The Progressive Era: A Reference Guide
The Progressive Era: A Reference Guide
Editor/Author
Sicius, Francis J.
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Single-User Purchase Price:
$58.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$87.00
ISBN: 978-1-61-069447-6
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count:
11
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This book was written to reveal the challenges Americans faced during the Progressive Era and to show how their responses helped transform the nation. Combining a narrative on the era with biographies of key participants, significant primary sources, and an annotated bibliography, the topically organized volume offers a lively contextual guide to one of the great turning points in American history.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Progressive Era
- Chapter 2. Farmers and Workers Struggle for Justice
- Chapter 3. Progressive Politics
- Chapter 4. The Changing City
- Chapter 5. Women Raise Their Political Voice
- Chapter 6. African Americans in the Progressive Age
- Chapter 7. Literature in the Progressive Age
- Chapter 8. Religion in the Progressive Age
- Chapter 9. President Theodore Roosevelt Takes on Big Business, Big Labor, and Conservation
- Chapter 10. Progressives and Foreign Policy
- Analytical Essays
- Counterfactual Essay: The Election of 1896
- Defining Moments
- Perspectives Essay
- Primary Document Essay
- Biographical Essays
- Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
- Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926)
- Ray Stannard Baker
- Henry Flagler
- George Washington Plunkett of Tammany Hall
- Victoria Woodhull
- Randolph Bourne
- Primary Documents
- 1. Jacob Riis Describes Life among the Urban Poor (1890)
- 2. William Jennings Bryan: Cross of Gold Speech (1896)
- 3. Progressive Party Platform (1912)
- 4. Justice John Marshall Harlan's Dissent to Plessy vs. Ferguson Decision (1896)
- 5. Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech
- 6. W. E. B. Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro (1899)
- 7. Upton Sinclair Exposes the Meat Industry (1906)
- 8. Samuel McClure Launches the Muckraking Era (1903)
- 9. Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities (1904)
- 10. Cary Nation: Crusader for Temperance (1909)
- 11. Walter Rauschenbusch Calls for a New Age of Christianity (1916)
- 12. John Muir on the National Parks (1901)
- 13. Teddy Roosevelt on Trusts (1901)
- 14. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911)
- 15. Jane Addams on Suffrage (1909)
- 16. President Woodrow Wilson's Joint Address to Congress, Leading to a Declaration of War against Germany (1917)
- 17. Eugene V. Debs Defends Freedom of Speech and the Working Class (1918)
- Annotated Bibliography