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Note of 1 shilling, 6 pence, printed in the colony of New Jersey, 1776. (GLC)

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The US Banking System: Origin, Development, and Regulation

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Ford Local 600 of the CIO in the Labor Day parade in Detroit MI, 1942. (LOC P&P)

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Labor Day: From Protest to Picnics

In the 1880s a surge in growth of the American labor movement led to the creation of two workers’ holidays,...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, ca. 1890. (Library of Congress P&P)

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Nineteenth-Century Feminist Writings

Contemporaries sometimes called the nineteenth century “The Woman’s Century.” Certainly it is true that there were dramatic changes in the status and...

Theodore Roosevelt giving a speech in Waterville, Maine, 1902. (GLC06449.22)

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The Square Deal: Theodore Roosevelt and the Themes of Progressive Reform

Progressivism arrived at a moment of crisis for the United States. As the...

Panorama of Chicago, ca. 1906, Universale View Co., Philadelphia, PA (LOC)

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The Transnational Nature of the Progressive Era

In teaching the era of progressive reforms, it is hard to resist the temptation to focus on the two progressive presidents. Theodore...

Teddy Roosevelt in the Rough Riders, ca. 1898. (GLC07002.39)

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Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Progressive Reformer

Theodore Roosevelt’s interesting life often tempts biographers to write about him with the history left...

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“The Politics of the Future Are Social Politics”: Progressivism in International Perspective

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Reader in a cigar factory, Tampa, Fla., by Lewis Wickes Hines (LOC)

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Bridging the Caribbean: Puerto Rican Roots in Nineteenth-Century America

In recent years, the media has tended to portray US Latinos of Hispanic Caribbean ancestry as new immigrants, but this characterization...

Family in Chinatown, San Francisco, CA. (LC-G4085- 0192 <P&P>)

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History Times: A Nation of Immigrants

Coming to the Land of Opportunity

Throughout American history, millions of people around the world have left their homelands for a...

United Fruit Company banana conveyors in New Orleans, LA, ca. 1910 (LC-D4-39636)

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The United States and the Caribbean, 1877–1920

Between 1877 and 1920, the United States’ relationship with the Caribbean region underwent a...