Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Editors: Buenker, John D. and Buenker, Joseph
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge

Single-User Purchase Price: $299.00
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ISBN: 978-0-7656-8051-8
Category: History - World history
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This illustrated encyclopedia provides definitive coverage of all the social and cultural developments of the period as well as its political and economic history.

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  • Introduction: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: 1877–1919
  • A
  • Abbott, Edith, and Grace Abbott
  • Adams, Brooks (1848–1927)
  • Adams, Charles Francis (1807–1886)
  • Adams, Henry (1838–1918)
  • Adamson Eight-Hour Act (1916)
  • Addams, Jane (1860–1935)
  • Adler, Felix (1851–1933)
  • African Americans
  • Aldrich, Nelson Wilmarth (1841–1915)
  • Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836–1907)
  • Aldrich-Vreeland Currency Act (1908)
  • Alger, Horatio (1832–1899)
  • Alien Land Law (1913)
  • Alliance Movement
  • Allison, William B. (1829–1908)
  • Altgeld, John Peter (1847–1902)
  • American Association for Labor Legislation
  • American Association of University Professors
  • American Association of University Women
  • American Civil Liberties Union
  • American Federation of Labor
  • American Forestry Association
  • American Free Trade League
  • American Indians
  • American Protective Association
  • American Red Cross
  • American Social Science Association
  • American Society for Municipal Improvements
  • American Society of Equity
  • Americanization
  • Amusement Parks
  • Anarchists
  • Anderson, Sherwood (1876–1941)
  • Angell, George T. (1823–1909)
  • Animal Protection
  • Anthony, Susan B. (1820–1906)
  • Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902
  • Anti-Catholicism
  • Anti-Imperialist League
  • Anti-Monopoly Parties
  • Anti-Saloon League
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Antismoking Movement
  • Antitrust Legislation
  • Anti-Unionism
  • Antivice Crusades
  • Armory Show (1913)
  • Armour, Philip D. (1832–1901)
  • Arthur, Chester A. (1830–1886)
  • Art and Architecture
  • Arts and Crafts Movement
  • Asian Americans
  • Atlanta Compromise (1895)
  • Atlantic Monthly, The
  • Australian Ballot
  • Automobile
  • Aviation
  • Azusa Street Revival (1906–1909)
  • B
  • Back to Africa Movement
  • Back to the Farm Movement
  • Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1858–1954)
  • Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company (1922)
  • Baker, Newton D. (1871–1937)
  • Baker, Ray Stannard (1870–1946)
  • Balch, Emily Greene (1867–1961)
  • Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy
  • Barnum, Phineas T. (1810–1891)
  • Baruch, Bernard Mannes (1870–1965)
  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Baum, L. Frank (1856–1919)
  • Beard, Charles Austin (1874–1948)
  • Bell, Alexander Graham (1847–1922)
  • Bellamy, Edward (1850–1898)
  • Berger, Victor (1860–1929), and Meta Berger (1873–1944)
  • Bergh, Henry (1811–1888)
  • Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah (1862–1927)
  • Bierce, Ambrose (1842-c. 1913)
  • Birth of a Nation (1915)
  • Black Elk (c. 1863-1950)
  • Black Sox Scandal
  • Blaine, James G. (1830–1893)
  • Blanc, Marie-Therese (Theodore Bentzon; 1840-1907)
  • Bland-Allison Act (1878)
  • Blatch, Harriot Stanton (1856–1940)
  • Bliss, William D.P. (1856–1926)
  • Bly, Nellie (1867–1922)
  • Boas, Franz (1858–1942)
  • Bok, Edward William (1863–1930)
  • Bonnin, Gertrude (1876–1938)
  • Borah, William E. (1865–1940)
  • Boston Police Strike (1919)
  • Bourbons
  • Bourne, Randolph (1886–1918)
  • Boxer Rebellion (1900)
  • Boy Scouts of America
  • Brady, “Diamond Jim” (1856–1917)
  • Brandeis, Louis Dembitz (1856–1941)
