Progressive Era/Bibliography

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Overviews

• Buenker, John D., John C. Burnham, and Robert M. Crunden. Progressivism (1986) short overview
• Buenker, John D. and Joseph Buenker, Eds. Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Sharpe Reference, 2005. xxxii + 1256 pp. in three volumes. ISBN 0-7656-8051-3. 900 articles by 200 scholars
• Buenker, John D. ed. Dictionary of the Progressive Era (1980), short articles by scholars
• Chambers, John Whiteclay, II. The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 (2000), textbook [http://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Change-America-Progressive-1890-1920/dp/0813527996/ref=sr_1_26?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211878274&sr=8-26 excerpt and text search
• Crunden, Robert M. Ministers of Reform: The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889-1920 (1982) excerpt and text search
• Diner, Steven J. A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (1998) excerpt and text search
• Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Who Were the Progressives? (2002)
• Gould Lewis L. America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1914" (2000) excerpt and text search
• Gould Lewis L. ed., The Progressive Era (1974), essays by scholars
• Hays, Samuel P. The Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914 (1957), influential short survey
• Hofstadter, Richard The Age of Reform (1954), Pulitzer Prize online at ACLS e-books
• Jensen, Richard. "Democracy, Republicanism and Efficiency: The Values of American Politics, 1885-1930," in Byron Shafer and Anthony Badger, eds, Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775-2000 (U of Kansas Press, 2001) pp 149-180; online version
• Kennedy, David M. ed., Progressivism: The Critical Issues (1971), readings
• Kloppenberg, James T. Uncertain victory: social democracy and progressivism in European and American thought, 1870-1920 1986 online at ACLS e-books
• Leuchtenburg, William E. "Progressivism and Imperialism: The Progressive Movement and American Foreign Policy, 1898-1916," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 39, No. 3. (Dec., 1952), pp. 483-504. JSTOR
• Link, Arthur S. Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era: 1913-1917 (1954), standard scholarly survey
• Link, Arthur S. Wilson: The Road to the White House (1947), first volume of standard biography (to 1917); Wilson: The New Freedom (1956); Wilson: The Struggle for Neutrality: 1914-1915 (1960); Wilson: Confusions and Crises: 1915-1916 (1964); Wilson: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace: 1916-1917 (1965), the last volume of standard biography. all 5 volumes are online free (if you have a account) at ACLS e-books
• Mann, Arthur. ed., The Progressive Era (1975), readings from scholars
• Lasch, Christopher. The True and Only Heaven: Progress and its Critics (1991) excerpt and text search
• McGerr, Michael. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (2003)
• Mowry, George. The Era of Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America, 1900-1912. (1954) general survey of era; online
• Noggle, Burl. "The Twenties: A New Historiographical Frontier," The Journal of American History, Vol. 53, No. 2. (Sep., 1966), pp. 299-314. in JSTOR
• Perry, Elisabeth Israels and Karen Manners Smith, eds. The Gilded Age & Progressive Era: A Student Companion (2006)
• Thelen, David P. "Social Tensions and the Origins of Progressivism," Journal of American History 56 (1969), 323-341 JSTOR
• Wiebe, Robert. The Search For Order, 1877-1920 (1967) highly influential interpretation

National politics

• Blum, John Morton The Republican Roosevelt. (1954). Series of essays that examine how TR did politics
• Brands, H.W. Theodore Roosevelt (2001), biography online edition
• Clements, Kendrick A. The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson (1992) excerpt and text search
• Coletta, Paolo. The Presidency of William Howard Taft (1990) excerpt and text search
• Cooper, John Milton The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. (1983), influential dual biography excerpt and text search
• Gould, Lewis L. The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (1991) excerpt and text search
• Harbaugh, William Henry. The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. (1963); also titled "Power and Responsibility; very good political biography excerpt and text search
• Harrison, Robert. Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State (2004) excerpt and text search
• Hofstadter, Richard. The American Political Tradition (1948), ch. 8-9-10 on Bryan, Roosevelt and Wilson. [ excerpt and text search]
• Link, Arthur Stanley. Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917 (1972), standard history
• Morris, Edmund Theodore Rex. (2001), very well written biography of Theodore Roosevelt covers 1901-1909 excerpt and text search
• Mowry, George E. Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement. (2001) standard history of 1912 movement
• Sanders, Elizabeth. Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers and the American State, 1877-1917 (1999) excerpt and text search
• Wilson, Joan Hoff. Herbert Hoover, Forgotten Progressive (1965)

Business and labor

• Glad, Paul W. "Progressives and the Business Culture of the 1920s," The Journal of American History, Vol. 53, No. 1. (Jun., 1966), pp. 75-89. in JSTOR
• Kolko, Gabriel. "The Triumph of Conservatism" (1963), Progressive reforms helped business
• Kyle, Bruce and Chris Nyland; "Scientific Management, Institutionalism, and Business Stabilization: 1903-1923" Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 35, 2001
• Mink, Gwendolyn. Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875–1920 (1986);
• Montgomery, David. "Workers' Movements in the United States Confront Imperialism: The Progressive Era Experience." Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive era 7.1 (May 2008) online
• Nelson, Daniel. Managers and Workers: Origins of the New Factory System in the United States, 1880–1920 (1975),
• Sanders, Elizabeth. Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers and the American State, 1877-1917 (1999)
• Stromquist, Shelton. Reinventing 'The People': The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism, (2006). ISBN 0-252-07269-3.
• Wiebe, Robert H. Businessmen and Reform: A Study of the Progressive Movement (1968)
• Wiebe, Robert H. "Business Disunity and the Progressive Movement, 1901-1914," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 44, No. 4. (Mar., 1958), pp. 664-685. in JSTOR

State and local, ethnic, gender

• Abell, Aaron I. American Catholicism and Social Action: A Search for Social Justice, 1865-1950 (1960),
• Buenker, John D. Urban Liberalism and Progressive Reform (1973).
• Buenker, John D. The Progressive Era, 1893-1914 (1998), in Wisconsin
• Feffer, Andrew. The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism (1993).
• Frankel, Noralee and Nancy S. Dye, eds. Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era (1991). excerpt and text search
• Hahn, Steven. A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (2003).
• Harlan, Louis R. Booker T. Washington (2 vol 1973, 1986); Pulitzer prize excerpt and text search
• Huthmacher, J. Joseph "Urban Liberalism and the Age of Reform" Mississippi Valley Historical Review 49 (1962): 231-241, in JSTOR; emphasized urban, ethnic, working class support for reform
• Lewis, David L. W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race: 1868-1919 (1993), 2 vol; Pulitzer Prize
• Link, William A. The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930 (1997).
• Lubove, Roy. The Progressives and the Slums: Tenement House Reform in New York City, 1890-1917 Greenwood Press: 1974.
• Nasaw, David. The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst (2001) excerpt and text search
• Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (2000). influential study that stresses links with Europe online in ACLS e-books
• Starr, Kevin. Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era (1986) excerpt and text search
• Thelen, David. The New Citizenship, Origins of Progressivism in Wisconsin, 1885-1900 (1972).
• Wesser, Robert F. Charles Evans Hughes: politics and reform in New York, 1905-1910 (1967).

Foreign affairs

• Beale Howard K. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power. (1956).
• Gillette, Jr., Howard. "The Military Occupation of Cuba, 1899–1902: Workshop for American Progressivism," American Quarterly 25 (Oct. 1973): 410–25.
• Montgomery, David. "Workers' Movements in the United States Confront Imperialism: The Progressive Era Experience." Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive era 7.1 (May 2008) online

Primary sources

• Burt, Elizabeth V., ed. The Progressive Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1890 to 1914 (Debating Historical Issues in the Media of the Time) (2004) excerpt and text search
• Croly, Herbert David. The Promise of American Life (1909), highly influential manifesto full text online
• Croly, Herbert David. Progressive Democracy (1914), theory full text online
• Cronon, William and David Stradling, eds. Conservation in the Progressive Era: Classic Texts (2004) excerpt and text search
• De Witt, Benjamin P. The Progressive Movement (1915), a comprehensive contemporary history of the era full text online
• Pease, Otis, ed. The Progressive Years: The Spirit and Achievement of American Reform (1962), primary documents