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1) The jungle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then...
Author
Series
History of US volume 8
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Covers the period of American history from the 1880s to World War I.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Description
In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism. But not for all. Academic social scientists such as Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, and Edward A. Ross, together with their reform allies in social work, charity,...
5) Red River
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"The intertwining stories of two Louisiana families--three generations of African-American men--and their struggles to make a place for themselves in a country deeply divided in the aftermath of the Civil War and beyond"--Provided by publisher.
6) Education and women's work: female schooling and the division of labor in urban America, 1870-1930
Author
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 920L
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at life for girls and women in America in 1904, discussing city and town life, social reform, new inventions, amusements, and more.
Author
Series
History of US volume 7
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
A history of the Reconstruction period and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization.
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Series
Gallaudet classics in deaf studies volume 9
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Howard L. Terry wrote a novel between 1917 and 1919, which he donated to the Gallaudet University Archives in 1949. There it rested until a resurgence of interest in Deaf literature led to its recent rediscovery. Mickey's Harvest: A Novel of a Deaf Boy's Checkered Life recounts the rollicking tale of a young deaf boy and how he learned to survive and thrive at the advent of the 20th century. Mickey Dunmore's story begins with the sinking of his father's...
12) U.S.A
Author
Series
Library of America volume 85
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Unique among American novels for its epic scope and panoramic social sweep, John Dos Passos' U.S.A. has long been acknowledged as a monument of modern fiction. In the novels that make up the trilogy -- The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936) -- Dos Passos creates a collective portrait of America in the first three decades of the 20th century, shot through with sardonic comedy and social observation. He interweaves the careers...
20) Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America: from northern woman to plantation mistress
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English