With all of Teddy Roosevelt's talk of good businessmen, it would do well to read Carnegie's guide to good business behavior. Carnegie believed that, while men shouldn't be blocked from having a vas...

The first muckraking article up to bat, Lincoln Steffens ran this article in McClure's Magazine to call out the corruption racket squeezing the city, and not to report on St. Louis' menswear scene....

Emma Goldman gave this fiery speech in San Francisco right at the end of Roosevelt's last term. It's sort of her good riddance speech to Roosevelt's America.In it, she asks a simple question: "What...

Considering that most of his term went straight to Teddy Roosevelt, it's interesting to look at McKinley's roadmap for those first four Roosevelt years. Oddly enough, considering how knee-deep in c...

In this speech, Teddy gets into the nitty-gritty of the reform he implied was coming in "The Man with the Muckrake." He delivered this speech at a gathering of Civil War vets, so he lays out his po...