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The Progressive Era Primary Documents on Events from 1890 to 1914
Book Code: GR2097
ISBN: 0-313-32097-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32097-2
400 pages, figures
Greenwood Press
Publication: 4/30/2004
List Price: $71.95 (UK Sterling Price: £41.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Every chapter is excellent. Burt's writing is graceful and engaging. She presents each issue clearly, in context, and with multiple points of view. The book could be used as a main text for a progressive era journalism class, and as a secondary text for a journalism history of an American history course. It would also be useful as a secondary text for a political science class. This book should also be considered for use in media diversity classes where the historical context of labor clases, census controversy, lynching, immigration, and women's suffrage all resonate with and provide background for today's class, race. and gender issues.
    —American Journalism
    Fall 2004
Description: With the death of southern reconstruction, Americans looked first westward and then abroad to fulfill their manifest destiny. Along the way, robber barons built railroads and oil trusts, populism burned across the prairies, currency went off the gold standard, immigrants poured into urban areas, and the United States won imperial outposts in Cuba and the Philippines. Beginning with an extensive overview essay of the period, this book focuses on the issues of the Progressive Era through contemporary accounts of the people involved. Each issue is presented with an introductory essay and multiple primary documents from the newspapers of the day, which illustrate both sides of the debate. This is a perfect resource for students interested in the controversial and tumultuous changes America underwent during the Industrial Age and up to the start of World War I.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Forward
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: The Progressive Era and Newspapers
  • The Census of 1890 Measures American Life and Defines Some of Its Problems
  • The Death of Sitting Bull and the Battle of Wounded Knee, December 1890
  • Nativist Fears Limit Chinese Immigration, May 1892
  • The Homestead Strike Pits Labor Against Management, 1892
  • Lynch Law Terrorizes Blacks in the South
  • Coxey's Army Marches on Washington, 1894
  • The Sinking of the Maine, Feb 15, 1898
  • The Treaty of Paris Launches America as an Imperialist Power, Dec. 10, 1898
  • The Turn of the 20th Century Brings Hopes and Fears
  • President William McKinley Is Assassinated, Sept. 6, 1901
  • America Backs the Panamanian Revolution, November 1903
  • The Socialist Party Challenges the Status Quo, 1904
  • The Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire, March 25, 1911
  • The Titanic Disaster, April 14, 1912
  • Women Demand the Right to Vote, 1911-1912
  • Congress Adopts the Federal Income Tax, February 1913
  • The Prohibition Movement Gains in the States and Congress, 1900-1913
  • Women March for Suffrage in Washington, March 1913
  • The 17th Amendment Reforms the Senate, May 1913
  • Ludlow Mine Massacre, April 1914
  • Appendix A: Chronology, 1890-1914
  • Appendix B: Newspapers Cited
  • Bibliography
LC Card Number: 2003027518
LCC Class: E661
Dewey Class: 973
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