Populism and Progressivism in Georgia
Selected Bibliography of Georgia Room Holdings

Rebecca Latimer Felton, c. 1922

ONLINE RESOURCES

New Georgia Encyclopedia. www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
"Progressive Era," and "Populist Party." Also see: Farmer's Alliance, Hoke Smith, Jeanes teachers, Temperance Movement, Thomas E. Watson, Woman Suffrage.

"For Our Mutual Benefit: The Athens Woman's Club and Social Reform, 1899-1920." Digital Library of Georgia.
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/athenswomansclub/index.php
In particular, see articles: "The Athens Woman's Club and Social Reform" and "Progressive Era Timeline."

VERTICAL FILES

General
Convicts and Labor, Politics 1890-1930, Populist Party, Prohibition.

Biography
Folders on the following individuals, who were involved in either the Populist or Progressive movements, generally include newspaper clippings and articles concerning the individuals, their lives, and accomplishments.
Rebecca Latimer Felton, Walter B. Hill, William J. Northen, Hoke Smith, Thomas E. Watson (2 folders)

Cities
Athens - Clubs and Organizations (3 folders)

CONTEMPORARY SOURCES

Felton, Rebecca Latimer. "My Memoirs of Georgia Politics," Written and Published by Mrs. William H. Felton after She Had Reached Her 75th Birthday. Atlanta: The Index Printing Company, 1911.
F291 .F327m

Georgia Federation of Labor. Some Interesting Information Concerning Child Labor in Georgia. Atlanta: Byrd Printing Co., ca. 1902.
HD6250 .U5 G352

Hill, Walter B. The Necessity of Education and Enforcement as Aids to Prohibition. Written for Circulation in the Prohibition Counties of Georgia, by Walter B. Hill. Macon: J.W. Burke & Co., 1886.
HV5090 .G4 H5

Lochrane, Osborne Augustus. Address of Judge O.A. Lochrane on Prohibition. Atlanta: Jas. P. Harrison, 1885.
HV5090 .G4 L6

Butler, Selena S. The Chain-Gang System, by Mrs. Selena S. Butler, Atlanta, Ga. Read before the National Association of Colored Women at Nashville, Tenn., September 16, 1897. Tuskegee, Al.: Normal School Steam Press Print., 1897.
HV8918 .B9

The Negro Question, Attitude of the Progressive Party toward the Colored Race; Colonel Roosevelt's Reply to a Query at the Progressive National Convention; His Letter to Julian Harris, of Atlanta, and the Statement of all the Negro Delegates in the Convention. New York: Mail and Express Job Print, 1912.
JK2388 .R7 1912

SECONDARY SOURCES: Populism

Adams, Olin Burton. The Negro and the Agrarian Movement in Georgia, 1874-1908. Ph.D. diss., University of Florida, 1974.
E185.93 .G4 A30

Woodward, C. Vann. Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel. 2nd ed. Savannah: Beehive Press, 1973.
E664 .W337 W6 1973

Hahn, Steven. Roots of Southern Populism: Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
F290 .H33 1983

Walsh, Julia Mary. "Horny-handed Sons of Toil": Workers, Politics, and Religion in Augusta, Georgia, 1880-1910. Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois, 1999.
F294 .A9 W35 1999a

Durden, Robert F. The Climax of Populism: The Election of 1896. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965.
JK2372 .D8

Arnett, Alex Mathews. The Populist Movement in Georgia: A View of the "Agrarian Crusade" in the Light of Solid-South Politics. New York: AMS Press, 1967.
JK2374 .G4 A7 1967

Shaw, Barton C. The Wool-Hat Boys: Georgia's Populist Party. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984.
JK2374 .G4 S52 1984

SECONDARY SOURCES: Progressivism

Dittmer, John. Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.
E185.93 .G4 D57

Rouse, Jacqueline Anne. Lugenia Burnes Hope, Black Southern Reformer. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.
E185.97 .H717 R68 1989

Gabard, William Montgomery. Joseph Mackey Brown: A Study in Conservatism. Ph.D. diss., Tulane University, 1963.
F291 .B7 G3

Staman, A. Louise. Loosening Corsets: The Heroic Life of Georgia's Feisty Mrs. Felton, First Woman Senator of the United States. Macon: Tiger Iron Press, 2006.
F291 .F33 S72 2006

Jones, Alton DuMar. Progressivism in Georgia, 1898-1918. Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 1963.
F291 .J6

German, Richard Henry Lee. The Queen City of the Savannah: Augusta, Georgia during the Urban Progressive Era, 1890-1917. Ph.D. diss., University of Florida, 1971.
F294 .A9 G4

Hess, Mary A. "A Call to Honor": Rebecca Latimer Felton and White Supremacy. M.A. thesis, Michigan State University, 1999.
HQ1438 .G4 H48 1999a

Rucker, Nita Black. Nellie Peters Black (Mrs. George Robison Black) 1851-1919: Pioneer, Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs. Georgia: Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs, 1941.
HV28 .B59 N45 1941

