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Read the following resources to refresh your understanding of the Progressive Era. As you read, think about how you might revise your answers to the Reflect on Your Knowledge questions based on new knowledge gained from the readings.

Progressive Era to New Era: 1900-1929
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/progress/ progress.html
[Note: Read the Overview and the Topics.]

The Omaha Platform: Launching the Populist Party
http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5361/

A Biography of America: A Vital Progressivism
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog19/transcript/ index.html
[Note: Read the full transcript.]

Guided Readings: The Progressive Era
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=31

The Philadelphia Negro by W.E.B. DuBois
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1141

My View of Segregation Laws by Booker T. Washington
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1152

The Significance of the Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1428

Linking Politics and People: The Historiography of the Progressive Era by Steven J. Diner
http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/progressive/diner.html

Roger Ebert: May 24, 1998 review of Citizen Kane (1941)
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/ 19980524/ REVIEWS08/ 401010334/ 1023

Optional

Larson, Eric. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America. New York: Crown, 2003.

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