Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : rhetoric and reform in the Progressive Era / J. Michael Hogan
  • The second oratorical renaissance / Robert Alexander Kraig
  • Preaching morality in modern America : Theodore Roosevelt's rhetorical progressivism / Leroy G. Dorsey
  • Science, public policy, and the "spirit of the people" : the rhetoric of progressive conservation / Christine Oravec
  • The progressive reform of journalism : the rise of professionalism in the press / Douglas Birkhead
  • Justice Holmes's rhetoric and the progressive path of the law / James Arnt Aune
  • William Jennings Bryan : the Jeffersonian liberal as progressive / Malcom O. Sillars
  • Eugene Debs and American class / James Darsey
  • W.E.B. du Bois, double-consciousness, and Pan-Africanism in the Progressive Era / Robert E. Terrill and Eric King Watts
  • Rhetoric and race in the Progressive Era : imperialism, reform, and the Ku Klux Klan / Brian R. McGee
  • Woman suffrage in the Progressive Era : a coming of age / Jennifer L. Borda
  • From Hull House to The Hague : Jane Addams's rhetoric of pacificism, 1898-1917 / Carl R. Burgchardt
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman, progressivism, and feminism, 1890-1935 / Judith A. Allen
  • Conclusion : memories and legacies of the Progressive Era / J. Michael Hogan.