Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 (2010)

H.W. Brands.
American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900.
New York: Doubleday, 2010; New York: Anchor Books, 2011 (imprints of Penguin Random House).

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Author Information:

• Henry W. Brands, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.
• h. w. brands, his website.
• H. W. Brands, Wikipedia.

Video: H.W. Brands

• Book Discussion on American Colossus, Pritzker Military Museum & Library, Chicago, Illinois, Book TV, C-SPAN, 04 November 2010.
• HW Brands - American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900, Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 08 April 2011. (Hauenstein Center webpage for Brands's talk.)
• H. W. Brands, "How the Rich Got Rich: The Gilded Age in America," Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Texas, 05 June 2011.
• H. W. Brands, T.J. Stiles and James McGrath Morris, "Age of Titans Panel," Texas Book Festival, Book TV, C-SPAN, 16 October 2010.

Video: Miscellaneous

• Rocky Collins, director, "Insanity on Trial," American Experience, PBS, 1990.
  IMDb information.
  Posted on YouTube by David Hoffman with the title "Guiteau Killed President Garfield."
  This documentary provides a picture of U.S. politics and society in 1880-81.
• Candice Millard, "James A. Garfield," The Kansas City Public Library, 16 May 2012.
  
  • Candice Millard, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, New York: Doubleday (Random House) 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Murder of a President, American Experience, 2016.
  On James A. Garfield (1831–1881).
  Copy at YouTube.

Historical Surveys:

• Reconstruction Era (1865-1877).
• Gilded Age (1860s-1900s).
• Progressive Era (1880s-1910s).
• History of the United States (1865–1918).
• Second Industrial Revolution.
• Economic history of the United States : Late 19th century.
• American Indian Wars.
• Labor history of the United States : Organized labor to 1900.
• History of agriculture in the United States : Railroad Age: 1860–1910.

Major Events:

• First Transcontinental Railroad (completed 1869).
• Erie War (for control of the Erie Railroad, 1860s-1870s).
• Black Friday (1869) gold market and financial crashes.
• Crédit Mobilier of America scandal (1872).
• Panic of 1873.
• Long Depression of 1873-1879.
• The Great Deflation of the 1870s-1890s.
• Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia (1876).
• Compromise of 1877.
• Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
• Haymarket Riot/Massacre/Affair (1886).
• Homestead Strike (1892).
• Panic of 1893.
• Chicago World's Fair (1893; official title: World's Columbian Exposition).
• Pullman Strike (1894).
• Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (1901).

Businessmen active during the second half of the 19th Century:
Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877).
J. P. Morgan (1837-1913).
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937).
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919).
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Daniel Drew (1797-1879).
Ezra Cornell (1807-1874).
Thomas C. Durant (1820-1885).
Jay Cooke (1821-1905).
Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900).
Thomas A. Scott (1823-1881).
Leland Stanford (1824-1893).
Joseph Wharton (1826-1909).
Henry Flagler (1830-1913).
Henry Villard (1835-1900).
Jim Fisk, Jr. (1835-1872).
Jay Gould (1836-1892).
Theodore Vail (1845-1920).
E. H. Harriman (1848-1909).
Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919).
Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939).

Corporations established or active during the second half of the 19th Century:
Standard Oil Company.
Carnegie Steel Company.
Bethlehem Steel.
New York Central Railroad.
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Erie Railroad.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Union Pacific Railroad.
Central Pacific Railroad.
Western Union.
Bell Telephone Company.
Western Electric Company.
Sears, Roebuck & Company.
American Tobacco Company.
National Linseed Oil Trust.
Westinghouse Electric Company.
General Electric Company.
American Sugar Refining Company.
United States Rubber Company.
North American Company.
Wells Fargo & Company.
JP Morgan & Company.

U.S. Presidents: Andrew Johnson (1865-1869); Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877); Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881); James A. Garfield (1881); Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885); Grover Cleveland (1885-1889, 1893-1897); Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893); William McKinley (1897-1901).

Other Politicians:
Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873).
Samuel J. Tilden (1814-1886).
"Boss" Tweed (1823-1878).
Roscoe Conkling (1829-1888).
James G. Blaine (1830-1893).
Mark Hanna (1837-1904).
John Peter Altgeld (1847-1902).
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925).

