American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 20: THE PROGRESSIVES

Bibliography

Books

General Histories. Arthur Link, Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910--1917 (1954). George E. Mowry, The Era of Theodore Roosevelt (1958). (See also Suggested Readings for Chapter 21.)

Progressivism: Overviews. John D. Buenker, John C. Burnham, and Robert M. Crunden, Progressivism (1977). John W. Chambers II, The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era, 1900--1917 (1980). John Milton Cooper, The Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920 (1990). Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991). Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR (1955). Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism (1963). Arthur S. Link and Richard L. McCormick, Progressivism (1983). Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919 (1987). Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998). James Weinstein, The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State, 1900--1918 (1969). Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (1967).

The Muckrakers. David Chalmers, The Social and Political Ideas of the Muckrakers (1964). Louis Filler, The Muckrakers, rev. ed. (1980). Lorine Swainston Goodwin, The Pure Food, Drink, and Drug Crusaders, 1879-1914 (1999). Leon Harris, Upton Sinclair (1975). Justin Kaplan, Lincoln Steffens (1974). C. C. Regier, The Era of the Muckrakers (1932). Harold S. Wilson, McClure's Magazine and the Muckrakers (1970).

Progressive Thought. Richard Abrams, The Burdens of Progress (1978). Albert W. Alschuler, Law without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes (2000). Melissa Dabakis, Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture: Monuments, Manliness, and the Work Ethic, 1880-1935. (1999). Carl N. Degler, In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought (1991). Arthur Ekirch, Progressivism in America (1974). Charles B. Forcey, The Crossroads of Liberalism: Croly, Weyl, Lippmann (1961). John M. Jordan, Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911-1939 (1994). Sudhir Kakar, Frederick Taylor (1970). Evelyn A. Kirkley. Rational Mothers and Infidel Gentlemen: Gender and American Atheism, 1865-1915 (2000). David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. DuBois. The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 (2000). D. W. Marcell, Progress and Pragmatism: James, Dewey, Beard and the American Idea of Progress (1974). Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (2002). David W. Noble, ed., The Progressive Mind, rev. ed. (1981). Edward A. Purcell, Jr., Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of the Federal Courts in Twentieth-Century America (2000). Jean B. Quandt, From the Small Town to the Great Community: The Social Thought of Progressive Intellectuals (1970). Nancy Tomes. The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life (1998). Robert Westbrook, John Dewey and American Democracy (1991). Morton White, Social Thought in America (1949).

Social Work and the Social Gospel. Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House (1910). Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order, 1820--1920 (1978). Mina Carson, Settlement Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885--1930 (1990). Robert M. Crunden, Ministers of Reform: The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889--1920 (1982). Susan Curtis, A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture (1991). Allen F. Davis, Spearheads of Reform: The Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1890--1914 (1968); American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams (1973). C. H. Hopkins, The Rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism (1940). William R. Hutchinson, The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism (1982). Rivka Shpak Lissak, Pluralism and Progressives: Hull House and the New Immigrants, 1890--1919 (1989). Roy Lubove, The Progressives and the Slums: Tenement House Reform in New York City (1962). Henry May, Protestant Churches and Industrial America (1949). Timothy Miller, Following in His Steps: A Biography of Charles M. Sheldon (1987). Judith Sealander, Private Wealth and Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping of American Social Policy from the Progressive Era to the New Deal (1997).

Education and the Professions. Sandra Lee Barney, Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia 1880-1930 (2000). Clyde W. Barrow, Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894--1928 (1990). Burton Bledstein, The Culture of Professionalism (1976). Lawrence A. Cremin, The Transformation of the Schools: Progressivism in American Education, 1876--1957 (1971). John Aubrey Douglass, The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan (2000). Lynn D. Gordon, Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era (1990). Samuel Haber, The Quest for Authority and Honor in the American Professions, 1750--1900 (1991). Barbara Harris, Beyond Her Sphere: Women and the Professions in American History (1978). Thomas L. Haskell, The Emergence of Professional Social Science (1977). Morton J. Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy (1992). Herbert M. Kliebard, Schooled to Work: Vocationalism and the American Curriculum, 1876-1946 (1999). Kenneth M. Ludmerer, Learning to Heal: The Development of American Medical Education (1985). Regina Markell Morantz-Sanchez, Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine (1985); Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn (1999). Ellen S. More, Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 (1999). David R. Reynolds, There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa (1999). Margarete Sandelowski. Devices and Desires: Gender, Technology, and American Nursing. (2000). Barbara Miller Solomon, In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women in Higher Education in America (1985). Paul Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine (1982). David Tyack and Elizabeth Hansot, Managers of Virtue: Public School Leadership in America, 1820--1980 (1982). Lawrence Veysey, The Emergence of the American University (1970). Jonathan Zimmerman, Distilling Democracy: Alcohol Education in America's Public Schools, 1880-1925 (1999).

