Tag Archives: Progressivism
Wednesday’s Book Review: “School Book Nation: Conflicts over American History Textbooks from the Civil War to the Present”
School Book Nation: Conflicts over American History Textbooks from the Civil War to the Present. By Joseph Moreau. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. The premise of School Book Nation: Conflicts over American History Textbooks from the Civil War … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, World War II
Tagged Alexander Stephens, American Revised, American sectionalism, civil war, Frances FitzGerald, Harold Rugg, History, Jeb Bush, Joseph Moreau, New Deal, politics, Progressivism, public perceptions, public policy, race relations, slavery, Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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How Might We Renew the Promise of American Life?
I was struck while rereading Herbert Croly’s 1909 political manifesto, The Promise of American Life, about its continually important message. Croly was a leading figure in the Progressive Movement of the first two decades of the twentieth century, a political philosopher, … Continue reading
