1865-1933

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1865-1933

The La Follettes of Wisconsin

love and politics in progressive America
1994
Biography of the La Follette family that chronicles their private lives and their involvement in American politics.

A fierce discontent

the rise and fall of the Progressive movement in America, 1870-1920
2003
Traces the history of the progressive movement in the United States from 1870 to 1920, highlighting key figures and events that shaped its development.

American populism

a social history, 1877-1898
1993
History of the Populist movement in rural America from 1877-1898.

Muckraking and progressivism in the American tradition

1996
Examines Progressivism and muckraking as dynamic forces in American life looking at various eras, events, and individuals from William Lyon Mackenzie to Woodrow Wilson.

The United States enters the 20th century

1890 to 1930
2012
Discusses American history between 1890 and 1930 and encourages students to think like historians and decipher the information, facts, and clues in the text to answer questions about the Progressive Era, women's suffrage, child labor laws, and other related topics.

Daily life in the progressive era

2011
Discusses daily life in American society during the Progressive era, between 1900 and 1920, including rural and urban America, race relations, popular culture, citizen activism, and the society during wartime.

William Jennings Bryan

champion of democracy
1987
"Twayne's twentieth-century American biography series ; no. 4." Discusses the issues with which Bryan and his contemporaries were concerned.

The populist persuasion

an American history
1995
Covers populism as an impulse in American politics based on anti-elitism, adoration of common people, and the ideal of democracy; and portrayed in the People's Party, the labor movement, prohibition, the new left, George Wallace, Jesse Jackson, Ronald Reagan, H. Ross Perot, and the new right.

The party period and public policy

American politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era
1986

The aftermath of the Civil War

2004
Explores the impact the Civil War had on America, discussing the political, social, and economic struggles the nation faced after the war ended.

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