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Walter Nugent and the Broadening of U.S. History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2024

William Deverell ,
Nancy Unger ,
Donna Gabaccia ,
Alan Lessoff ,
Charles Postel  and
Annette Atkins
William Deverell
Affiliation:
Corresponding author. William Deverell, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, San Marino, CA, USA. Email: deverell@usc.edu.
Nancy Unger
Affiliation:
Corresponding author. Nancy Unger, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA. Email: nunger@scu.edu.
Donna Gabaccia
Affiliation:
Corresponding author. Donna Gabaccia, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Email: donna.gabaccia@utoronto.ca.
Alan Lessoff
Affiliation:
Corresponding author. Alan Lessoff, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA. Email: ahlesso@ilstu.edu.
Charles Postel
Affiliation:
Corresponding author. Charles Postel, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA. Email: postel@sfsu.edu.
Annette Atkins
Affiliation:
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University, Collegeville, MN, USA. Email: aatkins@csbsju.edu.
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Abstract

Former SHGAPE president Walter Nugent passed away in 2021. On April 1, 2023, historians gathered at the Organization of American Historians (OAH) annual meeting in Los Angeles, California, to remember him. William Deverell, Nancy Unger, Donna Gabaccia, Alan Lessoff, Charles Postel, and Annette Atkins spoke about Walter Nugent as a scholar, a colleague, a mentor, and a friend; then the audience joined in with their own memories and stories. The following roundtable is a lightly edited version of the panelists’ comments from that day, including an introduction that William Deverell wrote for the journal. We have included a Walter Nugent Reading List at the end—a selected bibliography of his books and articles, as well as works about him.

Keywords

historiographyimmigration historypopulismWalter Nugentwestern history
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Roundtable
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 23 , Special Issue 1: Special Issue: Literary Studies and the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , January 2024 , pp. 115 - 128
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press

