Books by Charles Postel
“In the late 19th century, Americans were joiners. They joined all kinds of organizations…Charles Postel’s book…looks at three organizations that were critical to the period, but which are largely forgotten today: the Grangers, the Knights of Labor, and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. All of these organizations were interest groups in ways that will become familiar in the 20th century.” Read more...
The best books on The Gilded Age
Richard White, Historian
Interviews where books by Charles Postel were recommended
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
by Richard White -
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Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896
by Charles Postel -
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A Hazard of New Fortunes
by William Dean Howells -
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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
by Martha Sandweiss -
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The Search for Order, 1877-1920
by Robert Wiebe
The best books on The Gilded Age, recommended by Richard White
The best books on The Gilded Age, recommended by Richard White
America’s Gilded Age, roughly from the end of the Civil War to the First World War, saw the United States go from being a rural, agricultural society to an urban and industrial one. National wealth soared and disparities between rich and poor exploded. Here, historian Richard White talks about how the Gilded Age transformed America and picks out some parallels with our own age that are not hard to see.