Municipal Reform. Peter C. Baldwin, Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850-1930 (1999). James Duane Bolin, Bossism and Reform in a Southern City: Lexington, Kentucky 1880-1940 (2000). John D. Buenker, Urban Liberalism and Progressive Reform (1973). James B. Crooks, Politics and Progress: The Rise of Urban Progressivism in Baltimore (1968). Oscar Handlin, Al Smith and His America (1958). Melvin G. Holli, Reform in Detroit: Hazen S. Pingree and Urban Politics (1969). J. Joseph Huthmacher, Senator Robert F. Wagner and the Rise of Urban Liberalism (1971). Michael Kazin, Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era (1981). Zane Miller, Boss Cox's Cincinnati (1968). Martin J. Schiesl, The Politics of Efficiency: Municipal Administration and Reform in America, 1880--1920 (1977).

Women, Reform, and Suffrage. Kristie Anderson, After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics before the New Deal (1996). Paula Baker, The Moral Frameworks of Public Life: Gender, Politics, and the State in Rural New York, 1870-1930 (1991). Julie Berebitsky, Like Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851-1950 (2000). Karen Blair, The Clubwoman as Feminist (1980). Mari Jo Buhle, Women and American Socialism (1983). Norman H. Clark, Deliver Us From Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition (1976). Mark T. Connelly, The Response to Prohibition in the Progressive Era (1980). Nancy Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1987). Lynne Curry, Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Gender, Health, and Progress in Illinois, 1900-1930. (1999). Ellen C. DuBois, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848--1869 (1978). Nancy Shrom Dye, As Equal as Sisters: Feminism, The Labor Movement, and the Women's Trade Union League of New York (1981). Margaret Finnegan, Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women. (1999). Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle (1959). Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (1996). Linda Gordon, Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control (1976); The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999). Alan P. Grimes, The Puritan Ethic and Woman Suffrage (1967). Gayle Gullett, Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and Development of the California Women's Movement, 1880-1911 (2000). Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, The Revolt Against Chivalry (1979). Thomas J. Jablonsky, The Home, Heaven, and Mother Party: Female Anti-Suffragists in the United States, 1868-1920 (1994). David M. Kennedy, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (1970). Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America (2003). Aileen S. Kraditor, Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement (1965). Ellen C. Lagemann, A Generation of Women: Education in the Lives of Progressive Reformers (1979). Elaine Tyler May, Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America (1980). David Morgan, Suffragists and Democrats: The Politics of Woman Suffrage in America (1972). Robyn Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 (1991). Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940 (1998). William O'Neill, Divorce in the Progressive Era (1967); Everyone Was Brave: The Rise and Fall of Feminism in America (1969). Elizabeth Rose, A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care, 1890-1960 (1999). Ruth Rosen, The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitutes in America, 1900--1918 (1982). Rosalind Rosenberg, Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism (1982). Elyce J. Rotella, From Home to Office: U.S. Women and Work, 1870--1930 (1981). Sheila M. Rothman, Woman's Proper Place (1978). Anne F. Scott, Making the Invisible Woman Visible (1984). Katheryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 (1995). Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920 (1997).

Racial Issues. David E. Bernstein, Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal (2001). John Dittmer, Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900--1920 (1977). George Fredrickson, The Black Image in the White Mind (1968). Paula Giddings, When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America (1984). Louis Harlan, Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader (1856); Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 (1983). John F. Kasson, Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America (2001). Charles F. Kellogg, NAACP (1970). Jack Temple Kirby, Darkness at Dawning: Race and Reform in the Progressive South (1972). David L. Lewis, W. E. B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (1993); W.E.B. DuBois. The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 (2000). William A. Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930 (1992). Ralph E. Luker, The Social Gospel in Black and White: American Racial Reform, 1885--1912 (1991). James M. McPherson, The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP (1975). August Meier, Negro Thought in America, 1880--1915 (1963). Cynthia Neverdon-Morton, Afro-American Women of the South and the Advancement of the Race, 1885--1925 (1989). Elliott Rudwick, W. E. B. Du Bois (1969). Sherry L. Smith, Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940 (2000). Donald Spivey, Schooling for the New Slavery: Black Industrial Education (1978). Stewart E. Tolnay and E. M. Beck, A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930 (1995). Joel Williamson, The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation (1985).

