Offers information on the people, events, inventions, political developments, organizations, and other forces that led to significant changes in the United States during the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.
So why should the period from 1860 to 1920, a period during which Americans contested the nature of the ... The West and Reconstruction. urbana: university of Illinois Press. ... The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865–1914.
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).
Gail Hamilton , Biography of James G. Blaine ( Norwich , CT : Henry Bill , 1895 ) , 66 . 3. Hamilton , Blaine , 85 . 4. Congressional Globe , 39th Cong . , 1st sess . , 1866 , 2299 . 5. James G. Blaine , Twenty Years of Congress : From ...
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Combining materials from traditional political history with newer materials from social, ethnic, and cultural history, the book reflects historiographic trends that have influenced the writing of Gilded Age and Progressive Era histories in ...
This reference provides definitive coverage of the social and cultural developments of the period, as well as its political and economic history. This work features hundreds of detailed entries on...
Timberlake, James H. Prohibition and the Progressive Movement, 1900–1920. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963. Theater [o] THE AMERICAN THEATER ...
Including important primary documents produced by children themselves, the essays in this volume foreground the role that youth played in exerting agency over their own lives and in contesting the policies that sought to protect and control ...
Presents study tools on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era including overviews of such aspects as industrialization, immigration, westward expansion, and invention; twenty-five biographical profiles; eighteen primary sources; a time line; ...
A Historical Exploration of Literature Wendy Martin Ph.D., Cecelia Tichi. featured investigative narratives divulging illegal practices in business, industry, and government. Under its hyper-energetic founder Samuel S. McClure, ...