Progressive Reform

• Politics• Teddy Roosevelt and the rule of socially-conscious experts• End of “liberty of contract” doctrine

• Art and Culture• Realism in art (Ashcan School)• Muckraking journalism• Documentary photography

• Immigration and Labor • Settlement House movement• Idea of the “melting pot”• Fordism and Taylorism

• Document Analysis Tutorial• Requirements and grading• Example

Progressive Politics > President Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909

Art and Culture > John Sloan, Parade, Washington Square, 1910

Art and Culture > George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo, 1924

Art and Culture > Cartoon about Muckraking Journalism

Art and Culture > Jacob Riis, “Bandit’s Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street,” c. 1888

Art and Culture > Child Labor Poser with Lewis Hine’s Photographs

Immigration and Labor > Jane Addams, founder of the Hull House

Immigration and Labor > Hull House Complex, 1902

Immigration and Labor > Hull House Kindergarten Class, 1902

Immigration and Labor > Hull House “Labor Museum,” 1902

Immigration and Labor > Cartoon about the Melting Pot, 1889

Immigration and Labor > Henry Ford’s Model T, 1915

Immigration and Labor > Henry Ford’s automobile assembly line

Immigration and Labor > Photographic Motion Study, 1894

Immigration and Labor > Charlie Chaplin comments on the assembly line in Modern Times, 1936

Document Analysis > Requirements and Grading

• Assignment• 2-3 pages• Any document assigned for week II-V (up to Feb. 1) • You may use secondary sources (lectures, textbook, Jstor) but your argument should be based primarily on the document

• Questions:• What does this documents tell me about American History?• Who produced it?• When?• Why?• What was the intended audience?• What was the purpose?

• Proper form: • Introduction (with thesis statement - F or D if no thesis statement)• Body (your supporting points for the thesis statement)• Conclusion

• Quote or paraphrase the document to support your points• Use footnotes or endnotes (F if no footnotes)• No bibliography or parenthetical references

Document Analysis > Formatting

• Proper Formatting - 0.5 of your grade• Double-spaced (no additional space between paragraphs)• Cover page• 1-inch margins• Times or Times New Roman 12-point font• Page numbers

In your first footnote for each source, include full bibliographical information:

A. Mitchell Palmer, "The Case Against the 'Reds'," Forum 63 (1920).

Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty: An American History, Volume 2, Seagull Edition (New York: W.W. Norton, 2005), 25.

After the first footnote for each source, use the name of the author, short title (everything before the column), and page number, if available:

Palmer, "The Case Against the 'Reds.'"

Foner, Give Me Liberty, 30.

Document Analysis > Example, Dennis Kearny

Thesis statement (in the introduction)Dennis Kearny’s speech shows that American labor leader in the late nineteenth century supported Chinese exclusion because they thought Chinese immigrants took away jobs from white workers.

Paragraph in the body of your paper:Kearny blames white workers’ unemployment in part on the slave mentality of Chinese workers. He argues that corporations go as far as China to recruit workers because it is easier to control them “as serfs.”1 He claims that their character predisposes them to obedience: “They are wipped curs, abject in docility, mean, contemptible and obedient in all things.”2 As Eric Foner shows in the texbook, this attitude was shared by the majority of working class white men.3 This notion of innate difference between the “white” and “Asian” races justified Chinese exclusion.

1 Dennis Kearney, President, and H. L. Knight, Secretary, “Appeal from California. The Chinese Invasion. Workingmen’s Address,” Indianapolis Times, 28 February 1878.2 Ibid.3 Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty: An American History, Volume 2, Seagull Edition (New York: W.W. Norton, 2005), 75.

Document Analysis > Example, Dennis Kearny

Thesis statement (in the introduction)Dennis Kearny’s speech shows that American labor leaders in the late nineteenth century supported Chinese exclusion because they thought Chinese immigrants took away jobs from white workers.

Paragraph in the body of your paper:Kearny blames white workers’ unemployment in part on the slave mentality of Chinese workers. He argues that corporations go as far as China to recruit workers because it is easier to control them “as serfs.”1 As Eric Foner shows in the texbook, this attitude was shared by the majority of working class white men.2 He claims that their character predisposes them to obedience: “They are wipped curs, abject in docility, mean, contemptible and obedient in all things.”3 This notion of innate difference between the “white” and “Asian” races justified Chinese exclusion.

1 Dennis Kearney, President, and H. L. Knight, Secretary, “Appeal from California. The Chinese Invasion. Workingmen’s Address,” Indianapolis Times, 28 February 1878.2 Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty: An American History, Volume 2, Seagull Edition (New York: W.W. Norton, 2005), 75.3 Kearny and Knight, “Appeal from California.”

Document Analysis > Checklist

• Introduction

• Thesis statement - This document tells us X about American history in Y period.

• Body paragraphs each have a point

• Body paragraphs contain examples (quotes & paraphrases) to support your points

• Footnotes every time you quote or paraphrase

• Proper formatting

• Conclusion summarizes your main points

• Did you explain:• Who?• When?• Why?• Audience?• Purpose?