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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Progressive Era"”.
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Lucius B. Swift, Hoosier reformer of the progressive era
… of establishing efficiency and economy in the operation of government.Six chapters comprise the total of this dissertation. Chapter One traces the early life of Swift and his career an educator--a time during which there emerged a desire fulfill his civic responsibility. Chapter Two analyzes …
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The hemocytometer and its impact on Progressive Era medicine
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Walking Through the Progressive Era in the Jenness Miller Boots
The Progressive Era of 1880-1920 saw the development of a variety of reform programs and progressive ideas. This thesis explores Annie Jenness Miller (1895-1939) and the Jenness Miller Boots she created. My research examines shoe reform, sheds light on Annie Jenness Miller as a reformer, and the …
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Progressive era influence on West Coast political reform, 1937-1942
For many year after the almost proximate Progressive and New Deal eras, historians accepted strong ‘continuity’ between these reformist periods. However, in 1955 Hofstadter’s The Age of Reform advanced a hypothesis of ‘discontinuity.’ He emphasized backward-looking morality in the Progressive era …
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Muckraking Exposes and the Shaping of Progressive Era Political Culture
… scholarship by examining the character of progressive era political culture through a close analysis of muckraking texts. While rhetoricians have not examined the political culture of the Progressive Era, nor of any aspect of the Progressive Era for that matter, historians have overlooked …
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Lessons in Loyalty: American Patriotism and Education in the Progressive Era
… was a nationwide force by 1920, with several states adopting legal standards requiring outward expressions of patriotism in schools. Promoters of patriotic education sought to entrench a political culture of national reverence in the nation’s public schools as a way of shaping generations …
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Lessons in Loyalty: American Patriotism and Education in the Progressive Era
… was a nationwide force by 1920, with several states adopting legal standards requiring outward expressions of patriotism in schools. Promoters of patriotic education sought to entrench a political culture of national reverence in the nation’s public schools as a way of shaping generations …
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Gothic Slumming: Realist Writers and Gothic Texts in Progressive Era America
<p>During the Progressive Era, American realist and naturalist writers frequently employed the gothic mode. In contrast with critics who contend that the gothic is a subversive or disruptive mode, I suggest that the relationship between realism and the gothic is one of collaboration rather than …
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More than a river: using nature for reform in the progressive era
… and Francis Griffith Newlands revealed how progressives looked to nature as a tool of social reform. Each of these men understood the American environment in multiple contexts. Nostalgia and romanticized Missouri River history activated themes of empire, race, and manhood in Neihardt’s work. …
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"The Springfield ""republican"" In The Progressive Era: A Guardian Of American Values"
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Writing for public health: medicine, statistics, and literature in the progressive era
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Child welfare reformers, academic psychologists, and the dependent child in Progressive Era America
… done on behalf of dependent children during the Progressive Era, drawing connections between the reform movement and theories and figures from academic psychology. Chapter One is a detailed overview of the 1909 White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children, with an emphasis on …
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Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory and Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era
… ignoring the tales reprinted during the Progressive Era. Yet as the danger of actual captivity by Indians disappeared, historical captives provided a method by which Americans examined concerns brought by modernization and a means by which they reinforced and retained traits that they …
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Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory and Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era
… ignoring the tales reprinted during the Progressive Era. Yet as the danger of actual captivity by Indians disappeared, historical captives provided a method by which Americans examined concerns brought by modernization and a means by which they reinforced and retained traits that they …
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Black Club Women's Purposes for Establishing Kindergartens in the Progressive Era, 1890-1910
<p>Little literature exists that examines black people's efforts to educate their young children during the Progressive Era. It was the period in which early childhood education in the form of kindergarten began to flourish in the United States and around the world. Even in the abundance of …
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American Indian Artist Angel DeCora: Aesthetics, Power, and Transcultural Pedagogy in the Progressive Era
… as an Indian school art teacher. By exploring interactions among DeCora, policy makers, and American Indians, this chronological study addresses: how DeCora's Indian arts curriculum and aesthetics influenced her American Indian students at Carlisle; how DeCora used elements of her Winnebago …
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American Indian Artist Angel DeCora: Aesthetics, Power, and Transcultural Pedagogy in the Progressive Era
… as an Indian school art teacher. By exploring interactions among DeCora, policy makers, and American Indians, this chronological study addresses: how DeCora's Indian arts curriculum and aesthetics influenced her American Indian students at Carlisle; how DeCora used elements of her Winnebago …
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John Fox Jr.'s Commentary on the Roles of Women in the Progressive Era.
… Jr. provides commentary on the changing roles of Progressive Era women in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, “A Cumberland Vendetta,” and “The Pardon of Becky Day.” Fox’s portrayals provide evidence that although he recognized the changes in his society with women …
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The Fight of the Century: The Regulation and Reform of Prizefighting in Progressive Era America
… conflict between heavyweight prizefighters and progressive reformers from 1892 to 1910. That time frame encompasses the careers of champions 'Gentleman' Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jim Jeffries, and Jack Johnson. Their fights to win or defend the heavyweight title were planned for California, …
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A Court of Public Opinion: American Sex Work in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
… From the dawn of the Gilded Age through the Progressive Era, from approximately 1870 through 1920, the American public perceived a lack of goodness and morality within sex workers, making their visible presence in society unacceptable. This conclusion by the American public that sex workers …
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