Performing the Progressive Era: immigration, urban life, and nationalism on stage

Foreword / by Laurence Senelick

Rural life with urban strife: the evolution of rural drama in the late nineteenth century / by Amy Arbogast

Marching off-beat and on screen: New York City's reform movements & Charles Hale Hoyt's A milk white flag / by Hillary Miller

'Wasn't America crowded enough wid out you forrinners?': staging immigration, assimilation, and social mobility in the Rooseveltian nation / by J. Chris Westgate

Systematic Vaudeville and systematic farce: the unlikely team of Taylor and Schmidt / by Michael Schwartz

Immigrant civic performances and historical pageantry: Columbus Day in Chicago, 1892/1913 / by Megan E. Geigner

"Art in democracy" in the early houses of the Cleveland Play House / by Les Hunter

New women and girls of today in motion: the "strenuous clasping" of tango teas / by Ariel Nereson

Keaton, class, and social control: comic Vaudeville in the Progressive Era / by Rick Desrochers

Celebrating childhood on the Vaudeville stage / by Gillian Arrighi

Monstrosity or medical miracle?: incubator baby sideshows and the contradictions of the Progressive Era / by Susan Kattwinkel

The Progressive Era's doctor-doper dyad / by Max Shulman

Conclusion / by Max Shulman and J. Chris Westgate.