Guide to Literature of Current History

The best general bibliography for handy use is Channing, Hart, and Turner, Guide to the Study and Reading of American History (new ed. 1912).

G. E. Howard, Present Political Questions (1913)—a valuable syllabus of current questions with discriminating and full bibliographies (published by the University of Nebraska).

The Library of Congress publishes useful bibliographies on special topics of current political and historical interest. A list may be obtained by addressing the Librarian, Washington, D.C.

An important annual review of the current literature of American history is to be found in Writings on American History; published by Macmillan, 1906-1908; by the American Historical Association, 1909-1911; and now by the Yale University Press.

Excellent topical bibliographies are to be found in each of the volumes in Hart, American Nation Series. The four volumes by Dunning, Sparks, Dewey, and LatanÉ should be consulted for the period here covered.

General Works

The best general treatment of the period from 1877 to 1907 is to be found in the four volumes of the American Nation Series edited by A. B. Hart: W. A. Dunning, Reconstruction: Political and Economic; E. E. Sparks, National Development, 1877-1885; D. R. Dewey, National Problems; 1885-1897; J. H. LatanÉ, America as a World Power, 1897-1907. Each of these volumes contains an excellent bibliography of political and economic materials.H. T. Peck, Twenty Years of the Republic (1906)—readable work covering the period from Cleveland's first administration to 1905.

Edward Stanwood, History of the Presidency (1896 ed.). A second volume (1912) brings the work down to 1909 and contains the platforms of 1912—useful for political sketches and the platforms and election statistics.

The American Year Book, published since 1910, contains an annual survey of American political history and constitutional and social development.

For political and economic matters see the current publications and proceedings of the American Political Science Association, the American Economic Association, and the American Sociological Society.

Personal and Biographical Works

J. P. Altgeld, Live Questions (1890)—valuable for the radical movement within the Democratic party.

F. Bancroft, Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz (1913), 6 vols.

John Bigelow, Life of Samuel J. Tilden (1896).

G. S. Boutwell, Reminiscences of Sixty Years (1902).

Grover Cleveland, The Independence of the Executive (1900); Presidential Problems (1904)—particularly valuable for the Chicago strike and the bond issues; G. F. Parker, Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland (1892); A. E. Bergh, Addresses, State Papers, and Letters of Grover Cleveland (1909).

J. A. Garfield, Currency Speeches in the House, 1868-1870; B. A. Hinsdale, Works of J. A. Garfield (1882-1883) 2 vols.; Great Speeches of J. A. Garfield (1881).

Benjamin Harrison, Public Papers and Addresses (Govt. Printing Office, 1893); This Country of Ours (1897)—a popular view of the national government; J. S. Shriver, Speeches of Benjamin Harrison (1891); M. L. Harrison, Views of an Ex-President [Harrison] (1901).G. F. Hoar, Autobiography of Seventy Years (1903).

R. M. La Follette, Autobiography (1913)—particularly valuable for the history of the radical movement within the Republican party and the origin of the Progressive party.

Wm. McKinley, Speeches and Addresses from Election to Congress to the Present Time (1893); Speeches and Addresses, 1897-1900 (1900); The Tariff—a Review of Its Legislation from 1812 to 1896 (1904); J. S. Ogilvie, Life and Speeches of McKinley (1896).

L. A. Coolidge, An Old-Fashioned Senator [O. H. Platt] (1910).

Thomas C. Platt, Autobiography (1910).

Theodore Roosevelt, The New Nationalism (1910) contains the famous speech on that subject and other essays; An Autobiography (1913)—an intimate view of his political career.

John Sherman, Recollections of Forty Years (1897).

Edward Stanwood, James G. Blaine (1905).

W. H. Taft, Political Issues and Outlooks (1909); Presidential Addresses and State Papers (1910).

Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (1913). An edited collection of President Wilson's campaign speeches arranged to exhibit in systematic form his political and economic doctrines.

Topical Bibliography

The Economic Revolution: Coman, Economic History of the United States (1911 ed.)—several useful chapters on the period since the Civil War; R. T. Ely, Evolution of Industrial Society (1906).

Tariff: Edward Stanwood, American Tariff Controversies in the Nineteenth Century (1903); F. W. Taussig, Tariff History of the United States (1910 ed.).

