Reforming America · A Thematic Encyclopedia and Document Collection of the Progressive Era [2 Volumes] by Johnson, Jeffrey A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chronology Volume 1

Social and Political Life

Introduction Addams, Jane Anthony, Susan B. Big Stick Diplomacy Birth Control The Boxer Rebellion Brandeis, Louis Bryan, William Jennings Bull Moose Party Catt, Carrie Chapman City Management and Planning Corruption Country Life Commission Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt “W.E.B.,” Eighteenth Amendment Gentlemen’s Agreement Gilman, Charlotte Perkins The Grange Hughes, Charles Evans Imperialism Initiative and Referendum La Follette, Sr., Robert M. “Fighting Bob,” Lodge, Henry Cabot Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock The Mann Act Meat Inspection Act Muir, John Nadir of American Race Relations National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) National Park Service Niagara Movement Nineteenth Amendment Open Door Policy Panama Canal Paul, Alice The Platt Amendment Plessy v. Ferguson The Populist (People’s) Party Preparedness The Progressive Party Pure Food and Drug Act Red Scare Roosevelt, Theodore Sanger, Margaret Selective Service Act Seventeenth Amendment Shaw, Josephine Sixteenth Amendment Smith, Jr., Alfred “Al” Emanuel Society of American Indians Spanish-American War Taft, William Howard Tenement Houses The Titanic Wagner, Robert Ferdinand Washington, Booker T. Wells, Ida B. Willard, Frances Wilson, Woodrow Winters v. U.S. World War I

Primary Documents

“The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements” by Jane Addams “Do You Know?” by Carrie Chapman Catt “Address of the Niagara Movement, to the Country” by W.E.B. Du Bois “The American Forests” Excerpts from Our National Parks by John Muir People’s Party Platform for 1896 Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League Plessy v. Ferguson How the Other Half Lives (Excerpt) by Jacob Riis “The Strenuous Life” Speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, by Theodore Roosevelt “The Corruption of Municipal Politics” Excerpt from The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens War Messages Presidential Address to Congress (Excerpt) by Woodrow Wilson

Work and Economic Life

Introduction American Federation of Labor Anaconda Mining Company Anthracite Coal Mine Strike Armour and Company Assembly Line “Bread and Butter” Unionism Bread and Roses Strike (Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912) Butte, Montana Carnegie, Andrew Child Labor Clayton Antitrust Act Debs, Eugene V. Eight-Hour Day Elkins Act Ely, Richard Theodore F.W. Woolworth Company Federal Reserve Act Field, Sara Bard Georgism/Henry George Gompers, Samuel The Gospel of Wealth Haymarket Riots Haywood, William “Big Bill,” Homestead Strike Industrial Workers of the World The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union Jones, Mary “Mother,” Kelley, Florence Knights of Labor Lochner v. New York Macy’s Marshall Field’s The Middle Class Model T / Henry Ford Morgan, J.P. (John Pierpont) Muller v. Oregon Nabisco Company The Oscar Mayer Company The Panic of 1907 Pinkertons Pullman Strike Robber Barons Rockefeller, John D. Scientific Management Sears, Roebuck & Company Sharecropping Sherman Antitrust Act Standard Oil Steunenberg, Frank Tariff Taylor, Frederick Winslow Theory of the Leisure Class Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trust Busting Unionism United Mine Workers (of America) Welfare Capitalism Western Federation of Miners (WFM) Women’s Trade Union League Workers’ Compensation Laws

Primary Documents

“No Cross of Gold” by William Jennings Bryan “The Gospel of Wealth” (Excerpt) by Andrew Carnegie “Arouse Ye Slaves!” by Eugene V. Debs “What Does Labor Want?” (Excerpt) by Samuel Gompers “The General Strike” by William “Big Bill” Haywood “Next!” by Udo J. Keppler “Wall Street Owns This Country” by Mary Lease The Octopus: A Story of California (Excerpt) by Frank Norris The History of the Standard Oil Company (Excerpt) by Ida Tarbell