  • Breckenridge, Madeline McDowell (1872–1920)
  • Breckenridge, Sophonisba (1866–1948)
  • Brisbane, Arthur (1864–1936)
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • Brooks, Van Wyck (1886–1963)
  • Brown, Olympia (1835–1926)
  • Brownsville Affair (1906)
  • Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Company (1916)
  • Bryan, William Jennings (1860–1925)
  • Bryce, James (1838–1922)
  • Buffalo Soldiers
  • Bunting v. Oregon (1917)
  • Burbank, Luther (1849–1926)
  • Bureau of Corporations, United States
  • Bureau of Municipal Research
  • Burleson, Albert Sidney (1863–1937)
  • Burnham, Daniel Hudson (1846–1912)
  • Burns, Lucy (1879–1966)
  • Butler, Nicholas Murray (1862–1947)
  • C
  • Cable, George Washington (1844–1925)
  • Cahan, Abraham (1860–1951)
  • Camp, Walter (1859–1925)
  • Canadian Reciprocity
  • Cannon, Joseph G. (1836–1926)
  • Carnegie, Andrew (1835–1919)
  • Carver, George Washington (1864 or 1865-1943)
  • Cassatt, Mary (1844–1926)
  • Cather, Willa (1873–1947)
  • Catt, Carrie Chapman (1859–1947)
  • Cattell, James McKeen (1860–1944)
  • Chain Stores
  • Chandler, William E. (1835–1917)
  • Chaplin, Charles (1889–1977)
  • Charity Organization Societies
  • Chautauqua Movement
  • Chicago School of Sociology
  • Child Labor Legislation
  • Child Saving
  • Children and Youth
  • Children's Bureau, United States
  • Childs, Richard S. (1882–1978)
  • Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
  • Churchill, Winston (1871–1947)
  • Circuses
  • City Beautiful
  • City Manager
  • City Planning
  • Civil Rights Cases (1883)
  • Civil Service Reform
  • Clark, James Beauchamp “Champ” (1850–1921)
  • Clark, John Bates (1847–1938)
  • Clay, Laura (1849–1941)
  • Cleveland, Grover (1837–1908)
  • Coal Mining Safety Legislation
  • Cobb, Tyrus Raymond (1886–1961)
  • Cochise (1812–1874)
  • Cody, William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” (1846–1917)
  • Colby, Clara Bewick (1846–1916)
  • Collective Bargaining
  • Colored Farmers' Alliance
  • Columbian Exposition (1893)
  • Commission Form of Municipal Government
  • Commission on Country Life
  • Commission on Industrial Relations
  • Commission on Interracial Cooperation
  • Committee on Public Information
  • Commons, John R. (1862–1945)
  • Compromise of 1877
  • Comstock, Anthony (1844–1915)
  • Conkling, Roscoe (1829–1888)
  • Conscientious Objectors
  • Conservation
  • Constitutional Amendments
  • Contract Labor
  • Convict Lease System
  • Cooke, Jay (1821–1905)
  • Cooley, Charles Horton (1864–1929)
  • Cooling-Off Treaties
  • Cooper, Peter (1791–1883)
  • Cooperative Movement
  • Corbett, James (1866–1933)
  • Corliss Engine
  • Corporation Excise Tax Act (1909)
  • Corrupt Practices Laws
  • Cotton Futures Act (1914)
  • Council of National Defense
  • Country Life Movement
  • Cox, James Middleton (1870–1957)
  • Coxey, Jacob S. (1854–1951)
  • Crane, Caroline Bartlett (1858–1935)
  • Crane, Stephen (1871–1900)
  • Crazy Horse (c. 1842-1877)
  • Creel, George (1876–1953)
  • Cripple Creek Strike (1903–1904)
  • Crisis, The
  • Croker, Richard (1841–1922)
  • Croly, Herbert (1869–1930)
  • Cummins, Albert Baird (1850–1926)
  • D
  • Dana, Charles Anderson (1819–1897)
  • Daniels, Josephus (1862–1948)
  • Darrow, Clarence S. (1857–1938)
  • Darwinism
  • Davis, Richard Harding (1864–1916)
  • Dawes, Henry Laurens (1816–1903)
  • Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
  • De Forest, Lee (1873–1961)
  • De Leon, Daniel (1852–1914)
  • DeBernardi, Giovanni Battista (1831–1901)
  • Debs, Eugene V. (1855–1926)
  • Dell, Floyd (1887–1969)
  • Department of Commerce and Labor
  • Department Stores
  • Depression of the 1890s
  • Dewey, John (1859–1952)
  • Dewey, Melvil (1851–1931)
  • DeWitt, Benjamin Parke (1889–1965)
  • Disfranchisement
  • Divorce
  • Dixon, Thomas, Jr. (1864–1946)
  • Dodd, William Edward (1869–1940)
  • Dollar Diplomacy
