...This chapter tackles the discontents within modern education. It starts with the battle of educational policy and parents' rights. During the Progressive Era in the mid-twentieth century, public education became the means to cope with all sorts of social changes, such as the wave of foreign...

... trajectory over the first few decades of the twentieth century. The chapter discusses the tensions between Catholics-as-Americans and Catholics-in-America operating as fundamental fissures running through the Gilded Age and Progressive-Era Catholicism. American history and nation Catholic claims on role...

... and Garfield's disappointment in America's failure to join the League of Nations. It also shows the Progressive Era origins of the Institute and the importance of the political and intellectual relationship formed between Garfield and Wilson at Princeton University in the early 1900s. The book restores...

...This book explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who composed many of their workforces. As the book argues, attribution of industrial-era class conflict to an “alien” presence...

...This chapter examines presidential mandate rhetoric during the institutional evolution and reform in the Progressive Era. Like Grover Cleveland and William McKinley before him, Theodore Roosevelt used popular rhetoric to present himself as a leader, not a follower, of the people and of the party...

...This chapter explores Dwight Eisenhower's and Lyndon Johnson's presidencies to reveal that choices about how to publicly interpret elections were shaped by a combination of political strategy and visions of the office. Unlike Progressive Era presidents who sought to expand their role...

... in the United States over the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. It also talks about the growth of US industry in the early twentieth century that coupled market capitalism with scientific optimization moderated by Progressive Era reforms. The chapter reviews...

...This concluding chapter asserts that the United States has changed significantly since the 1830s, when American women first entered collegiate education. Both the antebellum period and the late Progressive Era were hotbeds of reform, but different environments produced different crops. Educational...

...Chapter Two recounts the story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire as the seminal event that ushered in the changes and reforms to workplace safety that were realized in the Progressive Era. Workers compensation, state industrial commissions and the study of occupational diseases were all born from...

... France Germany Hawaii New Orleans Louisiana sexual economy of war sexuality military military justice U.S. Army Progressive Era moral reform social reform General Pershing is filled with anxiety about the sexual morale of troops. —Future Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter to Secretary...

...This chapter assesses how Woodrow Wilson's candidacy, along with that of Theodore Roosevelt and Eugene Debs, signaled the height of the Progressive Era, a time beginning in the early 1900s when Americans believed that sufficient application of proper ways and means could alleviate virtually any...

...This chapter reviews how Catholicism played host to strongly contested internal battles between modernists and traditionalists during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. It explains that the conflict established the US Catholic Church and its influence on the social and political life...

... interpretation of American life in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, demonstrating the surprising success of an often-embattled religious group in securing for itself a place in the national community and in profoundly altering what it meant to be an American in the modern world....

... focused on workers' rights, equality, and fairness. Conflicts in Philadelphia's transit industry showed the violence brewing in Progressive Era labor relations and convinced city leaders that they could not let that conflict loose on the city again. Frankford Germantown Kensington Philadelphia Rapid...

..., which was the selling of municipal favors or privileges by politicians for personal profit. It also describes Tuley's sense of a noble crusade of righteousness that was typical of Progressive Era reformers, who sought to purge their cities of corruption, dishonesty, and bad government. The chapter...

...This concluding chapter presents three major areas of change in presidential mandate rhetoric. First, presidential efforts to justify their actions with electoral logic have become more frequent since the Nixon presidency, reverting to patterns more typical of the Progressive Era. Second...

.... Instead, college graduates—who formed a disproportionate number of the leaders and reformers of the Progressive Era—contributed to the creation of separate male and female cultures within Progressive Era public life and beyond. The book illuminates the historical intersection of gender ideals, religious...

... the Progressive era, Mary Field Parton, a close friend of Clarence Darrow, pursued social justice as a settlement house worker and as a leading writer on labor organizing, transforming pragmatic principles into action. The book shows how, following the upheavals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth...