Organization of American Historians
Click on the keywords to navigate the site.

Magazine of History

The Progressive Era
Volume 13, no 3, Spring 1999


FROM THE EDITOR
The Changing Meanings of "The Progressive Era"
Elisabeth I. Perry

ESSAYS
The Historiography of the Progressive Era: Linking Politics and People
Steven J. Diner

Customer to Consumer: The New Consumption in the Progressive Era
Susan Strasser

The Ambiguous Legacies of Women's Progressivism
Robyn Muncy

Blacks and the Progressive Movement: Emergence of a New Synthesis
Jimmie Franklin

"To the Ragged Edge of Anarchy": The 1984 Pullman Boycott
Richard Schneirov

LESSON PLANS
Making Biographical Judgments: Was Theodore Roosevelt a Warmonger?
Kathleen M. Dalton

Recreation and Social Chaperonage in the Progressive Era
Nancy G. Rosoff

The Struggles of Women Industrial Workers to Improve Work Conditions in the Progressive Era
Nancy J. Barrett

D. W. Griffith's Controversial Film, The Birth of a Nation
Conrad Pitcher

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
The Progressive Era: An ERIC/ChESS Sample
Laura A. Pinhey

Progressive-Era Resources on the World Wide Web
Amanda Howenstein

GLEANINGS
Major Electronic Resources for World History
Linda K. Brown

ON TEACHING
Using Reader Response to Improve Student Writing in History
Stephen Kneeshaw

Two Actors in Search of a Story: Using Primary Documents to Raise the Dead and Improve History Instruction
Robert H. Mayer

ON THE COVER
"King Debs." This Harper's Weekly cover from 14 July 1894 was published at the height of the Pullman strike. It portrays Eugene V. Debs, leader of the American Railway Union, monopolizing interstate commerce.