Alphabetic entries discuss key themes, events and people of the Progressive era and how its reforms affected and changed the United States.
A collection of essays and speeches from prominent Progressives such as Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and John Dewey, in which they describe the principles of Progressives and the impact of Progressivism on American political thought.
A brief, interpretive analysis of the highly ambitious American reform movements from the 1890s to 1917 that shows progressivism to have been a vital and significant phenomenon although there was...
Excuse Me, Professor provides a handy reference for anyone actively engaged in advancing liberty, with essential essays debunking more than 50 Progressive clichés. Does the free market truly ignore the poor?
About 20 Christian colleges (they call themselves) are united for this purpose. ... notably the Baptist Wake Forest, the Methodist Trinity and the Presbyterian Davidson colleges, had sought to discredit the University of North Carolina ...
Grand Plans: Business Progressivism and Social Change in Ohio's Miami Valley, 1890-1929
Eisenach's selection of primary sources illustrates the origins, ambitions, and political legacy of the American Progressivism movement (1844-1932), while his Introduction offers a history of the movement and a brief discussion of recent ...
Introduction : progressivism's enduring relevance -- A primer on progressivism and the progressive era -- Original liberalism vs. progressive liberalism -- Roosevelt, Wilson, and the democratic theory of national progressivism -- American ...
Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Cornel West argue that the path to progressive reform goes through reorganization of our economic and political instutitions; tax and spending are not enough.
1: Financial Giants Unite,” New York Times, April 7, 1998, http://www.nytimes. com/1998/04/07/news/07iht-citi.t.html. 8. Jeff Madrick, “They Can Strengthen the Economy,” in 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes, ed.
Uncertain Victory, the first comparative study of ideas and politics in France, Germany, the U.S., and Great Britain during these fifty years, demonstrates how a number of thinkers from different traditions converged to create the ...