Grade 11: Progressive Era

Radical Innocent

Chronicles the life of American writer Upton Sinclair, exploring his contentious public career and his troubled private life and the influence both had on his work.

1878-1968, American novelists, Biography, Grade 11: Progressive Era, Sinclair, Upton

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Presents Upton Sinclair's classic novel, which depicts the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young Lithuanian immigrant struggling in early-twentieth-century America, and incl

1878-1968, Chicago (Ill.), fiction, Grade 11: Progressive Era, Immigrants

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J. P. Morgan

Jeremy Byman

This book tells of investment banker J.P. Morgan, who orchestrated the necessary loans to prop up the nation's banking system.

1837-1913, Biography, Capitalists and financiers, Grade 11: Progressive Era, Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont)

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John D. Rockefeller

Rosemary Laughlin

This book is the biography of John D. Rockefeller, who built Standard Oil into one of the world's most powerful monopolies and who established the Rockefeller Foundation, a philanthropic trust.

1839-1937, Biography, Capitalists and financiers, Grade 11: Progressive Era, Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison)

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The Industrial Revolution

This book presents a historical overview of the Industrial Revolution and essays that discuss its spread throughout the Western world and its long-term impact even to today's computer technology.

Grade 11: Progressive Era, Industrial revolution

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Mark Twain

This book presents 14 essays on the life and writings of Mark Twain, whose popular appeal as the sage of the American experience is as vital today as it was during his lifetime.

1835-1910, American authors, Biography, Grade 11: Progressive Era, Humorists

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Susan B. Anthony

This book presents seventeen articles on the life of Susan B. Anthony, who gave her wholehearted passion and undivided devotion to the cause of women's rights and women's suffrage.

1820-1906, Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), Grade 11: Progressive Era, History, United States

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Thomas Nast

David Shirley

Describes the life of the young German immigrant who became a noted illustrator of magazines and a political cartoonist.

1840-1902, Biography, Cartoonists, Grade 11: Progressive Era, Illustrators

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A Useful Woman

Gioia Diliberto

A biography of Jane Addams, founder of the Hull-House settlement and winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, tracing her transformation from a frail, small-town girl into a woman who inspired others to

1860-1935, Addams, Jane, Biography, Grade 11: Progressive Era, History

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Twenty Years at Hull-house

Jane Addams

Presents Hull House founder Jane Addams's account of her work at the settlement home in Chicago's West side slums during the years between 1889 to 1909.

1860-1935, Addams, Jane, Chicago (Ill.), Grade 11: Progressive Era, History