The Decline of the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890-1920
Author: Herbert F. Margulies
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780870200601
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The Decline of the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890-1920
Author: Herbert F. Margulies
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe History of Wisconsin, Volume IV
Author: John D. Buenker
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Published: 2013-03-05
Total Pages: 781
ISBN-13: 0870206311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial year, this fourth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the twenty tumultuous years between the World's Columbian Exposition and the First World War when Wisconsin essentially reinvented itself, becoming the nation's "laboratory of democracy." The period known as the Progressive Era began to emerge in the mid-1890s. A sense of crisis and a widespread clamor for reform arose in reaction to rapid changes in population, technology, work, and society. Wisconsinites responded with action: their advocacy of women's suffrage, labor rights and protections, educational reform, increased social services, and more responsive government led to a veritable flood of reform legislation that established Wisconsin as the most progressive state in the union. As governor and U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., was the most celebrated of the Progressives, but he was surrounded by a host of pragmatic idealists from politics, government, and the state university. Although the Progressives frequently disagreed over priorities and tactics, their values and core beliefs coalesced around broad-based participatory democracy, the application of scientific expertise to governance, and an active concern for the welfare of all members of society-what came to be known as "the Wisconsin Idea."
The History of Wisconsin, Volume V
Author: Paul W. Glad
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Published: 2013-03-05
Total Pages: 695
ISBN-13: 087020632X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fifth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the years from the outbreak of World War I to the eve of American entry into World War II. In between, the rise of the woman's movement, the advent of universal suffrage, and the "great experiment" of Prohibition are explored, along with the contest between newly emergent labor unions and powerful business and industrial corporations. Author Paul W. Glad also investigates the Great Depression in Wisconsin and its impact on rural and urban families in the state. Photographs and maps further illustrate this volume which tells the story of one of the most exciting and stressful eras in the history of the state.
The Progressive Era in the USA: 1890–1921
Author: Kristofer Allerfeldt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 785
ISBN-13: 1351883488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew periods in American history have been explored as much as the Progressive Era. It is seen as the birth-place of modern American liberalism, as well as the time in which America emerged as an imperial power. Historians and other scholars have struggled to explain the contradictions of this period and this volume explores some of the major controversies this exciting period has inspired. Investigating subjects as diverse as conservation, socialism, or the importance of women in the reform movements, this volume looks at the lasting impact of this productive, yet ultimately frustrated, generation's legacy on American and world history.
The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism
Author: James J. CONNOLLY
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0674029844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProgressivism, James Connolly shows us, was a language and style of political action available to a wide range of individuals and groups. A diverse array of political and civic figures used it to present themselves as leaders of a communal response to the growing power of illicit interests and to the problems of urban-industrial life. In showing that the several reform visions that arose in Boston included not only the progressivism of the city's business leaders but also a series of ethnic progressivisms, Connolly offers a new approach to urban public life in the early twentieth century.
The Dissenting Tradition in American Education
Author: James C. Carper
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780820479200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the mid-nineteenth century, Americans created the functional equivalent of earlier state religious establishments. Supported by mandatory taxation, purportedly inclusive, and vested with messianic promise, public schooling, like the earlier established churches, was touted as a bulwark of the Republic and as an essential agent of moral and civic virtue. As was the case with dissenters from early American established churches, some citizens and religious minorities have dissented from the public school system, what historian Sidney Mead calls the country's «established church.» They have objected to the «orthodoxy» of the public school, compulsory taxation, and attempts to abolish their schools or bring them into conformity with the state school paradigm. The Dissenting Tradition in American Education recounts episodes of Catholic and Protestant nonconformity since the inception of public education, including the creation of Catholic and Protestant schools, homeschooling, conflicts regarding regulation of nonconforming schools, and controversy about the propositions of knowledge and dispositions of belief and value sanctioned by the state school. Such dissent suggests that Americans consider disestablishing the public school and ponder means of education more suited to their confessional pluralism and commitments to freedom of conscience, parental liberty, and educational justice.
W.D. Hoard
Author: Loren H. Osman
Publisher: Hoard's Dairyman Books
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780932147004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica in the Progressive Era, 1890–1917
Author: Lewis L. Gould
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-03-14
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1000342018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow in its second edition, America in the Progressive Era, 1890–1917 provides a readable, analytical narrative of the emergence, influence, and decline of the spirit of progressive reform that animated American politics and culture around the turn of the twentieth century. Covering the turbulent 1890s to the American entry into World War I, the text examines the political, social, and cultural events of a period which set the agenda for American public life during the remainder of the twentieth century. This new edition places progressivism in a transatlantic context and gives more attention to voices outside the mainstream of party politics. Key features include: A clear account of the continuing debate in the United States over the role of government, citizenship, and the pursuit of social justice A full examination of the impact of reform on women and minorities A rich selection of documents that allow the historical actors to communicate with today’s readers An extensive, updated bibliography providing a valuable guide to additional reading and research Based on the most recent scholarship and written to be read by students, this book will be of interest to students of American History and Political History.
Capital, Labor, and State
Author: David Brian Robertson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780847697298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCapital, Labor, and State is a systematic and thorough examination of American labor policy from the Civil War to the New Deal. David Brian Robertson skillfully demonstrates that although most industrializing nations began to limit employer freedom and regulate labor conditions in the 1900s, the United States continued to allow total employer discretion in decisions concerning hiring, firing, and workplace conditions. Robertson argues that the American constitution made it much more difficult for the American Federation of Labor, government, and business to cooperate for mutual gain as extensively as their counterparts abroad, so that even at the height of New Deal, American labor market policy remained a patchwork of limited protections, uneven laws, and poor enforcement, lacking basic national standards even for child labor.
