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: J. David Alvis is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wofford College. He has published on Abraham Lincoln, Herbert Croly, and the Progressive Era. Christopher Burkett is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ashland University. He has written and lectured extensively on the American Founding, Progressivism, and American foreign policy.