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Progressive Era in the United States

Theodore RooseveltTheodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest, then gave a 90-minute speech. It happened in Milwaukee in October 1912.
William McKinleyWilliam McKinley won the presidency in 1896 campaigning from his front porch. Crowds came by train to Canton, Ohio.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller, the son of a traveling con artist, became the first billionaire in the United States.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson ordered his own supporters to vote against his League of Nations treaty.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton's father once told her he wished she were a boy. She spent decades answering him.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony voted in 1872, waited, and was arrested days later. She then refused to pay her $100 fine.
Standard OilIn 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Standard Oil broken into 39 companies.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie sat down in 1868, at the age of 33, and wrote himself a memo that read like a vow. He called the piling up of wealth one of the worst forms of idolatry. He planned to cap his income at $50,000 a year and retire from…
Charles A. BeardCharles A. Beard argued that money, not philosophy, drove the men who wrote the Constitution.
Upton SinclairUpton Sinclair aimed his novel The Jungle at the public's heart and hit its stomach instead. Meat sales fell by half.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois died in Ghana the day before the March on Washington. He was 95 and had renounced his U.S. citizenship.
Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age of United States history ran from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, and one of its statistics is hard to forget. An average white ten-year-old American boy in 1880 could expect to die at age forty-eight. He would stand…
Walter LippmannJournalist Walter Lippmann gave us the word stereotype. He also named the Cold War in a 1947 book.
The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive EraOne journal covers two eras of American history, the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. It spans 1865 to 1920.