38 ESSAYS IN THIS COLLECTION
U.S. history
Revolution, citizenship, civil rights, reform and historical change.
38 resultsShowing 37–38
argumentative
Economic Change and American Society, 1865–1910
An argument that economic change substantially reshaped American society through industrial expansion, labor conflict, inequality, consumer action, and political responses, while distributing its benefits and costs unevenly.
explanatory
Women’s Reform and the Temperance Campaign, 1800–1940
An explanatory essay situating the 1874 “Woman’s Holy War” in the history of women’s reform, then tracing the continuing belief that moral and social problems could be addressed through organized civic action and government policy.