Mid to late 1800s to early 1900s is what I'm after for the most part.
Jazz age (1920s-30s) would be fine, but reading about the fallout from The Great Disappointment in 1844 made me realize we went straight from the transcendentalists in the early 1800s to The Great Gatsby, WWI, and the dust bowl in school.
I'm trying to fill in some of the gaps.
All genres welcome as long as they're grounded in the reality of those decades and the social/political/economic upheaval of the times is tied to the plot.
Preferably set in North America or a setting based on that region, but it's not a hard requirement.
by SibylUnrest
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*Dark Horse: the Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield* [1881] by Kenneth D. Ackerman.
*The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street: Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the Erie Railway Wars* [1866-78] by John Steele Gordon.
*Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869* by Stephen Ambrose.
*Jay Cooke’s Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873* [the Crédit Mobilier scandal: 1864-73] by M. John Lubetkin.
*Pony Express* by Fred Reinfeld.
*Bourbonism and Agrarian Protest: Louisiana Politics, 1877-1900* by William Ivy Hair.
*Politics and Punishment: The History of Louisiana State Penal System* by Mark T. Carleton.
*Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893* by Douglas Steeples.
*Banking Panics of the Gilded Age* by Elmus Wicker.
*The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush* by Pierre Berton.
*McKinley, Bryan and the People* by Paul W. Glad.
*Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer* by Jeffry D. Wert.
*Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West* by Dee Brown.
*Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas* by Mari Sandoz.
*The Battle of the Little Bighorn* by Mari Sandoz.
*Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History* by S. C. Gwynne.
*The Hatfields and the McCoys* by Virgil Carrington Jones.
The USA trilogy by John Dos Passos, for a fictional account of the years between 1900 and 1929.