The nineteenth-century started a wave of revolution. Advancements were being made in almost every aspect of daily life. People could use electric lights, travel across the country on a railroad, or make use of the new method of transportation, the automobile. Perhaps one of the greatest advancements...

American theatre owes a great debt to Susan Glaspell...for she dared envision and bring to life onstage her own New Women. These women experience their own anarchy, challenging and rejecting male-defined norms, including such concepts as woman's honor, abstract justice, and the male's ri...

The Progressive Era had a number of sources how the reform got on its way. With its increase in productivity and number of consumer goods, Industrialization created unemployment, wasteful natural resources, and abuse from corporate powers. Growing Cities magnified problems of poverty, disease, cr...