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The Progressive Era
Sunday, June 29, 2008 to Friday, July 4, 2008
Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio

Applications were due by March 1, 2008.

The transition to an industrial economy posed many problems for the United States. This course examines those problems and the responses to them that came to be known as progressivism. The course includes the study of World War I as a manifestation of progressive principles. The course emphasizes the political thought of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and their political expression of progressive principles.

Instructors: Gordon Lloyd is Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. His latest book is The Two Faces of Liberalism: How the Hoover-Roosevelt Debate Shapes the 21st Century. John Moser is Associate Professor of History at Ashland University. He is the author of Twisting the Lion's Tail: American Anglophobia Between the World Wars and Right Turn: John T. Flynn and the Transformation of American Liberalism.


 

         
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