American History Since 1877

Chapter 20
Progressive Era: 1900-1914

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These resources have been selected by librarians to supplement HSTY202 classes (American History from 1877) at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

• Gale Virtual Reference Collection
• Books and eBooks in TC3 Collection
• Subject Headings
• Multimedia
• Locating Journal Articles in Databases
• Web Resources

Gale Virtual Reference Collection

TC3 students and staff have access to the Gale Virtual Reference Library which has over 250 academic reference encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. This is a good place to start your research because it provides useful background information.

Books and eBooks in the TC3 Collection

• The Age of Reform from Bryan to F.D.R. by Richard Hofstadter [E743 .H63]. Also available online via ACLS Humanities E-Book.
• American Decades Primary Sources - Online, Gale Virtual Reference Library.
• American Settlement Houses and Progressive Social Reform: an Encyclopedia of the American Settlement Movement [REF HV4194 .B37 1999]
• Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age by Daniel T. Rodgers. Online in ACLS Humanities E-Book.
• Autobiography. "Condensed from the original ed., supplemented by letters, speeches, and Other Writings" - by Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) [E757 .R794]
• The Battle of 1900: an Official Hand-book for Every American Citizen ... Republican issues by L. White Busbey, Prohibition issues by Oliver W. Stewart, Democratic issues by Willis J. Abbot, Populist issues by Dr. Howard S. Taylor. Endorsed by the parties [JK2263 1900 .B33]
• Big Bill Haywood and the Radical Union Movement by Joseph R. Conlin [HD6509.H3 C65]
• Concise History of Woman Suffrage: Selections from the Classic Work of Stanton, Anthony, Gage, and Harper [JK1896 .C58 ]
• Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow by Neil R. McMillen. Online via ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection.
• From Parlor to Prison; Five American Suffragists Talk about their Lives [JK1896 .F76]
• The Grounding of Modern Feminism by Nancy F. Cott [O-SIZE HQ1420 .C67 1987]
• I Came a Stranger: the Story of a Hull House Girl [F548.9.J5 P65 1991]
• A History of the American Suffragist Movement [JK1896 .W43 1998]
• Morgan: American Financier [HG2463.M6 S77 2000]
• Pitied but not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935 by Linda Gordon [HV699 .G67 1994]
• A Power Among Them: the Extraordinary Life of Labor Activist, Immigrant, and Feminist Bessie Abramowitz Hillman [HD6515.C62 U57 2007]
• Pure and Simple Politics: the American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881-1917 [HD8055.A5 G784 1998]
• Taking Charge: Nursing, Suffrage, and Feminism in America, 1873-1920 by Julie Greene [RT4 .L49 1993]
• The Triangle fire by Leon Stein [HD9940.U5 N717 2001]
• Theodore Roosevelt and His Times; a Chronicle of the Progressive Movement [E756 .H6]
• Triangle: the Fire that Changed America by David Von Drehle [F128.5 .V688 2003]
• Twenty years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams (1860-1935) [HV4196.C4 A3 1990]
• Women's Suffrage in America: an Eyewitness History [JK1898 .F76 1992] - "Chronicles the struggle of American women for the right to vote, from 1800 to their victory in 1920. Includes quotations from contemporary witnesses through memoirs, letters, and other documents of the period."
• Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917 [E766 .L5]

Subject Headings

in the TC3 Library Catalog, SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat.

• Jane Addams
• Hull House
• Progressivism, United States politics
• Prohibition
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Women Social Reformers
• Women - Suffrage - United States
• Woodrow Wilson

To find items in other libraries use the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat. These books may be requested through the TC3 Library's Interlibrary Loan service

