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Progressivism

Jane Addams, ca. 1913
Addams, Jane, ca. 1913

Portrait of social reformer Jane Addams (1860-1935) of the Hull House, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1913.

W.E.B. Du Bois, 1918
Du Bois, W.E.B., 1918

Sociologist, author, and civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) believed that blacks would find it more difficult than members…

Factory Inspectors Past and Present, 1914
Factory Inspectors Past and Present, 1914

Concerns about health, hygiene, and food safety, once confined to the family and left largely to women, became a matter…

Simon Nelson Patten, ca. 1900
Patten, Simon Nelson, ca. 1900

German-trained economist Simon N. Patten (1852-1922) connected business progressivism with a critique of nineteenth-century liberal economics in innovative ways. As…

Postcard of the Wayne Knitting Mills Clubhouse, 1911
Postcard of the Wayne Knitting Mills Clubhouse, 1911

Most of the mill’s welfare capitalist initiatives took place in the clubhouse. There, workers could attend lectures and classes, and…

Edward A. Ross, undated portrait
Ross, Edward A., undated portrait

Sociologist Edward A. Ross (1866-1951) was one of many progressive social scientists who perpetuated the view that blacks were inferior…

Albert Shaw, ca. 1907
Shaw, Albert, ca. 1907

Albert Shaw (1857-1947) was a journalist and the editor and publisher of Review of Reviews, a progressive magazine.

Lillian Wald, n.d.
Wald, Lillian, n.d.

Lillian Wald (1867-1940) was born into a German-Jewish family in Cincinnati. After graduating from nursing school in New York City,…

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