Friday, June 12, 2015

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:
Video: H.W. Brands
Video: Miscellaneous
Historical Surveys:
Major Events:
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:
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: