At the turn of the twentieth century there was a resurging impulse toward social and political reform. In some ways it continued...
The publication of Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle produced an immediate and powerful effect on Americans and on federal...
Progressivism arrived at a moment of crisis for the United States. As the...
Theodore Roosevelt’s interesting life often tempts biographers to write about him with the history left...
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Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act, prohibiting the sale of “adulterated or misbranded” food and drugs.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) was the twenty-sixth...