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'Rough ways and rough work': Jacob Riis, social reform, and the rhetoric of benevolent violence.

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American Transcendental Quarterly (11:3) 1997, 191-212.

"Big Bill" Haywood in Russia

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Photograph of three IWW leaders

"Lochner v. New York" Oyez

Oyez is a very brief survey style resource that briefly summarizes the case, and lists the judges involved in the case, and breaks down how they ruled in the case. This is helpful both because it shows an early starting point of the research. It also…

"Rufus Peckham" Oyez

This is a very very short description of the life and times of Rufus Peckham. On some level in is entirely inadequate for the discussion in this presentation. However it does capture the modern discourse around him. Writing him off as lacking any…

"The College Graduate" holding diploma standing next to soldier at attention with an angry eagle in Uncle Sam hat at the soldier's feet

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Comparison in the virtue/worth of soldier versus college graduate.

"The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution considered : the right to pursue any lawful trade or avocation, without other restraint than such as equally affects all persons, is one of the privileges of citizens of the United States which can-not be abridged by state legislation : dissenting opinions of Mr. Justice Field, Mr. Justice Bradley, and Mr. Justice Swayne, of U.S. Supreme Court, in the New Orleans slaughter-house cases."

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A PDF on the Library of Congress

[President Coolidge receiving membership in the American Automobile Association]

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[President Coolidge shaking hands with Walter Johnson at Griffith Stadium]

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A Family of Fighters

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A Model Office Seeker

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The cartoon shows Charles J. Guiteau with a gun, and a note that reads "AN OFFICE OR YOUR LIFE!". The caption reads: "A Model Office Seeker".

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