Nationalist Clubs were an organized network of socialist political groups which emerged at the end of the 1880s in the United States of America in an effort to make real the ideas advanced by Edward B
Edward Bellamy, whose utopian writings were the inspiration for the Nationalist Clubs of 1888 to 1896.
Cover of Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, Looking Backward, 2000-1887.
Jesse Cox, later Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of America, was a leader of the Nationalist Club in Chicago.
The Nationalist Clubs made common cause with the Midwestern agrarian reformers of the People's Party, shown here in an 1890 convention photo made in Nebraska.
The Nationalist was an American socialist magazine established in Boston, Massachusetts in May 1889 by adherents of the utopian ideas of writer Edward Bellamy in his 1888 book, Looking Backward. Publi
Cover of The Nationalist for December 1889. A publisher's rubberstamp on the cover indicates a print run of 35,000 copies for the issue.