Teaches a class on the progressive era. She talks about how politicians and reform groups in the early 20th century attempted to improve social and Economic Conditions. Our goal today is to think about what progressivism was and to think about what i think its core dialectic was, the tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds in the progressive era believed were important, and they believed they were not incompatible, but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally at some tension. Again, throughout class today, be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century is, what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled, in search of progressivism, which i think aptly summed up the way historians were rummaging around, knowing that the progressive era existed but quibbling about what counted as progressivism, who c
Progressivism less and to think about what i think its core dialect guy dialectic was. The tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds and the progressive era believed were important, and they believed they were not incompatible but you can see in some ways in which they were fundamentally add some tension. Throughout class today, well be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. The central question for this historians of the early at 20 century is what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled in search of progressivism, which i think aptly summed up the way historians were rummaging around knowing the progressive era existed but quibbleing about what counted as progressive severe them and who counted and when it started and when it ended. Some people limit only to the Political Party that it was named for. Others to find it much more broadly. For me, in this class, this is
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