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Buenker, John David was born on August 11, 1937 in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. Son of Joseph Frank and Melita Eva (Ferring) Buenker.
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Buenker and Kantowicz have edited an excellent, handy reference guide to one of the most important, and certainly one of the most written about, eras of American history. Including entries for individuals, organizations, movements, issues, newspapers, laws, and court cases, the dictionary provides concise and up-to-date descriptions as well as bibliographic citations to the secondary literature on the people and events comprising Progressivism and its oppositon. . . . Nearly everyone interested in the Progressive Era will find some important use for this volume. Choice The Progressive Era may be described as a broad-based response by Americans from diverse backgrounds to the emergence of the United States as a modern, urban, industrial, and multicultural world power during the period 1890 to 1920. The Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 is a comprehensive source detailing the people and events that made this a notable period in American history. The volume provides biographical sketches of the most prominent individuals of the period along with entries on major reform and professional organizations, key legislative enactments, commissions and committees, schools of interpretation, and important concepts. In each entry the contributor presents the most important factual information and an interpretation of the topic's significance. Where applicable, each entry has a bibliography that includes the manuscript collection and the standard and revisionist works on the topic. The dictionary also includes an introductory essay and a chronology of important events. A subject index containing organizations, laws, concepts, states, and cities concludes the work. This historical dictionary will serve as a primary reference source for students and scholars of a significant era in American history.
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“Buenker has written a historical account that skillfully reveals the heretofore-untold story of early twentieth-century machine-reformism. Moreover, he has suggested a new synthesis for the Progressive era that should prove valuable to all seeking to restructure the history of that period.” ―Ronald M. Johnson, Georgetown University John D. Buenker describes the boss-immigrant-machine complex of nineteenth-century America, how it developed, and the services it provided for the newly-arrived immigrant. His important new finding is that the so-called “urban political machine” and “boss,” long objects of disdain, were in fact major sources of support for a vast amount of reform legislation during the Progressive Era. The outlook and philosophy of programs that are now considered liberal, Mr. Buenker concludes, largely originated with the urban machine politician and what today would be called the ethnic working class.
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Buenker, John David was born on August 11, 1937 in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. Son of Joseph Frank and Melita Eva (Ferring) Buenker.
Bachelor, Loras College, 1959. Master of Arts, Georgetown University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, Georgetown University, 1964.
Instructor, Prince George Community College, Largo, Maryland., 1962-1965; assistant professor, then associate professor of history, Eastern Illinois U., Charleston, 1965-1970; professor of history, University of Wisconsin -Parkside, Kenosha, since 1970.
( Buenker and Kantowicz have edited an excellent, handy r...)
( “Buenker has written a historical account that skillful...)
(1986 reprint of the 1977 edition.)
Member City Landmarks Commission, Racine, Wisconsin, 1978-1980, City Bicentennial Commission, Racine, 1976-1977. Member Racine County History Society, since 1989. Board directors Kenosha County History Society, since 1995.
Member Racine Sesquicentennial Committee, since 1997. Member Organization American Historians, Immigration History Society, Urban History Association, Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Phi Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta Pi (president 1992-1993).
Married Claralee Margaret O'Leary, 1962. Children: Jeanne Marie, Catherine, Eileen, Thomas, Joseph. Married Beverly Jean Kastman, 1993.