Volume 2

Cultural and Religious Life

Introduction American Birth Control League Americanization Angel Island Anti-Saloon League The Brownsville Affair Carlisle School Chautauqua Dodge (Luhan), Mabel Ellis Island Fundamentalism, The Fundamentals Garvey, Marcus Gibbons, James Gladden, Washington Great Migration Great White Fleet Immigration, Irish Immigration, Italian Immigration, Jewish Jazz Jim Crow Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis, 1904) Manhood and Masculinity McGlynn, Edward McPherson, Aimee Semple Mencken, Henry Louis “Muscular Christianity,” Nation, Carry (Carrie) Nativism Olmsted, Frederick Law Prostitution Rauschenbusch, Walter Rough Riders Saloon The Salvation Army Scopes “Monkey” Trial Settlement Houses Sheldon, Charles Monroe / In His Steps Social Gospel Strong, Josiah Sunday, Billy Temperance Victorianism Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) The World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893) Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)

Primary Documents

Closing Statement in the Scopes Trial (Excerpt) by William Jennings Bryan “How Immigrants Are Inspected” (Excerpt) by Dr. Allan McLaughlin In His Steps: “What Would Jesus Do?” by Charles Sheldon Our Country (Excerpt) by Josiah Strong “Get on the Water Wagon” (Excerpt) by Billy Sunday

Science, Literature, and the Arts

Introduction Art Nouveau Ashcan School Beard, Charles A. Bellamy, Edward Bourne, Randolph S. Cosmopolitan Crane, Stephen Dewey, John Dos Passos, John Dreiser, Theodore Edison, Thomas Alva Eugenics The Frontier Thesis Garland, Hamlin Hearst, William Randolph James, Henry The Jungle Ladies’ Home Journal London, Jack McClure’s Magazine Millay, Edna St. Vincent Muckrakers New Woman Norris, Frank O’Neill, Eugene Palmer College of Chiropractic Phillips, David Graham Phonograph Phrenology Pinchot, Gifford Pulitzer, Joseph Radio Sinclair, Upton Sloan, John French Social Darwinism Spencer, Herbert Steffens, Lincoln Sullivan School / Louis Sullivan Sumner, William Graham Tarbell, Ida Minerva Tiffany, Louis Comfort White, Stanford Wright Brothers / Kitty Hawk Yellow Journalism

Primary Documents

An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (Excerpt) by Charles Beard Looking Backward, 2000–1887 (Excerpt) by Edward Bellamy “The Pre-Commercial Period of the Telephone” (Excerpt) by Alexander Graham Bell Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane “The Social Possibilities of War” by John Dewey “The Simple Life in a Nutshell” by J.H. Kellogg The Jungle (Excerpt) by Upton Sinclair “The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered” by Louis Sullivan “How We Made the First Flight” by Orville Wright

Sports and Popular Culture

Introduction Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty,” Basketball “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” The Birth of a Nation Black Sox Scandal Boy Scouts Camp Fire Girls Chaplin, Charlie Cobb, Tyrus Raymond “Ty,” Coney Island DeMille, Cecil B. Dempsey, William Harrison “Jack,” Duncan, Isadora Eastman Kodak Company Fairbanks, Douglas Gibson Girl Grange, Harold Edward “Red,” The Great Train Robbery Houdini, Harry Jackson, Joseph Jefferson “Shoeless Joe,” Jeffries, James Jackson “Jim,” Johnson, John Arthur “Jack,” Joplin, Scott Naismith, James National Board of Censorship National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Negro Leagues Nickelodeons Pickford, Mary Ragtime Ruth, George Herman “Babe,” Sullivan, John L. Tin Pan Alley Vaudeville What Happened to Mary White, Pearl Williams, Bert Wister, Owen Yezierska, Anzia Ziegfeld Follies

Primary Documents

Boy Scout Handbook “Gentleman” Jim Corbett Knocks Out John L. Sullivan “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” (Excerpt) by F. Scott Fitzgerald “Football Rules Made at Last,” “Fight of the Century” Race Riots by Edmund Waller “Ted” Gale “Too Many Baseball Home-Runs in 1924 and Possible Solutions—1925,” The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (Excerpt) by Owen Wister

Bibliographic Essay About the Editor and Contributors Index

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