McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (2003)

Michael McGerr.
A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920.
New York: Free Press (Simon & Schuster), 2003.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books, 2005; Amazon.com, 2003; Amazon.com, 2005.

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Author Information:

• Michael McGerr, Department of History, Indiana University.
• Michael McGerr, Wikipedia.
• Michael McGerr, C-SPAN.
• Michael McGerr. The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States (1865–1918).
• Progressive Era.
• Progressivism in the United States.

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Video: Lectures in History, C-SPAN

(A list of lectures on topics discussed in A Fierce Discontent.)

### Mitchell Lerner, "Roots of Progressivism and Theodore Roosevelt," Ohio State University at Newark, 18 January 2011.

• Mitchell Lerner, Ohio State University at Newark.

Wikipedia Articles:

• Progressivism in the United States.
• Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.

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### Andrew Fisher, "Progressive Era Conservation Movement," College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 18 October 2012.

• Andrew Fisher, Department of History, College of William and Mary.

Wikipedia Articles:

• Conservation movement.
• Conservation in the United States.
• Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt: Conservation.
• Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946).
• United States Forest Service.

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### Robert Rydell, "Eugenics in Early 20th Century America," Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, 14 November 2012.

• Robert Rydell, Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University.
• Robert W. Rydell, C-SPAN.

Wikipedia Articles:

• Eugenics.
• Francis Galton (1822–1911).
• Eugenics in the United States.

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### Wilfred McClay, "John Dewey and Progressivism," University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 11 February 2013.

• Wilfred McClay, Previous Chairs, SunTrust Chair of Excellence in Humanities, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
• Center for History of Liberty, University of Oklahoma.
• Affiliated Faculty, Department of History, University of Oklahoma.
• Classics and Letters Faculty and Staff, Department of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma.
• Wilfred M. McClay, Wikipedia.

Wikipedia Articles:

• John Dewey (1859–1952).
• Pragmatism.

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### Daniel Czitrom, "Muckraking Journalist Jacob Riis and Gilded Age New York City," Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 10 February 2014.

• Daniel Czitrom, Mount Holyoke College.
• Daniel Czitrom, Distinguished Lectureship Program, Organization of American Historians.
• Daniel Czitrom, C-SPAN.
• Daniel Czitrom. Media and the American Minds: From Morse to McLuhan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom. Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn of the Century New York. New York: New Press, 2008. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Daniel Czitrom. New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Books Mentioned:

• Jacob A. Riis (1849–1914). How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.
  [Wikipedia; Google Books, 1890; Archive.org, 1932.]
• Jacob A. Riis. The Making of an American. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1901.
  [Archive.org.]

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### Robert Chiles, "Unrest and Reform in the Gilded Age," University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 18 February 2016.

• Robert Chiles, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park.

Wikipedia Articles:

• Panic of 1873.
• Granger Laws.
• Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois, October 1886.
• Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.
• Sherman Antitrust Act, July 1890.
• United States v. E. C. Knight Co., January 1895.
• Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
• Knights of Labor.
• American Federation of Labor.
• Samuel Gompers (1850–1924).
• Panic of 1884.
• Depression of 1882–85.
• Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886.
• Haymarket affair, May 1886.
• John Peter Altgeld (1847–1902).
• 1892 New Orleans general strike.
• Coal Creek War, Tennessee, April 1891 – August 1892.
• Homestead Strike, June - July 1892.
• Pullman Strike, May 1894.
• American Railway Union.
• Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926).
• Central Park, New York.
• Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), "The Strenuous Life," 10 April 1899.

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### Akim Reinhardt, "Victorian Culture," Towson University, Maryland, 23 February 2017.

• Akim Reinhardt, Department of History, Towson University.
• The Public Professor, Akim Reinhardt's website.
• Akim D. Reinhardt. Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2007.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Akim D. Reinhardt, editor. Welcome to the Oglala Nation: A Documentary Reader in Oglala Lakota Political History. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Heather Rounds and Akim Reinhardt. The Twentieth Century in 100 Moments: A Visual History. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Zenith Press (Quarto Publishing Group), 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles, etc.:

• Victorian era, United Kingdom, 1837–1901.
• Protestant work ethic.
• Gilded Age, 1870s-1900s.
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union, founded 1873/1874.
• Charlotte Perkins Stetson [Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)], "The Yellow Wall-Paper," The New England Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages 647-657, January 1892.
  (Source: Making of America, Cornell University Library.)
  
  Charlotte Perkins Stetson. The Yellow Wall Paper. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1899; 1901.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, The New England Magazine; Archive.org, 1901.]
  
  Reprinted: Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Denise D. Knight. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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My posts on some other books discussing the same period, but not so focused on the progressive movement, as A Fierce Discontent:

• Brands, The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (1995; 2002).
• Cooper, Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920 (1990).
• Ginger, Altgeld's America (1958).
• Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (2009).
• Diner, A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (1998).
• Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (1967).

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