The progressive movement in politics provided a keynote for a dominant voice in American religion in the early years of the twentieth century. Much of the country's white, middle-and uppermiddle- class, Protestant establishment believed that America...

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In the second decade of the twentieth century, the American arts experienced what historians call "The Little Renaissance," a period of awakening among practitioners of all the arts and among the reading, viewing, and listening public. New...

The decade of the 1910s was not an especially formative period in American law; it was, however, a period that witnessed significant transitions in perspective, both inside and outside the legal establishment, about the role of the law and the...

The decade of the 1910s was the age of the great industrialist and financier, the trust-builder and the tycoon. The decade was also the age of the manager and the engineer. From the shop floor to the board room, American corporations were reshaped in...

One of the most significant educational events of the era was the publication in 1916 of John Dewey's "epoch-making" volume Democracy and Education. Hailed by one scholar as "the most important treatise since Plato's Republic, the...

In the second decade of the twentieth century, newspaper and magazine publishing decisively left behind the era of personal journalism and became big business. The 1910s witnessed the birth of the tabloid newspaper and the confessional magazine, two...

The automobile assembly line, new atomic theories, Einstein's general theory of relativity, advances in radio technology, and continuing developments in the social sciences are among the many scientific and technological advances of the 1910s. Modern...

By the second decade of the twentieth century Americans had become more active than they had been in the previous century, both on the job and off. The fashions of that more leisurely era restricted movement and were difficult to care for, making them...

As the United States entered the second decade of the twentieth century, Americans found themselves in the midst of sweeping economic, political, and cultural changes. The United States began the 1910s as the richest nation in the world, and by the...

Nearly one-third of the nation's coal miners are unionized, compared to 10 percent of workers in other industries. The U.S. Bureau of Mines is established as part of the Department of the Interior, with Dr. Joseph Austin Holmes as its first...

The 1910s represent the culmination of European militarism which had its beginnings during the second half of the nineteenth Century. The conservative lifestyles during the first half of the decade, as well as the legacy of military alliances, would...