American Decades
Emporia and New York
Nonfiction work
By: William Allen White
Date: 1906
Source: White, William Allen. Emporia and New York. New York: Phillips, 1906.
About the Author: William Allen White (1868–1944) was born in Kansas, where he spent most of his life. He became nationally known as editor of the Emporia Gazette and as an author and contributor to national magazines and newspapers. White wrote of the virtues of small-town America while taking an active role in national Progressive politics. A close friend and supporter of President Theodore Roosevelt (served 1901–1909), White was in many ways a prototypical Progressive. An old-stock Protestant of the solid middle class, he was optimistic about the country's future and cognizant of the need for reform to ensure that the American promise was available to all citizens.
Introduction
The beginning of the twentieth century...
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1900's Lifestyles and Social Trends Primary Sources
- Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington
- "The Road Problem"
- "What Is a Lynching?"
- "The Niagara Movement"
- Emporia and New York
- The Courtesies
- "The Corner Stone Laid"
- The Chautauqua Movement
- The Anti-Saloon League Year Book
- Ohio Electric Railway "The Way to Go"
- Sears, Roebuck Home Builder's Catalog
- "Seven Years of Child Labor Reform"
- The House on Henry Street
- "Bring Playgrounds to Detroit"
- Connecticut Clockmaker
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