  • Donnelly, Ignatius (1831–1901)
  • Dorr, Rheta Childe (1866–1948)
  • Douglass, Frederick (1818–1895)
  • Dowie, John Alexander (1847–1907)
  • Dreier, Mary Elizabeth (1875–1963)
  • Dreiser, Theodore (1871–1945)
  • Du Bois, W.E.B. (1868–1963)
  • Duke, James Buchanan (1856–1925)
  • Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872–1906)
  • Dunne, Edward F. (1853–1937)
  • Dunne, Finley Peter (1867–1936)
  • Durant, William C. (1861–1947)
  • E
  • Eastman, Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa; 1858-1939)
  • Eastman, Crystal (1881–1928)
  • Eastman, George (1854–1932)
  • Eastman, Max (1883–1969)
  • The Economy
  • Eddy, Mary Baker (1821–1910)
  • Edison, Thomas Alva (1847–1931)
  • Education
  • Efficiency
  • Eight-Hour Workday
  • Einstein, Albert (1879–1955)
  • Election of 1876
  • Election of 1880
  • Election of 1884
  • Election of 1888
  • Election of 1892
  • Election of 1896
  • Election of 1900
  • Election of 1904
  • Election of 1908
  • Election of 1912
  • Election of 1916
  • Election of 1920
  • Elections, At-Large
  • Elections, Nonpartisan
  • Elections, Primary
  • Eliot, Charles W. (1834–1926)
  • Elkins Act (1903)
  • Ely, Richard T. (1854–1943)
  • Espionage Act (1917)
  • Eugenics
  • Everybody's Magazine
  • F
  • Fairbanks, Charles W. (1852–1918)
  • Farmers' Union
  • Federal Aid Road Act (1916)
  • Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America
  • Federal Farm Loan Act (1916)
  • Federal Reserve Act (1913)
  • Federal Trade Commission
  • Field, Marshall (1835–1906)
  • Field, Stephen J. (1816–1899)
  • Filene, Edward Albert (1860–1937)
  • Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (1879–1958)
  • Fisher, Irving (1867–1947)
  • Flint v. Stone Tracy Company (1911)
  • Flower, B.O. (1858–1918)
  • Folk, Joseph Wingate (1869–1923)
  • Food Administration, United States
  • Football
  • Ford, Henry (1863–1947)
  • Ford, Henry Jones (1851–1925)
  • Foreign and International Relations
  • Forest Service, United States
  • Fortune, T. Thomas (1856–1928)
  • Foundations
  • Frank, Leo Max (1884–1915)
  • Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939)
  • Freund, Ernst (1864–1932)
  • Frick, Henry Clay (1849–1919)
  • Frost, Robert (1874–1963)
  • Fuel Administration
  • Fundamentalism
  • G
  • Gale, Zona (1874–1938)
  • Galveston Hurricane (1900)
  • Garden City Movement
  • Garfield, James A. (1831–1881)
  • Garfield, James R. (1865–1950)
  • Garland, Hamlin (1860–1940)
  • Garner, John Nance (1868–1967)
  • Garvey, Marcus (1887–1940)
  • Gary, Elbert H. (1846–1927)
  • Gary Plan
  • Gaston, Lucy (1860–1924)
  • General Federation of Women's Clubs
  • General Slocum
  • Gentlemen's Agreement (1908)
  • George, Henry (1839–1897)
  • Geronimo (1829–1909)
  • Gerry, Elbridge T., III (1837–1927)
  • Ghost Dance
  • Gibbons, James (1834–1921)
  • Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1839–1903)
  • Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860–1935)
  • Gilman, Daniel Coit (1831–1908)
  • Girl Scouts of America
  • Gladden, Washington (1836–1918)
  • Glass, Carter (1858–1946)
  • Godkin, Edwin L. (1831–1902)
  • Goldman, Emma (1869–1940)
  • Goldmark, Josephine Clara (1877–1950)
  • Gompers, Samuel (1850–1924)
  • Gompers v. Buck's Stove and Range Company (1911)
  • Good Roads Movement
  • Goodnow, Frank Johnson (1859–1939)
  • Gospel of Wealth
  • Gould, Jay (1836–1892)
  • Government
  • Grand Army of the Republic
  • Granger Laws
  • Grant, Madison (1865–1937)
  • Great Strike of 1877
  • Greenback Party
  • Griffith, David Wark (1875–1948)
  • H
  • Haley, Margaret A. (1861–1939)
  • Hall, G. Stanley (1844–1924)
  • Hall, Prescott Farnsworth (1868–1921)
  • Hamilton, Alice (1869–1970)
  • Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
  • Hancock, Winfield Scott (1824–1886)
  • Handy, W.C. (1873–1958)
  • Hanna, Marcus Alonzo (1837–1904)
  • Hard, William (1878–1962)
