Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1 Katherine A.S. Sibley
Part I The Background of Progressivism 7
1 The Wilson Legacy, Domestic and International 9 Christopher McKnight Nichols
2 Progressivism in an Age of Normalcy: Women’s Rights, Civil Service, Veterans’ Benefits, and Child Welfare 34 John F. Fox, Jr.
3 US Foreign Relations under Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover: Power and Constraint 53 Alex Goodall
Part II Warren G. Harding and the Early 1920s 77
4 Harding Biographies 79 Justin P. Coffey
5 The Front Porch Campaign and the Election of Harding 94 Richard G. Frederick
6 The Harding Presidency: Scandals, Legacy, and Memory 112 Phillip G. Payne
7 The Opposition: Labor, Liquor, and Democrats 132 Kristoffer Shields
8 No Immigrants or Radicals Need Apply: Varieties of Nativism in 1920s America 151 Alexander Pavuk
9 New Technologies, Communication, and Mass Consumption 170 Jason N. Brock and R. Emmett Sullivan
Part III Calvin Coolidge and His Era 191
10 The Biographical Legacy of Calvin Coolidge and the 1924 Presidential Election 193 Jason Roberts
11 From “Coolidge Prosperity” to “Voluntary Associationalism”: Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover, and America’s Political Economy in the Republican-Era 1920s 212 Daniel Michael Du Bois
12 Country and City, 1921–1933: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, Urbanization and Suburbanization, and the Middletown Study 232 Scott A. Merriman
13 Native Americans: Experiences and Culture 251 Mary Stockwell
14 Military Interventions in the Coolidge Administration: Latin America and Asia 270 Theodore J. Zeman
15 Race Relations and the Consequences of the Great Migration 291 Carol Jackson Adams
16 Eugenics, Immigration Restriction, and the Birth Control Movements 313 Ruth Clifford Engs
17 Popular Culture during the “Jazz Age” and After 338 Jennifer Frost
18 Sports and Pastimes in the 1920s 358 Martin C. Babicz
Part IV Herbert Hoover and His Era 377
19 Hoover Biographies and Hoover Revisionism 379 Brian E. Birdnow
20 The Election of 1928 397 Nicholas Siekierski and Richard G. Frederick
21 The Economic Historiography of the Great Depression (1929–1933) 417 Daniel A. Schiffman
22 The Worsening of the Great Depression: Hoovervilles, Farm Troubles, Bank Crises 444 Derek S. Hoff
23 Hoover’s Vision and His Response to the Great Depression: Voluntary Efforts; Public Works; the Gold Standard; the RFC; the Farm Board; Hoover’s Reputation 465 Glen Jeansonne
24 Herbert Hoover’s Diplomacy Toward Latin America 484 Paul Kahan
25 Ironies of Character: Hoover’s Foreign Policy with Asia 502 Michael E. Chapman
26 Women and Minorities 522 Nancy Beck Young
Part V In Retrospect 543
27 Historians’ Views of the Republican Era: Was Roosevelt an Entirely New Turn? 545 Justus D. Doenecke
Index 567