - Jun., 1944)
The New Deal and American Indian Tribalism: The Administration of the Indian Reorganization Act, 1934-45 Graham D. Taylor Review author[s]: Paul Stuart The American Historical Review, Vol. 86, No. 1. (Feb., 1981)
The Indian Child Welfare Act: A Review (in Political Science) Suzanne Garner Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 9, No. 1. (Spring, 1993)
II immgration: A family perspective
From the Edith Hamilton Library
Andryszewski, Tricia. Immigration: newcomers and their impact on the United States. P (304.873 A)
Coan, Peter M. Ellis Island interviews: the final chapter. (304.873 C)
Kraut, Alan M. The huddled masses: the immigrant in American society, 1880-1921. (304.873 K)
Becoming American: personal essays by first generation immigrant women. (305.48 B)
Fisher, Leonard Everett. Ellis Island: gateway to the New World. (325.1 B)
Ellis Island: an illustrated history of the immigrant experience. (325.1 E)
Ellis Island: echoes from a nation's past. (325.1 E)
Lee, Erika. At America's gates: Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943. (325.23 L)
American mosaic: the immigrant experience in the words of those who lived it. (325.73) A
Daniels, Roger. Guarding the golden door: American immigration policy and immigrants since 1882. (325.73 D)
Day, Carol Olsen. The new immigrants. (325.73)
Gyory, Andrew. Closing (325.73 G)
III. 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),
The Weathermen (The Weather Underground)

FBI files: Weather Underground Organization (Weathermen).
PBS Independent Lens site
The Weather Underground: A Look Back at the Antiwar Activists Who Met Violence with Violence.
Full text of book The Way The Wind Blew, by Ron Jacobs (1997) about the Weather Underground Organization.
Full text of book Weatherman, ed. by Harold Jacobs, a collection of documents by and about SDS/Weatherman. This book was published in 1970 and deals only with WUO's early period. Out of print.
Journal Articles
"When Did the Sixties Happen?" Searching for New Directions (in Review Essays) Andrew Hunt Journal of Social History, Vol. 33, No. 1. (Autumn, 1999), pp. 147-161.
The New History of the Weather Underground Ron Jacobs. Monthly Review. New York: Jun 2006. Vol. 58, Iss. 2; p. 59 (6 pages)
Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies Jeremi Suri. The Journal of American History. Bloomington: Jun 2005. Vol. 92, Iss. 1; p. 304 (1 page)
Friday review: ALL THE RAGE: They emerged from 1960s radical chic to become America's most wanted fugitives. John Patterson on the Weather Underground, urban terrorists who never killed anyone - except themselves John Patterson. The Guardian. London (UK): Jul 4, 2003. p. 12
Left-Wing Violence and the Delusions That Fueled It RICHARD BYRNE. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Washington: Jun 11, 2004. Vol. 50, Iss. 40; p. A.11
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)
Black Panthers
Black Panther Party
Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation
It's About Time: Black Panther Party Legacy & Alumni
UC Berkeley Social Activism Online Sound Recordings: The Black Panther Party
The Bobby Seale Homepage
From the Edith Hamilton Library
Forbes, Flores A. Will you die with me? my life and the Black Panther Party. (322.4 F)
Arlen, Michael J. An American verdict. (345.73 A)
Kempton, Murray. The briar patch: the people of the state of New York v. Lumumba Shakur et al
(345.73 K
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Journal Articles
Jean Genet and the Black Panther Party Robert Sandarg Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 16, No. 3. (Mar. , 1986), pp. 269-282.
Black Panthers, New Journalism, and the Rewriting of the Sixties Michael E. Staub Representations, No. 57. (Winter, 1997), pp. 52-72.
HUEY NEWTON DIED VIOLENTLY -- AS DID THE BLACK PANTHERS; [THIRD Edition] Jonathan Kaufman, Globe Staff. Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext). Boston, Mass.: Aug 27, 1989. p. A.25
The Black Panthers (in From the Hebrew Press) Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 1, No. 4. (Summer, 1972), pp. 146-147.
Up against the wall: violence in the making and unmaking of the Black Panther Party P Harvey. Choice. Middletown: Nov 2007. Vol. 45, Iss. 3; p. 528 (1 page)
Poetry of the Black Panther Party: Metaphors of militancy Regina Jennings. Journal of Black Studies. Thousand Oaks: Sep 1998. Vol. 29, Iss. 1; p. 106 (24 pages)
The Politics of the Black Panthers The Chronicle of Higher Education. Washington: Apr 6, 2007. Vol. 53, Iss. 31; p. A.47
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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)
Malcom X
From the Edith Hamilton Library
Myers, Walter Dean. Malcolm X: by any means necessary: a biography. (921 X)
Perry, Bruce. Malcolm: the life of a man who changed Black America. (921 X)
Journal Articles
Malcolm X papers find a home at NYPL Pamela A Goodes. American Libraries. Chicago: Feb 2003. Vol. 34, Iss. 2; p. 18
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Whom would you choose to meet? Malcom X; [Home Edition] FAITH EVANS. The Atlanta Journal - Constitution. Atlanta, Ga.: Feb 20, 2002. p. F.2
MALCOM X: IS HIS LIFE THE STUFF OF OPERA?; [THIRD Edition] Richard Herzfelder, Associated Press. Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext). Boston, Mass.: Oct 1, 1986. p. 69
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)
Francis Townsend
Social Security Online
Journal Articles
Organizational Transformation: A Case Study of a Declining Social Movement Sheldon L. Messinger American Sociological Review, Vol. 20, No. 1. (Feb., 1955), pp. 3-10.
