The Progressive Era and World War I

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt

Booker T Washington, An Address on Abraham Lincoln (Feb 12, 1909)
Booker T Washington, Atlanta Compromise Speech (Sept 18, 1895)
Booker T Washington, Democracy and Education (1899)
Booker T Washington, Frederick Douglass (1907)
Booker T Washington, Letter to JR Barlow (Mar 1, 1911)
Booker T Washington, My Larger Education (1911)
Booker T Washington, My View of Segregation Laws (Dec 2, 1915)
Booker T Washington, The Educational Outlook in the South (Jul 16, 1884)
Booker T Washington, Up From Slavery (1901)
Eugene Debs, The Issue (1908)
Grover Cleveland, Good Citizenship (1903)
Grover Cleveland, Patriotism and Holiday Observance (1907)
Hay Bunau Varilla Treaty (Panama Canal Treaty) (1903)
Lincoln Steffens, The Corruption of Municipal Politics (1904)
Muller v Oregon (1908)
Northern Securities Co v United States (1904)
Platt Amendment (1903)
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Theodore Roosevelt Address of President Roosevelt at the Lincoln dinner of the Republican club of the city of New York, (Feb 13, 1905)
Theodore Roosevelt, Address at the Minnesota State Fair (Sept 2, 1901)
Theodore Roosevelt, Address of Hon Theodore Roosevelt delivered at Boston (Apr 27, 1912)
Theodore Roosevelt, Address of President Roosevelt at Cairo, Illinois (Oct 3, 1907)
Theodore Roosevelt, Address of President Roosevelt at Chautauqua, New York, August 11, 1905 (1905)
Theodore Roosevelt, Address of President Roosevelt at Keokuk, Iowa (Oct 1, 1907)
Theodore Roosevelt, Address of President Roosevelt at St Louis, Missouri, (Oct 2, 1907)
Theodore Roosevelt, Address of President Roosevelt at the laying of the corner stone of the office building of the House of Representatives, (Apr 14, 1906)
Theodore Roosevelt, Address of President Roosevelt on the Occasion of the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Pilgrim Memorial Monument(Aug 20, 1907)
Theodore Roosevelt, Address of President Roosevelt on the occasion of the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, (Feb 12, 1909)
Theodore Roosevelt, Address of the President at the unveiling of the monument to General Sheridan, (Nov 25, 1908)
Theodore Roosevelt, Americanism (1915)
Theodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a Republic "Man in the Arena" Speech (1910)
Theodore Roosevelt, Conservation as a National Duty (May 13, 1908)
Theodore Roosevelt, Letter to Victor Metcalf about Gentlemen's Agreement with Japan (Nov 27, 1906)
Theodore Roosevelt, Proclamation on the Philippines (Jul 4, 1902)
Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life (Apr 10, 1899)
Theodore Roosevelt, The New Nationalism (1910)
WEB DuBois, The Social Evolution of the Black South (1911)
WEB Dubois, Souls of Black Folk (1903)

Wilsonian America

Woodrow Wilson, Message on Neutrality (August 19, 1914)
Woodrow Wilson, Peace Without Victory (1917)
Adamson Eight Hour Law (1916)
Clarence Darrow, Industrial Conspiracies (1912)
Clayton Antitrust Act (1913)
Henry Cabot Lodge, Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (Aug 2, 1912)
Henry Cabot Lodge, League of Nations Speech (Feb 28, 1919)
Louis D Brandeis, Other People's Money (1913)
Philander C Knox, League of Nations Speech (Mar 1, 1919)
Randolph Bourne, Trans National America (1920)
Woodrow Wilson, Address at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City (Mar 4, 1919)
Woodrow Wilson, Proclamation of Neutrality (Aug 4, 1914)
Woodrow Wilson, Speech for Declaration of War (Apr 2, 1917)
Woodrow Wilson, Speech for for Use of Force against Mexico (Apr 20, 1914)
Woodrow Wilson, Speech on Tariff Duties (Apr 8, 1913)
Woodrow Wilson, The Pueblo Speech (Sept 25, 1919)

The First World War

The Roaring Twenties

Adkins v Children's Hospital (1923)
Bailey v Drexel Furniture Co (1922)
Buck v Bell (1927)
Butler Act (1925)
Calvin Coolidge, Address at Howard University (Jun 6, 1924)
Calvin Coolidge, Address at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1926
Corrigan v Buckley (1926)
Ellison Durant Smith, "Shut the Door" Speech (Apr 9, 1924)
Gitlow v New York (1925)
Gong Lum v Rice (1927)
Herbert Hoover, Rugged Individualism Speech (Oct 22, 1928)
Immigration Act of 1924
Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
Kellogg Briand Pact (1928)
McGrain v Daugherty (1927)
Meyer v Nebraska (1923)
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Last Statements (Apr 9, 1927)
Nixon v Herndon (1927)
Olmstead v US (1928)
Pierce v Society of Sisters (1925)
Russian Famine Relief Act (1921)
Scopes v State of Tennessee (1927)
The Four Power Treaty (Dec 21, 1921)
Warren G Harding, Executive Order 3601 Relief for Russia Act (Dec 24, 1921)
Whitney v California (1927)

Messages and Papers of the Presidents

Political Party Platforms and Campaign Literature

About The Progressive Era and World War I

Documents from the era of the Progressives, including America’s entry into the First World War, and the reaction of the “Roaring Twenties,” 1901-1932.

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