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: William J. Atto is Associate Professor of History at the University of Dallas. Ronald J. Pestritto holds the Charles and Lucia Shipley Chair in the American Constitution and is Graduate Dean and Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College. He is author of Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism. Professors Pestritto and Atto are the editors of American Progressivism: A Reader.