Add to ORKGSocial historians have broadly defined two cycles of American history characterized by an efflorescence of social movements aiming to reform both the individual and the society at large: the Jacksonian Era, from the 1830s to the 1850s, and the Progressive Era, from the 1890s to the 1920s. The reform impulse thrived wherever there was a perceived vice, abuse or corruption of industrial civilization that needed to be changed, corrected or improved. Studies of “antebellum” and “progressive ” reforms have thus been made across a very broad spectrum of interests, from temperance and anti-prostitution crusades to housing and sanitation laws. However, it is only fairly recently, starting in the 1970s and 1980s, that historians have rediscovered th...
Grow Food, Cook Food, Share Food is a practical food history lesson, an editorial about everything g...
Charitable soup kitchens proliferated in nineteenth-century Europe and North America. Three soup kit...
This dissertation is about the movement for food reform in Great Britain before and during the First...
Defining "food reform" as the zealous drive to change the way Americans eat or grow foods, this note...
This thesis investigates how contemporary US food justice organizations challenge and attempt to tra...
Over the course of the past century, many historians have portrayed the Progressive Era as one of th...
In discussing slavery and woman\u27s rights, social security and the graduated income tax, writes R...
America has not always been fat. Although nearly two-thirds of the population is currently overweigh...
This chapter from the book Silent Spring at 50 analyzes the 1950s struggle over US food policy betwe...
The history of social reform movements in America has been driven by the colorful, some-times contro...
On three different occasions, American business firms became the target of organized consumer moveme...
This dissertation is a denominational historical study of nineteenth- and early twentieth- century M...
The history of temperance and prohibition has long been constructed as either a rural backlash again...
From the Washington University Office of Undergraduate Research Digest (WUURD), Vol. 12, 05-01-2017....
An examination of the history of social reform movements in the United States reveals stunning demon...
Grow Food, Cook Food, Share Food is a practical food history lesson, an editorial about everything g...
Charitable soup kitchens proliferated in nineteenth-century Europe and North America. Three soup kit...
This dissertation is about the movement for food reform in Great Britain before and during the First...
Defining "food reform" as the zealous drive to change the way Americans eat or grow foods, this note...
This thesis investigates how contemporary US food justice organizations challenge and attempt to tra...
Over the course of the past century, many historians have portrayed the Progressive Era as one of th...
In discussing slavery and woman\u27s rights, social security and the graduated income tax, writes R...
America has not always been fat. Although nearly two-thirds of the population is currently overweigh...
This chapter from the book Silent Spring at 50 analyzes the 1950s struggle over US food policy betwe...
The history of social reform movements in America has been driven by the colorful, some-times contro...
On three different occasions, American business firms became the target of organized consumer moveme...
This dissertation is a denominational historical study of nineteenth- and early twentieth- century M...
The history of temperance and prohibition has long been constructed as either a rural backlash again...
From the Washington University Office of Undergraduate Research Digest (WUURD), Vol. 12, 05-01-2017....
An examination of the history of social reform movements in the United States reveals stunning demon...
Grow Food, Cook Food, Share Food is a practical food history lesson, an editorial about everything g...
Charitable soup kitchens proliferated in nineteenth-century Europe and North America. Three soup kit...
This dissertation is about the movement for food reform in Great Britain before and during the First...