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Progressive Era (1900-17)


General Resources // Foreign Policy // The Woman's Suffrage Movement
Other Women's Issues
Race and Ethnic Issues
Muckrakers, Writers and Social Critics
Social History
Politics
Labor, Business, Industry, and Economics

General Progressive Era Resources:
PBS American Experience - 1900
US Historical Census Data Browser


Foreign Policy:
Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion
The Gathering Storm: The Boxer Rebellion
Ch'ing China: The Boxer Rebellion
Boxer Rebellion
Panama Canal Museum
Roosevelt Corollary




Progressive Era Reforms:

Susan B. Anthony House
1913 Suffrage Parade
75 Suffragists
Carrie Chapman Catt // Carrie Chapman Catt - Suffragist and Peace Advocate
Carrie Chapman Catt //
The 19th Amendment - Articles from the New York Times



Other Womean's Issues
Margaret Sanger Papers // Margaret Sanger by Gloria Steinam
Readings from Frances Kellor
Jane Addams
About Jane Addams
Hull House Museum (Jane Addams)


Race and Ethnic Issues:
The Niagara Movement
NAACP


Muckrakers, Writers, and Social Critics
Muckrakers // McClure's Magazine Archives
Muckraking Journalism // McClure's Magazine
Everybody's Magazine // Cosmopolitan Magazine
Pittsburgh: A City Shamed by Lincoln Steffens
The Lessons of Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Jane Addams's Hull House as a Feminist Initiative
Florence Kelley - A Woman of Fierce Fidelity
Jack London's Writings
Introduction to The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens

Social History:

Religious Issues:

Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel
The Social Gospel
Hitting the Sawdust Trail with Billy Sunday
Image Gallery - Billy Sunday

Education
The Center for John Dewey Studies

Prohibition

18th Amendment
The History of the Anti-Saloon League
Prohibition


Food and Drugs
Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906
Harrison Narcotics Act // Thinking About Drug Legalization


The Galveston Hurricane


Entertainment:

Early 20th Century Dance
Harry Houdini


Progressive Era Politics:

Socialism
For more Eugene Debs and Socialists, see 19th Century Politics Page.


Robert LaFollette
Robert LaFollette
Robert LaFollette


Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Papers at the Library of Congress
Theodore Roosevelt Association
Theodore Roosevelt - Icon of the American Century
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
Theodore Roosevelt Biography
Theodore Roosevelt Biography
Picture Biography of Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt's Voice


Leon Czolgosz
Leon Czolgosz - McKinley's Assassin
Last Words of Leon Czolgosz
Early Movies - The Execution of Leon Czolgosz


17th Amendment

The 17th Amendment


William Howard Taft


Woodrow Wilson



Other Political Topics

The Federal Reserve Bunk
Louis Brandeis // The People's Attorney - Louis Brandeis

Progressive Era Labor, Business, Industry, and Economics:
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies)
A Short History of the Wobblies
Inside an American Factory (1904)
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
Photos of Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Frederick Taylor - Early Century Management Consultant
The Autobiography of Mother Jones
The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit - Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor
The Ludlow Massacre



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