Progressivism vs. Populism
Description
Populism and Progressivism developed in the early 20th century. Professor Steven Hahn of the University of Pennsylvania compares the two political movements.
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The Rise of Urban Parks in the 19th Century
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This iCue Mini-Documentary presents New York City's Central Park as an example of an urban park built by bold social planners in the 19th century.
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Urban Tensions Grow During World War I
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how the production demands of World War I draw blacks and whites from rural areas to factory jobs in the cities. However, along with that migration came racial tension.
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Country to City Transition
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Historian Josh Brown of the American Social History Project analyzes a typical cartoon from the late 19th century that shows a country bumpkin overwhelmed by the cosmopolitan and confusing city.
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Bosses of the Senate
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Historian Josh Brown of the American Social History Project examines a cartoon from Puck, the famous satirical weekly of the Gilded Age, which describes the U.S. Senate as a club for millionaires.
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Let Us Prey: Political Corruption in the Late 19th Century
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the corruption that was commonplace in the late 19th century—scandal became the topic of many political cartoons of the day.
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The Gilded and Gritty: America, 1870-1912
Description
Constructed around an online "toolbox" of texts and documents collected at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, participants in this seminar will discuss four themes that are central to the Gilded Age: City and Country, focusing on Arcadian mythology, urban realism, and nostalgia; Citizens and Others, especially immigrants, African Americans, and children; Work and Leisure, especially craft, industrialization, and consumerism; and Politics and the State, including party culture, populism, and progressivism. Within each thematic unit, participants will be searching for characteristic sensibilities of the age, as manifest in public life, literature, and/or the arts. Across the discussions, they will try to identify those documents, questions, and exercises that might best enliven their own classrooms.
Contact name
Rooney, Rachel
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Newberry Library
Phone number
312-255-3569
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free
Course Credit
Participants receive 10 CPDUs credit hours towards their State of Illinois certification renewal.
Contact Title
Director
Duration
Two days
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The Progressive Era in Global Context
Description
The Progressive Era marked the modernization of the American state, the expansion of citizenship, the ascendancy of "big business," the transformation of American liberalism, and the development of a social politics. It was also the moment when the United States assumed the role of a world power, culminating in its participation in World War I and its role in negotiating the ambitious but flawed treaty that ended it. Taking exception to interpretations of the era that see "American exceptionalism," this seminar will explore the era and its reforms (and their limits) in the context of the larger global response to industrialization and urbanization under conditions of unregulated capitalism.
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
646-366-9666
Target Audience
High school
Start Date
Cost
Free; $400 stipend granted
Course Credit
Pittsburg State University (PSU) is pleased to offer graduate credit to workshop participants at a tuition fee of $199 per credit hour. Participants can receive three graduate credit hours for the duration of the week.
Duration
One week
End Date
Wartime Development of the West and South
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes migration within the U.S. during World War II, which was driven by government spending on defense contracts. California's population grew by two million people during the war.
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Thorstein Veblen and the Leisure Class
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the phrase "conspicuous consumption," a phrase coined by a Norwegian American sociologist to describe the lifestyles of the newly wealthy in early 20th-century America.
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