Daniel Czitrom is Professor of History on the Ford Foundation at Mount Holyoke College, where his teaching focus is on American cultural and political history. Czitrom’s latest book is New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era. It tells the story of how a minister’s moral crusade to clean up New York City in the 1890s morphed into the first sensational political investigation of the modern era and kick-started the Progressive movement. The narrative unfolds within the larger contexts of national politics, police violence, poverty, patronage, vote fraud and vote suppression.