Sabeel Rahman has a piece in the The Nation that reviews some of the journal's classic essays from the Progressive Era as a way for us to learn about that period today as we deal with the New Gilded Age. Do the Progressives offer a...
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Robert La Follette I tend to choose books for review here rather randomly, often picking something off the new book shelf at my university's library. So when I saw Michael.
On April 17, 1905, the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Melville Fuller, decided the Lochner v. New York case, overturning a New York law limiting the hours bakers could.
The Denver Post really reached new heights of journalistic excellence on March 6, 1915 with this lurid story of the problems drug addicts faced now that the federal government had criminalized opiates. Combined with the white slavery story on the same page, this could not...
On February 24, 1908, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Muller v. Oregon. This landmark decision upheld the idea that, at least for women, laws restricting the hours of.
In the 1910s, as workers around the nation were organizing and striking with greater militancy, employers and the government finally began to pay attention to their plight. That certainly didn't.
Who needs to hear advice from 1914 on how young girls can ensure they are not induced into the horrors of *gasp* lesbianism? Well, probably nobody needs to hear it but I am going to warn you anyway. Because I am concerned about moral purity....
Why would I put up footage of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which was a world's fair held in San Francisco, celebrating both the rebirth of the city after the.
I was rummaging around the other day in my office and came across this old letter to the editor of the journal Western Field and Stream (one of the precursors.
On August 23, 1912, the United States Commission on Industrial Relations was founded. One of the most remarkable moments in American labor history, the USCIR (more popularly known as the Walsh Committee) forced industrial leaders to testify about the conditions of American labor in front...
The art of Harry Whittier Frees, 1914: Cats firing a cannon. Can't beat that. And never let it be said that cats taking over the internet is some kind of.
John Hodgman, reading a anti-women's suffrage letter to the editor from 1914.