Charles Postel on *Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896*

For this episode, we spoke with Charles Postel about his recent book *Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896.* After the Civil War, many social movements in favor of "equality" flourished in the U.S. -- champions of racial, sexual, regional, and economic equality pressed their case like never before. Organizations like the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Knights of Labor mobilized women and workers on a massive scale, while the Grange - a project initiated by federal bureaucrats from D.C. - assembled farmers into the largest and most coherent organ for class-interest in the country. Each had to face up to the practical dilemmas of pursuing national political power in an uneven and divided country. ****** LINKS ****** *The Populist Vision* - *Equality: An American Dilemma* - "If They Repeal the Progressive Era, Should We Care?" - *** REFRESHERS *** The Grange - Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Frances Willard - Knights of Labor - Terence Powderly - Chinese Exclusion Act - Homestead Acts - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper - Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Henry George - Thomas Piketty - Capital in the Twenty-First Century - T. Thomas Fortune - Ignatius Donnelly - The Omaha Platform - *** HISTORIOGRAPHY MENTIONED *** David Montgomery - Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans, 1862-1872 - Walter Johnson - The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States - Gregg Cantrell - The People’s Revolt - Texas Populists and the Roots of American Liberalism -

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Charles Postel on *Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896* is an episode from Reviving Growth Keynesianism by Robert Manduca and Nic Johnson.

This episode is 104:54 long.

This episode was published on Dec 27, 2021.

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