The Possibilities of Politics: Democracy in America, 1877-1917

Robert D. Johnston takes an in-depth look at recent scholarship in the late 19th-century American historiography, and shows how the social, political, and corporate developments in this period gave rise to and created modern America.

Robert D. Johnston is associate professor of history and director of the Teaching of History program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of the award-winning The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon (2003) and is working on a book about controversies over vaccination in American history.