Contains excerpts from memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, speeches, advertisements, and other primary sources that provide eyewitness reports on the Progressive Era in America, from 1890 to 1920, and features introductory essays, chronologies, period illustrations and photographs, and brief biographies of key individuals.
General Note
Includes index.
Content Note
Introduction -- An era ends, an era opens, 1890-1893 -- The crisis of the '90s, 1894-1897 -- America becomes a world power, 1898-1901 -- Roosevelt takes command, 1902-1904 -- A reformer in the White House, 1905-1908 -- The progressive wave rolls in, 1909-1912 -- Progressivism and preparedness, 1913-1916 -- War and the end of an era, 1917-1920 -- Appendix A: documents -- Appendix B: biographies -- Appendix C: tables and maps.