This collection of cat images used during the suffrage movement is outstanding. Thanks to djw for sending this my way.
progressive era
On May 3, 1911, Wisconsin created the first workers compensation program, followed almost immediately by Washington and most of the Northwestern states. This was the beginning of a system, albeit.
Also known as my latest Alternet piece. In part: At first, Americans did not protest much against the end of the income tax, but with skyrocketing income inequality of the.
Lewis L. Gould, eminent historian of the Progressive Era presidency, has a new 73-page biography of Theodore Roosevelt. While one might legitimately ask whether we need another biography of the twenty-sixth president, Gould has much to offer in this brisk and innovative interpretation of Roosevelt....
Given the day's rather bizarre turn here, it seems like a good enough time to remind all of you with Netflix account that Traffic in Souls, the ridiculous 1913 film.
Ned Resnikoff really gets after Jessica Flanigan for misunderstanding the relationship between the labor movement and Progressives of the early 20th century. Flanigan: Internal to progressivism there is a tension.
This year is the 100th anniversary of the San Diego Free Speech Fight, when I.W.W. speakers were routinely denied their First Amendment rights for speaking in public about workers' rights. Locked in prisons and beaten by police, it became a national news story. One of...
An exchange on the conservation movement, from the Ladies Home Journal, November 1911: THE REQUEST FROM THE MOTHER: I wonder if you ever realize, you who live and move in.