Progressive Era

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• 12/13/2020
  

  Review of Robert Putnam’s "The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again"

  by Walter G. Moss

  Robert Putnam's book on the "Great Divergence" toward economic inequality, political polarization and social fragmentation contains ample historical generalization, but asks big questions that it will be worth historians' time to engage. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/29/2020
  

  Trump Venerates Teddy Roosevelt, But Roosevelt Would Have Hated Trump

  by David Gessner

  Although Theodore Roosevelt's tendencies toward racism is rightly criticized today, he also was a relentless critic of the power of predatory wealth as the biggest danger to society. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/22/2020
  

  Liberal, Progressive — And Racist? The Sierra Club Faces Its White-Supremacist History

  The Sierra Club isn’t the only organization that is shaking its foundations. Leaders of predominantly white, liberal and progressive groups throughout the field of conservation say they are taking a hard look within their organizations and don’t like what they see.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/10/2020
  

  The Template for Using White Privilege to Fight Racism

  by Nancy C. Unger

  Whiteness enables allies in this struggle to push in ways that African Americans sometimes cannot without disproportionate risk. That was Belle La Follette’s secret — she used white privilege to fight against it.

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• 5/31/2020
  

  When the President’s Son-In-Law Truly Was a Great Success

  by Gail Radford

  Treasury Secretary William McAdoo was a presidential son-in-law whose knowledge, experience, and belief in the role of government made him an effective public servant.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/23/2020
  

  Excluding Those in the Sex Industry from Covid-19 Relief is a Mistake

  by Leah LaGrone

  Government needs to back off making moral value judgments shaped by Christian values when it comes to women’s work, and instead to focus on the harsh economic reality facing millions of women. 

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• 4/12/2020
  

  Woman Citizen: On This Day in 1920 Helen Hamilton Gardener Became the Highest-Ranking Woman in Federal Government

  by Kimberly A. Hamlin

  Gardener’s historic appointment as U.S. Civil Service Commissioner marked one symbolic step toward the idea that women should be universally recognized as “self- respecting, self- directing human units with brains and bodies sacredly their own.”

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• SOURCE: Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
  4/7/2020
  

  SHGAPE Prizes 2020

  by Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

  Andrew Huebner, Caroline Grego, Alana Toulin and Mark C. Boxell are winners of annual prizes from the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 

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• 2/2/20
  

  How the South Dominated American Education

  by John Heffron

  An excerpt from John Heffron's The Rise of the South in American Thought and Education: The Rockefeller Years (1902-1917). 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/30/19
  

  To rescue democracy, we must revive the reforms of the Progressive Era

  by Ganesh Sitaraman

  The playbook for taming industrial capitalism already exists. It’s the essential starting point for reform today.

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• 7/21/19
  

  Jane Addams and Lillian Wald: Imagining Social Justice from the Outside

  by Michael Bronski

  Addams and Wald were women who loved other women and that these relationships – as well as the female friendship networks in which they were involved – were profoundly instrumental to their vision of social justice that changed America. 

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• 5-18-14
  

  What We Can Learn from the Progressives Is What Not to Do

  by David Huyssen

  Progressive reforms made material differences in the lives of U.S. workers, but they failed in their larger goal of slowing or reversing inequality.