General--For any/all reformers

• ABC-CLIO American History (subscription database; see FHS Library Staff for username and password)
• Student Resource Center Gold ( subscription database; see FHS Library Staff for username and password)
• Biography Resource Center (subscription database; requires your BCPL library card number)
• SIRS Decades: 20th Century American sources (subscription databases; see FHS Library Staff for username and password)
• History Matters: The U. S. Survey Course on the Web

Jane Addams 

• Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Chicago
• Hull-House Incorporated Home Page
• Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams
• Hull-House Incorporated: The Professionalization of Social Work
• Jane Adams: Why Women Should Vote, 1915
• "Social Control""Recreation as a Public Function in
• Urban Communities"
• Urban Experience in Chicago
• The Spirit of Youth and the Cities
• Working Women, 1800-1930: Jane Addams (1860-1935) (Scroll down for multiple links to primary sources by Jane Adams.)

Susan B. Anthony

• Anthony Center for Women's Leadership
• By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage
• National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
• PBS: Not for Outselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Paper Project

Anti-Saloon League

• Anti-Saloon League 1893-1933
• Anti-Saloon League of America

Ray Stannard Baker

• Ray Stannard Baker: A Guide to Resources
• Ray Stannard Baker
• Ray Stannard Baker and the Legacy and Future of
• Progressivism
• Ray Stannard Baker, American Magazine, Following the Color Line (1908)
• The Scientist and the Food Problem

Louis Brandeis

• "The People's Attorney": The Life of Louis D. Brandeis, 1856-1941
• Louis Brandeis
• The Right to Privacy
• Publication: Louis Brandeis
• Working Women, 1880-1930: Louis D. Brandeis (1846-1941) (Scroll down for multiple links to primary sources by Louis Brandeis)

Carrie Chapman Catt

• Carrie Chapman Catt Childhood Home
• Carrie Chapmen Catt

Herbert Croly

• Herbert Croly
• The Croly Ghost
• The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly
• Herbert Croly's Transformation of the American Regime

Eugene Debs

• Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive
• Eugene Victor Debs, 1855-1926
• Eugene Debs
• Eugene Victor Debbs (1855-1926) (AFL-CIO)

John Dewey

• The Pragmatism Cybrary: John Dewey
• Essays on the Philosphy of John Dewey
• "My Pedagogic Creed"
• John Dewey and Progressive Education

Theodore Dreiser

• Sister Carrie
• The Financier
• Biography of Theodore Dreiser

W. E. B. DuBois

• DuBois, Niagra Movement Address
• DuBois...The Souls of Black Folk
• Document Library: W. E. B. DuBois

Henry George

• The Paradox of Capitalist Growth
• Henry George's Land Reform

Lewis Hine

• The History Place--Child Labor in America
• Masters of Photography: Lewis Hine
• Children at Work 1908-1912
• Portfolio: Lewis Hines (National Archives)
• New Hampshire Historical Society: Before Their Time:
• Child Labor through the Lens of Lewis Hine
• Photography and Social Reform: Lewis Hine
• Child Labor Photographs
• Selected Lewis W. Hine
• National Child Labor Committee Collection Photographs byLewis Hine
• Lewis Wickes Hine's "Work Portraits"

Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)

• Childhood; An Address by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe Before the Reform League
• Julia Ward Howe
• Reminiscences of Julia Ward Howe
• Battle Hymm of the Republic (Library of Congress)

Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr.

• Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
  

Charles Evans Hughes

• Brown University: A Short History: Charles Evans Hughes

Helen Hunt Jackson

• Gale--Free Resources--Women's History Month
• Helen Hunt Jackson: From A Century of Dishonor (1881)
• Helen Hunt Jackson
• Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
  

Tom L. Johnson

• Democrats of Ohio Repudiate Mr. Bryan; Tom L. Johnson's Taxation Planks Put in Platform (NY Times article)
• Ohio History: The Downfall of a Progressive: Mayor
  Tom L. Johnson and The Cleveland
  Streetcar Strike of 1908

Mother Jones

• A Celebration of Women Writers: Mary (Mother) Jones: c. 1837-1930
• "Mother" Mary Harris Jones
• Mother Jones: The Miners' Angel

