This book is a landmark in American political thought. It examines the passion for progress and reform that coloured the entire period from 1890 to 1940 - with startling and stimulating results. It searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dream…
"The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of World War I. Yet for Army Air Service officers, the carnage and waste witnessed on the western front only served to spark a new …
An analysis of the Bush administration's uses and definitions of the concept of freedom examines how conservatives have reinterpreted beliefs about freedom to promote Republican interests for such issues as the war on terror and abortion.
An analysis of the Bush administration's uses and definitions of the concept of freedom examines how conservatives have reinterpreted beliefs about freedom to promote Republican interests for such issues as the war on terror and abortion.
An analysis of the Bush administration's uses and definitions of the concept of freedom examines how conservatives have reinterpreted beliefs about freedom to promote Republican interests for such issues as the war on terror and abortion.
Between 1873 and 1935, reformers in Chicago used the power of music to unify the diverse peoples of the metropolis. This text presents a history of efforts to propagate this vision and describes the resulting encounters between activists and ethnic, immigrant and working-class r…
For centuries, people have been thinking and writing-and fiercely debating-about the meaning of marriage. Just a hundred years ago, Progressive era reformers embraced marriage not as a time-honored repository for conservative values, but as a tool for social change. In Until Cho…