Understanding the Time Period between 1900-1916

In order for the "Production Design Team" to fully understand all aspects of the play, they must understand the time when Summer & Smoke took place. This was a time period that called for extreme measures to bring about change. There were four goals of progressives. They were to promote moral reform, protect social welfare, create economic reform, and to improve factory efficiency.

http://www.sagehistory.net/progressive/index.html

http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/e-gov/e-politicalarchive-Progressive.htm

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1061.html

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/progress/prohib/prohib.html

http://www.onpower.org/history_prog.html