University, a course called the american radical tradition, and we started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early feminism feminism. The civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement and now were sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, you know, a lot of labor unrest, the Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things, but today, our subject is the or the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. On our reading list, the chapter by michael kaizen gives a good quick summary on the various kinds of socialism at the time. From 1860 onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the United States but largely confined to immigrants from europe, particularly germans, english. The em
Here are more of the words from William Jennings bryan from his famous cross of gold speech. They tell us the great cities are in favor of the Gold Standard. We reply great cities rest on our broad and fertile prairies, burn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city of the country. They say environmentalism is good, but we cannot have it we have a Gold Standard because england has we will restore. And then new england has because the United States has. If they dare to come out in the open fields and attend the Gold Standard, the good thing, we will fight them to the utter most, standing behind us, producing masses of this nation and the world supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer the demand for Gold Standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the bow of labor this crown of thorns. You
This is a class at columbia university, a course called the american radical tradition, and we started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early femininism feminism. The civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement and now were sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, you know, a lot of labor unrest, the Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things, but today, our subject is the or the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. On our reading list, the chapter by michael kaizen gives a good quick summary on the various kinds of socialism at the time. From 1860 onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the United States but largely confined to immigrants from europe, particu
Professor eric foner examines the socialist party in new york city and milwaukee and the socialist party of America President ial campaigns of eugene debs. This class is an hour and ten minutes. This is a class at columbia university, a course called the american radical tradition, and we started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early femininism, the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement and now were sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, you know, a lot of labor unrest, the Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things, but today, our subject is the or the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. On our reading list, the chapter by michael kaizen gives a good quick summary on
And the socialist party of America President ial campaigns of eugene debs. This class is one hour and 10 minutes. Prof. Foner this is called the american radical tradition. We started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early feminism, the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement now we are entering into the 20th century. In the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of a lot of labor unrest, Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things. But today, our subject is the socialist party. The rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. On a reading list, the chapter by michael casing gives a good quick summary of this moment in the various kinds of socialism at that time. From 1860 at least onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the u. S. But l