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References

Selected Works by Walter Nugent

The Tolerant Populists: Kansas Populism and Nativism. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. First published in 1963 by University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
The Money Question during Reconstruction. New York: W.W. Norton, 1967.Google Scholar
Creative History: An Introduction to Historical Study. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1967.Google Scholar
Money and American Society, 1865–1880. New York: Free Press, 1968.Google Scholar
Modern America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.Google Scholar
From Centennial to World War: American Society, 1876–1917. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977.Google Scholar
Structures of American Social History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.Google Scholar
Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870–1914. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.Google Scholar
Into the West: The Story of Its People. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.Google Scholar
Making Our Way: A Family History of Nugents, Kings, and Others. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Print Services, 2003.Google Scholar
Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.Google Scholar
Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Color Coded: Party Politics in the American West, 1950–2016. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.Google Scholar
“American Farmers and the Market Economy, 1880–1920.” In Agricultural Distress in the Midwest, Past and Present, edited by Gelfand, Lawrence E. and Neymeyer, Robert J., 1–17. Iowa City: Center for the Study of the Recent History of the United States, University of Iowa, 1986.Google Scholar
“City-Country Conflict in the Populist Movement.” In Citta e Campagna nell’Éta Dorata: Gli Stati Uniti tra Utopia e Riforma, edited by Lerda, Valeria Gennaro, 49–60. Roma: Bulzoni Editore, 1986.Google Scholar
“The People of the West since 1890.” In The Twentieth-Century West: Historical Interpretations, edited by Nash, Gerald and Etulain, Richard, 35–70. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989.Google Scholar
“Comparing Frontiers and Wests.” In The Oxford History of the American West, edited by Milner, Clyde A. II, O’Connor, Carol, and Sandweiss, Martha, 803–33. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.Google Scholar
“New-World Frontiers: Comparisons and Agendas.” In Where Cultures Meet: Frontiers in Latin American History, edited by Weber, David J. and Rausch, Jane, 72–85. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1994.Google Scholar
“Migration from the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires to North America.” In The Cambridge Survey of World Migrations, edited by Cohen, Robin, 103–08. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.10.1017/CBO9780511598289CrossRefGoogle Scholar
“Demographic Dimensions of European Migration Worldwide.” In European Migrants: Global and Local Perspectives, edited by Hoerder, Dirk and Moch, Leslie Page, 70–89. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996.Google Scholar
“The Finding of the West.” In Frontier and Region: Essays in Honor of Martin Ridge, edited Ritchie, Robert C. and Hutton, Paul Andrew, 3–26. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.Google Scholar
“Wallace Stegner, John Wesley Powell, and the Shrinking West.” In Wallace Stegner and the Continental Vision: Essays on Literature, History, and Landscape, edited by Meine, Curt, 97–106. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997.Google Scholar
“The Religious Demography of an Oasis Culture.” In Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West, edited by Shipps, Jan and Silk, Mark, 19–47. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2004.Google Scholar
“Some Parameters of Populism.” Agricultural History 40 (October 1966): 255–70.Google Scholar
“The American People and the Centennial of 1876.” Indiana Magazine of History 75 (March 1979): 53–69.Google Scholar
“Tocqueville, Marx, and American Class Structure.” Social Science History 12 (Winter 1988): 327–47.10.2307/1171378CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hoy, Suellen and Nugent, Walter. “Public Health or Protectionism? The German-American Pork War, 1880–1891,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 63 (Summer, 1989): 198–224.Google ScholarPubMed
“Frontiers and Empires in the Late Nineteenth Century.” Western Historical Quarterly 20 (November 1989): 393–408.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
“Where Is the American West? Report on a Survey.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 42 (Summer 1992): 2–23.Google Scholar
“Western History, New and Not So New.” OAH Magazine of History 9 (Fall 1994): 5–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
“Four New-World Migration Targets: Some Comparisons.” Americastudien/American Studies 42 (1997): 391–406.Google Scholar
“Welcome to the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 1 (January 2002): 7–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
“Richard White’s Early Work.” Western Historical Quarterly 33 (Summer 2002): 138–42.Google Scholar
“Catholic Progressive? The Case of Judge E. O. Brown.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2 (January 2003): 5–47.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
“The American Habit of Empire, and the Cases of Polk and Bush.” Western Historical Quarterly 38 (Spring 2007): 5–24.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McMath, Robert C., Argersinger, Peter H., Lester, Connie L., Magliari, Michael F., Nugent, Walter, and Danbom, David B.. “Agricultural History Roundtable on Populism.” Agricultural History 82 (Winter 2008): 1–35.Google Scholar
“Tanner Lecture: The Mormons and America’s Empires.” Journal of Mormon History 36 (Spring 2010): 1–27.Google Scholar
“‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone … When Will They Ever Learn?’” Reviews in American History 39 (March 2011): 205–11.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
“Comments on Wyatt Wells, ‘Rhetoric of the Standards: The Debate over Gold and Silver in the 1890s.’” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 14 (January 2015): 69–76.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Walter, T. K. Nugent Papers, 1823–2012. Indiana University Archives, Bloomington, Indiana.Google Scholar
Calhoun, Charles W. “Making History: The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Retrospective View.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 1 (January 2002): 13–24.10.1017/S1537781400000074CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Creech, Joe. “The Tolerant Populists and the Legacy of Walter Nugent.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 14 (January 2015): 141–49.10.1017/S1537781414000760CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Beeby, James. “Review: The Tolerant Populists: Kansas Populism and Nativism, 2nd ed.,” Agricultural History 89 (Spring 2015): 306–07.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
