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Politics Doesn’t Stop at Water’s Edge Article

Politics Doesn’t Stop at Water’s Edge

The Progressive Studies Program’s Progressive Authors Series hold an event with Julian Zelizer on his new book on how domestic politics shape foreign policy.

Justice Stevens’s Principled and Pragmatic Legacy Article

Justice Stevens’s Principled and Pragmatic Legacy

CAP’s Progressive Authors Series discusses a new book on the life and career of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

The Progressive Intellectual Tradition in America Report
The National Progressive Convention in Chicago is seen on August 6, 1912. As a philosophical tradition, progressivism in its most complete form developed as a “new liberalism” for a new century—updating the American liberal tradition from its Jeffersonian, small-government, republican roots best suited for the agrarian economy of the nation’s founding era to a more democratic and modern liberalism capable of checking rising corporate power. (Library of Congress)

The Progressive Intellectual Tradition in America

Part one of the Progressive Tradition Series examines the philosophical and theoretical development of progressivism as a response to the rise of industrial capitalism.

John Halpin, Conor P. Williams

Social Movements and Progressivism Report
Students from North Carolina A&T College stage a sit-down strike after being refused service at a luncheon counter in February 1960. The seeds of the great civil rights triumphs of the 20th century came from within progressivism itself. (Library of Congress)

Social Movements and Progressivism

Part three of the Progressive Tradition Series examines the influence of social movements for equality and economic justice on the development of progressivism.

John Halpin, Marta Cook

The Progressive Tradition in American Politics Report
A parade for suffrage is seen in New York City, October 23, 1915, in which 20,000 women marched. Improvements in American life, such as women's suffrage, would not have happened without the pioneering ideas of early progressives. (Library of Congress)

The Progressive Tradition in American Politics

Part two of the Progressive Tradition Series examines the politics of national progressivism from the agrarian populists to the Great Society.

Ruy Teixeira, John Halpin

Dream Bold Dreams Article

Dream Bold Dreams

Progressive Studies Program event features NAACP President Ben Jealous and Professor Patricia Sullivan to discuss the roots of the NAACP’s success.

Progressivism Old and New Article

Progressivism Old and New

Jackson Lears and Sidney Milkis discuss the historical foundations of the new progressive era at an event from CAP and the Progressive Book Club.

Predicting the “Future of Faith” Article

Predicting the “Future of Faith”

A Progressive Book Club event discusses Harvard professor Harvey Cox’s new book on Christianity.

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