... security,” an important but understudied link between Progressive Era “workingmen’s insurance” and the postwar welfare state. Copyright © 2021 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2021 Social Security Abraham Epstein social insurance Soviet Union In the summer of 1933...

... Mayflower doctrine—a ban on broadcast editorials—the dispute served as fodder for New Deal–era progressive media reformers. This article unpacks Lewis’s mostly forgotten role as an unwitting catalyst of progressive media regulations through reconsidering the FCC’s 1948 Mayflower hearings, which resulted...

... their use of it given its implicit moralization of both the sex trade and urban space. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2024 red-light district prostitution Progressive Era tenderloin district In 1920, the United States Public...

..., an era Radical History Review Issue 103 (Winter 2009)  d o i 10.1215/01636545-2008-040 © 2009 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 188 Francis | To Be Real  189 during which they and other progressives of African, Asian...

... considers political self-activity.' Like much of recent women's history, it shows the connection between domesticity and public life. Taking up its protagonists's redefinition of politics as "Housekeeping on a Grand Scale this exhibit reinterprets the larger narrative of the Progressive Era...

.... Conservative attacks on the New Deal legacy have sent defenders of a regulated marketplace back to the intellectual and political origins of modern-day liberalism, which lie in the Progressive Era. After the virus of deregulation and constant attacks on social welfare spending, both the ideas...

... since 1972. The problem of the inexorable march of time creates the necessity of cov- ering ever more time, getting "up to the present," now that the pre- sent is 1995 not 1972. There is never enough time and choices must be made. Currently I concentrate on the Progressive Era, the 1950...

... and Michel and reaches markedly similar conclusions. But with a twist: Skocpol sees the Progressive-Era U.S. as departing from a western European pattern of welfare state evolution, not only in the strength of its civil-sector women's organizations, but also- and mistakenly-in the ability...

... power has operated within these processes, Jordan and Fisher have illuminated the history of techno- cratic liberalism in our century. Notes 1. See, for example, Samuel Haber, Efficieizcy and Uplff: Scientfic Mnizagerneizf in the Progressive Era, 1890...

... engagements here). In addition, adult education programs at various colleges encour- aged professors to address public meetings of working-class citizens interested in the issues of the day. During the Progressive era, “civic clubs,” which met after hours in schools to discuss political reform...

... in the Progressive Era, or what Hawley, Hogan, and Parrini see in the 1920s, are the only tendencies toward and precur- sors of neocorporatism. As I said, tempting! But the nature of American political econ- omy does not lend itself to before-and-after time-lines, and to sim- ple debates about 1900...

.... This restructuring constituted a major reform move- ment in itself-analogous in its impact to abolitionism, the Progressive Era, and the New Deal-by which Americans sought to reconcile the Jeffersonian democratic tradition with the new reality of administered markets. This historic passage...

... for the city’s first military project, the Panama-California Exposition of 1915, the forced exodus of Black women became a top priority for local police beginning in 1910. 2 During the Progressive Era, female moral reformers joined with powerful, prestigious, and predominately male professionals...

... Relations in Progressive Era New York.” Kali Israel is Associ- ate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Her book, Names and Stories: Emilia Dike and Victorian Culture, is due out in fall 1998, and her new project examines the trope of repression in British culture, 1900 to 1960. Aiko...

..., others pointed to the often intransigent na- ture of the welfare state apparatus. Barbara Nelson offered a detailed comparison of the application forms adopted by the State of Illinois for widows' pensions and workmen's compensation during the Progressive Era." She argued that a complex set...

... feebleminded, and everything from left-handedness to hor- monal imbalances that were characterized as endocrinopathies. In the Progressive Era, bodily disabilities were conflated with social disabilities as legal, economic, and medical discourses began to redefine immigration and rural poverty within...

... of the Civil Rights Movement and a museum exhibition that treats women’s role in Progressive Era reform. Book reviews include gay and lesbian history, turn-of-the-century American corporatism, myths and realities in the history of U.S.-Philippines relations, and the Nazi-Soviet pact. Josh...

... research interests lie in U.S. intellectual and political history, with a particular focus on the Progressive Era and on Cold War America. He is the author of American Progressives and German Social Reform, 1875 – 1920 (2000) and is currently completing a book tentatively titled “The Cold War State...

... for the author and historiographically as a secondary review of the issue, they are the most lively in the book. “Industrial freedom” served as an elastic, but critical slogan throughout Progressive Era discourse, its ”indeterminacy” allowing for deployment by ”socialists and anti- socialists, forward...

... and Mollycoddles: Political Manhood in the Progressive Era (2008) and is coeditor, with members of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project, of a book tentatively titled “Queer Twin Cities: Politics, Histories, Spaces.” Tavia Nyong’o is an assistant professor of performance studies at New York University...