Populist Party/Bibliography

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Surveys

• Clanton, Gene. Populism: The Humane Preference in America, 1890-1900 (1991).
• Durden, Robert. The Climax of Populism: The Election of 1896 (1966).
• Hicks, John D. The Populist Revolt: A History of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party (1931). Stresses geographical environment that turned harsh and radicalized wheat farmers
  • Martin Ridge, "Populism Revolt: John D. Hicks and The Populist Revolt," Reviews in American History 13 (March 1985): 142-54. in JSTOR
• Goodwyn, Lawrence. Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America (1976); The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America (1978) is an abridged version; online edition
• McMath, Robert C., Jr. American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898. (1993). 245 pp. short survey excerpt and text search
• Miller, Worth Robert. "Farmers and Third-Party Politics in Late Nineteenth Century America," in Charles W. Calhoun, ed. The Gilded Age: Essays on the Origins of Modern America (1995) online edition
• Postel, Charles. The Populist Vision (2007) excerpt and text search

Specialized studies

• Argersinger, Peter H. The Limits of Agrarian Radicalism: Western Populism and American Politics (1995) excerpt and text search
• Bicha, K. D. "Western Populists: Marginal Reformers of the 1890s," Agricultural History, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Oct., 1976), pp. 626-635 in JSTOR
• Clanton, Gene. Congressional Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s. (1999). 228 pp. online review
• Clanton, Gene. "Hayseed Socialism" on the Hill: Congressional Populism, 1891-1895," The Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Apr., 1984), pp. 139-162 in JSTOR
• Creech, Joe. Righteous Indignation: Religion and the Populist Revolution. (2006). 232 pp
• Destler, Chester McArthur. "Western Radicalism, 1865-1901: Concepts and Origins," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Dec., 1944), pp. 335-368 in JSTOR
• Durden, Robert. "The 'Cow-bird' Grounded: The Populist Nomination of Bryan and Tom Watson in 1896," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Dec., 1963), pp. 397-423 in JSTOR
• Ellis, Elmer. "The Silver Republicans in the Election of 1896," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Mar., 1932), pp. 519-534 in JSTOR
• Folkerts, Jean Lange. "William Allen White's Anti-Populist Rhetoric as an Agenda-Setting Technique." Journalism Quarterly (Spring 1983), Vol. 60 Issue 1, pp 28-34, in EBSCO
• Haynes, Frederick Emory. James Baird Weaver (1919), the 1892 candidate for president. full text online
• Hicks, John D. "The Third Party Tradition in American Politics," he Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jun., 1933), pp. 3-28 in JSTOR
• Holmes, William F. "Colored Farmers' Alliance" Handbook of Texas online edition
• Jeffrey, Julie Roy. "Women in the Southern Farmers' Alliance: A Reconsideration of the Role and Status of Women in the Late Nineteenth-Century South," Feminist Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1/2 (Autumn, 1975), pp. 72-91 in JSTOR
• Kazin, Michael. The Populist Persuasion: An American History (1995), very wide ranging across two centuries of politics excerpt and text search; also complete edition online
• Kleppner, Paul. The Third Electoral System 1853-1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures. (1979), detailed analysis of group voting behavior online edition
• Larson, Robert W. "Populism in the Mountain West: a Mainstream Movement." Western Historical Quarterly 1982 13(2): 143-164. Issn: 0043-3810 Fulltext: in Jstor
• McMath, Robert. Populist Vanguard: A History of the Southern Farmers' Alliance (1975)
• Palmer, Bruce. "Man Over Money": The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism (1980). online edition
• Parsons, Stanley B. The Populist Context: Rural Versus Urban Power on a Great Plains Frontier (1973) Farmers strongly opposed the businessmen who dominated towns and villages and voted Republican.
• Parsons, Stanley B. et. al. "The Role of Cooperatives in the Development of the Movement Culture of Populism," Journal of American History 69 (March 1983): 866-85. revisionsitic study that shows the promised cooperatives did not exist in JSTOR
• Peal, David. "The Politics of Populism: Germany and the American South in the 1890s," Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Apr., 1989), pp. 340-362 in JSTOR
• Ritter, Gretchen. Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America. (1997).
• Sanders, Elizabeth. Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State 1877-1917. (1999). 532 pp. excerpt and text search, political science perspective
• Taylor, Q.P. "Money and Politics in the Land of Oz," The Independent Review, (2005) online edition
• Voss-Hubbard, Mark. "The 'Third Party Tradition' Reconsidered: Third Parties and American Public Life, 1830-1900." Journal of American History 1999 86(1): 121-150. Issn: 0021-8723 Fulltext: online JSTOR
• Williams, Rhys H., and Susan M. Alexander. "Religious Rhetoric in American Populism: Civil Religion as Movement Ideology," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Mar., 1994), pp. 1-15 in JSTOR
• Winsboro, Irvin D. S., and Moses S. Musoke, "Lead Us Not into Temptation: Race, Rhetoric, and Reality in Southern Populism." Historian 2003 65(6): 1354-1374. Issn: 0018-2370 Fulltext: Ebsco
• Young, Bradley J. "Silver, Discontent, and Conspiracy: The Ideology of the Western Republican Revolt of 1890-1901," The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 64, No. 2 (May, 1995), pp. 243-265 in JSTOR

