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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The three presidents of the Republican era of 1921-1933-Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover-have frequently been caricatured, defamed, or dismissed in popular history. This Companion provides a historiographical approach to these administrations and the country they governed. Top experts on this era provide 27 essays that fully demonstrate how scholars have addressed and debated the political, economic, diplomatic, cultural, ethnic, and social history of this period, and how historians have wrestled with the controversial figures and issues of this age. The text includes chapters on popular culture, technology, eugenics, nativism, and the biographical treatment of the presidents and first ladies of the era. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 McKnight 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 H...
List of contents
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 McKnight 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
