Rerum
Novarum, the 1891 encyclical by Pope Leo XIII that helped to
legitimize the labor union movement and legislation promoting workers
rights.
Plessy
v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court decision that upheld
segregation, with Justice John Harlan's ringing, if solitary,
dissent.
The War Prayer, by Mark Twain,
written in response to the Spanish-American War of 1899-1902, which
he opposed.
Populist
Studies Page by by Gene Clanton, author of POPULISM: THE HUMANE
PREFERENCE IN AMERICA, 1890-1900 (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991)
and CONGRESSIONAL POPULISM AND THE CRISIS OF THE 1890S (Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 1998).
Populism
Texts by Worth Robert
Miller, professor of history at Southwest Missouri State
University, including:
Farmers
and Third Party Politics in Late 19th-Century America.
Building
a Progressive Coalition in Texas: The Populist-Reform Democrat
Rapprochement, 1900-1907
Harrison
County Methods: Electoral Fraud in Late 19th-Century Texas
A
discussion of the 1886 Supreme Court decision in Santa Clara v.
Southern Pacific Railroad case that granted corporations civil rights
under the 14th Amendment.
Resources
for a course at the University of Colorado on the Populist Movement
and Political Reform.
History
of Populism in Nebraska, including The Grange, the Farmers
Alliance, the Populists, William Jennings Bryan and the Progressive
Movement, at NebraskaStudies.org
History
of the Colored Farmers Alliance. Preliminary research for writing
a history of the Colored Farmers Alliance in the Populist movement:
1886-1896, by Omar Ali, Columbia University
Williams
Jenning Bryan, a web site memorializing "The Great Commoner," a
populist lawyer, newspaper editor and three-time Democratic nominee
for President (1896, 1900, 1908) who championed family farms,
antitrust legislation, campaign finance reform, food safety and
international peacekeeping.
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