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Progressive Era


Progressive Era Books

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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
The Age of Reform
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
The Search for Order, 1877-1920
The Progressive Era
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Theodore Rex (Theodore Roosevelt, #2)
Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (American History)
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
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A Match in the Making by Jen TuranoTo Steal a Heart by Jen TuranoBehind the Scenes by Jen TuranoMeeting Her Match by Jen TuranoCaught by Surprise by Jen Turano
Gilded Age and Progressive Era Christian Fiction
48 books — 32 voters
Titan by Ron ChernowThe Lady of Sing Sing by Idanna PucciThe Infamous Harry Hayward by Shawn Francis PetersHetty by Charles SlackThomas Nast by Albert Bigelow Paine
Gilded Age Biographies (nonfiction)
134 books — 7 voters

The Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonThe Gilded Hour by Sara DonatiThe Gilded Age by Mark TwainA Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler
Gilded Age New York (fiction and nonfiction)
121 books — 40 voters

Quotes Tagged “Progressive Era”

Wendy L. Rouse
“ Some women chose to embody this new form of physical empowerment & transformed their words into actions. Exhibition boxer Minnie Rosenblatt Besser had spent years training in the manly art of boxing. She promised to meet any willing opponent, male or female, in the ring. Besser specifically called out several famous male boxers but insisted that she was most anxious to meet Brooklyn boxer Eddie Avery, who had been arrested for wife-beating. Besser explained, 'Any man who will strike a helpless w ...more ”
― Wendy L. Rouse
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Jean Elson
“ Leaving James was not something Nina had thought possible, but if she could do so and still keep her children, it might be better for them, as well as for her. ”
― Jean Elson, Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America
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