Populists and Progressives
Selected and introduced by Jason Jividen
This collection of documents on Populism and Progressivism serves聽as a hinge connecting the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The聽authors of its documents translated the late nineteenth century American聽experience with industrialization and urbanization into political ideas and聽reforms that influenced twentieth century American politics from Teddy聽Roosevelt鈥檚 New Nationalism, through Franklin Roosevelt鈥檚 New Deal,聽to John Kennedy鈥檚 New Frontier and Lyndon Johnson鈥檚 Great Society.
The documents also display their authors鈥� understanding and sustained聽critique of the ideas and constitutional principles of the American聽Founding. Together, the documents display the thinking that sought, and聽largely succeeded in creating, a second American founding.
Document Include:
- Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879
- Nelson A. Dunning, 鈥淚ntroductory History,鈥� 1891
- Richard T. Ely, 鈥淭he Inheritance of Property,鈥�1891
- Jane Addams, 鈥淭he Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements,鈥澛�1893
- William A. Peffer, 鈥淭he Mission of the Populist Party,鈥澛燚ecember 1893
- Charles E. Merriam, 鈥淩ecent Tendencies,鈥� 1903
- W. E. B. Du Bois, The Niagara Movement鈥檚 鈥淎ddress to the聽Country,鈥� 1906
- Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life, 1909
- Theodore Roosevelt, 鈥淭he Right of the People to Rule,鈥� 1912
- Herbert Croly, Progressive Democracy, 1914
- John Dewey, 鈥淭he Crisis in Liberalism,鈥� 1935