Self-Help Culture

Progressivism (1890-1920)
Types of Progressive Reform
1. Economic - "Monopoly"
2. Structural and Political - "Efficiency"
3. Social - "Democracy"
4. Moral - "Purity"
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)
National Consumers' League
Department of Labor Children's Bureau and Women's Bureau
Settlement Houses - Jane Austin's Hull House (Chicago)
Prohibition (1920-1933)

Self-Help Movement (1890s)
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help (1859, UK)
John Harvey Kellogg
Seventh Day Adventists' Health Reform Institute (Battle Creek, MI)
William Griffith Wilson ("Bill W.")
Robert Holbrook Smith ("Dr. Bob")
Twelve-Step Programs
Alcoholics Anonymous, or AA (1935)

The Magazine Revolution (1890s)
Munsey's Magazine (1889)
McClure's, Cosmopolitan
Ladies' Home Journal
Edward Bok
"Beautiful America" Campaign

Etiquette Columns
Godey's Lady's Book
Sarah Josepha Hale
Dorothy Dix
Mary Elizabeth Sherwood
The Howe sisters
Emily Post's Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage (1922)
Irma Rombauer's Joy of Cooking (1931)
The Van Buren sisters (b. 1918): Ann Landers and Dear Abby

Television Age
Julia Child (1960s)
Phil Donahue (1970s)
Oprah Winfrey (1980s)
Martha Stewart (1980s)