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The Progressive Era Primary Documents on Events from 1890 to 1914
Elizabeth V. Burt
ISBN: 0-313-32097-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32097-2
400 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 4/30/2004
List Price: $71.95 (UK Sterling Price: £49.95)
Discount Price: $35.98 Sale Price for U.S. Customers Only. Save 50%. Ends 12/31/2009.
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: 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.

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
About the Author: ELIZABETH V. BURT is Associate Professor at the School of Communication, University of Hartford. She is the author of Women's Press Organizations, 1881-1999 (Greenwood Press, 2000), and has published many articles and book chapters on issues of the Progressive Era, social movements, and the woman suffrage movement.
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