... issues of power and politics that accompanied disaster citizenship during the Progressive Era that saw survivors develop networks of solidarity and obligation to help each other. The book is divided into three sections: the first is about individuals in the first hours and days of each of the Salem...

...Ruth Suckow’s novel, The Odyssey of a Nice Girl (1925), based on her elocution school experiences, demonstrates how gender shaped women’s artistic lives in the Progressive era. Elocution enhanced men’s careers, yet women’s voices were for education or domestic entertainment...

...This book examines the complexities of Fannie Barrier Williams's life and how she developed intellectual insights into the intersectionality of privilege, race, labor, and gender by crossing regional borders. It explores how Barrier Williams's emergence as an activist influenced the Progressive Era...

...The epilogue connects discussions of antifascism today to Adamic, including Antifa. It points to the Black Lives Matter movement as building on the legacy of antifascism. It also highlights the fact that Adamic served as the intellectual bridge between Progressive Era cultural pluralists...

...The national movement to abolish child labor, led by reformer Owen Lovejoy, entered its peak political and cultural phase at the height of the Progressive Era. This chapter reveals that the movement’s embrace of federal authority became increasingly religious in nature as it joined forces...

... to acknowledge the continuity of feminist activism across the Progressive era and the New Deal, rethink the notion of feminist leadership, reevaluate academic endeavors as central to American activism, and recognize the diversity and the interrelatedness of the many issues that women considered “feminist...

... that Progressive Era home recording technologies and domestic media consumption fostered and encouraged radio bootlegging practices. convergence technological domesticity Industrial Revolution Progressive Era ephemerality preservation culture wireless radio Baudelaire Charles Daguerre Louis du Maurier...

... the meanings of the early years of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in relation to scholarship on Progressive Era America, the Midwest, popular culture, and sport history. Fisher Carl Graham Indianapolis Motor Speedway IMS space annihilation of Allison James bricks Geertz Clifford Indianapolis modernity...

...Sleep Fictions argues that US literature provided its own response to the nation’s Progressive-Era obsession with wakefulness. Narratives by authors Henry James, Charles Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman emerged at a time when conceptions of rest were reshaped by the coalescence...

... in the early 1800s through the industrial age, the Progressive Era, and into the time of the World Wars and the Great Depression. In the post-World War I era, Indianapolis auto racing became a legendary activity that was as valuable for its ability to annihilate temporal space (between past and present...

... milling orchards truck crops Progressive Era Of all the writers who ever penned a word about the Ozarks, there remains one whose fame and endurance are unmatched. Yet she received not a single mention in the previous chapter , for almost none of her readers has ever read anything she wrote about...

...During the Progressive Era, a number of cities and states outside the Deep South eventually barred mixed bouts. To be sure, white lawmakers wanted to protect white superiority. Each black victory in the ring against white opponents--and there were plenty by black men--stripped away at the notion...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of Joseph Yoshisuke Kurihara's life. From his youth and until World War II, Kurihara pursued a path that he believed would enable him to live the American life, as envisioned in the Progressive Era phrase, “the promise of American life.” He enrolled...

...The introduction argues that Progressive-Era literature singularly defines US sleep culture, revealing how regulations of rest circumscribed social agency, particularly for characters already marginalized by gender, race, class, and sexuality. Engaging with medical, historical, literary...

... The coda returns to the theme of democracy in the workplace raised in the introduction. It argues that the development of a more democratic workplace in the Progressive Era was hampered not just by employer activism but also by middle-class apprehensions about independent worker power. The coda...

... families, and apprenticed relationships between children and unrelated adults could be policed by the child's parents. In the Progressive Era, placers and child welfare workers came to realize that suffering for placed-out children happened not only as a result of abuse. Whether through isolation...

... of reforms that she helped institute beginning in the Progressive Era. Instead of succumbing to the evils of Jim Crow, she challenged white racism and sought solutions for the black community using her pen, her oratory, and her own class ideals. Barrier Ella Grimké Francis J Barrier Williams Fannie Broad...

...This concluding chapter studies how Democratic Mayor Carter Harrison's leadership created a new regime—a set of formal and informal governing institutions linking state and civil society—that endured into the Progressive Era. Harrison brought coordination and centralization to the disparate...

...examines prison reform efforts in South Carolina under the governorship of Cole Blease in the 1910s to argue that Progressive-era prison reform played out in distinct ways in the South due to the region’s class and racial politics. Despite his fierce racism, Blease, in the name of reform, pardoned...