This book investigates the historiography on the concept of progressivism and the progressive movement in United States History, including both progressive poli

Focusing on the cultural conflicts between social reformers and southern communities, William Link presents an important reinterpretation of the origins and imp

The paradox of progressivism continues to fascinate more than one hundred years on. Democratic but elitist, emancipatory but coercive, advanced and assimilation

In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-