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)
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 at the Minnesota State Fair (Sept 2, 1901)
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, Souls of Black Folk (1903)

Wilsonian America

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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