The Progressives

Unit Resources

Unit Reference Materials

Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life. New York: Basic Books, 2002.

Goddard, Henry Herbert. The Kallikak Family. 1912. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1973.

Moore, Jacqueline M. Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Struggle for Racial Uplift. Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2003.

Nash, Gary B., Julie Roy Jeffrey, John R. Howe. Peter J. Frederick, and Allan M. Winkler. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, 6th ed. New York: Pearson Education Inc., 2004. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc.

Wood, Peter, Jacqueline Jones, Thomas Borstelmann, Elaine Tyler May, and Vicki Ruiz. Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States. New York: Pearson Education Inc., 2003. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc.

Further Reading

Bailey, Beth. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.

Banner, Lois W. American Beauty. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1983.

Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Loewen, James. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York: The New Press, 1995.

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Women in the Progressive Era (PDF)

The Constitution in Crisis: The Red Scare of 1919-1920 (PDF)

With Speech as My Weapon: Emma Goldman and the First Amendment (PDF)

Organization of American Historians: Talking History Radio Program

History of Child Labor in the United States: a talk with Kristi Lindenmyer

7 September 1998 air date
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This program also features a commentary by David Larson, Creighton University labor law professor, on why Labor Day should be celebrated.