The Progressive Era
Readings in the Progressive Era
Read these documents- Mr. Coal's Story
- New York's New Building Code
- The Wreck of the Home, regarding tenement labor and fashion
- Washington Gladden, Applied Christianity
- Twenty Years at Hull House, Chapter XIII: Public Activities and Investigations
- What role did statistics and scholarly reports play in Progressive rhetoric?
- How did Washington Gladden’s critique of Industrial America reflect his Christian religious convictions? How did he reconcile Christianity with capitalism?
- What images of home life and the family did Progressives conjure? How did these compare with the reality of working-class and immigrant America?
- What was the relationship between Progressive organizations and government institutions?
- How did the Progressives differ from previous reformers (Unions, Populists, etc.)? Consider especially the issue of child labor.
- In what ways was the Progressive Movement a specifically Middle-Class reform effort?
Documents On-Line
- How the Other Half Lives: Hypertext version of Jacob Riis's muckraking classic.
- On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century
- Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920. Part of the National Archives American Memory project.
- The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906. Part of the National Archives American Memory project.
- An indexed collection of excerpted writings by key individuals at the turn of the century, Readings for the Emergence of Modern America was compiled by Professor K. Austin Kerr at Ohio State University.
- Cartoons from the 1912 Presidential Election
Bibliographies On-Line
- African-American Club Women and the National Association of Colored Women Bibliography, compiled via the H-Net list on Women's Studies by Nancy Marie Robertson.
- Maternalist Feminism Bibliography, compiled via the H-Net list on Women's Studies by Heather L. Garrett.