A Hero for the Aged? The Townsend Movement, the Political Mediation Model, and U.S. Old-Age Policy, 1934-1950 Edwin Amenta; Bruce G. Carruthers; Yvonne Zylan The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 98, No. 2. (Sep., 1992), pp. 308-339.
Age for Leisure? Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on U.S. Old-Age Policy Edwin Amenta; Neal Caren; Sheera Joy Olasky American Sociological Review, Vol. 70, No. 3. (Jun., 2005), pp. 516-538.
It Happened Here: Political Opportunity, the New Institutionalism, and the Townsend Movement Edwin Amenta; Yvonne Zylan American Sociological Review, Vol. 56, No. 2. (Apr., 1991), pp. 250-265.
Carrie (Carry) Nation
CarryNation.org
Carry Nation's hammer, Kansas Museum of History
Carry Nation's purse, Kansas Museum of History
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation downloadable text
"Mrs. Nation Barred from Kansas City," The New York Times, April 16, 1901
Journal Articles
With Bible in One Hand and Battle-Axe in the Other: Carry A. Nation as Religious Performer and Self-Promoter Frances Grace Carver Religion and American Culture, Vol. 9, No. 1. (Winter, 1999), pp. 31-65.
Women's Impact on Public Opinion (in Adaptation to Changing Social and Political Patterns) Kathleen McLaughlin Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 251, Women's Opportunities and Responsibilities. (May, 1947), pp. 104-112.
IV. Industrial Unrest
General
From the Edith Hamilton Library
Laughlin, Rosemary. The Pullman strike of 1894: American labor comes of age.(331.892 L)
Lindsey, Almont. The Pullman strike: the story of a unique experiment and of a great labor upheaval. (331.892 L)
Papke, David Ray. The Pullman case: the clash of labor and capital in industrial America. (344.7301 P)
A nation in turmoil. (DVD 973 U v.13)
Scharf, John Thomas. History of Maryland. (Res AmHis)
Journal Articles
Strikes in Nineteenth-Century America David Montgomery Social Science History, Vol. 4, No. 1, The Skilled Worker and Working-Class Protest. (Winter, 1980)
The United States Army as a National Police Force: The Federal Policing of Labor Disputes, 1877-1898 Barton C. Hacker Military Affairs, Vol. 33, No. 1. (Apr., 1969)
Websites
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 From a Socialist organization
UE News Feature: The Great Strike of 1877-- Remembering a Worker Rebellion from the UE—United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, The USA’s Rank-and-File Union.
Digital History The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The American Experience | Andrew Carnegie | Carnivals of Revenge--Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
Journal Articles
"Not Only the Ruling Classes to Overcome, but Also the So-Called Mob": Class, Skill and Community in the St. Louis General Strike of 1877 David Roediger Journal of Social History, Vol. 19, No. 2. (Winter, 1985)
A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America Shelton Stromquist Review author[s]: Steven J. Ross The Journal of American History, Vol. 75, No. 2. (Sep., 1988)
The Homestead Strike of 1892
Websites
The Homestead Strike of 1892 by Cheri Goldner, Bowling Green State University
American Experience: The Homestead Strike
The American Experience | Andrew Carnegie | Strike at Homestead Mill
eHistory at OSU | Multimedia Histories | The Strike at Homestead good pictures
Journal Articles
The Homestead Strike (in Notes and Memoranda) F. W. Taussig The Economic Journal, Vol. 3, No. 10. (Jun., 1893)
The Homestead Strike Edward W. Bemis The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 2, No. 3. (Jun., 1894)
The Pullman Strike of 1894
Websites
Pullman Strike of 1894
CPL Chicago: 1894: Pullman Strike
Pullman Strike
The Stan Iverson Memorial Library & Anarchist Archives
Journal Articles
The Legal Ancestry of the Pullman Strike Injunctions Donald L. McMurry Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 14, No. 2. (Jan., 1961)
Pullman and Its Public: Image and Aim in Making and Interpreting History (in Images of Labor) Janice L. Reiff; Susan E. Hirsch The Public Historian, Vol. 11, No. 4, Labor History and Public History. (Autumn, 1989).
Paternalism and the Pullman Strike Almont Lindsey The American Historical Review, Vol. 44, No. 2. (Jan., 1939).
Report of the Chicago Strike Commission (in Notes and Memoranda) David F. Schloss
The Economic Journal, Vol. 5, No. 17. (Mar., 1895).
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