Dunlap, Leslie Kathrin. In the Name of the Home: Temperance Women and Southern Grass-Roots Politics, 1873-1933. Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University, 2001.
HV5235 .S9 D88 2001a

Taylor, A. Elizabeth. The Abolition of the Convict Lease System in Georgia. Savannah, 1942.
HV8918 .T32

Dennis, Michael. Lessons in Progress: State Universities and Progressivism in the New South, 1880-1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
LB2329.5 .D36 2001

Talmadge, John E. Rebecca Latimer Felton: Nine Stormy Decades. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1960.
LXK23 .T151r

UGA THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Carageorge, Ted. An Evaluation of Hoke Smith and Thomas E. Watson as Georgia Reformers. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1963.
LXC16 1963 .C2

Dawson, Deborah Kim. From Paternalism to Corporate Capitalism: Industrial Leadership in Georgia's Cotton Textile Industry, 1900-1935. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1994.
LXC16 1994 .D272

Deaton, Thomas Mashburn. Atlanta During the Progressive Era. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1969.
LXC16 1969 .D2

Decker, Joe Frank. Progressive Reaction to Selective Service in World War I. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1969.
LXC16 1969 .D26

Fish, John Olen. Southern Methodism in the Progressive Era: A Social History. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1969.
LXC16 1969 .F5

ARTICLES AND JOURNALS

Articles in published works
Holmes, William F. "Populism and Progressivism, 1890-1920," in A History of Georgia, ed. Kenneth Coleman. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
F286 .H58 1991

Articles in the Georgia Historical Quarterly F281 .G352

Bauman, Mark K. "Factionalism and Ethnic Politics in Atlanta: The German Jews from the Civil War through the Progressive Era." Georgia Historical Quarterly 82 (1998): 533-558.

Jones, Alton DuMar. "The Administration of Governor Joseph M. Terrell Viewed in the Light of the Progressive Movement." Georgia Historical Quarterly 48 (1964): 271-290.

Lorence, James J. "The Workers of Chicopee: Progressive Paternalism and the Culture of Accommodations in a Modern Mill Village." Georgia Historical Quarterly 91 (2007): 292-323.

Mugleston, William F. "The 1912 Progressive Campaign in Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 61 (1977): 233-245.

Shirley, Michael. "The 'Conscientious Conservatism' of Asa Griggs Candler." Georgia Historical Quarterly 67 (1983): 356-365.

Thelen, David P. "Where Did Progressivism Go? A Search around the South." Georgia Historical Quarterly 68 (1984): 60-70.

Articles available in print in the Georgia Room
Williams, Samuel W. "The People's Progressive Party of Georgia." Phylon 10 (1949): 226-230.

Articles available online through GALILEO or in print in the Main Library

Blackburn, Burr. "Mileposts of Progress in Georgia." Journal of Social Forces 1 (1923): 403-406.

Dennis, Michael. "Schooling Along the Color Line: Progressives and the Education of Blacks in the New South." Journal of Negro Education 67 (1998): 142-156.

Grantham, Dewey. "The Contours of Southern Progressivism." American Historical Review 86 (1981): 1035-1039.

Grantham, Dewey W., Jr. "Hoke Smith: Progressive Governor of Georgia, 1907-1909." Journal of Southern History 15 (1949): 423-440.

Henig, Gerald S. "'He Did Not Have a Fair Trial': California Progressives React to the Leo Frank Case." California History 58 (1979): 166-178.

Larson, Edward J. "'In the Finest, Most Womanly Way': Women in the Southern Eugenics Movement." American Journal of Legal History 39 (1995): 119-147.

Lichtenstein, Alex. "Good Roads and Chain Gangs in the Progressive South: 'The Negro Convict as a Slave.'" Journal of Southern History 59 (1993): 85-110.

Link, William A. "Privies, Progressivism, and Public Schools: Health Reform and Education in the Rural South, 1909-1920." Journal of Southern History 54 (1988): 623-642.

Mowry, George E. "The South and the Progressive Lily White Party of 1912." Journal of Southern History 6 (1940): 237-247.

Plank, David N. "Educational Reform and Organizational Change: Atlanta in the Progressive Era." Journal of Urban History 15 (1988): 22-41.

Scott, Anne Firor. "A Progressive Wind from the South, 1906-1913." Journal of Southern History 29 (1963): 53-70.

Szymanski, Ann-Marie. "Beyond Parochialism: Southern Progressivism, Prohibition, and State-Building." Journal of Southern History 69 (2003): 107-136.

Urban, Wayne. "Organized Teachers and Educational Reform During the Progressive Era: 1890-1920." History of Education Quarterly 16 (1976): 35-52.

Wilhoit, Francis M. "An Interpretation of Populism's Impact on the Georgia Negro." Journal of Negro History 52 (1967): 116-127.

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