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What The Progressives Had In Common, Glen Gendzel Jul 2011

What The Progressives Had In Common, Glen Gendzel

Faculty Publications, History

When Professor Benjamin Parke De Witt of New York University sat down to write the first history of the progressive movement in 1915, he promised “to give form and definiteness to a movement which is, in the minds of many, confused and chaotic.” Apparently it was a fool's errand, because confusion and chaos continued to plague historians of early twentieth-century reform long after Professor De Witt laid his pen to rest. The maddening variety of reform and reformers in the early twentieth century has perpetually confounded historians' efforts to identify what, if anything, the progressives had in common. Back in …


What The Progressives Had In Common, Glen Gendzel Jul 2011

What The Progressives Had In Common, Glen Gendzel

Glen Gendzel

When Professor Benjamin Parke De Witt of New York University sat down to write the first history of the progressive movement in 1915, he promised “to give form and definiteness to a movement which is, in the minds of many, confused and chaotic.” Apparently it was a fool's errand, because confusion and chaos continued to plague historians of early twentieth-century reform long after Professor De Witt laid his pen to rest. The maddening variety of reform and reformers in the early twentieth century has perpetually confounded historians' efforts to identify what, if anything, the progressives had in common. Back in …


Resisting Mccarthyism: To Sign Or Not To Sign California's Loyalty Oath [Review Essay], Glen Gendzel Jan 2010

Resisting Mccarthyism: To Sign Or Not To Sign California's Loyalty Oath [Review Essay], Glen Gendzel

Faculty Publications, History

No abstract provided.


Resisting Mccarthyism: To Sign Or Not To Sign California's Loyalty Oath [Review Essay], Glen Gendzel Jan 2010

Resisting Mccarthyism: To Sign Or Not To Sign California's Loyalty Oath [Review Essay], Glen Gendzel

Glen Gendzel

No abstract provided.


Pride, Wrath, Glee, And Fear: Emotional Responses To Senator Joseph Mccarthy In The Catholic Press, 1950-1954, Glen Gendzel Jul 2009

Pride, Wrath, Glee, And Fear: Emotional Responses To Senator Joseph Mccarthy In The Catholic Press, 1950-1954, Glen Gendzel

Faculty Publications, History

No abstract provided.


It Didn’T Start With Proposition 187: One Hundred And Fifty Years Of Nativist Legislation In California, Glen Gendzel Apr 2009

It Didn’T Start With Proposition 187: One Hundred And Fifty Years Of Nativist Legislation In California, Glen Gendzel

Faculty Publications, History

The writer surveys California's long history of nativist legislation. In doing so, he demonstrates that three recent Californian ballot initiatives—Proposition 187, a 1994 ballot that denied public services such as education and nonemergency medical care to so-called illegal aliens, Proposition 209, which banned affirmative action in the public sector, and Proposition 227, which banned bilingual education in public schools—were not just a spasmodic backlash against recent demographic trends but were the culmination of a century-and-a-half of nativist politics in California. He shows that, from the beginning of statehood, anti-immigrant laws aimed at Latin-Americans and Asian-Americans have received broad support from …


It Didn’T Start With Proposition 187: One Hundred And Fifty Years Of Nativist Legislation In California, Glen Gendzel Jan 2009

It Didn’T Start With Proposition 187: One Hundred And Fifty Years Of Nativist Legislation In California, Glen Gendzel

Glen Gendzel

The writer surveys California's long history of nativist legislation. In doing so, he demonstrates that three recent Californian ballot initiatives—Proposition 187, a 1994 ballot that denied public services such as education and nonemergency medical care to so-called illegal aliens, Proposition 209, which banned affirmative action in the public sector, and Proposition 227, which banned bilingual education in public schools—were not just a spasmodic backlash against recent demographic trends but were the culmination of a century-and-a-half of nativist politics in California. He shows that, from the beginning of statehood, anti-immigrant laws aimed at Latin-Americans and Asian-Americans have received broad support from …


Pride, Wrath, Glee, And Fear: Emotional Responses To Senator Joseph Mccarthy In The Catholic Press, 1950-1954, Glen Gendzel Jan 2009

Pride, Wrath, Glee, And Fear: Emotional Responses To Senator Joseph Mccarthy In The Catholic Press, 1950-1954, Glen Gendzel

Glen Gendzel

No abstract provided.


Not Just A Golden State: Three Anglo ‘Rushes’ In The Making Of Southern California, 1880-1920., Glen Gendzel Jan 2008

Not Just A Golden State: Three Anglo ‘Rushes’ In The Making Of Southern California, 1880-1920., Glen Gendzel

Faculty Publications, History

Three southern California rushes-the health rush, the land rush, and the orange rush-deserve the kind ofattention historians have lavished on northern California's gold rush. The three booms in the southern portion of the state were not only bigger than the gold rush, they concentrated the state's population in the south. They also played roles in the racially-based social and cultural patterns that developed in the region.


Not Just A Golden State: Three Anglo ‘Rushes’ In The Making Of Southern California, 1880-1920., Glen Gendzel Jan 2008

Not Just A Golden State: Three Anglo ‘Rushes’ In The Making Of Southern California, 1880-1920., Glen Gendzel

Glen Gendzel

Three southern California rushes-the health rush, the land rush, and the orange rush-deserve the kind ofattention historians have lavished on northern California's gold rush. The three booms in the southern portion of the state were not only bigger than the gold rush, they concentrated the state's population in the south. They also played roles in the racially-based social and cultural patterns that developed in the region.


Political Culture: Genealogy Of A Concept, Glen Gendzel Oct 1997

Political Culture: Genealogy Of A Concept, Glen Gendzel

Faculty Publications, History

No abstract provided.


Political Culture: Genealogy Of A Concept, Glen Gendzel Jan 1997

Political Culture: Genealogy Of A Concept, Glen Gendzel

Glen Gendzel

No abstract provided.


Competitive Boosterism: How Milwaukee Lost The Braves, Glen Gendzel Jan 1995

Competitive Boosterism: How Milwaukee Lost The Braves, Glen Gendzel

Faculty Publications, History

By any measure, major-league baseball in North America surely qualifies as big business. The national pastime is a vital component of today's urban political economy, and baseball teams resemble other high-prestige businesses in that cities must compete for the privilege of hosting them - whatever their true worth. A study analyzes the transfer of the Milwaukee Braves baseball franchise to Atlanta in 1965 as the outcome of "competitive boosterism" or the active participation of local elites in luring trade, industry, and investment from other cities for the purpose of economic development.


Competitive Boosterism: How Milwaukee Lost The Braves, Glen Gendzel Jan 1995

Competitive Boosterism: How Milwaukee Lost The Braves, Glen Gendzel

Glen Gendzel

By any measure, major-league baseball in North America surely qualifies as big business. The national pastime is a vital component of today's urban political economy, and baseball teams resemble other high-prestige businesses in that cities must compete for the privilege of hosting them - whatever their true worth. A study analyzes the transfer of the Milwaukee Braves baseball franchise to Atlanta in 1965 as the outcome of "competitive boosterism" or the active participation of local elites in luring trade, industry, and investment from other cities for the purpose of economic development.