At right, Jane Addams with children at Hull House in Chicago in the 1930s. But here’s a happier thought: the first Gilded Age gave way to the Progressive Era. Those in the social sector hoping for a ...

It is that the rise of disruptive leaders can mark the beginning, not the end, of an era. Like Sulla, Trump will give the state a new purpose. Its old, progressive one will be left behind.

He envisioned Judaism as a progressive religion that needed to be ... Walter Rauschenbusch came of age in the late 19th century, an era marked by boundless energy and optimism undercut by fear ...

Labadie Collection. University of Michigan. The right to free speech is one of the most fundamental American guarantees, ratified as part of the Bill of Rights in 1791. Yet defining the limits of ...

It also seeks to develop thoughtful and honest debates about modern progressivism and its relationship to the earlier progressive era and other political and social movements throughout American ...

His writing career spanned the time period from the Progressive Era to the middle of the Cold War. He wrote about every U.S. president from Woodrow Wilson to Lyndon Johnson. His career ...

Rapid urbanization in an increasingly segregated society during the Progressive Era created new social problems and needs for blacks. The segregation and exclusion of blacks by organized charity led ...