American Reform and Reformers A Biographical Dictionary

Subjects:

• History » American History (General)

Reviews:

• Recommended for college and university libraries at liberal arts institutions and as a book of supplemental readings for courses in recent US social history.
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• This dictionary covers major reformers and reform movements from the beginning of the American Republic to the present, providing an in-depth examination of the direction and context of reform efforts in U.S. history. The informative and well-written essays help show the relationship between the mood of the age and particular movements. Recommended for university and large public library collections.
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• ...to understand how these extraordinary individuals came to the fore in their fields, the challenges they faced, and the legacies they left, only American Reform and Reformers will do.
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  Rettig on Reference
• A highly informative biographical dictionary for both the student of history and the general public. Recommended.
  —Reference Book Review

Table of Contents:

• American Reform and Reformers: An Introduction by Randall M. Miller
• Acknowledgments
• Jane Addams and the Settlement House Movement by Louise W. Knight
• Jessie Daniel Ames and the White Women's Anti-Lynching Campaign by Robert F. Martin
• Roger Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union by Samuel Walker
• Catharine Beecher and Domestic Relations by Kathleen C. Berkeley
• Charles Loring Brace and Children's Uplift by Eric C. Schneider
• Earl Browder and American Communism by James G. Ryan
• César Chávez and Migrant Workers by Richard Griswold del Castillo
• Barry Commoner and Environmentalism by Douglas H. Strong
• Dorothy Day and the American Catholic Worker Movement by Anne Klejment
• Eugene Victor Debs and Radical Labor Reform by Scott Molloy
• John Dewey and Pragmatic Education by George Cotkin
• Dorothea Dix and Mental Health Reform by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
• W.E.B. Du Bois, the NAACP, and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Cary D. Wintz
• Mary Baker Eddy and Theological Reform by Mary Farrell Bednarowski
• Charles G. Finney and the Evangelical Reform Impulse by Nancy A. Hardesty
• Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women by Barbara McGowan
• William Lloyd Garrison and Abolitionism by Merton L. Dillon
• Henry George and Utopia by Geoffrey Blodgett
• Washington Gladden and the Social Gospel by Jacob H. Dorn
• Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor by Brian Greenberg
• Sylvester Graham and Health Reform by Vincent J. Cirillo
• Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Modern Civil Rights Movement by Ralph E. Luker
• Rachel MacNair and Feminists for Life by Suzanne Schnittman
• Horace Mann and Common School Reform by William W. Cutler III
• Russell Means and Native-American Rights by Raymond Wilson
• Harvey Milk and Gay Rights by R. Lane Fenrich
• A. J. Muste and Pacifism by Charles E. Chatfield
• Ralph Nader and Consumer Politics by Martha May
• Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement by Ellen Chesler
• Carl Schurz and Radical Reconstruction by Brooks D. Simpson
• Joseph Smith, Mormonism, and Religious Communitarianism by Newell G. Bringhurst
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Woman's Rights Movement by Ann D. Gordon
• Norman M. Thomas and American Socialism by James C. Duram
• Booker T. Washington and Black Self-Help by Loren Schweninger
• Tom Watson and Populism by Barton C. Shaw
• Ida Wells-Barnett and the African-American Anti-Lynching Campaign by Linda O. McMurry
• Harvey Washington Wiley and Pure Food Reform by James Harvey Young
• Frances Willard and Temperance by Ian R. Tyrrell
• Reform Chronology by Paul A. Cimbala
• Index