The United States emerged in the last third of the nineteenth century as an industrial powerhouse, producing goods that then circulated around the world. People in distant countries used American-made clothes, shoes, textiles,...
When I was a college student in the late 1960s, the most popular US history courses were the ones that covered the Gilded Age. They promised to illuminate the origins of urgent contemporary problems. Their canvas was broad and filled with...
President William McKinley was shot twice by Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist son of Polish immigrants. McKinley died eight days later on September 14. He was succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
Anarchist Emma Goldman was arrested in Chicago on charges of conspiracy to assassinate President William McKinley but was released two weeks later.
Anarchists believe that government is unnecessary and harms and limits the rights of those it governs. Anarchist thought developed in Europe in the mid-1800s and became influential in America by the 1880s. The American anarchist movement was comprised largely of European immigrants, including Emma Goldman and Johann Most, and was especially influential in labor activism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. American anarchism came to be associated, however, with some of the most controversial events of the era. Anarchists...