9. March 31: Progressivism

Readings:

Robert Johnston, The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon

Bender, Rethinking American History in a Global Age, 236-274

Supplemental Readings:

Daniel T. Rogers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age, 1998 (this is a long book)

Alan Dawley, Changing the World:  American Progressives in War and Revolution, 2003

Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1967

Lawrence W. Levine, Highbrow/lowbrow : the emergence of cultural hierarchy in America, 1988

David Montgomery, The fall of the house of labor : the workplace, the state, and American labor activism, 1865-1925, 1987

Alfred Chandler, The Visible Hand: the Managerial Revolution in American Business, 1977

Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform, 1955

Arthur Link and Richard McCormick, Progressivism, 1983

Shannon - Ruth Rosen's Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America 1900-1918

Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State, 1991

Glenn Porter, THE RISE OF BIG BUSINESS, 1992

Bailey - Nell Irvin Painter, STANDING AT ARMAGEDDON: THE UNITED STATES, 1877-

1919, 1987

Jon Teaford, THE UNHERALDED TRIUMPH:CITY GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA,

1870-1900, 1984

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