If Johnson was born at the end of one major era of social reform—Reconstruction, he lived his years as a competitive boxer under the thrall of another—the Progressive Era. Between 1912 and ...

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

He envisioned Judaism as a progressive religion that needed to be ... Walter Rauschenbusch came of age in the late 19th century, an era marked by boundless energy and optimism undercut by fear ...