Director of the Nichols House Museum Flavia Cigiliano discusses Progressive-era women on Boston's Beacon Hill and their social and political impact. Beginning in the late 19th century, modern women such as Beacon Hill resident Rose Nichols, ventured outside of the domestic realm and into the world of employment and politics.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, in the late 19th century, America's largest cities were dominated by immigrants torn between honoring the traditions of their homeland and embracing American culture.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, at the turn of the 20th century, more women enrolled in colleges like Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Radcliffe, which allowed them to pursue higher education and prepare themselves for professional life.

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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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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces Jane Addams, a wealthy woman who was a pioneer of social reform. She lived and worked in Hull House, a settlement house that assisted poor immigrants with child care and English lessons.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how small farmers formed the Farmers' Alliance to increase their political power. The alliance became the core of the new Populist Party.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the emergence of a new, gritty realism in 19th-century writing and painting.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the wave of reform movements in U.S. in the 1830s and 1840s. Some campaigned for better conditions in prisons and asylums, while others formed utopian communities or discovered fad diets.