Finance: See the annual review in the American Year Book; D. R. Dewey, Financial History of the United States (1903); A. B. Hepburn, History of Coinage and Currency in the United States (1903); J. L. Laughlin, History of Bimetallism in the United States (1897); W. H. Harvey, Coin's Financial School (1894)—the famous work which did so much to stir up popular sentiment in favor of free silver; W. J. Bryan, The First Battle (1897)—invaluable for the political aspects of the question.

Trusts: I. M. Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904); G. H. Montague, The Rise and Progress of the Standard Oil Company (1903)—more favorable to trusts than the preceding work; H. D. Lloyd, Wealth against Commonwealth (1894)—a critical attack on the evil practices of trusts; J. W. Jenks, The Trust Problem (1905 ed.)—study of the methods and causes of trusts; John Moody, The Truth about the Trusts (1904)—full of valuable historical and statistical data; W. Z. Ripley, Trusts, Pools, and Corporations (1905)—a useful collection of historical and descriptive materials.

Railways: W. Z. Ripley, Railroads: Rates and Regulation (1913)—a monumental and scholarly treatise; E. R. Johnson, American Railway Transportation (1903); H. S. Haines, Restrictive Railway Legislation in the United States (1905); B. H. Meyer, Railway Legislation in the United States (1903).

Civil Service: C. R. Fish, Civil Service and the Patronage (1905, Harvard Studies); L. G. Tyler, Parties and Patronage (1888).

Populism: S. J. Buck, The Granger Movement ... 1870-1880 (1913, Harvard Studies)—important for all aspects of agrarianism for the period; F. L. McVey, The Populist Movement (1896).

Labor: R. T. Ely, The Labor Movement in America (1902); T. V. Powderly, Thirty Years of Labor (1889); John Mitchell, Organized Labor (1903); T. S. Adams and H. Sumner, Labor Problems (1906).

Immigration: Frank Warne, The Immigrant Invasion (1913); Peter Roberts, The New Immigration (1912)—a study of the social and industrial life of Southeastern Europeans in America; H. P. Fairchild, Greek Immigration (1911), and Immigration: a World Movement and its American Significance (1913); P. F. Hall, Immigration and Its Effects on the United States (1908); I. A. Hourwich, Immigration and Labor (1912)—a study of the economic aspects of immigration and favorable to a liberal immigration policy; J. W. Jenks and W. J. Lauck, The Immigration Problem (1912)—particularly valuable for the data presented.

Socialism: Morris Hillquit, History of Socialism in the United States (1910); W. J. Ghent, Mass and Class (1904); J. W. Hughan, American Socialism of To-day (1912); W. E. Walling, Socialism as It Is (1912). On the newer aspects of socialism and trades-unionism: John Spargo, Syndicalism, Industrial Unionism, and Socialism (1913); A. Tridon, The New Unionism (1913); J. G. Brooks, American Syndicalism (1913); W. H. Haywood and F. Bohn, Industrial Socialism (1911); James O'Neal, Militant Socialism (1912).

Women: Edith Abbott, Women in Industry (1909); E. D. Bullock, Selected Articles on the Employment of Women (1911); E. B. Butler, Women in the Trades (1909); R. C. Dorr, What Eight Million Women Want (1910); I. H. Harper, Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (1899-1908), History of the Movement for Woman Suffrage in the United States (1907); E. R. Hecker, Short History of Woman's Rights (1910); G. E. Howard, A History of Matrimonial Institutions (1904); Helen Sumner, Equal Suffrage (1909)—a study of woman suffrage in Colorado; C. P. Gilman, Woman and Economics (1900).

Controversy over the Judiciary: Gilbert Roe, Our Judicial Oligarchy (1912)—a criticism of recent tendencies in the American judicial system; B. F. Moore, The Supreme Court and Unconstitutional Legislation (1913)—a historical survey; W. L. Ransom Majority Rule and the Judiciary (1912); F. R. Coudert, Certainty and Justice (1913); G. G. Groat, Attitude of American Courts in Labor Cases (1911); C. G. Haines, The American Doctrine of Judicial Supremacy (1914).

