His latest book, Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy, delves into the populist movement of the 1890s — a period when beleaguered farmers and workers united against ...

Jimmy Carter campaigned for president as a populist outsider to Washington. A peanut farmer who grew up among African ...

Political anger among farmers in the US gave birth to the Populist Party in the 1890s. I'm no expert on this topic and as with every complex economic historical debate, there are plenty of ...

The language of populism originated in the Gilded Age from the 1870s to the 1890s, an era of business consolidation and monopoly capitalism. These trends were accompanied by falling commodity ...