102 James Timberlake, Prohibition and the Progressive Movement, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1963. An older book, but still useful for making the case that prohibition was an integral part of progressive reform.
See also Brewing industry Beffel,J. M.: 169 Beggs,John I.: 154 Belgians: 181, 412—413 Belgium: 508, 559 Belle City Malleable Iron Company: 103 Beloit: and depression of 1893-1897, 12, 14; annexes farmland, 27; milk production, 53; ...
Martin J. Schiesl, The Politics of Efficiency: Municipal Administration and Reform in America, 1880–1920 (Berkeley: ... See also William Graebner, Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period: The Political Economy of Reform (Lexington: ...
Texan politician Alexander Watkins Terrell (1827–1912) authored election laws making it more difficult for black people to vote in the state. In March 1906 Terrell spoke before the National Civic Federation in New York City, ...
... 146, 160, 173–4 Oliver, James, 291 Oliver, Thomas, 181 Oregon, 149, 171, 179–81 O'Shaunessy, George, 324–6 Ostrander, Gilman, 169 Outlook, The, 52, 55,151,157, 250, 355 Palmer, A. Mitchell, 354, 366 Panic of 1907, 34, 80,406 Patton, ...
One final popular and provocative progressive novelist of note was David Graham Phillips. Known to many students of the Progressive Era as the muckraking journalist who wrote “The Treason of the Senate”—a scathing exposé on the ...
Biographical information is included on U.S. Presidents during the era, and this book ends with a chapter that describes the era's end.
Buenker and Kantowicz have edited an excellent, handy reference guide to one of the most important, and certainly one of the most written about, eras of American history. Including entries...
Americans of the Progressive Era Steven J. Diner ... In the shoe manufacturing town of Lynn , Massachusetts , workers of English , Irish , Italian , Greek , Scandinavian , and Jewish origin lived in the same neighborhoods , participated ...
This volume presents documents that illustrate the variety of experiences and themes involved in the transformation of American political, economic, and social systems during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1870-1920).