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: John Moser is Associate Professor of History at Ashland University. He is the author of Twisting the Lion's Tail: American Anglophobia Between the World Wars and Right Turn: John T. Flynn and the Transformation of American Liberalism. J. David Alvis is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wofford College.