Date: Saturday, April 13, 2019
Location: Arcata High School Library
Agenda
“Corporate Personhood”
“Company Towns in Humboldt County: A Case Study of Falk,” Julie Clark, Guest Lecturer
“Railroads in Humboldt County,” TBA, Guest Lecturer
Required Reading, Viewing, and Listening
Julie Clark, Falk: Company Lumber Town of the American West
“Do American Corporations Have Civil Rights?” Fresh Air podcast, March 26, 2018 (31 minutes)
Gilder Lehrman Institute Resources
Lesson Plans
The Haymarket Square Riot (May 4, 1886)
“Gospel of Wealth” and Social Darwinism in the Gilded Age
Spotlights on Primary Sources
“Anti-corporate cartoons, ca. 1900”
“William T. Sherman on the western railroads, 1878”
Essays
T.J. Stiles, “Robber Barons or Captains of Inductry?,” History Now 24 (Summer 2010)
Amy G. Richter, “Home Adrift: Women and Domesticated Rail Travel,” History Now 38 (Winter 2014)
Glenn Willumson, “Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad,” History Now 38 (Winter 2014)
Videos
William G. Thomas, “The Emergence of the Frontier, the Expansion of Railroads, and Mining”