About the Program

The Progressive Studies Program, co-directed by John Halpin and Ruy Teixeira, is a unique interdisciplinary project that explores the history, intellectual foundations, and public understanding of progressivism in America. The program seeks to increase public awareness of progressive ideas and values, and educate public officials and policymakers through lectures, seminars, articles, public events, book discussions, new media tools, and training seminars with activists and young people. It also seeks to develop thoughtful and honest debates about modern progressivism and its relationship to the earlier progressive era and other political and social movements throughout American history. The program's public research component will complement these discussions by documenting and tracking American ideological attitudes and demographic trends across the country.