Daniel Aaron Lazar » USH: Populism

A Short History of Agarian Revolt in America

Dan Lazar — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:32:47 +0000

This condensed version of Lawrence Goodwyn’s Democratic Promise, the highly-acclaimed study on American Populism which the Civil Liberties Review called “a brilliant, comprehensive study,” offers new political language designed to provide a fresh means of assessing both democracy and authoritarianism today.

A Short History of Agarian Revolt in America free from Google Books

Modern Connection–Michael Pollan

Dan Lazar — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:20:37 +0000

Mr. Pollan is the author of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, published in January 2008 by The Penguin Press. His previous books include The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post.

His ideas further resonated with the American public after he published “Farmer in Cheif”–an open letter to the 2008 presidential candidates in the NY Times Magazine.

Your assignment is to listen to this interview of Pollan (OR watch the video below) and to type thorough notes (the notes will be submitted as homework). Be prepared to discuss the ideas presented in this interview. Also be prepared to connect Pollan’s thesis to the Populist Movement of the late 19th Century.

Authors@Google: Michael Pollan

The Populist Party Platform

Dan Lazar — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:14:07 +0000

The Populist Party Platform (1892)

Response Sheet

Farmers’ Alliance DBQ

Dan Lazar — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:10:15 +0000

DBQ on Farmers’ Alliances

Populism Lecture Series

Dan Lazar — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:08:10 +0000

Here are a series of lectures that I have devised. In creating these lectures I relied heavily on the scholarship of Duke University’s Lawrence Goodwyn and Richard Hofstadter.

Notes on Goodwyn’s Introduction to A Short History of Agrarian Revolt in America

The Alliance Develops a Movement Culture

D iscovering the Limits of Populism in America

The Legacy and Irony of The Rise and Fall of Populism

My Class Lecture on Western Settlement and the Rise and Fall of Populism

Goodwyn’s book on Populism is available for free at here