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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...

Panorama of Chicago, ca. 1906, Universale View Co., Philadelphia, PA (LOC)

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The Transnational Nature of the Progressive Era

In teaching the era of progressive reforms, it is hard to resist the temptation to focus on the two progressive presidents. Theodore...

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...

Jane Addams,Twenty Years at Hull-House (New York, 1910). (Gilder Lehrman Coll.)

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Women and the Progressive Movement

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

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Justice of the Plains: The Movement Westward, John S. Curry (LC-DIG-highsm-02850

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Women of the West

Women are like water to Western history. Both have...

Official US Bulletin, January 29, 1919. (GLC01668)

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Prohibition and Its Effects

The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified...

The County Election, based on a painting by George C. Bingham, 1854. (Gilder Leh

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Winning the Vote: A History of Voting Rights

Voting Rights on the Eve of the Revolution

The basic principle that governed voting in colonial America was that voters should have a “stake in society.”...

James Madison, by A. Newsam, Philadelphia, 1846. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-30581)

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James Madison and the Constitution

James Madison had just turned twenty-five when he took up his first public office as a delegate...

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....