Additional Reading:

David Roediger, Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs (2018).

Michael Gomez, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora (2005)

Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness (1993).

David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race (1994).

Benjamin Quarles, Allies for Freedom and Blacks on John Brown (1974).

Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism (1983).

Lewis Gordon, Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (2020).

Manning Marable, W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat (2004).

Host Suggestion:

Randall Westbrook, Education and Empowerment: The Essential Writings of W.E.B. DuBois (2013).

Almost all of W.E.B. Du Bois's writings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century are in the public domain. Internet Archive offers access to these texts for free.

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W. E. B. Du Bois made an indelible contribution to American thought and culture, an is an essential figure to those that study the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. With Professor Reiland Rabaka, this show explores the writings, influence, and internationalism of Du Bois.

Essential Reading:

Reiland Rabaka, Du Bois: A Critical Introduction (2021).

Additional Reading:

Reiland Rabaka, W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century: An Essay on Africana Critical Theory (2008).

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Additional Reading:

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, The Roots of Power: Animate Form and Gendered Bodies (1999).

Jennifer Karnes Alexander, The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control (2008).

Daniel Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (1985).

Host Suggestion:

JoAnn Yates and Craig Murphy, Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880 (2019).

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Additional Reading (cocktails):

• David Wondrich, Imbibe: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar (2015).
• Wayne Curtis, And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails (2007).
• Daniel Okrent, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (2011).
• Adam Elmegirab, Book of Bitters (2017).
• Iain Gately, Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol (2009).
• William Grimes, Straight Up or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail (2002).
• Brad Thomas Parsons, Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All (2011).
• Charles Schumann, The American Bar: The Artistry of Mixing Drinks (2018).

Additional Reading (Gilded Age & Progressive Era history):

• Cecelia Tichi, Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America (2011).
• Sean Cashman, America in the Gilded Age (1993).
• Lila and Arthur Weinberg, The Muckrakers (2002).

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Additional Reading:

• The 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic in the Age of COVID-19: Supporting Materials for Teachers (Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era).
• Alfred Crosby, America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (2nd ed., 2003).
• Christopher Capozzola, Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (2010).
• Roundtable with Christopher McKnight Nichols, Nancy Bristow, E. Thomas Ewing, Joseph M. Gabriel, Benjamin C. Montoya and Elizabeth Outka “Reconsidering the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in the Age of COVID-19” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 19, no. 4: 642-672.
• Elizabeth Outka, Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature (2019).
• Kenneth Davis, More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War (2018).

Host Suggestion:

• Sarah Churchwell, Behold America: The Entangled History of America First and the American Dream (2019).

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The Progressive Era shaped the way we think about women's reproductive rights, and Prof. Barbara Schneider's book Corporal Rhetoric investigates all the ways. It tells how motherhood went from a natural experience to a pathogenic one, how the eugenics movement gathered steam, and how the medical profession changed.

Essential Reading:

Barbara Schneider, Corporal Rhetoric: Regulating Reproduction in the Progressive Era (2021).

Additional Reading:

Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty (1998).

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In this episode I talk cocktails with Cecelia Tichi the author of so many wonderful books, but most recently Gilded Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Golden Age (Washington Mews Books)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gilded Age Cocktails. Tichi shares stories of the bars, mixologists, and imbibers that gloried in the Golden Age of drinking, not long before Prohibition.

Essential Reading:

Cecelia Tichi, Golden Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Golden Age (2021).

Recommended Reading:

• David Wondrich, Imbibe: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar (2015).
• Philip Greene, To Have and Have Another Revised Edition: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion (2015).
• Wayne Curtis, And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails (2007).

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Just over 100 years ago, the world faced a deadly pandemic not dissimilar to COVID-19. The "great flu" of 1918-1919 was largely forgotten until we needed to historic lessons on how to combat the waves of infection. With Christopher McKnight Nichols, this week's show investigates the pathogenic parallels.

Essential Reading:

• Christopher McKnight Nichols and Brandon Jett, “Americans used to sacrifice for the public good. What happened?” Washington Post, December 7, 2020 
• Nancy Bristow, American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic (2017).

Recommended Reading:

• John Barry, The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (2005).
• Laura Spinney, Pale Riders: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World (2018).

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Welcome to The Gilded Age and Progressive Era! In the pilot episode, I introduce myself, describe the show, and outline the first three episodes. The Gilded Age and Progressive Era is a podcast for those of us interested in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Each episode features research from leading scholars.

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