Crossroads: High School Curriculum
Unit VIII: Waves of Reform: 1880s to 1921

POPULISTS AND PROGRESSIVES

Lesson 1 - Suggested Resources

POPULISTS AND PROGRESSIVES
Suggested Resources

  1. The Bitter Cry of the Children by John Spargo. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1969. 337 pp. See especially The Working Child, chapter 3.

  2. Farmers Unite: The Populist Party, in Enrichment Support File (Prentice Hall).

  3. Has Industrialization Produced More Benefits of More Problems for the Nation? in Teacher Resource Activities File (Prentice Hall).

  4. How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis. New York: C. Scribners Sons, 1890. 304 pp. See especially Pauperism in the Tenements, chapter 21 and the appendix.

  5. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. See especially chapter 14.

  6. Reform in America: Jacksonian Democracy , Progressivism, and the New Deal by Faye Rattner. Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1964. 176 pp. See especially Why Progressivism? chapter 6, pp. 61-64.

  7. The Shame of Cities by Lincoln Steffens.Introduction; and Some Conclusions, and Tweed Days in St. Louis.

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