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When Professor Benjamin Parke De Witt of New York University sat down to write the first history of the progressive movement in 1915, he promised “to give form and definiteness to a movement which is, in the minds of many, confused and chaotic.” Apparently it was a fool's errand, because confusion and chaos continued to plague historians of early twentieth-century reform long after Professor De Witt laid his pen to rest. The maddening variety of reform and reformers in the early twentieth century has perpetually confounded historians' efforts to identify what, if anything, the progressives had in common. Back in the 1950s, Richard Hofstadter charitably allowed that progressives were “of two minds on many issues,” whereas Arthur Link argued that “the progressive movement never really existed” because it pursued so many “contradictory objectives.” In the 1960s, Robert Wiebe concluded that the progressives, if they constituted a movement at all, showed “little regard for consistency.” In the 1970s, Peter Filene wrote an “obituary” for progressivism by reasserting Link's claim that the movement had “never existed” because it was so divided and diffuse. In the 1980s, Daniel Rodgers tried to recast the “ideologically fluid” progressive movement as a pastiche of vaguely related rhetorical styles. By the 1990s, so many competing characterizations of progressivism had emerged that Alan Dawley wondered if “they merely cancel each other out.” In 2002, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore declared emphatically that “historians cannot agree” on progressivism. In 2010, Walter Nugent admitted that “the movement's core theme has been hard to pin down” because progressivism had “many concerns” and “included a wide range of persons and groups.”

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Mathematical Sciences - J. L. Heilbron & Bruce R. Wheaton, Literature on the history of physics in the twentieth century. Berkeley: University of California Office for History of Science and Technology, 1981. Pp. xi + 485. No price stated. ISBN 0-918102-012-2. - David De Vorkin, The history of modern astronomy and astrophysics. A selected, annotated, bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1982. Pp. xxvii + 434. $65.00. ISBN 0-8240-9283-X.

The British Journal for the History of Science ◽

10.1017/s000708740001997x ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 292-293

Author(s):

John Hendry

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

History Of Science ◽

History Of Physics ◽

University Of California ◽

History Of ◽

Mathematical Sciences ◽

Astronomy And Astrophysics ◽

Garland Publishing ◽

Modern Astronomy

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The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century. Edited by David Blackbourn and Richard J. Evans (New York: Routledge, 1991. xix plus 348 pp. $74.50)

Journal of Social History ◽

10.1353/jsh/27.1.172 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 172-175

Author(s):

R. Wetzell

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Middle Class ◽

Social History ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The Social ◽

Late Eighteenth ◽

History Of

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The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century, edited by David Blackbourn and Richard J. EvansThe German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century, edited by David Blackbourn and Richard J. Evans. New York, Routledge, 1991. xix, 337 pp. $74.50 U.S.

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.27.2.385 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 385-387

Author(s):

James Retallack

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Middle Class ◽

Social History ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The Social ◽

Late Eighteenth ◽

History Of

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The Museum of Safety: Responsibility, Awareness and Modernity in New York, 1908–1923

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s002187581600102x ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 51 (3) ◽

pp. 915-938

Author(s):

ROSS WILSON

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Safety Devices ◽

The Public ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

History Of ◽

Detailed Assessment ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

The Way

This article examines the construction, the development and the denouement of the Museum of Safety in New York during the early twentieth century. Through a detailed assessment of the institution's own bulletin, newspapers and accompanying literature, the manner in which the museum served its visitors, promoted its cause and failed to secure its own future will be examined. The significance of this institution has been overlooked despite the way its role and responsibilities in exhibiting safety devices and procedures to industry, workers and the public reflect important trends within late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century society. The Museum of Safety also emerged as the effects of capitalism, immigration and industrialization began to be addressed. Examining the history of this “lost museum” will, therefore, reveal how responsibility, awareness and modernity were encountered in New York.

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