A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover

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.

• This is the first historiographical treatment of a
  long-neglected period, ranging from early treatments to the most
  recent scholarship

• Features review essays on the era, including the legacy of
  progressivism in an age of "normalcy", the history of
  American foreign relations after World War I, and race relations in
  the 1920s, as well as coverage of the three presidential elections
  and a thorough treatment of the causes and consequences of the
  Great Depression

• An introduction by the editor provides an overview of the
  issues, background and historical problems of the time, and the
  personalities at play

Auteur

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.

Résumé

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.

• This is the first historiographical treatment of a long-neglected period, ranging from early treatments to the most recent scholarship
• Features review essays on the era, including the legacy of progressivism in an age of normalcy, the history of American foreign relations after World War I, and race relations in the 1920s, as well as coverage of the three presidential elections and a thorough treatment of the causes and consequences of the Great Depression
• An introduction by the editor provides an overview of the issues, background and historical problems of the time, and the personalities at play

Contenu

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