  • Harding, Warren G. (1865–1923)
  • Harlan, John Marshall (1833–1911)
  • Harmon, Judson (1846–1927)
  • Harper, Ida Husted (1851–1931)
  • Harper, William Rainey (1856–1906)
  • Harper's Weekly
  • Harriman, Edward Henry (1848–1909)
  • Harriman, W. Averell (1891–1986)
  • Harris, Joel Chandler (1848–1908)
  • Harris, William Torrey (1835–1909)
  • Harrison, Benjamin (1833–1901)
  • Harrison, Carter Henry, I (1825–1893), and Carter Henry Harrison II (1860–1953)
  • Harvey, George (1864–1928)
  • Hawaiian Annexation (1898)
  • Hay, John (1838–1905)
  • Hayes, Rutherford B. (1822–1893)
  • Haymarket Affair (1886)
  • Haywood, William Dudley (1869–1928)
  • Health Insurance Legislation
  • Hearst, William Randolph (1863–1951)
  • Hendrick, Burton Jesse (1870–1949)
  • Henri, Robert (1865–1929)
  • Hepburn Act (1906)
  • Herron, George D. (1862–1925)
  • Hickok, James Butler “Wild Bill” (1837–1876)
  • Hill, James J. (1838–1916)
  • Hillquit, Morris (1869–1933)
  • Hine, Lewis (1874–1940)
  • Hitchcock, Gilbert (1859–1934)
  • Hoar, George Frisbie (1826–1904)
  • Holden v. Hardy (1898)
  • Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. (1841–1935)
  • Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. (1809–1894)
  • Home Rule
  • Homer, Winslow (1836–1910)
  • Homestead Strike
  • Homosexuality
  • Hoover, Herbert (1874–1964)
  • Houdini, Harry (1874–1926)
  • House, Edward Mandell (1858–1938)
  • Housing Reform
  • Howe, Frederic C. (1867–1940)
  • Howells, William Dean (1837–1920)
  • Hughes, Charles Evans (1862–1948)
  • Hull, Cordell (1871–1955)
  • Hunt, Richard Morris (1827–1895)
  • Hunter, Robert (1874–1942)
  • Huntington, Henry E. (1850–1927)
  • I
  • Ickes, Harold L. (1874–1952)
  • Immigrants' Protective League
  • Immigration and Ethnicity
  • Immigration Commission, United States
  • Immigration Restriction
  • Immigration Restriction League
  • Imperialism
  • Income Tax, Federal
  • Indian Boarding Schools
  • Industrial Commission, United States
  • Industrial Democracy
  • Industrial Workers of the World
  • Influenza Pandemic of 1918
  • Ingersoll, Robert G. (1833–1899)
  • Initiative
  • Institutional Economics
  • Insull, Samuel (1859–1938)
  • Insurance Companies, Regulation of
  • International Council of Women (1888)
  • International Ladies' Garment Workers Union
  • Interstate Commerce Law
  • Interurban Railways
  • Ireland, John (1838–1918)
  • Irrigation
  • Ives, Charles E. (1874–1954)
  • J
  • Jackson, Helen Hunt (1830–1885)
  • James, Henry (1843–1916)
  • James, William (1842–1910)
  • Jameson, John Franklin (1859–1937)
  • Johnson, Hiram W. (1866–1945)
  • Johnson, Jack (1878–1946)
  • Johnson, Tom Loftin (1854–1911)
  • Johnson, Walter (1887–1946)
  • Johnstown Flood (1889)
  • Jolson, Al (1886–1950)
  • Jones, Mother (1837–1930)
  • Jones, Samuel M. (1846–1904)
  • Joplin, Scott (1868–1917)
  • Jordan, David Starr (1851–1931)
  • Joseph, Chief (c. 1840-1904)
  • Junior Republics
  • Juvenile Courts
  • K
  • Kallen, Horace M. (1882–1974)
  • Keating-Owen Act (1916)
  • Keller, Helen (1880–1968)
  • Keller v. United States (1909)
  • Kelley, Florence (1859–1932)
  • Kelley, Oliver H. (1826–1913)
  • Kellogg, Paul Underwood (1879–1958)
  • Kellor, Frances Alice (1873–1952)
  • Kern-McGillicuddy Act (1916)
  • Knapp, Seaman Asahel (1833–1911)
  • Knights of Labor
  • Knox, Philander C. (1853–1921)
  • L
  • La Flesche, Francis (c. 1857-1932)
  • La Follette, Belle Case (1859–1931)
  • La Follette, Robert, Sr. (1855–1925)
  • Follette's Magazine
  • La Follette's Seaman's Act (1915)
  • Labor and Industrial Relations
  • Labor Legislation, State
  • Landis, Kenesaw Mountain (1866–1944)
  • Lathrop, Julia Clifford (1858–1932)
  • Lauck, William Jett (1879–1949)
  • Lawrence Textile Strike (1912)
  • Lawson, Thomas W. (1857–1925)
  • Lazarus, Emma (1849–1887)
  • League of Nations
  • Lease, Mary Elizabeth (1853–1933)
