Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Series Foreword xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Chronology xix
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Progressive Era 1
Chapter 2 Farmers and Workers Struggle for Justice 11
Chapter 3 Progressive Politics 27
Chapter 4 The Changing City 41
Chapter 5 Women Raise Their Political Voice 57
Chapter 6 African Americans in the Progressive Age 73
Chapter 7 Literature in the Progressive Age 95
Chapter 8 Religion in the Progressive Age 121
Chapter 9 President Theodore Roosevelt Takes on Big Business, Big Labor, and Conservation 137
Chapter 10 Progressives and Foreign Policy 159
Analytical Essays 179
Counterfactual Essay: The Election of 1896 179
Defining Moments 183
Perspectives Essay 188
Primary Document Essay 197
Biographical Essays 201
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones 201
Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) 204
Ray Stannard Baker 209
Henry Flagler 213
George Washington Plunkett of Tammany Hall 218
Victoria Woodhull 225
Randolph Bourne 229
Primary Documents 235
1 Jacob Riis Describes Life among the Urban Poor(1890) 235
2 William Jennings Bryan: Cross of Gold Speech (1896) 238
3 Progressive Party Platform (1912) 240
4 Justice John Marshall Harlan's Dissent to Plessy vs. Ferguson Decision (1896) 243
5 Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech 246
6 W. E. B. Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro (1899) 248
7 Upton Sinclair Exposes the Meat Industry (1906) 248
8 Samuel McClure Launches the Muckraking Era(1903) 261
9 Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities (1904) 262
10 Cary Nation: Crusader for Temperance (1909) 263
11 Walter Rauschenbusch Calls for a New Age of Christianity (1916) 265
12 John Muir on the National Parks (1901) 267
13 Teddy Roosevelt on Trusts (1901) 268
14 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911) 270
15 Jane Addams on Suffrage (1909) 276
16 President Woodrow Wilson's Joint Address to Congress, Leading to a Declaration of War against Germany (1917) 277
17 Eugene V. Debs Defends Freedom of Speech and the Working Class (1918) 279
Annotated Bibliography 283
Index 295