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Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1903. (LC-USZ62-51793)

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The Jungle and the Progressive Era

The publication of Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle produced an immediate and powerful effect on Americans and on federal...

Theodore Roosevelt giving a speech in Waterville, Maine, 1902. (GLC06449.22)

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The Square Deal: Theodore Roosevelt and the Themes of Progressive Reform

Progressivism arrived at a moment of crisis for the United States. As the...

Teddy Roosevelt in the Rough Riders, ca. 1898. (GLC07002.39)

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Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Progressive Reformer

Theodore Roosevelt’s interesting life often tempts biographers to write about him with the history left...

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“The Politics of the Future Are Social Politics”: Progressivism in International Perspective

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Family in Chinatown, San Francisco, CA. (LC-G4085- 0192 <P&P>)

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History Times: A Nation of Immigrants

Coming to the Land of Opportunity

Throughout American history, millions of people around the world have left their homelands for a...

Photograph of Edison Machine Works in New York City, 1881. (GLC07616.05)

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Edison’s Laboratory

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Cornelius Vanderbilt, ca. 1865. (GLC05151)

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Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?

On February 9, 1859, Henry J. Raymond, editor of the New York Times, said something strange about Cornelius Vanderbilt. Raymond...

Joining of the rails, May 10, 1869, by Andrew Russell (GLC04481.04)

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Transcontinental Railroads: Compressing Time and Space

Many of our modern clichés about the impact of technology,...

A Vindication of the Character and Public Services of Andrew Jackson, 1828 (GLC)

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Andrew Jackson’s Shifting Legacy

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Girls working in a box factory, Tampa FL, by Lewis Hine, ca. 1912 (NARA 523166)

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The Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900

When in 1873 Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner entitled their co-authored novel The Gilded Age, they gave the late nineteenth century its popular name....