The Rest of the Story: Female Leadership in Progressive Education - Alan R. Sadovnik, and Susan F. Semel Eds, Founding Mothers and Others: Women Educational Leaders during the Progressive Era. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xx + 268 pp. Introduction, illustrations, notes, and index, $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-3122-3297-7; 23.95 (paper), ISBN 0-3122-9502-2.

Since the Progressive Era itself, scholars have exhibited strong interest in the connections between progressivism and education. Historical studies have elucidated countless ways that such reformist impulses as the settlement house movement, the country life movement, the progressive education movement, the “cult of efficiency,” and battles against social ills like child labor influenced early twentieth-century education policy.1Indeed, as historian Lawrence Cremin has contended, “the Progressive mind was ultimately an educator's mind, and … its characteristic contribution was that of a socially responsible reformist pedagogue.”2

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Presidents and the Progressive Era: Two New Views of Taft and Wilson - John Milton CooperJR. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 702 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-307-26541-8. - Lewis L Gould. The William Howard Taft Presidency. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xv + 269 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-1674-9.

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era ◽

10.1017/s1537781411000132 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 369-374

Author(s):

Ross A. Kennedy

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Progressive Era ◽

John Milton ◽

Woodrow Wilson

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A Centennial History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers: 1880-1980

10.1115/1.h0175p ◽

1980 ◽

Author(s):

Bruce Sinclair

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Progressive Era ◽

Political System ◽

City Government ◽

American People ◽

Engineering Problems ◽

History Of ◽

American Society ◽

Technical Question

In 1980 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers celebrates the centenary of its founding. The occasion has provided an opportunity for the Society to look back and survey its accomplishments, its distinguished members, and its constant dialogue — among its members and with the American people — concerning the role of engineering in a technological society. The dynamic tensions within the ASME make a fascinating background to this centennial history. The central role of the Society’s headquarters in New York is examined the light of various movements for regional and professional sections within (and occasionally outside) the Society. The technical question of standards is shown to be a constant and creative problem for members — reflecting their attitudes towards their role in a political system often reluctant to enforce nation-wide standars in business and industry. From the Progressive Era, and its attempts to reform city government and check the power of private utilities, to the 1970s and its renewed concern with ecology and business ethnics, the Society has provided a microcosm of informed debate about technical engineering problems which — as this book makes clear — concerns us all.

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