"The essays in this volume were originally delivered as papers at the Conference on Women in the Progressive Era held March 10-12, 1988 at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian ...

The Progressive Era, 1890-1920, was vibrant with reforms and programs designed to create a more equitable and healthier society. The era followed the Gilded Age, when industrialists flaunted their ...

In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory ...