USH: Progressive Era Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:52:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Presidential Debates Of '08 — 1908, That Is https://daniellazar.com/2016/02/02/the-presidential-debates-of-08-1908-that-is/ Tue, 02 Feb 2016 15:24:14 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5520 “It seems almost impossible to get away from the presidential campaign these days. The candidates are arguing on the radio in your car, plopping down in your living room on the TV, and even popping up on your computer. For all that, you can thank William Jennings Bryan and William Howard Taft. Those two kicked … Continue reading The Presidential Debates Of '08 — 1908, That Is →

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]]> TR Speech: Who is a Progressive? April 1912 https://daniellazar.com/2016/01/31/tr-speech-who-is-a-progressive-april-1912/ Sun, 31 Jan 2016 13:24:23 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5495 “In his recent speech at Philadelphia President Taft stated that he was a Progressive, and this raises the question as to what a Progressive is. More is involved than any man’s say-so as to himself. A well-meaning man may vaguely think of himself as a Progressive without having even the faintest conception of what a … Continue reading TR Speech: Who is a Progressive? April 1912 →

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]]> Obama: Progressive? https://daniellazar.com/2015/08/05/5289/ Wed, 05 Aug 2015 08:37:33 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5289 Early Friday, President Obama announced that he will designate three new national monuments, permanently protecting more than one million acres of public lands. He designated pristine wilderness landscapes in Nevada as Basin and Range National Monument, scenic mountains in California as Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, and a fossil-rich site in Texas as Waco Mammoth … Continue reading Obama: Progressive? →

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]]> Where Are Muckraking Journalists Today? https://daniellazar.com/2015/02/04/where-are-muckraking-journalists-today/ Wed, 04 Feb 2015 05:32:22 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5193 In its heyday, between 1903 and 1906, muckraking journalism was ubiquitous, urgent, influential. The “interests” (what we call today “special interests”) threatened the commonweal; the press attacked the interests. Even in the wake of TR’s tongue-lashing, investigative journalism continued to power Progressive reforms. Where have all the muckrakers gone? Jessica Dorman, a former president of … Continue reading Where Are Muckraking Journalists Today? →

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]]> Teddy Roosevelt Would Never Get Elected in 2014 https://daniellazar.com/2014/09/25/teddy-roosevelt-would-never-get-elected-in-2014/ Thu, 25 Sep 2014 04:20:02 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5082 Ken Burns on why he fell in love with TR and FDR, and what the presidential cousins would make of our own political moment.

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]]> Child Labor Laws Before Federal Regulation https://daniellazar.com/2014/03/16/child-labor-laws-before-federal-regulation/ Sun, 16 Mar 2014 06:59:18 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4887 These maps, which come from a 1933 Department of Labor report on child labor,document the uneven effects of state laws regulating the employment of children and teenagers. During the first decades of the 20th century, progressives sought to regulate what they saw as exploitative employment of poor and immigrant children. Photographers such as Lewis Hine documented impossibly … Continue reading Child Labor Laws Before Federal Regulation →

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]]> NPR Fresh Air Interview: Woodrow Wilson Brought New Executive Style To The White House https://daniellazar.com/2013/10/27/npr-fresh-air-interview-woodrow-wilson-brought-new-executive-style-to-the-white-house/ Sun, 27 Oct 2013 13:13:05 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4718 Woodrow Wilson, America’s 28th president, left the White House in 1921 after serving two terms. But today he remains a divisive figure. He’s associated with a progressive income tax and the creation of the Federal Reserve. During his re-election bid, he campaigned on his efforts to keep us out of World War I, but in … Continue reading NPR Fresh Air Interview: Woodrow Wilson Brought New Executive Style To The White House →

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]]> How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York https://daniellazar.com/2013/02/17/how-the-other-half-lives-studies-among-the-tenements-of-new-york/ Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:03:16 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4210 How the Other Half Lives together with its sequel Battle with the Slum reveal through Riis’s sensationalist prose and photography the appalling living conditions in the Lower East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City. Full text here PC not his forte. I’ve heard more flattering depictions of my peeps: Thrift is the watchword of Jewtown, … Continue reading How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York →

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]]> PBS American Experience: Triangle Fire https://daniellazar.com/2013/02/17/pbs-american-experience-triangle-fire/ Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:56:06 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4203 It was the deadliest workplace accident in New York City’s history. A dropped match on the 8th floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sparked a fire that killed over a hundred innocent people trapped inside. The private industry of the American factory would never be the same.

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]]> Radical Solutions to Economic Inequality https://daniellazar.com/2012/09/08/radical-solutions-to-economic-inequality-2/ Sat, 08 Sep 2012 06:47:17 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3786 If only Americans today were as open-minded about leveling the playing field as we were 100 years ago.

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