  • Legislative Reference Library
  • Leisure and Popular Culture
  • Lenin, Vladimir I. (1870–1924)
  • Lenroot, Irvine L. (1869–1949)
  • Lewis, Sinclair (1885–1951)
  • Lewis, William Henry (1868–1949)
  • Liberty Loans
  • Libraries, Public
  • Lincoln, Robert Todd (1843–1926)
  • Lincoln County Wars
  • Lincoln-Roosevelt League
  • Lindberg, Charles A. (1859–1924)
  • Lindsey, Benjamin Barr (1869–1943)
  • Lippmann, Walter (1889–1974)
  • Literature
  • Little Bighorn, Battle of the (1876)
  • Lloyd, Henry Demarest (1847–1903)
  • Lochner v. New York (1905)
  • Lodge, Henry Cabot (1850–1924)
  • Loewe v. Lawlor (1908)
  • London, Jack (1876–1916)
  • London, Meyer (1871–1926)
  • Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903)
  • Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904)
  • Lovejoy, Owen R. (1866–1961)
  • Low, Seth (1850–1916)
  • Lowden, Frank Orren (1861–1943)
  • Lowell, Abbott Lawrence (1856–1943)
  • Lowell, James Russell (1819–1891)
  • Ludlow Massacre (1914)
  • Lusk Committee
  • Lynching
  • M
  • Macfadden, Bernarr (1868–1955)
  • Macune, Charles W. (1851–1940)
  • Magazines, Mass Circulation
  • Mahan, Alfred Thayer (1840–1914)
  • Mail-Order Catalogs
  • Maine
  • Mann Act (1910)
  • Mann-Elkins Act (1910)
  • Markham, Edwin (1852–1940)
  • Marshall, Thomas R. (1854–1925)
  • Masses, The
  • Masters, Edgar Lee (1868–1950)
  • Mayo, Charles H. (1861–1939), and William J. Mayo (1865–1939)
  • McAdoo, William Gibbs (1863–1941)
  • McCarthy, Charles (1873–1921)
  • McClatchy, C.K. (1858–1936)
  • McClure, Samuel S. (1857–1949)
  • McCormick, Cyrus Hall (1809–1884)
  • McDowell, Mary Eliza (1852–1936)
  • McGovern, Francis E. (1866–1946)
  • McKelway, Alexander J. (1866–1918)
  • McKinley, William (1843–1901)
  • McReynolds, James Clark (1862–1946)
  • Mead, George Herbert (1863–1931)
  • Meat Inspection Act (1906)
  • Mellon, Andrew W. (1855–1937)
  • Mental Hygiene
  • Michelson, Albert Abraham (1852–1931)
  • Military Reform
  • Minnesota Rate Case
  • Mitchell, John (1870–1919)
  • Mobile Pledge
  • Modernism
  • Molly Maguires
  • Moody, Dwight L. (1837–1899)
  • Morgan, John Pierpont (1837–1913)
  • Moskowitz, Henry (1879–1936), and Belle Lindner Moskowitz (1877–1933)
  • Most, Johann (1846–1906)
  • Mothers' Pensions Acts
  • Motion Pictures
  • Muckraking
  • Mugwumps
  • Muir, John (1838–1914)
  • Muller v. Oregon (1908)
  • Municipal Bath Movement
  • Municipal Housekeeping
  • Municipal Ownership of Utilities
  • Munsey, Frank (1854–1925)
  • Murphy, Charles Francis (1858–1924)
  • Murphy, Edgar Gardner (1869–1913)
  • Museums and Historic Sites
  • Music
  • N
  • Nast, Thomas (1840–1902)
  • National Afro-American League
  • National American Woman Suffrage Association
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • National Association of Manufacturers
  • National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
  • National Board of Farm Organizations
  • National Catholic Welfare Council
  • National Child Labor Committee
  • National Citizens League
  • National Civic Federation
  • National Conference on Charities and Corrections
  • National Consumers League
  • National Education Association
  • National Housing Association
  • National Industrial Conference Board
  • National Labor Union
  • National Monetary Commission
  • National Municipal League
  • National Negro Business League
  • National Park Service, United States
  • National Progressive Republican League
  • National Security League
  • National Tax Association
  • National War Labor Board, United States
  • National Woman's Party
  • National Women's Trade Union League
  • Naturalism
  • Nearing, Scott (1883–1983)
  • Neighborhood Idea
  • Neutrality
  • New Freedom
  • New Nationalism
  • New South
  • New York State Factory Investigating Commission
  • Newell, Frederick Haynes (1862–1931)
  • Newlands, Francis G. (1848–1917)
  • Newspapers, Mass Circulation