Multimedia

• Clara Lemlich: A Strike Leader’s Diary (dvd) - "On November 22, 1909, New York City garment workers gathered at Cooper Union to discuss pay cuts, unsafe working conditions and other grievances. After two hours of indecisive speeches by male union leaders, a young Jewish woman strode down the aisle and demanded the floor. Speaking in Yiddish, she passionately urged her coworkers to go out on strike. Clara Lemlich, a flegling union organizer, thus launched the ’Uprising of the 20,000’, when, two days later, garment workers walked out of shops all over the city." [Media HQ1413.L46 C53 2004]
• Iron Jawed Angels [dvd] - 2004 movie is the "dramatized story of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, leaders of the suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. They broke from the mainstream women’s rights movement to create a more activist wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women’s voting rights in 1920." [Media HQ1236 .I76 2004]
• Lillian Wald: at Home on Henry Street, written by Clare Coss - Audiorecording. [Media HQ1439.N5 C6]
• Millennium Evening [videorecording]: Women as Citizens: Vital Voices through the Century [Media HQ1410 .M5 1999] "Alice Kessler-Harris, Nancy Cott, and Ruth Simmons speak on the history of American women in civic life in the 20th century. The discussion focuses on three themes: women as volunteers and reformers, women's struggle for rights,and women in public/civic life. Includes remarks by President Clinton, and comments and questions from the audience and from the Internet."
• One Woman, One Vote [videorecording] [Media HQ1236.5 .O64 1995] "Documents the 70-year struggle for women's suffrage which culminated in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. It illuminates the alliances, infighting, betrayals and defeats that paved the way for victory in the battle for women's right to vote. Historical footage is enhanced with vocal performances, and interviews with historians provide the viewer with both current and historical perspectives."
• The Theodore Roosevelt CD-ROM [computer file] [Media E660.R7 T45 2000] "Theodore Roosevelt cyclopedia and supplement -- New York Governor's papers, 1899 and 1900 volumes: introduction, notes, family chronology and genealogy -- Four original Edison cylinder recordings."
• Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Movement, and the Shaping of 'Modern' American Politics - Sidney M. Milkis, James Madison Program lecture at Princeton University, December 1, 2009.

Locating Journal Articles in Databases

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals by title & Subject.

Web Resources

• The Brandeis Brief - "In 1907, Florence Kelley and Josephine Goldmark hired Louis D. Brandeis to represent the state of Oregon in Muller v. Oregon (208 US 412), a case before the US Supreme Court that involved the constitutionality of limiting hours for female laundry workers." Primary Source.
• Child Labor in America, 1908-1912: Photographs of Lewis W. Hine - History Place.
• Dance Halls. Ordinances governing the conduct of public dances and dance halls, city of Buffalo. Issued by the Common Council. Daniel J. Sweeney, City Clerk ... - Primary source document from the Library of Congress, American Memory Collection: An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals.
• Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920 - Presentation of the John W. Hartman Center and Digital Scriptorium, Duke University.
• George Grantham Bain Collection - "The George Grantham Bain Collection represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, political activities including the woman suffrage campaign, conventions and public celebrations. The photographs Bain produced and gathered for distribution through his news service were worldwide in their coverage, but there was a special emphasis on life in New York City. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1900s to the mid-1920s, but scattered images can be found as early as the 1860s and as late as the 1930s." From the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
• Ida B. Tarbell Home Page - The Archives includes Tarbell's John D. Rockefeller: A Character Study, McClure's Magazine, July 1905, pp.[226]-249
• National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 - Library of Congresss collection "consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign."
• Project Gutenberg - Historical texts, such as McClure's Magazine, listed under "M".
• Remembering the Triangle Factory Fire - Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Provides primary sources
• Selected papers of Margaret Sanger - Google Booksprovides "limited preview" of Volume 1 - The woman rebel, 1900-1928
• Temperance and Prohibition - Ohio State University Department of History presents this website.
• Theodore Roosevelt - Indexes and provides access to the full text of original works by Theodore Roosevelt and selected works about him.
• Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963 - University of Illinois at Chicago; Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.
• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 - Library of Congress, American Memory Collection.
• Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party - "The photographs span from about 1875 to 1938 but largely date between 1913 and 1922. They document the National Woman’s Party’s push for ratification of the 19th Amendment as well as its later campaign for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. This online presentation is a selection of 448 photographs from the approximately 2,650 photographs in the Records of the National Woman’s Party collection, housed in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress."
• Women Working, 1800 - 1930 - "Focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages."

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