Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover

Katherine A.S. Sibley is Professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University, USA. She is the author of four books, most recently First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy (2009) and Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War (2004). Professor Sibley is also editing a forthcoming Companion on first ladies, and serves on the editorial board of American Communist History as well as on the Historical Advisory Committee for the US State Department.

• List of Illustrations viiiNotes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xivIntroduction 1Katherine A.S. SibleyPart I The Background of Progressivism 71 The Wilson Legacy, Domestic and International 9Christopher McKnight Nichols2 Progressivism in an Age of Normalcy: Women's Rights, Civil Service, Veterans'; Benefits, and Child Welfare 34John F. Fox, Jr.3 US Foreign Relations under Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover: Power and Constraint 53Alex GoodallPart II Warren G. Harding and the Early 1920s 774 Harding Biographies 79Justin P. Coffey5 The Front Porch Campaign and the Election of Harding 94Richard G. Frederick6 The Harding Presidency: Scandals, Legacy, and Memory 112Phillip G. Payne7 The Opposition: Labor, Liquor, and Democrats 132Kristoffer Shields8 No Immigrants or Radicals Need Apply: Varieties of Nativism in 1920s America 151Alexander Pavuk9 New Technologies, Communication, and Mass Consumption 170Jason N. Brock and R. Emmett SullivanPart III Calvin Coolidge and His Era 19110 The Biographical Legacy of Calvin Coolidge and the 1924 Presidential Election 193Jason Roberts11 From "Coolidge Prosperity" to "Voluntary Associationalism": Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover, and America's Political Economy in the Republican-Era 1920s 212Daniel Michael Du Bois12 Country and City, 1921–1933: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, Urbanization and Suburbanization, and the Middletown Study 232Scott A. Merriman13 Native Americans: Experiences and Culture 251Mary Stockwell14 Military Interventions in the Coolidge Administration: Latin America and Asia 270Theodore J. Zeman15 Race Relations and the Consequences of the Great Migration 291Carol Jackson Adams16 Eugenics, Immigration Restriction, and the Birth Control Movements 313Ruth Clifford Engs17 Popular Culture during the "Jazz Age" and After 338Jennifer Frost18 Sports and Pastimes in the 1920s 358Martin C. BabiczPart IV Herbert Hoover and His Era 37719 Hoover Biographies and Hoover Revisionism 379Brian E. Birdnow20 The Election of 1928 397Nicholas Siekierski and Richard G. Frederick21 The Economic Historiography of the Great Depression (1929–1933) 417Daniel A. Schiffman22 The Worsening of the Great Depression: Hoovervilles, Farm Troubles, Bank Crises 444Derek S. Hoff23 Hoover's Vision and His Response to the Great Depression: Voluntary Efforts; Public Works; the Gold Standard; the RFC; the Farm Board; Hoover's Reputation 465Glen Jeansonne24 Herbert Hoover's Diplomacy Toward Latin America 484Paul Kahan25 Ironies of Character: Hoover's Foreign Policy with Asia 502Michael E. Chapman26 Women and Minorities 522Nancy Beck YoungPart V In Retrospect 54327 Historians' Views of the Republican Era: Was Roosevelt an Entirely New Turn? 545Justus D. DoeneckeIndex 567

"Anyone interested in the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover era will find this volume an indispensable resource. Impressively thorough, and panoramic in scope, it is a model of historiographical scholarship." (Expofairs, 15 September 2015)