  • Nonpartisan League
  • Norris, Frank (1870–1902)
  • Norris, George William (1861–1944)
  • North American Civic League for Immigrants
  • Northern Securities Company v. United States (1904)
  • Norton, Charles Eliot (1827–1908)
  • O
  • Ochs, Adolph S. (1858–1935)
  • O'Hare, Kate Richards (1876–1948)
  • O'Keeffe, Georgia (1887–1986)
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr. (1870–1957)
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law, Sr. (1822–1903)
  • Olney, Richard (1835–1917)
  • Open Door Policy
  • O'Reilly, Lenora (1870–1927)
  • Oshkosh, Reginald (1864–1932)
  • Ostrogorski, Moisei Yakovlevich (1854–1919)
  • O'Sullivan, Mary Kenney (1864–1943)
  • Ouimet, Francis (1893–1967)
  • Ovington, Mary White (1865–1951)
  • P
  • Page, Thomas Nelson (1853–1922)
  • Page, Walter Hines (1855–1918)
  • Page Act (1875)
  • Palmer, Alexander Mitchell (1872–1936)
  • Panama Canal
  • Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915)
  • Pan-American Exposition (1901)
  • Panic of 1907
  • Park, Maud Wood (1871–1955)
  • Parker, Alton Brooks (1852–1926)
  • Parker, Quanah (c. 1852-1911)
  • Paterson Textile Strike (1913)
  • Patrons of Husbandry (The Grange)
  • Patten, Simon N. (1852–1922)
  • Paul, Alice (1885–1977)
  • Peace Movement
  • Peirce, Charles S. (1839–1914)
  • Penal Reform
  • Penney, J.C. (1875–1971)
  • Penrose, Boies (1860–1921)
  • Pentecostalism
  • People's Party (Populists)
  • Perkins, Frances (1882–1965)
  • Perkins, George W. (1862–1920)
  • Pershing, John Joseph (1860–1948)
  • Phelan, James D. (1861–1930)
  • Phillips, David Graham (1867–1911)
  • Phillips, Ulrich B. (1877–1934)
  • Pickford, Mary (1893–1979)
  • Pinchot, Amos R.E. (1873–1944)
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  • Pittsburgh Survey (1907)
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  • Q
  • Quay, Matthew S. (1833–1904)
  • Quintasket, Christine (c. 1884-1936)
  • R
  • Race Riots
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  • Randolph, A. Philip (1889–1979)
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  • Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1882–1945)
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  • Roosevelt Corollary
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  • Rural Free Delivery
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  • Russell, Lillian (1861–1922)
  • Ruth, George Herman “Babe” (1895–1948)
  • Ryan, John A. (1869–1945)
  • S
  • Sabath, Adolph Joseph (1866–1952)
  • Sabbatarianism
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  • Sheppard-Towner Act (1921)
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  • Sherman, William T. (1820–1891)
  • Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
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  • Simons, Algie Martin (1870–1950), and May Wood Simons (1873–1948)
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  • Single-Tax Movement
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  • Swift and Company v. United States (1905)
  • T
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  • U
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  • V
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  • Vaudeville
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  • Villard, Oswald Garrison (1872–1949)
  • W
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  • Wagner, Robert F. (1877–1953)
  • Walker, Francis A. (1840–1897)
  • Walker, Madam C.J. (1867–1919)
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  • Walsh, David Ignatius (1872–1947)
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  • Wilson v. New (1917)
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  • Y
  • Yellow Journalism
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  • Z
  • Ziegfeld, Florenz, Jr. (1867–1932)
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