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The Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1914

This Research Guide was developed to support HIST 306, The Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1914

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Subject Headings for Important Historical Figures

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935, Social and political activist

Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906, Suffragist

Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948, Historian and Political scientist

Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941, Supreme Court justice

Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925, Democratic presidential nominee in 1896, 1900, 1908; Secretary of State

Burns, Lucy, 1879-1966, Suffragist

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919, Steel magnate, Philanthropist

Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, Suffragist

Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930, Journalist

Dewey, John, 1859-1952, Philosopher

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, Black scholar

Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931, Inventor

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947, Automaker

Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940, Black leader

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935, Feminist

Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940, Anarchist, Philosopher, Writer

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, Photographer

Jones, Mother, 1837-1930, Union activist

Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932, Child advocate

Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974, Journalist

Mayo, Charles H. (Charles Horace), 1865-1939, American medical practitioner

Mayo, William James, 1861-1939, American medical practitioner

Mott, John R. (John Raleigh), 1865-1955, YMCA leader

Naismith, James, 1861-1939, Sports coach and innovator

Paul, Alice, 1885-1977, Suffragist

Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946, Conservationist

Rauschenbusch, Walter, 1861-1918, Theologian of social gospel

Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914, Reformer

Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937, Industrialist

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919, President

Root, Elihu, 1845-1937, Statesman

Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966, Proponent of birth control

Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919, Suffragist

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968, Novelist

Small, Albion W., 1854-1926, Sociologist

Starr, Ellen Gates, 1859-1940, Sociologist

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930, President and Chief Justice

Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944, Muckraker

Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932, Historian

Ward, Lester F. (Lester Frank), 1841-1913, Sociologist

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915, Black leader, Educator

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924, President

Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931, Black leader

 

Wheeler, Burton K. (Burton Kendall), 1882-1975, Montana politician