Books by Richard White
Richard White is Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Emeritus at Stanford University.
“As the victorious Republicans saw it, once we freed the slaves, once Reconstruction took place, once American farmers settled on the land Native Americans previously occupied, everybody in the United States would be roughly equal and the federal government would ensure that all black and white men had the same political rights. That’s basically the vision they had for Reconstruction. And it failed.” Read more...
The best books on The Gilded Age
Richard White, Historian
The Middle Ground
by Richard White
The middle ground was an area where Indian power was real, where Europeans had to compromise, not command. It was an area of cautious coexistence
Interviews with Richard White
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
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Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896
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A Hazard of New Fortunes
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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.
Interviews where books by Richard White were recommended
The best books on Native Americans and Colonisers, recommended by Colin Calloway
There’s a lot more to the story of colonists and Native Americans than the tale of the first Thanksgiving taught in school, says history professor Colin Calloway.
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1
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
by Richard White -
2
Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896
by Charles Postel -
3
A Hazard of New Fortunes
by William Dean Howells -
4
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
by Martha Sandweiss -
5
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.
