Kennedy Winter 2012: Muckrakers and the Progressive Era, American Lit/Comp.  

Provides a detailed picture of what life in the slums of New York was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, who was forced to live there, and offers suggestions for easing the lot of the poor.

Contains excerpts from memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, speeches, advertisements, and other primary sources that provide eyewitness reports on the Progressive Era in America, from 1890 to 1920, and features introductory essays, chronologies, period illustrations and photographs, and brief biographies of key individuals.