With the analysis of the best scholars on this era, 29 essays
demonstrate how academics then and now have addressed the
political, economic, diplomatic, cultural, ethnic, and social
history of the presidents of the Republican Era of 1921-1933 –
Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.
* This is the first historiographical treatment of a
long-neglected period, ranging from early treatments to the most
recent scholarship
* Features review essays on the era, including the legacy of
progressivism in an age of ‘normalcy’, the history of
American foreign relations after World War I, and race relations in
the 1920s, as well as coverage of the three presidential elections
and a thorough treatment of the causes and consequences of the
Great Depression
* An introduction by the editor provides an overview of the
issues, background and historical problems of the time, and the
personalities at play
विषयसूची
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 Mc Knight 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
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Katherine A.S. Sibley is Professor of History at Saint
Joseph’s University, USA. She is the author of four books,
most recently First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy
and Controversy (2009) and Red Spies in America: Stolen
Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War (2004). Professor Sibley
is also editing a forthcoming Companion on first ladies, and
serves on the editorial board of American Communist History
as well as on the Historical Advisory Committee for the US State
Department.
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