prof. foner: this is cae american radical tradition. we started with the american revolution and have been going through the abolitionist movement, early feminism, the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement -- now we are entering into the 20th century. in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of a lot of labor unrest, industrial workers of the world, the women's suffrage movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things. but today, our subject is the socialist party. the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. on a reading list, the chapter by michael casing gives a good quick summary of this moment in the various kinds of socialism at that time. from 1860 at least onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the u.s. but largely confined to immigrants from europe, particularly germans, english. the emergence of a mass socialist movement with a base in the u.s. political system follows the

prof. foner: this is called the american radical tradition. we started with the american revolution and have been going through the abolitionist movement, early feminism, the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement, now we are entering into the 20th century. in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of a lot of labor unrest, industrial workers of the world, the women's suffrage movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things. but today, our subject is the socialist party. the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. on a reading list, the chapter by michael casing gives a good quick summary of this moment in the various kinds of socialism at that time. from 1860 at least