If Johnson was born at the end of one major era of social reform—Reconstruction, he lived his years as a competitive boxer under the thrall of another—the Progressive Era. Between 1912 and ...

He envisioned Judaism as a progressive religion that needed to be ... Walter Rauschenbusch came of age in the late 19th century, an era marked by boundless energy and optimism undercut by fear ...

Obama did so using his executive powers under the 1906 Antiquities Act, a Progressive Era law that allows presidents to unilaterally declare federal land off limits to most forms of development.

Stuck between the lavish mansions of the Gilded Age and the scandalous excess of the Roaring Twenties, the Progressive Era is an underappreciated passage in American history. Roughly covering the ...