The Tolerant Populists: Kansas Populism and Nativism. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. First published in 1963 by University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
The Money Question during Reconstruction. New York: W.W. Norton, 1967.Google Scholar
Creative History: An Introduction to Historical Study. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1967.Google Scholar
Money and American Society, 1865–1880. New York: Free Press, 1968.Google Scholar
Modern America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.Google Scholar
From Centennial to World War: American Society, 1876–1917. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977.Google Scholar
Structures of American Social History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.Google Scholar
Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870–1914. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.Google Scholar
Into the West: The Story of Its People. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.Google Scholar
Making Our Way: A Family History of Nugents, Kings, and Others. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Print Services, 2003.Google Scholar
Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.Google Scholar
Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Color Coded: Party Politics in the American West, 1950–2016. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.Google Scholar
“American Farmers and the Market Economy, 1880–1920.” In Agricultural Distress in the Midwest, Past and Present, edited by Gelfand, Lawrence E. and Neymeyer, Robert J., 1–17. Iowa City: Center for the Study of the Recent History of the United States, University of Iowa, 1986.Google Scholar
“City-Country Conflict in the Populist Movement.” In Citta e Campagna nell’Éta Dorata: Gli Stati Uniti tra Utopia e Riforma, edited by Lerda, Valeria Gennaro, 49–60. Roma: Bulzoni Editore, 1986.Google Scholar
“The People of the West since 1890.” In The Twentieth-Century West: Historical Interpretations, edited by Nash, Gerald and Etulain, Richard, 35–70. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989.Google Scholar
“Comparing Frontiers and Wests.” In The Oxford History of the American West, edited by Milner, Clyde A. II, O’Connor, Carol, and Sandweiss, Martha, 803–33. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.Google Scholar
“New-World Frontiers: Comparisons and Agendas.” In Where Cultures Meet: Frontiers in Latin American History, edited by Weber, David J. and Rausch, Jane, 72–85. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1994.Google Scholar
“Migration from the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires to North America.” In The Cambridge Survey of World Migrations, edited by Cohen, Robin, 103–08. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.10.1017/CBO9780511598289CrossRefGoogle Scholar
“Demographic Dimensions of European Migration Worldwide.” In European Migrants: Global and Local Perspectives, edited by Hoerder, Dirk and Moch, Leslie Page, 70–89. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996.Google Scholar
“The Finding of the West.” In Frontier and Region: Essays in Honor of Martin Ridge, edited Ritchie, Robert C. and Hutton, Paul Andrew, 3–26. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.Google Scholar
“Wallace Stegner, John Wesley Powell, and the Shrinking West.” In Wallace Stegner and the Continental Vision: Essays on Literature, History, and Landscape, edited by Meine, Curt, 97–106. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997.Google Scholar
“The Religious Demography of an Oasis Culture.” In Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West, edited by Shipps, Jan and Silk, Mark, 19–47. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2004.Google Scholar
“Some Parameters of Populism.” Agricultural History 40 (October 1966): 255–70.Google Scholar
“The American People and the Centennial of 1876.” Indiana Magazine of History 75 (March 1979): 53–69.Google Scholar
“Tocqueville, Marx, and American Class Structure.” Social Science History 12 (Winter 1988): 327–47.10.2307/1171378CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hoy, Suellen and Nugent, Walter. “Public Health or Protectionism? The German-American Pork War, 1880–1891,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 63 (Summer, 1989): 198–224.Google ScholarPubMed
“Frontiers and Empires in the Late Nineteenth Century.” Western Historical Quarterly 20 (November 1989): 393–408.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
“Where Is the American West? Report on a Survey.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 42 (Summer 1992): 2–23.Google Scholar
“Western History, New and Not So New.” OAH Magazine of History 9 (Fall 1994): 5–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
“Four New-World Migration Targets: Some Comparisons.” Americastudien/American Studies 42 (1997): 391–406.Google Scholar
“Welcome to the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 1 (January 2002): 7–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
“Richard White’s Early Work.” Western Historical Quarterly 33 (Summer 2002): 138–42.Google Scholar
“Catholic Progressive? The Case of Judge E. O. Brown.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2 (January 2003): 5–47.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
“The American Habit of Empire, and the Cases of Polk and Bush.” Western Historical Quarterly 38 (Spring 2007): 5–24.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McMath, Robert C., Argersinger, Peter H., Lester, Connie L., Magliari, Michael F., Nugent, Walter, and Danbom, David B.. “Agricultural History Roundtable on Populism.” Agricultural History 82 (Winter 2008): 1–35.Google Scholar
“Tanner Lecture: The Mormons and America’s Empires.” Journal of Mormon History 36 (Spring 2010): 1–27.Google Scholar
“‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone … When Will They Ever Learn?’” Reviews in American History 39 (March 2011): 205–11.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
“Comments on Wyatt Wells, ‘Rhetoric of the Standards: The Debate over Gold and Silver in the 1890s.’” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 14 (January 2015): 69–76.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Walter, T. K. Nugent Papers, 1823–2012. Indiana University Archives, Bloomington, Indiana.Google Scholar
Calhoun, Charles W. “Making History: The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Retrospective View.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 1 (January 2002): 13–24.10.1017/S1537781400000074CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Creech, Joe. “The Tolerant Populists and the Legacy of Walter Nugent.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 14 (January 2015): 141–49.10.1017/S1537781414000760CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Beeby, James. “Review: The Tolerant Populists: Kansas Populism and Nativism, 2nd ed.,” Agricultural History 89 (Spring 2015): 306–07.CrossRefGoogle Scholar