Popular Government: G. H. Haynes, The Election of Senators (1906)—valuable for the question of popular election; C. A. Beard and Birl Shultz, Documents on the Initiative, Referendum and Recall (1912); E. P. Oberholtzer, Initiative, Referendum, and Recall in America (1911); Walter Weyl, The New Democracy (1912); H. Croly, The Promise of American Life (1909).

The South: A. B. Hart, The Southern South (1910); E. G. Murphy, Problems of the Present South (1904); H. W. Grady, The New South (1890); W. G. Brown, The Lower South (1902).

The Negro Problem: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science for September, 1913, is devoted to articles on the progress of the negro race during the last fifty years. A. P. C. Griffin, Select List of References on the Negro Question (1906, Library of Congress); R. S. Baker, Following the Color Line (1908)—valuable for the handicaps imposed on the negro in the South; J. M. Mathews, Legislative and Judicial History of the Fifteenth Amendment (1909); M. W. Ovington, Half a Man (1911)—status of the negro in New York; T. N. Page, The Negro (1904)—viewed as a Southern problem; A. H. Stone, Studies in the American Race Problem (1908)—discouraging view of the economic capacities of the negro; B. T. Washington, The Negro in the South (1907)—useful for economic matters; and The Future of the Negro (1900); A. B. Hart, Realities of Negro Suffrage (1905); G. T. Stephenson, Race Distinctions in American Law (1910).

The Growth of the West: H. H. Bancroft, Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth (1891-1892), 7 vols.; J. C. Birge, The Awakening of the Desert (1912); C. C. Coffin, The Seat of Empire (1871); Katharine Coman, Economic Beginnings of the Far West (1912), 2 vols.—exploration and settlement; J. H. Eckels, The Financial Power of the New West (1905); F. V. Hayden, The Great West (1880)—resources, climate, Mormons, and Indians; J. S. Hittell, The Commerce and Industries of the Pacific Coast (1882); R. P. Porter and others, The West (1882)—review of social and economic development from the census of 1880; L. E. Quigg, New Empires in the Northwest (1889)—Dakotas, Montana, and Washington; Julian Ralph, Our Great West (1893)—survey of conditions; Joseph Schafer, A History of the Pacific Northwest (1905); W. E. Smyth, The Conquest of Arid Arizona (1900).

Monroe Doctrine: J. B. Moore, History of American Diplomacy (1905); J. W. Foster, A Century of American Diplomacy (1901); J. H. LatanÉ, Diplomatic Relations of the United States and Spanish America (1900); A. B. Hart, Foundations of American Diplomacy (1901); Hiram Bingham, The Monroe Doctrine (1913)—a severe criticism of the Doctrine.

The Spanish War: F. E. Chadwick, Relations of the United States and Spain—excellent for diplomatic affairs; H. C. Lodge, The War with Spain (1899)—an interesting popular account; H. D. Flack, Spanish-American Diplomatic Relations Preceding the War of 1898 (1906)—a careful analysis of the causes of intervention; George Dewey, Autobiography (1913).

Imperialism: D. C. Worcester, The Philippines: Past and Present (1914), 2 vols.—a great and authoritative work by the former Secretary of the Interior in the Philippines; H. P. Willis, Our Philippine Problem (1905)—a study of American Colonial policy; J. A. Leroy, The Americans in the Philippines (1914)—a large and authoritative work on the early stages of American occupation; F. C. Chamberlin, The Philippine Problem (1913); J. G. Schurman, Philippine Fundamentals (1901); Elihu Root, Collection of Documents Relating to the United States and Porto Rico (1898-1905, Washington); L. S. Rowe, The United States and Porto Rico (1904); E. S. Wilson, Political Development of Porto Rico (1906); W. F. Willoughby, Territories and Dependencies of the United States (1905)—a general work on the government of the territories.

The Panama Canal: J. B. Bishop, The Panama Gateway (1913)—an authoritative general account; W. F. Johnson, Four Centuries of the Panama Canal (1906).

The Peace Conferences: Joseph Choate, The Two Hague Conferences (1913); J. B. Scott, The Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 (1909).

American Interests in the Orient: F. F. Millard, The New Far East (1906)—special reference to American interests in China; P. S. Reinsch, World Politics (1900).