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Starr, Kevin. Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

An especially well-written history of progressive reform in California.

Fishback, Price van Meter and Shawn Everett Kantor.  A Prelude to the Welfare State : The Origins of Workers' Compensation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

A study of accidents on the job and reformers attempts to create insurance systems to compensate injured workers.

Pegram, Thomas.  Battling Demon Rum : The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1933. Ivan R. Dee, 1999.

A long-term history of anti-alcohol activism and its effects, intended and unintended.

Gable, John Allen. The Bull Moose Years: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1978.

A study of Theodore Roosevelt’s break from the Republican Party and his bid for third term on the Progressive Party platform.

Lower, Richard Coke. A Bloc of One: The Political Career of Hiram W. Johnson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.

A biography of Hiram Johnson.

Deverell, William and Tom Sitton, eds. California Progressivism Revisited. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

A collection of essays examining the progressive movement in California.

Web Sites

The Election of 1912

Page providing photos, text and analysis of critical progressive era election.  http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/1912/

	Roosevelt, Theodore. Purposes and Policies of the Progressive Party. Speech of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Before the Progressive Convention at Chicago, Ill., August 6, 1912 . Washington D.C.: GPO, 1912.
	Johnson, Hiram. The Diary Letters of Hiram Johnson, 1917-1945. New York: Garland, 1983.
	Hoxie, Frederick, ed.  Talking Back to Civilization : Native American Voice in the Progressive Era 1890-1920.  Palgrave Publishers, 2001.