On my list of favorite people from American history, the Populists rank near the top. Composed largely of farmers from throughout the country, especially in the South and Midwest, the Populists formed one of the greatest mass democratic movements in American history when they rose up to challenge the economic power structure of Gilded Age America. Seeing themselves as inheritors of the republican ideology of “producerism” dating back to the American Revolution, Populists believed they were completing... Читать дальше...