Sam Jones

• Samuel Jones
• Samuel M. Jones
• Samuel Milton Jones Biography

Florence Kelley

• Florence Kelley--A Woman of Fierce Fidelity
• Florence Kelley
• Child Labor Legislation and Enforcement...
• Our Toiling Children
• Women in Trade Unions
• Twenty Questions about the Federal Amendment...
• Women in Industry: The Eight Hours Day and Rest at Night
• Women in Public Life
• The Present Status of Minimum Wage Legislation
• Woman and the Larger Citizenship
• The Truth about Wage-Earning Women and the State
• Minimum Wage Boards
• Some Ethical Gains through Legislation
• Strength in Numbers: Kelley on Women, Labor, and the Power of the Ballot
• Florence Kelley, "Working Woman's Need of the Ballet,"...

Frances Kellor

• NASW Social Work Pioneers
• Policy Review: Profiles in Citizenship
• Out of Work: A Study of Unemployment

Robert LaFollette

• Robert Marion LaFollette
• Robert M. LaFollette and the 1924 Progressives
• The Career of Robert M. LaFollette
• LaFollette on Women's Public Role
• The Career of Robert M. LaFollette
• Robert LaFollette on Women's Public Role
• Excerpts from Robert M. LaFollette’s speech, “The Danger Threatening Representative Government”
• LaFollete and His Legacy

Belle Moskowitz

• Belle Moskowitz

The Muckrakers

• InfoPlease: Muckrakers
• Progressive

John Muir

• Ecology Hall of Fame: John Muir
• Writings of John Muir
• John Muir Exhibit
• The Writings of John Muir
• Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920: The Mountains of California
• Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920: Publications of the Sierra Club
• Click on these John Muir documents and follow the directions:
  • Case Study: Should the Hetch Hetchy Be Dammed?
  • What Is "Conservation" and Why Does It Matter?

Carry Nation

• Carry Nation's Hammer
• Carry A. Nation: The Famous and Original Bar Room Smasher

Frank Norris

• A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West by Frank Norris
• The Octopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris
• The Pit by Frank Norris

Mary White Ovington

• Mary White Ovington (Unitarian Universalist Historical Society)
• Mary White Ovington
• Half a Man: the Status of the Negro in New York

Alice Paul

• Alice Paul: Feminist, Suffragist and Political Strategist
• Alice Paul's Fight for Suffrage
• Alice Paul
• The Alice Paul Memorial March, Washington, D.C., 1977
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Suffragists Oral History Project
  

Frances Perkins

• Social Security Pioneers: Frances Perkins
• Frances Perkins (1880-1965) (AFL-CIO)
• Frances Perkins
• Notable New Yorkers: Frances Perkins

Gifford Pinchot

• Gifford Pinchot Biography
• Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920:
• The Fight for Conservation
• Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920:
• Report of the National Conservation Committee

Jeannette Rankin

• Jeannette Rankin: Activist for World Peace, Women's
• Rights, and Democratic Government
• Women's History: Jeannette Rankin
• Credentials for Representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana, 1916
• Suffragists Oral History Project

Jacob Riis

• How the Other Half Lives
• The Jews of New York
• Progressive
• How the Other Half Lives
• Jacob Riis
• Photography and Social Reform: Jacob Riis

Teddy Roosevelt

• Theordore Roosevelt Papers at the Library of Congress
• Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
• Document Library: Theodore Roosevelt
• Machine Politics in New York City, by Theodore Roosevelt
• The Merit System versus the Patronage System, by Theodore Roosevelt
• Political Reform. The Common Sense of Civil Service Reform, by Theodore Roosevelt
• Conservation in the Progressive Era
• Conservationist: Life of Theodore Roosevelt

Margaret Sanger

• Margaret Sanger Papers Project
• Margaret Sanger Papers
• Sanger/Tarbell Letters
• Women and Social Movements in the United States...Contains many letters and publications by Sanger
• The Time 100: Margaret Sanger
• The American Baby Code
• Working Women, 1800-1930: Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) (Scroll down for multiple links to primary sources by Margaret Sanger.)