Political Groups, Movements, Ideologies:
Third Party System (1854-1896).
Fourth Party System (1896-1932).
Democratic Party.
Republican Party.
Stalwarts (Republican Party faction).
Half-Breeds (Republican Party faction).
Mugwumps (Republican Party faction).
Bourbon Democrats (Democratic Party faction).
Redeemers (southern Democratic Party faction).
Tammany Hall (New York City Democratic Party faction).
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Progressivism in the United States.
The Grange.
Farmers' Alliance.
Populists.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
National American Woman Suffrage Association.
American Anti-Imperialist League (1898-1920).
Free silver.
Georgism.

Political Activists, Labor Leaders:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902).
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895).
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906).
Frances Willard (1839-1898).
Samuel Gompers (1850-1924).
Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926).
Jane Addams (1860-1935);
Bill Haywood (1869-1928).
Emma Goldman (1869-1940).

Engineers, Scientists, and Others:
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904).
John Wesley Powell (1834-1902).
George Westinghouse (1846-1914).
Thomas Edison (1847-1931).
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922).
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943).

Economics and Political Economy:

• Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1835-1915) author of Railroads, Their Origin and Problems (1878) (Google Books) and, with his brother Henry Adams, Chapters of Erie, and Other Essays (1871) (Google Books).
• John Hay (1838-1905) author of The Bread-Winners: A Social Study (1883) (Google Books).
• Henry George (1839-1897) author of Progress and Poverty (1879) (Google Books; Archive.org Audio).
• Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903) author of Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894) (Google Books; Archive.org).
• Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) author of Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888) (Google Books; Project Gutenberg; Archive.org).
• William Hope Harvey (1851-1936) author of Coin's Financial School (1894) (Google Books).
• Ida Tarbell (1857-1944) author of The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904) (Volume 1, Google Books; Volume 2, Google Books) and The Tariff in Our Times (1911) (Google Books).
• Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929).

Professors, Other Intellectuals:
Francis Parkman (1823-1893).
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899).
Henry Adams (1838-1918).
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910).
Louis Brandeis (1856-1941).
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915).
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963).

Journalists:
Horace Greeley (1811-1872).
Charles Anderson Dana (1819-1897).
Thomas Nast (1840-1902).
Ambrose Bierce (1842-c.1914).
Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911).
Jacob Riis (1849-1914).
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931).
William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951).
Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936).
William Allen White (1868-1944).
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List of 19th-century American journalists.

Literature, Art:
Herman Melville (1819-1891).
Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888).
Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899).
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903).
Mark Twain (1835-1910).
William Dean Howells (1837-1920).
Henry James (1843-1916).
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916).
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926).
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909).
Kate Chopin (1850-1904).
Edith Wharton (1862-1937).
Frank Norris (1870-1902).
Stephen Crane (1871-1900).
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945).
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List of 19th-century American novelists.
List of 19th-century American poets.

Legislation, Court Decisions, Constitutional Amendments:
Revenue Act of 1861.
Revenue Act of 1862.
Revenue Act of 1864.
Homestead Act of 1862.
Pacific Railroad Acts (1862-1866).
Morrill Land-Grant Acts (1862, 1890).
Comstock laws (1873).
Coinage Act of 1873.
Civil Rights Act of 1875.
Black Codes and Jim Crow laws (1865-1965).
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Dawes Act of 1887.
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
Tariff Act of 1890 (McKinley Tariff).
Gold Standard Act of 1900.
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Slaughter-House Cases, 1873.
Springer v. United States, 1881.
Civil Rights Cases, 1883.
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co., 1886.
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896.
Muller v. Oregon, 1908.
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, 1911.
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Reconstruction Amendments (XIII, XIV, XV).
Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865).
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1868).
Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1870).
Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1913).

Other books on U.S. History, late Nineteenth Century, noted in this blog:

• Brands, The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (1995; 2002).
• Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (1967).
• Beatty, Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 (2007).
• White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011).
• Fusfeld, The Rise & Repression of Radical Labor in the United States 1877-1918 (1980; 1992).
• Diner, A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (1998).
• Stampp, The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (1967).