Curated OER
Social Studies Help Center
A brief outline of information about African Americans & reform during the Progressive Era. Links to more information on Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey.
Country Studies US
Country Studies: China, the Self Strengthening Movement
Country Studies offers an article of the social causes and political outcomes of Chinese self-strengthening reform in the 19th century.
Digital History
Digital History: Feminism Reborn
This comprehensive survey of the women's movement during the 1960s and 1970s documents women and politics, women's wages, legal discrimination against women, stereotypes of women, women's rights legislation, and women's rights...
Other
Excerpt From "Progress and Poverty"
Take a look at this excerpt, published by the Henry George Institute, of George's "Progress and Poverty". Includes author's photo & other clip art.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Women in the Gilded Age
The roles available to women increased during the urbanization of America. Find out how the women's sphere of the home expanded into the community. See what new jobs were availabe to single, middle-class women, and read about how...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Lugenia Burns Hope
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Lugenia Burns Hope, an American social reformer whose Neighborhood Union and other community service organizations improved the quality of life for blacks in Atlanta, Ga., and served as a...
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Mu Special Collections: Dorothy Day
This site details the work of Dorothy Day as she began the Catholic Worker Movement. It gives an in-depth look at her religious influence and social ministry legacy.
Curated OER
Unesco: Germany: Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. The property consists of six housing estates that testify to innovative housing policies from 1910 to 1933, especially during the Weimar Republic, when the city of Berlin was particularly progressive...
Other
Full Online Text of "Progress and Poverty"
Open this page for links to the full text of Henry George's "Progress and Poverty", which became popular during the American Progressive Era.
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Progressive Era
Read about the first two decades of the twentieth century, when Texans shared the optimism and confidence that permeated American society in the time period called the Progressive Era.