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AMERICAN HISTORY / GENERAL

NEW

Reforming America

A Thematic Encyclopedia and Document Collection
of the Progressive Era
2 VOLUMES | JEFFREY A. JOHNSON, EDITOR
“ advanced high school students and college students. ”
Reforming America would be a fine addition to libraries that serve

—Booklist, June 1, 2017
During the Progressive Era, influential thinkers and activists made efforts to improve U.S.
society through reforms, both legislative and social, on issues of the day such as working ABC-CLIO
conditions of laborers, business monopolies, political corruption, and vast concentrations March 2017, 824pp, 7x10
of wealth in the hands of a few. Many Progressives hoped for and tirelessly worked Print: 978-1-4408-3720-3
toward a day when all Americans could take full advantage of the economic and social $189.00, £146.00, €172.00
opportunities promised by U.S. society. eBook: 978-1-4408-3721-0
This two-volume work traces the issues, events, and individuals of the Progressive Era
JEFFREY A. JOHNSON, PhD, is
from approximately 1893 to 1920. The entries and primary sources in this set are grouped associate professor of history and
thematically and cover a broad range of topics regarding reform and innovation across the director of American Studies at
period, with special attention paid to important topics of race, class, and gender reform Providence College, where he teaches
and reformers. The volumes are helpfully organized under five categories: work and courses on the Gilded Age and
economic life; social and political life; cultural and religious life; science, literature, and the Progressive Era, labor history, and the
American West.
arts; and sports and popular culture.

NEW
The Papers of James Monroe, Volume 6

Selected Correspondence and Papers,
April 1811–March 1814

DANIEL PRESTON, EDITOR
The Papers of James Monroe: Selected Correspondence and Papers, April 1811–March
1814 is the sixth volume in an ongoing series that illuminates a critical period in American
history and provides access to the massive and widely scattered Monroe Papers, enabling
scholars to revisit Monroe’s role in the birth and infancy of the United States. The volume
includes more than 500 documents, mainly correspondence to and from James Monroe
GREENWOOD
and other important documents written by him. March 2017, 628pp, 8 1/2x11
This ongoing series of primary documents offers the most comprehensive account Print: 978-0-313-31983-9
and documentation of Monroe’s life, the study of which enables deep insights into the $195.00, £150.00, €178.00
formative events of the American republic. These historical primary documents are eBook: 978-1-4408-5784-3
accompanied by annotations that help readers to better understand the context of
Monroe’s thoughts, opinions, and actions. The documents included in this volume date DANIEL PRESTON, PhD, is editor of
from Monroe’s appointment in April 1811 as secretary of state under President James the Papers of James Monroe project
at the University of Mary Washington,
Madison to the midpoint of Monroe’s term in that office in March 1814. Fredericksburg, VA.
FEATURES
• Uses primary source material to chronicle an important period of American history

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