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The Square Deal: Theodore Roosevelt
and the Themes of Progressive Reform
Books
These are recent general studies of Progressive reform
and its effects on American society:
Diner, Steven J. A Very Different Age: Americans
Of The Progressive Era. New York: Hill and Wang,
1998.
Flanagan, Maureen A. America Reformed: Progressives
And Progressivisms, 1890s-1920s. New York Oxford
University Press, 2007.
McGerr, Michael E. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise
And Fall Of The Progressive Movement In America, 1870-1920.
New York Free Press, c2003.
Stromquist, Shelton. Reinventing "The People":
The Progressive Movement, The Class Problem, And The
Origins Of Modern Liberalism. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, c2006.
These studies of industrial unrests and violence at
the end of the nineteenth century are worth a look:
Bruce, Robert V. 1877: Year Of Violence. Indianapolis,
Bobbs-Merrill [1959]. I know it’s old, but it’s
still very, very good. This is why some books are called
“classics.” Republished in 1989.
Demarest, David P., ed. "The River Ran Red":
Homestead 1892. Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh
Press, c1992. Combines contemporary accounts of events
with essays by modern scholars.
Krooth, Richard. A Century Passing: Carnegie, Steel
And The Fate Of Homestead. Lanham, Md. : University
Press of America, c2004.
Krause, Paul. The Battle For Homestead, 1880-1892:
Politics, Culture, And Steel. Pittsburgh: University
of Pittsburgh Press, c1992.
Papke, David Ray. The Pullman Case: The Clash Of
Labor And Capital In Industrial America. Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, c1999.
Standiford, Les. Meet You In Hell: Andrew Carnegie,
Henry Clay Frick, And The Bitter Partnership That Transformed
America. New York: Crown Publishers, c2005. The
management “partnership” in the Homestead
strike.
Stowell, David O. Streets, Railroads, And The Great
Strike Of 1877. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1999.
These authors will help you reconsider the industrialization
of the United States by the turn of the twentieth century:
Bensel, Richard Franklin. The Political Economy
Of American Industrialization, 1877-1900. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Licht, Walter. Industrializing America: The Nineteenth
Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1995.
Meyer, David R. The Roots Of American Industrialization.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
For muckraking journalists, the history of the Pure
Food and Drug Act and Roosevelt’s role in this
progressive cause, you can use the resources suggested
for our June 2008 essay on Upton Sinclair’s The
Jungle:
http://www.historynow.org/06_2008/ask2d.html
The role of women in progressive reform activities
has always fascinated me. If you’d like to know
more, start with these general studies:
Mani, Bonnie G. Women, Power, And Political Change.
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, c2007.
Muncy, Robyn. Creating A Female Dominion In American
Reform, 1890-1935. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1991.
Schneider, Dorothy and Carl J. American Women In
The Progressive Era, 1900-1920. New York: Facts
on File, c1993.
Spain, Daphne. How Women Saved The City. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, c2001.
No one better exemplified the role of women in the
progressive movement than Roosevelt’s niece Eleanor.
The first volume of Blanche Cook’s splendid life
of Mrs. Roosevelt chronicles these years, and it’s
just great:
Cook, Blanche Wiesen. Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1933.
Vol.1. New York, NY: Viking, 1992.
For the woman’s suffrage movement, look at the
essays and resources suggested for our March 2006 issue:
http://www.historynow.org/03_2006/index.html
These books chronicle the emergence of the settlement
house movement:
Carson, Mina Julia. Settlement Folk: Social Thought
And The American Settlement Movement, 1885-1930.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Davis, Allen Freeman. Spearheads For Reform: The
Social Settlements And The Progressive Movement, 1890-1914.
New York, Oxford University Press, 1967.
Individual settlement house leaders have received extensive
attention. See my suggestions for Jane Addams in my
resources for Professor Bender’s article. For
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, you might start with:
Edwards, Linda McMurry. To Keep The Waters Troubled:
The Life Of Ida B. Wells. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998.
Schechter, Patricia Ann. Ida B. Wells-Barnett And
American Reform, 1880-1930. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, c2001.
Thompson, Mildred I. Ida B. Wells-Barnett: An Exploratory
Study Of An American Black Woman, 1893-1930. Brooklyn,
N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1990.
These will serve you well for Lillian Wald:
Daniels, Doris. Always A Sister: The Feminism Of
Lillian D. Wald. New York: Feminist Press at the
City University of New York, c1989.
Duffus, R.L. Lillian Wald, Neighbor And Crusader.
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1938.
These books provide background on Federal action to
control the corporate power of the trusts:
Broz, J. Lawrence. The International Origins Of
The Federal Reserve System. Ithaca, N. Y. : Cornell
University Press, 1997.
Hoogenboom, Ari and Olive. A History Of The ICC:
From Panacea To Palliative. New York: Norton, c1976.
Letwin, William. Law And Economic Policy In America:
The Evolution Of The Sherman Antitrust Act. New
York, Random House, 1965.
Stone, Richard D. The Interstate Commerce Commission
And The Railroad Industry: A History Of Regulatory Policy.
New York: Praeger, 1991.
West, Robert Craig. Banking Reform And The Federal
Reserve, 1863-1923. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 1977.
Some of the less attractive and puritanical aspects
of American Progressivism are studied here:
Engs, Ruth C. The Eugenics Movement: An Encyclopedia.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005.
Parker, Alison M. Purifying America: Women, Cultural
Reform, And Pro-Censorship Activism, 1873-1933.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1997.
Wheeler, Leigh Ann. Against Obscenity: Reform And
The Politics Of Womanhood In America, 1873-1935.
Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Finally, this study on the Progressive movement’s
tragic failure to deal with racial injustice:
Southern, David W. The Progressive Era And Race:
Reaction And Reform, 1900-1917. Wheeling, Ill.:
Harlan Davidson, c2005.
Internet:
For nineteenth century industrialization, look at our
December 2006 issue:
http://www.historynow.org/12_2006/index.html
The Digital History project has interesting offerings
for the Progressive Era, including lesson plans such
as: Responses to Industrialization, Imperialism and
the Spanish-American War, Urban Political Machines,
Immigration, Problems of Youth, Farmers Revolt, and
Progressive Reform and the Trusts:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/handouts.cfm
The New York State Library has a nifty collection of
source materials on the 1877 Railroad Strike. Don’t
be misled by the modest design of the website–
the content is terrific:
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/teacherguides/strike/
Northern Illinois University Libraries’ website
“Illinois during the Gilded Age” is of more
than statewide interest. Take a good look at the segment
on the Pullman Strike--source documents, videos, excellent
background essays, images:
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/pullman/
And they have thought provoking lesson plans:
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/teachers.html
And a good page for Ida Wells-Burnett:
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/idabwells/biography.html
The National Parks Service offers a modest but interesting
webpage on Wells-Barnett as well:
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/il2.html
The Jewish Women’s Archive online exhibit on
Lillian Wald and the Henry St. Settlement is useful:
http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/wald/lw4.html
Don’t miss this one: “Eleanor Roosevelt
and Progressivism” in the “Lesson Plans
& Lecture Notes” of the Eleanor Roosevelt
Papers website at George Washington University. It’s
great:
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/lesson-plans/notes-er-and-progressivism.cfm
Chicago Historical Society’s Online Encyclopedia
of Chicago will be a good resource in many areas. Here,
for instance is, the fine brief essay on the “good
government” movement in America:
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/527.html
and one on the settlement house movement:
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1135.html
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