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Authors: Elizabeth Burt
ISBN-13: 9780313320972, ISBN-10: 0313320977
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: September 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Elizabeth Burt

ELIZABETH V. BURT is Associate Professor at the School of Communication, University of Hartford. She is the author of Women's Press Organizations, 1881-1999 (Greenwood Press, 2000), and has published many articles and book chapters on issues of the Progressive Era, social movements, and the woman suffrage movement.

Book Synopsis

Offers contemporary accounts of the controversial and tumultuous changes undergone in America from the age of industry to the beginning of World War I.

	Introduction : the Progressive Era and newspapers	1
Ch. 1	The census of 1890 measures American life and defines some of its problems	17
Ch. 2	The death of Sitting Bull and the Battle of Wounded Knee, December 1890	29
Ch. 3	Nativist fears limit Chinese immigration, May 1892	41
Ch. 4	The Homestead Strike pits Labor against Management, 1892	53
Ch. 5	Lynch law terrorizes blacks in the South	69
Ch. 6	Coxey's army marches on Washington, 1894	85
Ch. 7	The sinking of the Maine, February 15, 1898	103
Ch. 8	The Treaty of Paris launches America as an imperialist power, December 10, 1898	119
Ch. 9	The turn of the century brings hopes and fears	135
Ch. 10	President William McKinley is assassinated, September 6, 1901	153
Ch. 11	America backs the Panamanian revolution, November 1903	171
Ch. 12	The Socialist Party challenges the status quo, 1904	189
Ch. 13	The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March 25, 1911	205
Ch. 14	The Titanic disaster, April 14, 1912	225
Ch. 15	Women demand the right to vote, 1911-1912	245
Ch. 16	Congress adopts the Federal Income Tax, February 1913	267
Ch. 17	The Prohibition Movement gains in the States and Congress, 1900-1913	287
Ch. 18	Women march for suffrage in Washington, March 1913	307
Ch. 19	The Seventeenth Amendment reforms the Senate, May 1913	327
Ch. 20	The Ludlow Mine Massacre, April 1914	343
App	Newspapers cited - publication information, circulation figures, and political affiliations	367

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