I. Introduction

II. Progressive Reforms and Reformers

Middle class progressivism/ Social Progressives
Intellectual Progressivism (Philosophical / Progressivism, "Progressive Historians")
Reform by Experts / Coercive Reformism?
Journalists as Reformer
Women and reform
Political reform
Social reform
Labor and Economic Reform
Professionalization and Reform (a case study of medicine)

III. Corporate Progressivism and the Rise of Welfare Capitalism

IV. Race and Reform

"trust busting" ; Anthracite Strike (1902); Northern Securities Case (1904); Pres. William Howard Taft; Gen'l Federation of Women's Clubs (1889); child labor laws; Nat'l Consumers' League (1899); Muller v. Oregon (1908); Jane Addams; "settlement house"; Hull-House (1889); William James, Pragmatism (1907); progressive historians; Russell Sage Foundation (1907); "muckrakers"; Lincoln Steffans, The Shame of the Cities (1904); Ida M. Tarbell, History of the Standard Oil Co. (1904); Progressive (Bull Moose) Party; welfare capitalism; National Civic Federation (1900); George F. Johnson; Gerard Swope; Alice Hamilton; eugenics; Buck v. Bell (1927)