State-Level Reform. Richard M. Abrams, Conservatism in a Progressive Era: Massachusetts (1964). Jim Bissett, Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920 (1999). Dewey Grantham, Southern Progressivism: The Reconciliation of Progress and Tradition (1983). Sheldon Hackney, Populism to Progressivism in Alabama (1969). Robert S. Maxwell, La Follette and the Rise of Progressivism in Wisconsin (1944). Richard L. McCormick, From Realignment to Reform: Political Change in New York State, 1893--1910 (1981). George E. Mowry, California Progressives (1951). Russel B. Nye, Midwestern Progressive Politics (1951). David P. Thelen, The New Citizenship: Origins of Progressivism in Wisconsin (1972); Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit (1976); Paths of Resistance: Tradition and Dignity in Industrializing Missouri (1986). Robert F. Wesser, Charles Evans Hughes: Politics and Reform in New York State, 1905--1910 (1967). C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South (1951). Irwin Yellowitz, Labor and the Progressive Movement in New York State (1965).

National Issues. Ruth Bourdin, Women and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty, 1873--1900 (1980). Melvyn Dubofsky, We Shall Be All (1969). Sidney Fine, Laissez Faire and the General Welfare State (1956). Joseph Gusfield, Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the Temperance Movement (1963). John Higham, Strangers in the Land (1955). Michael E. McGerr, The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865--1928 (1986). Walter F. Pratt, Jr., The Supreme Court under Edward Douglass White, 1910-1921 (1999). Bruno Ramirez, When Workers Organize: The Politics of Industrial Relations in the Progressive Era, 1898--1916 (1978). James T. Timberlake, Prohibition and the Progressive Movement (1963). James Weinstein, The Decline of Socialism in America (1967). Robert Wiebe, Businessmen and Reform: A Study of the Progressive Movement (1962). Olivier Zunz, Making America Corporate, 1870-1920 (1990).

Theodore Roosevelt. John Morton Blum, The Republican Roosevelt (1954). G. Wallace Chessman, Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Power (1969). John Milton Cooper, Jr., The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt (1983). John A. Garraty, The Life of George W. Perkins (1960). Lewis L. Gould, The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (1991). William H. Harbaugh, Power and Responsibility (1961); published in paperback as The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. Horace S. Merrill and Marion G. Merrill, The Republican High Command (1971). Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979); Theodore Rex (2002). Henry F. Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt (1931).

William Howard Taft. Donald E. Anderson, William Howard Taft (1973). Paolo E. Coletta, The Presidency of William Howard Taft (1973). George Mowry, Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement (1946). Henry F. Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, 2 vols. (1939). Norman Wilensky, Conservatives in the Progressive Era: The Taft Republicans of 1912 (1965).

Woodrow Wilson. John Morton Blum, Joseph Tumulty and the Wilson Era (1951); Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality (1956). John Milton Cooper, Jr., The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt (1983). Alexander George and Juliette George, Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House (1956). L. J. Holt, Congressional Insurgents and the Party System, 1909--1916 (1967). Arthur S. Link, Woodrow Wilson, 5 vols. (1947-1965). Daniel D. Stid, The President as Statesman: Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution (1998). Edwin A. Weinstein, Woodrow Wilson: A Medical and Psychological Biography (1981).

