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Progressive Era (progressive + era)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	83%

Selected Abstracts

Colston E. Warne Lecture: Is It Time for Another Round of Consumer Protection?

JOURNAL OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, Issue 1 2010
The Lessons of Twentieth-Century U.S. History
The first year of Barack Obama's presidency has returned consumer issues to center stage, with several contentious struggles over consumer protection. This moment can be viewed as a fourth wave of the twentieth-century consumer movement, and a comparison with the first three waves (during the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the 1960s,1970s) offers instructive insights. In particular, the contemporary battle over the Consumer Financial Protection Agency bears striking similarities to the failed campaign for a Consumer Protection Agency in the 1970s. [source]

Teaching Peace: Lessons from a Peace Studies Curriculum of the Progressive Era

PEACE & CHANGE, Issue 1 2000
Susan Zeiger
The historical roots of peace education as a school reform movement can be traced to the progressive era in the United States. This essay offers a content analysis of the first comprehensive peace education curriculum, published in 1914 by the American School Peace League, under the direction of Fannie Fern Andrews. Examining the curriculum raises fundamental questions about the teacher's role in social change; it also reveals ideological tensions within the peace movement of the WorldWar I period. [source]

The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era , By Tom Holm

THE HISTORIAN, Issue 2 2007
John Bloom
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Ida Vera Simonton's Imperial Masquerades: Intersections of Gender, Race and African Expertise in Progressive-Era America

GENDER & HISTORY, Issue 2 2010
Jeremy Rich
Ida Vera Simonton, a New York socialite, visited the French colony of Gabon in 1906 and 1907. Her subsequent narratives about her stay demonstrate a very ambiguous view of the horrors of European colonialism that she claimed to despise and the amoral nature of Africans. Simonton ultimately employed her stay in Gabon to claim a right to form female self-defence squads in New York and to act as an independent defender of white women. By carefully shaping her public persona to alternately appropriate discourses of masculine regeneration through empire and to highlight her female vulnerability, she made herself into a provocative spectacle. In an ironic twist, given how much Simonton embellished on her own experiences, Broadway producers in 1925 plagiarised her 1912 novel Hell's Playground in their successful play White Cargo. Simonton successfully sued for damages, thus upholding her highly edited version of her trip in law. Her writings expose the intersections of racial anxieties, gendered visions of empire and feminist aspirations in the United States during the Progressive era. [source]

BIG CITY, BIG TURNOUT?

JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, Issue 1 2007
ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION IN AMERICAN CITIES
ABSTRACT:,This article seeks to describe and explain variation in voter turnout in American big city municipal elections using data from 332 mayoral elections in 38 large U.S. cities over 25 years. In my cross-sectional time-series analysis of turnout in mayoral elections, I find that city-level demographic factors are only weakly correlated with turnout. By contrast, institutional and campaign factors explain much of the variation. The effect of Progressive era reforms on depressing turnout is greatest in the most competitive elections. I conclude by discussing the implication of the overall downward trend in turnout and changes cities can make to increase participation. [source]