Part two of the Progressive Tradition Series examines the politics of national progressivism from the agrarian populists to the Great Society. Accompanying the transformation of America’s public ...
The original Progressivism, the Progressivism that arose in the 1880s and 1890s and flourished during the first two decades of the twentieth century, was marked by a paradox. On the one hand, it ...
NMAH copy purchased with funds from the NMAH Endowment. NMAH copy 39088020220448 Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Chapter 1 Crisis of the 1890s 1 -- A New Kind of Growth 6 -- Age of ...
Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890-1920 by David Huyssen (Harvard University Press, 392 pp., $39.95) A century ago, New York City’s Progressives saved poor people from apartment ...