2011-04-09T20:01:05-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/456/297633-m.jpgProfessor Mitchell Lerner lectured to a history class at Ohio State University at Newark. The ...

After the murder of George Floyd, the summer of 2020 saw a resurgence of New York City’s progressive movement. Activists occupied City Hall Park for a month, and moved the City Council to pass a ...

Indiana University historian McGerr (The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865–1928) examines the social, cultural and political currents of a movement that, through its early ...

On October 14, 1912, Progressive Party presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt delivered one of the most remarkable campaign speeches in American history. Wounded in the chest by the bullet of a ...

IT was Mr. Lincoln Steffens who accused Theodore Roosevelt of making his major decisions ‘in his hips,’ rather than with his head. Whether or not this was true of the first progressive President we ...

Every American knows the fable of the Progressive Era and that “trust buster” Teddy Roosevelt wielding the big stick of federal power to battle the greedy corporations. We would be better off if more ...