This is the grave of Herbert Croly. Born in 1869 in New York to a family of prominent journalists--both mom and dad were well known--it was almost predestined that this.
It's hard to put the Progressive Era more succinctly than the 1912 film The Land Beyond the Sunset, about a boy who has a terrible home life and who gets.
This is the grave of Lillian Wald. Born in 1867 to a middle-class and secular Jewish family in Cincinnati, Wald's family moved to Rochester in the late 1870s. She applied.
This is the grave of Louis Brandeis. Born in 1856 in Louisville to secular Jewish immigrant parents from Prague, Brandeis grew up there mostly, although the family did return to.
On October 15, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Clayton Act. This law, providing protection for unions from injunctions destroying their strikes, was lauded by many labor leaders as the.
On May 1, 1899, Florence Kelley began her work for the National Consumers' League. Not only was the Consumers League a critical organization in the fight against child labor, but.
In the latter part of her career, the pioneering oral historian Alice Fry started a definitive biography of Paul's life up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. When she.
On November 26, 1910, a factory building in Newark, New Jersey caught on fire, killing 25 textile workers. This should have been a call to arms for workplace safety reform,.
