DRAFT History 75300: Progressive Era to World War II, 1900-1940: The Contours of Reform Professor Thomas Kessner Wed 11:45-1:45 This course focuses on topics in U.S. social, political and cultural history between 1900 and 1940. In this first half of the 20th century (“the American Century”) the United States economy took on a global aspect, foreign policy turned isolationist, roles for women expanded and the U.S. was transformed from a largely agricultural and rural nation to one that was urban and metropolitan. Northern racial ghettoes formed and erupted, immigration was restricted, radicals were deported and the capitalist market surged, only to tank into depression. The U.S. responded with uncertainty toward the rise of totalitarian governments in Europe and offered no haven to those seeking refuge. At the same time the succession of progressive politics, World War, prosperity and depression shaped a reform political regime that redrew the contours of the American political economy. We also look at social change and the multifaceted cultural transformations that marked these years. Readings will include a sample of classic works along with a selection of more recent monographs and interpretive studies. Expected outcomes: A critical understanding of key texts regarding U.S. history, 100-1940; An understanding of the role of politics, economics, social forces, culture and technology in shaping early 20th century U.S. society; An understanding of broad trends in reform and social policy and their roles in redefining the contours of capitalism; Read monographs regarding the Progressive-New Deal period critically and analytically and lead class discussion on assigned topics; An appreciation for the complexity of historical experience and examples of the influence of prime variables like race, gender, class, culture and economics on American history; Write a well defined, carefully researched and cogently argued paper. Weekly Assignments: Reading selections will be drawn from the following assigned books and articles. S Scan available; E Electronic version available from Library *Suggested Reading I. Definitions and Debates Peter G Filene,. “An Obituary for ‘The Progressive Movement’" American Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring, 1970), 20-34. 1 Daniel T Rodgers,. "In Search of Progressivism," Reviews in American History Vol. 10, No. 2 (December 1982), 113-32. Elizabeth Israels Perry, “Men Are from the Gilded Age, Women Are from the Progressive Era,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Vol. 1, No. 1 (Jan. 2002), 25-48. Robert D. Johnston, “Re-Democratizing the Progressive Era: The Politics of Progressive Era Political Historiography,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Vol. 1, No. 1 (Jan. 2002), 68-92. Steven J Diner, “Linking Politics and People: The Historiography of the Progressive Era,” OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 13, No. 3, (Spring, 1999), 5-9. II. Muckrakers and Reformers: Society In Need of Improvement Ida Tarbell, “The History of the Standard Oil Companies” Mclure’s Vol XX, Nov., 1902 Chapters 10,13,17-18 https://archive.org/details/historyofstandar01tarbuoft/page/n10 Steve Weinberg, Taking on the Trust: How Ida Tarbell Brought Down John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil (2008), 177-228; 259-274. Samuel H. Adams, “The Great American Fraud,” Collier’s (1912) https://books.google.com/books?id=tdf8na3fqNUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summ ary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false You may require a Google login to download this item. If you do not have that, try this "Download PDF" James H. Cassedy, “Muckraking and Medicine: Samuel Hopkins Adams,” American Quarterly Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring, 1964), 85-99 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2710829 Allen Davis, Spearheads for Reform: The Social Settlements & the Progressive Movement, (1967), 40-59; 84-102; 123-147; 170-218. Jane Addams. Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes, 1910, online at A Celebration of Women Writers online at Harvard Library OR http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/addams/hullhouse/hullhouse.html John Spargo, The Bitter Cry of the Children, 125-217. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57125/57125-h/57125-h.htm *Frances Kellor, “Out of Work” https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044020509055;view=1up;seq=16 or https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https- 3A__archive.org_details_outworkastudyem01kellgoog&d=DwIBAg&c=8v77JlHZOYsR eeOxyYXDU39VUUzHxyfBUh7fw_ZfBDA&r=vl9fXfFok4ho4W4fFmmeKCAaYUzv YRiD9GUBU9ClbYA&m=GWt_tlmPSw3VlMr1190Hnc8GCWLFvyT- 9PFKKiujENY&s=kRxoZhZRIOxsnD8HrI4uXqVsjXR7aLJ9dwPdXRMnTOg&e= *Louis Brandeis, “Other People’s Money And How The Bankers Use it” viii-x 2 https://archive.org/stream/otherpeoplesmone00bran/otherpeoplesmone00bran_djvu.txt *Burton Hendrick, “The Story of Life Insurance,” McClure’s Nov.,1906 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Life_Insurance. *Gustavus Myers, History of the Great American Fortunes (1907). http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30956 III. Major Trends in Progressive Reform Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998), 33-111; 209-317. Michael E. McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (2003), 77-220. Maureen Flanagan, A. America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890s-1920s (2007), 3-160. Martin J. Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics (1988),179-332 David Huyssen. Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890-1920 (2014) , 1-30; 49-62; 123-134; 181-272. Leon Fink. The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order, Intro 1, 3-5. *Richard Hofstadter. The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR. (1955),131-271. *Michael Kazin, American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation (2011), 4-5 *Dawley, Alan. Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991), 17-138 IV. Presidential Progressivism Martin J. Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics (1988), 333-430. Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life. (1909). pp. 100-214 (Ch. V-VI, VIII, XIII) https://archive.org/details/promiseamerican00crolgoog John Milton Cooper, The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. (1983), 69-228. Gail Bederman, Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (1995), 170-216. S *Link, Arthur S. Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917 (1954), 54-80; 197-282. * Theodore Roosevelt, Autobiography. (1913-1916), 379-540. S 3 * John Milton Cooper, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (2009). Robert D. Johnston, “Long Live Teddy/Death to Woodrow: The Polarized Politics of the Progressive Era in the 2012 Election.” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 13(3), 2014, 411-443. doi:10.1017/S1537781414000279 V. The Progressives and the War John Milton Cooper, The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. (1983), 266-345. Adam Tooze, The Deluge: The Great War, America and The Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 (2014), 3-32; 193-193-254. Thomas J. Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order. (1995), 48-105, 123-193; 246-270. Michael E. McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 ( 2003), 279-314. David M. Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980), 45-190; 296-347. Ronald Schaffer, America in the Great War: The Rise of the War-Welfare State (1991), 31-74; 109-126. The Journal of American History: “Interchange on WWI,” September, (2015), 463-499. W.E. Burghardt DuBois, "An Essay Toward a History of the Black Man in the Great War," The Crisis, vol. 18, no. 2 (June, 1919), pp. 63–87. * Jennifer D. Keene, "Remembering the “Forgotten War”: American Historiography on World War I." Historian 78, #3 (2016), 439-468. * John Milton Cooper, "The World War and American Memory." Diplomatic History (2014), 38, #4, 727-736. * Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (1991), 172-217. VI. Roaring Twenties: What Happened to the Progressive Movement? Arthur S. Link, "What Happened to the Progressive Movement in the 1920's?" The American Historical Review, Vol. 64, No. 4 (July, 1959), pp. 833–851. John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925(1954), 131- 330. 4 Mae M. Ngai, “The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924,” Journal of American History, Vol. 86, No. 1 (Jun., 1999), 67-92. Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (1931). Frank Stricker, Affluence for whom?—another look at prosperity and the working classes in the 1920s Labor History Volume 24, 1983 - Issue 1. http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&sid=07cb54d4-254d-4c0f-a7ad- 8dc7b4ec3088%40pdc-v-sessmgr05 Jessica Pliley, Policing Sexuality, The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI (2014), 32-83;159- 206. Maureen A. Flanagan, America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890s-1920s (2007), 181- 198; 261-282. * Beverly Gage, The Day Wall Street Exploded a Story of America in Its First Age of Terror. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2009), 11-124; 309-328 *Paul A. Kramer, “Review Essay: The Geopolitics of Mobility: Immigration Policy and American Global Power in the Long Twentieth Century,” American Historical Review, (April, 2018), 393-438. *Aristide Zolberg, A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America (2009), 243-267. *William R. Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (1993), 263-322; 349-378. VII. Emerging Agendas: State, Labor and Class Karen L. Walloch The Antivaccine Heresy: Jacobson v. Massachusetts (2015), Ch. 3-5, 8-9. Nancy Unger, Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers (2012), 3-13; 75-137. Kriste Lindenmeyer, A Right to Childhood (1997), 9-29; 108-138. Lisa McGirr, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State (2015), 3-38; 67-121; 157-230.