Anna Shaw

• She'd Have Women Police.; Dr. Anna Shaw Tells the Belmont Art League That the City Needs 1,000
• The Story of a Pioneer, by Anna Howard Shaw

Upton Sinclair

• Upton Sinclair: The Jungle 1906
• Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906

John Spargo

• John Spargo: Socialism and Motherhood
• The Bitter Cry of Children (excerpt), John Spargo
• John Spargo: Excerpt from The Bitter Cry of Children. (1906)
• No Rest for the Weary: Children in the Coal Mines
• Child Labor Legislation

J. Lincoln Steffens

• Lincoln Steffens
• Pittsburgh: A City Shamed
• Lincoln Steffens Exposes “Tweed Days in St. Louis”
• Lincoln Steffens: The Shame of the Cities (1904)

Lucy Stone

• Women Working, 1800-1930: Lucy Stone (1818-1893) (Scroll down for multiple links to primary sources by Lucy Stone.)

William Howard Taft

• Document Library: William Howard Taft
• William Howard Taft (The White House)
• Hear Taft’s Speech “On Popular Unrest” (audio of speech)
• Inaugural Address of William Howard Taft
• William Howard Taft: Inaugural address, Thursday, March 4 1909
• Taft, William H. (William Howard) 1857-1930 (audio of speech)
• William Howard Taft Speeches: Address on the Tariff Law of 1909(November 17, 1909)
• William Howard Taft Speeches: First Annual Message (December 7, 1909)
• William Howard Taft Speeches: Second Annual Message (December 6, 1910)
• William Howard Taft Speeches: Third Annual Message (December 5, 1911)
• William Howard Taft Speeches: Fourth Annual Message (December 3, 1912)
• William Howard Taft: Defense of a Higher Tariff
• William Howard Taft: Defense of a High Tariff
• Address on the Tariff Law of 1909
• William Howard Taft: Special Message, March 28th, 1910

Ida Tarbell

• Sanger/Tarbell Letters
• The History of the Standard Oil Company
• John D. Rockefeller
• American Experience--The Rockefellers: Clash of Titans
• American Experience--The Rockefellers: A Journalistic Masterpiece
• The National Women's Hall of Fame
  Progressive
• Women Working, 1800-1930: Ida Tarbell (1857-1944) ( Scroll down for multiple links to primary sources by Ida Tarbell.)
• On the Standard Oil Company

Mary Church Terrell

• The Progress of a People: Work Among Our Women
• Mary Church Terrell
• The Progress of Colored Women
• The Progress of Colored Women: by Mary Church Terrell
• Minutes of the Second Convention of the National Association of Colored Women
• Lynching from a Negro's Point of View
• Mary Church Terrell: "What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the United States"
• Mary Church Terrell: "What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S." (American Rhetoric)
• (1897) Mary Church Terrell, “In Union There is Strength”

Lawrence Veiller

• Tenement Reform Urged; Mr. Veiller Says Social Evils Arise Because People Do Not Have Decent Homes

Lillian Wald

• Places Where Women Made History: Henry Street Settlement
• 1900 Public School Programs
• Profiles in Caring: Lillian D. Wald

Ida B. Wells

• Lynch Law in Georgia: by Ida B. Wells
• Ida B. Welles-Barnett and Her Passion for Justice
• Progress of a People: Segregation and Violence
• To the Members of the Anti-Lynching Bureau
• Ida B. Wells Photo and Quote
• Lynch Law in America
• Lynch Law in America
• The Project Gutenberg EBook of Southern Horrors, by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• Lynch Law
• (1893) Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law In All Its Phases”
• Ida B. Wells: Southern Horrors. Lynch Law in All Its Phases, 1892
• Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Lynching and the Excuse for It (1901)

Frances Willard

• Working Women, 1800-1930: Frances Elizabeth Willard (1839-1898) (Scroll down for multiple links to primary sources by Francis Willard.)

Woodrow Wilson

• Monopoly, or Opportunity?
• Federal Reserve Act
• Clayton Anti-Trust Act October 15, 1914
• Clayton Anti-Trust Act
• Federal Reserve Act of 1913
• Federal Trade Commission
• The Tariff: Protection or Special Privilege? - Essay by Wilson

Woman's Christian Temperance Union

• Modern History Sourcebook: Woman's Christian Temperance Union
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union Home Page
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union
• Religious Movements Homepage: Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Woman's Suffrage

• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
• By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920