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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"The Progressive Era"”.
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Lucius B. Swift, Hoosier reformer of the progressive era
The purpose of this study is to analyze the philosophy and public career of Hoosier lawyer Lucius Burrie Swift (1844-1929). Born in western New York, Swift served in the Union forces and ultimately established himself as a lawyer in Indianapolis. His Puritan heritage and university -raining bred an …
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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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Lessons in Loyalty: American Patriotism and Education in the Progressive Era
Beginning in the late-nineteenth century an assortment of actors, alongside school administrators and teachers, pressed for the inclusion of national symbols, myths, and rituals in American schools. Amid a flurry of educational reform in the half-century following the Civil War, a nascent patriotic …
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Lessons in Loyalty: American Patriotism and Education in the Progressive Era
Beginning in the late-nineteenth century an assortment of actors, alongside school administrators and teachers, pressed for the inclusion of national symbols, myths, and rituals in American schools. Amid a flurry of educational reform in the half-century following the Civil War, a nascent patriotic …
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More than a river: using nature for reform in the progressive era
The decades around the turn of the twentieth century were a time of vast social and economic change. Industrialization altered the ways people related to each other and to their social, political, and cultural institutions. Some perceived that the rise of cities, changing middle-class values, and …
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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
… a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory and Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era
<p>After the official closure of the frontier in 1890, small town boosters searched for ways to prove their participation in the national development on the frontier, to validate policies that promoted the Americanization of Native Americans, and to record for posterity their role as the vital …
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Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory and Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era
<p>After the official closure of the frontier in 1890, small town boosters searched for ways to prove their participation in the national development on the frontier, to validate policies that promoted the Americanization of Native Americans, and to record for posterity their role as the vital …
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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.
<p>John Fox, 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 …
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Picturing reform: Ashcan women and the visual culture of the progressive era in New York City
… movements in New York City focused on improving the lives of the urban working classes. Progressive reformers maintained that the environment of the city, growing industry, and systems of exploitation threatened the personal sovereignty of the individual. I argue that the visual culture of the …
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The Birth of Public Sexual Education in the United States: Women, Rhetoric, and the Progressive Era
"This study offers a rhetorical chronicle of the negotiation that transpired before, during, and directly after the emergence of public sexual education initiatives in the United States, while emphasizing the role that several key women played in that process. The chapters in this study follow …
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Between the Lines: Friendship, Love, and Marriage in the Progressive-Era Correspondence of Robert and Louise Line
This project investigates the almost decade long correspondence between Robert Line and Louise Chapman between 1914 and 1922. Their letters chart the development of their relationship from their friendship into their first years of marriage. Conducting their relationship at a time of changing …
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Between the Lines: Friendship, Love, and Marriage in the Progressive-Era Correspondence of Robert and Louise Line
This project investigates the almost decade long correspondence between Robert Line and Louise Chapman between 1914 and 1922. Their letters chart the development of their relationship from their friendship into their first years of marriage. Conducting their relationship at a time of changing …
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The Erotics of Race Suicide: The Making of Whiteness and the Death Drive in the Progressive Era, 1880-1920
"The Erotics of Race Suicide" examines the frequent representation of suicide in Progressive Era American literature in light of a widely proclaimed socio-political concept of the time: “race suicide.” Coined by the sociologist Edward Ross, the term “race suicide” nominates a nativist fear over the …
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Bluegrass, Bildung, and Blueprints: The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come as an Appalachian Bildungsroman
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come takes as its backdrop the American Civil War, as the author, John Fox, Jr., champions Kentucky's social development during the Progressive Era. Although often criticized for capitalizing on his propagation of regional stereotypes, I argue that the structure of …
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