The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Books

Professor Bender's own book offers a good introduction to America's role in global history:

Bender, Thomas. A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006.


Tilchin, William N. Theodore Roosevelt and the British Empire: A Study in Presidential Statecraft. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Wimmel, Kenneth. Theodore Roosevelt and the Great White Fleet: American Seapower Comes of Age. Washington: Brassey's, 1998.

Marolda, Edward J., ed. Theodore Roosevelt, the US Navy, and the Spanish-American War. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Paterson, Thomas G., ed. American Imperialism & Anti-Imperialism. New York, Crowell, 1973.

Tompkins, E. Berkeley. Anti-Imperialism in the United States: The Great Debate, 1890- 1920. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970.

Beisner, Robert L. Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1968.

General studies of the international “liberal” movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries include:

Butler, Leslie. Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals And Transatlantic Liberal Reform. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

Cohen, Nancy. The Reconstruction Of American Liberalism, 1865-1914. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c2002.

Dawley, Alan. Struggles For Justice: Social Responsibility And The Liberal State. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991.

Freyer, Tony Allan. Regulating Big Business: Antitrust In Great Britain And America, 1880 To 1990. Cambridge [England]: New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Gerlach, Murney. British Liberalism And The United States: Political And Social Thought In The Late Victorian Age. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Sproat, John G. "The Best Men": Liberal Reformers In The Gilded Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1982.

For more background on Seki Hajime, use:

Hanes, Jeffrey E. The City As Subject: Seki Hajime And The Reinvention Of Modern Osaka. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002.

You’ll find a wealth of material on Jane Addams. These are only the most recent biographies:

Brown, Victoria. The Education Of Jane Addams. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004.

Davis, Allen Freeman. American Heroine: The Life And Legend Of Jane Addams. Reprint with a new introd. by the author. Chicago, IL: Ivan Dee, c2000.

Knight, Louise W. Citizen: Jane Addams And The Struggle For Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Jane Addams And The Dream Of American Democracy: A Life. New York: Basic Books, c2002.

Jane Addams spoke very well for herself. Look at these examples of her writings:

Jane Addams On Education. Ed., Ellen Condliffe Lagemann. New York: Teachers College Press, c1985.

_____. The Selected Papers Of Jane Addams. Ed., by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, et al. Vol. 1 (1860-1881) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c2003.

_____. Twenty Years At Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes. Ed. Victoria Bissel Brown. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, c1999.

If you and your students want to learn more about the Interstate Commerce Commission, look at these books:

Hoogenboom, Ari and Olive. A History Of The ICC: From Panacea To Palliative. New York: Norton, c1976.

Stone, Richard D. The Interstate Commerce Commission And The Railroad Industry: A History Of Regulatory Policy. New York: Praeger, 1991.

This book will be of great help in guiding a discussion of the concept of “workmen’s compensation”:

Bellamy, Paul B. A History Of Workmen's Compensation, 1898-1915: From Courtroom To Boardroom. New York: Garland Pub. , 1997.

The conservation movement of the early twentieth century and the leadership of Gifford Pinchot are discussed in these works:

Hays, Samuel P. Conservation And The Gospel Of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1959.

McGeary, M. Nelson . Gifford Pinchot, Forester-Politician. Princeton, N. J. , Princeton University Press, 1960.

Miller, Char. Gifford Pinchot And The Making Of Modern Environmentalism. Washington, D. C. : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2001.

Pinchot, Gifford. Breaking New Ground. Introductory essay by Char Miller and V. Alaric Sample. Washington, D. C. : Island Press, c1998.

_____. The Conservation Diaries Of Gifford Pinchot. Ed., Harold K. Steen. Durham, N. C. : The Forest History Society, c2001.

Richardson, Elmo. The Politics Of Conservation: Crusades And Controversies. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1962.

Internet:

For the full text of Roosevelt’s first Message to Congress, Decemb er 1901. go to:
http://www. theodore-roosevelt. com/sotu1.html

Our June issue includes a special segment on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. Don’t forget to look at my resources page for further exploration of this book’s impact:
http://www. historynow. org/06_2008/historian4.php

Our old friends at American Memory have provided a spectacularly useful web resource on one aspect of Rooseveltian liberal reform that Professor Bender discusses at length: The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920, provides an informational treasure of books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and motion picture footage drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress.
http://memory. loc. gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html

For classroom purposes, let me recommend especially their online exhibit – an illustrated timeline of the American conservation movement, with to portraits, photos, books, and documents that are part of the Conservation Movement website:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/cnchron1.html

And a very useful Learning Page full of suggestions as well:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/conserv/conintro.html