Session 12: The Progressive Era, Day 1

Date: Friday, May 31, 2019

Location: The Annex at the Humboldt County Office of Education

Agenda

“The Goals and Accomplishments of the Progressives”

“Capitalism: Retail, Unions, Papers, and Trusts”

Required Reading, Viewing, and Listening

Srinivasan, Americana, Chapters 16–19

Gilder Lehrman Institute Resources

Essays 

Robert W. Cherny, “The Jungle and the Progressive Era,”  History Now 16 (Summer 2008)

Kirsten Swinth, “The Square Deal: Theodore Roosevelt and the Themes of Progressive Reform,”  History Now 17 (Fall 2008)

Videos

Gary Gerstle, “The Progressive Era”