Books
John Whiteclay Chambers, The Tyranny of Change:
America in the Progressive Era
A thorough and up-to-date history of Progressivism.
John Milton Cooper, The Warrior and the Priest
The lives, philosophies, and actions of Theodore Roosevelt
and Woodrow Wilson.
Films
Ragtime
Based on the E.L. Doctorow novel, the film weaves into
its story many of the key figures of the era, including
characters, among them Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Booker
T. Washington, and Emma Goldman.
View the movie trailer (requires Windows Media Player):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082970/
To learn more about movies and the Progressive Era
Web Sites
Recommended Web Site:
TR: The Story of Teddy Roosevelt
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tr/
Related Web Sites:
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire
This site contains oral histories, photographs, political
cartoons, and other primary source materials dealing with
1911 factory fire.
On the Lower East Side
http://tenant.net/community/LES/contents.html
This site contains a collection of articles, documentary
sources, and study guides describing life on Manhattan's
Lower East Side.
The South Texas Border, 1900-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/txuhtml/runyhome.html
8,000 photographs documented the Lower Rio Grande Valley
during the early 1900s.
Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/trfhtml/
104 films spanning from the Spanish-American War in 1898
through Roosevelt's death in 1919.
Theodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/roosevelt/index.htm
This online exhibit includes images from the national
Portrait Gallery and biographical commentary.
Child Labor in America, 1908-1912: The Photographs
of Lewis W. Hine
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
The photographs include Hine's original captions.
The Orphan Trains of Kansas
http://www.kancoll.org/articles/orphans/index.html
Newspaper accounts, personal stories, official documents,
images, a time line, and a narrative history describe
the stories of the more than 5000 children placed in Kansas
homes between 1867 and 1930.
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