Eras: 1917–1929

1917–1929

Your Congress

Source: Your Congress: An Interpretation of the Political and Parliamentary Influences that Dominate Law Making in America (National Voters League: Washington, D.C., 1915), PG #S. Chapter II: Modern Politics—An Interpretation

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1917–1929

Recent Tendencies

Source: Charles E. Merriam, A History of American Political Theories (London: Macmillan, 1903), 305–33, available online at the Hathi Trust Digital Library: https://babel.hathitrust. org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030798600;view=1up;seq=7. We have edited the author’s original

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1917–1929

Chapter 20: Progressive Foreign Policy: The Philippines

A. Henry Van Dyke, The American Birthright and the Philippine Pottage, November 24, 1898 https://document-readings.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents+and+Debates/Volume+2/Chapter+20/ch20+Van+Dyke+American+Birthright.mp3 A Word of Explanation To the Hasty Reader Please do not mistake the purpose of

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1917–1929

Chapter 19: The Progressive Era: Eugenics

A. Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, Veto of Eugenics Law, March 30, 1905 https://document-readings.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents+and+Debates/Volume+2/Chapter+19/ch19+Pennypacker+Veto+of+Eugenics+Law+1905.mp3 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Executive Department Harrisburg, March 30, 1905 To the Honorable, the Senate of the Commonwealth

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1917–1929

Holiness Camp Meetings

Source: Hannah Whitall Smith, My Spiritual Autobiography or How I Discovered the Unselfishness of God (New York: 1903). As may be imagined, we took every possible opportunity of learning all

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