National Issues. O. E. Anderson, The Health of a Nation (1958). Stephen R. Fox, The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy (1981). Samuel P. Hays, The Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890--1920 (1962). Steven J. Holmes, The Young John Muir: An Environmental Biography (1999). James Holt, Congressional Insurgents and the Party System (1969). Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation (2001). John M. Jordan, Machine Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911-1939 (1994). Polly Welts Kaufman, National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History (1996). Susan Kleinberg, The Shadow of the Mills: Working Class Families in Pittsburgh, 1870--1907 (1989). Naomi Lamoreaux, The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895--1904 (1985). Albro Martin, Enterprise Denied: Origins of the Decline of the American Railroads, 1897-1917 (1971). Joseph A. McCartin, Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921 (1997). Thomas K. McCraw, ed., Regulation in Perspective (1981). Gerald D. Nash, The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth-Century West (1999). Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind (1967). James Penick, Jr., Progressive Politics and Conservation: The Ballinger-Pinchot Affair (1968). Harold T. Pinkett, Gifford Pinchot: Private and Public Forester (1970). Elmo P. Richardson, The Politics of Conservation (1962). David Sarasohn, The Party of Reform: The Democrats in the Progressive Era (1989). Marguerite S. Shaffer, See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940 (2001). Martin J. Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics (1988). Peter Temin, Taking Your Medicine: Drug Regulation in the U.S. (1980). Melvin I. Urofsky, Louis D. Brandeis and the Progressive Tradition (1981). Bernard Weisberger, The LaFollettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America (1994). Craig West, Banking Reform and the Federal Reserve, 1863--1923 (1977). Robert Wiebe, Businessmen and Reform: A Study of the Progressive Movement (1962).

Roosevelt's Foreign Policy. Howard K. Beale, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power (1956). David H. Burton, Theodore Roosevelt: Confident Imperialist (1969). Richard Challener, Admirals, Generals, and American Foreign Policy, 1898--1914 (1973). Raymond A. Esthus, Theodore Roosevelt and International Rivalries (1970). Michael H. Hunt, The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914 (1983). Akira Iriye, Pacific Estrangement: Japanese and American Expansion, 1897--1911 (1972). Richard Leopold, Elihu Root and the Conservative Tradition (1954). Charles E. Neu, An Uncertain Friendship: Roosevelt and Japan, 1906--1909 (1967). Bradford Perkins, The Great Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1895--1914 (1968). Julius W. Pratt, Challenge and Rejection: The United States and World Leadership, 1900-1921 (1967). Emily S. Rosenberg, Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930 (1999). Charles Vevier, United States and China (1955).

America and Latin America. P. Edward Haley, Revolution and Intervention: The Diplomacy of Taft and Wilson with Mexico, 1910--1917 (1975). David Healy, The United States in Cuba, 1898--1902 (1963). Walter LaFeber, The Panama Canal (1978). Lester E. Langley, The Banana Wars: An Inner History of American Empire, 1900--1934 (1983). David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas (1977). Dwight C. Miner, Fight for the Panama Route (1966). Dana G. Munro, Intervention and Dollar Diplomacy in the Caribbean, 1900--1921 (1964). Thomas O'Brien, The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945 (1996). Louis A. Perez, Jr., Cuba Under the Platt Amendment (1988). Walter Scholes and Marie Scholes, The Foreign Policies of the Taft Administration (1970). John Womack, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution (1968).

Wilson's Foreign Policy. Kenneth Grieb, The United States and Huerta (1969). David Healy, Gunboat Diplomacy in the Wilson Era: The U.S. Navy in Haiti, 1915--1916 (1976). Thomas J. Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order (1992). Arthur Link, Wilson the Diplomatist (1957); Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War, and Peace (1979). Dana Munro, Intervention and Dollar Diplomacy in the Caribbean, 1900--1914 (1964). Frank Ninkovich, The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy since 1900 (1999). Robert Quirk, An Affair of Honor: Woodrow Wilson and the Occupation of Veracruz (1962); The Mexican Revolution, 1914--1915 (1960). James Reed, The Missionary Mind and America's East Asian Policy, 1911--1915 (1983). Robert Freeman Smith, The United States and Revolutionary Nationalism in Mexico, 1916--1932 (1972). David Steigerwald, Wilsonian Idealism in America (1994). Olivier Zunz, Why the American Century? (1998).

Films

The "Battle for Wilderness" (Direct Cinema, 1990). The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt (Churchill Films, 1986). "TR and His Times" (PBS Video, 1985).

Booker T. Washington - The Life and Legacy (National Audiovisual Center, 1982). One Woman, One Vote (Educational Film Center, 1995). The Progressive Impulse (RMI Media Productions, 1991).