November 1894 Populist newspaper cartoon

State studies

• Abramowitz, Jack. "John B. Rayner--A Grass-Roots Leader," The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Apr., 1951), pp. 160-193, black Populists in Texas in JSTOR
• Argersinger, Peter H. Populism and Politics: William Alfred Peffer and the People's Party (1974), on Kansas
• Barnes, Donna A. "People's Party" Handbook of Texas online edition
• Barnes, Donna A. "Farmers' Alliance" Handbook of Texas online edition
• Barnes, Donna A. Farmers in Rebellion: The Rise and Fall of the Southern Farmers Alliance and People's Party in Texas (1984)
• Bicha, Karel Denis. "Jerry Simpson: Populist Without Principle," The Journal of American History, Vol. 54, No. 2 (Sep., 1967), pp. 291-306, Kansas leader in JSTOR
• Cantrell, Gregg, and D. Scott Barton. "Texas Populists and the Failure of Biracial Politics," The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Nov., 1989), pp. 659-692 in JSTOR
• Cherny, Robert W. Populism, Progressivism and the Transformation of Nebraska Politics, 1885-1912 (1981); argues fusion was possible because Populists wanted currency expansion and Democrats opposed prohibition.online edition
• Clanton, O. Gene. A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism and the Battle for Justice and Equality, 1854-1903. (2004), 328pp; expanded version of Kansas Populism: Ideas and Men, (1969).
• Crowe, Charles> "Tom Watson, Populists, and Blacks Reconsidered," The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Apr., 1970), pp. 99-116 in JSTOR
• Destler, Chester McA. "Consummation of a Labor-Populist Alliance in Illinois, 1894," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Mar., 1941), pp. 589-602 in JSTOR
• Goldberg, Michael L. "Non-Partisan and All-Partisan: Rethinking Woman Suffrage and Party Politics in Gilded Age Kansas," The Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring, 1994), pp. 21-44 in JSTOR
• Hackney, Sheldon. Populism to Progressivism in Alabama (1969)
• Hahn, Steven. The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890. (1983, 2006). 354 pp. online edition
• Hunt, James L. Marion Butler and American Populism. (2003). 337 pp. on a North Carolina leader online review
• Kantrowitz, Stephen. "Ben Tillman and Hendrix McLane, Agrarian Rebels: White Manhood, 'The Farmers,' and the Limits of Southern Populism," The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 66, No. 3. (Aug., 2000), pp. 497-524. in JSTOR
• Larson, Robert W. Populism in the Mountain West. (1986). 210 pp. state-by-state
• McCarthy, G. Michael. "The People's Party in Colorado: A Profile of Populist Leadership," Agricultural History, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Apr., 1973), pp. 146-155 in JSTOR
• Martin, Roscoe. The People's Party in Texas: a Study in Third Party Politics (1933)
• Miller, Raymond Curtis, "The Background of Populism in Kansas," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Mar., 1925), pp. 469-489 in JSTOR
• Miller, Worth Robert. Oklahoma Populism: A History of the People's Party in the Oklahoma Territory (1987)
• Ostler, Jeffrey. Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892 (1993) excerpt and text search
• Ostler, Jeffrey. "Why the Populist Party Was Strong in Kansas and Nebraska but Weak in Iowa," The Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Nov., 1992), pp. 451-474 in JSTOR
• Redding, Kent. "Failed Populism: Movement-party Disjuncture in North Carolina, 1890 to 1900." American Sociological Review 1992 57(3): 340-352. Issn: 0003-1224 Fulltext: Jstor
• Ridge, Martin. Ignatius Donnelly: Portrait of A. Politician (1962), Minnesota leader
• Shaw, Barton C. The Wool-Hat Boys: Georgia's Populist Party (1984).
• Woodward, C. Vann. Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel (1938) online edition
• Woodward, C. Vann. "Tom Watson and the Negro in Agrarian Politics," The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Feb., 1938), pp. 14-33 in JSTOR
• Wright, James Edward. The Politics of Populism: Dissent in Colorado (1974)

Historiography

• Hackney, Sheldon, ed. Populism: The Critical Issues (1971), excerpts from scholars
• Holmes, William F. "Populism: In Search of Context," Agricultural History, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 26-58 in JSTOR
• McMath Jr., Robert C. "C. Vann Woodward and the Burden of Southern Populism," The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 67, No. 4, C. Vann Woodward's "Origins of the New South, 1877-1913": A Fifty-Year Retrospective. (Nov., 2001), pp. 741-768. in JSTOR
• Miller, Worth Robert. "A Centennial Historiography of American Populism." Kansas History 1993 16(1): 54-69. Issn: 0149-9114 online edition
• Pollack, Norman, "Hofstadter on Populism: A Critique of The Age of Reform", The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Nov., 1960), pp. 478-500 in JSTOR
• Ridge, Martin. "Populism Revolt: John D. Hicks and The Populist Revolt," Reviews in American History 13 (March 1985): 142-54. in JSTOR
• Turner, James. "Understanding the Populists," Journal of American History 67 (September 1980): 354-73. Populists were marginal people, on the fringe of society, physically isolated and psychologically alienated in JSTOR
• Webb, Samuel L. "Southern Politics in the Age of Populism and Progressivism: A Historiographical Essay," in John B. Boles, ed. A Companion to the American South (2001) pp 321ff online excerpt

Primary sources

• Barthelme, Marion K., ed. Women in the Texas Populist Movement: Letters to the Southern Mercury. (1997). 248 pp.
• Kellie, Luna. A Prairie Populist: The Memoirs of Luna Kellie. ed. by Jane Taylor Nelsen, (1992). 188 pp.
• Morgan, W. Scott. History of the Wheel and Alliance and the Impending Revolution. 778 p., (1889, reprinted 1967). The official history of the Southern Farmers' Alliance. complete text online
• People's Party of North Carolina. People's Party Hand-Book of Facts. Campaign of 1898 (1898) online edition
• Peffer, William A. Populism: Its Rise and Fall. ed. by Peter H. Argersinger, (1899, 1992). 208 pp.
• Pollack, Norman, ed. The Populist Mind. (1967) 539 p.
• Tindall, George B., ed. A Populist Reader: Selections from the Works of American Populist Leaders (1966)