Conference with you. It is a pleasure to be with you because really, there is no kind of person i more enjoy talking with then teachers of history. Teachers of history have been tremendously important in my life. From high school, from college, and also people who are involved in teaching public history by working and museums and historical sites and so forth. All of them has had a huge influence on my life. I do not think i would be writing History Today were it not for two very good history teachers that i had in high school. Let me tell you a little bit about how i came to the subject that im going to talk about today. I have for a long time, as long as i can remember, been obsessed with the First World War. I had relatives on both sides of my family who fought in it in several different armies. It always has sort of seemed to me, i think the historian simon put it best, when he described the First World War as the original sin of the 20th century. So much of what has afflicted us i
States. The reality is that, yeah, this is where covid19 is taking its steepest toll. This is this is who is feeling the brunt of this disease. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by Consumer Cellular offers nocontract wireless plans that are designed to help you do more of the things you enjoy. Whether youre a talker, texter, browser, photographer, or a bit of everything, our u. S. Based Customer Service team is here to find a plan that fits you. To learn more, go to consumercellular. Tv fidelity investments. Bnsf railway. The john s. And james l. Knight foundation. Fostering informed and engaged communities. More at kf. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff two different pandemic plot lines are playing out in washington tonight. The preside
Teaches a class on the progressive era. She talks about how politicians and reform groups in the early 20th century attempted to improve social and Economic Conditions. Our goal today is to think about what progressivism was and to think about what i think its core dialectic was, the tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds in the progressive era believed were important, and they believed they were not incompatible, but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally at some tension. Again, throughout class today, be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century is, what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled, in search of progressivism, which i think aptly summed up the way historians were rummaging around, knowing that the progressive era existed but quibbling about what counted as progressivism, who c
Progressivism less and to think about what i think its core dialect guy dialectic was. The tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds and the progressive era believed were important, and they believed they were not incompatible but you can see in some ways in which they were fundamentally add some tension. Throughout class today, well be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. The central question for this historians of the early at 20 century is what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled in search of progressivism, which i think aptly summed up the way historians were rummaging around knowing the progressive era existed but quibbleing about what counted as progressive severe them and who counted and when it started and when it ended. Some people limit only to the Political Party that it was named for. Others to find it much more broadly. For me, in this class, this is
The reality is that, yeah, this is where covid19 is taking its steepest toll. This is this is who is feeling the brunt of this disease. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by Consumer Cellular offers nocontract wireless plans that are designed to help you do more of the things you enjoy. Whether youre a talker, texter, browser, photographer, or a bit of everything, our u. S. Based Customer Service team is here to find a plan that fits you. To learn more, go to consumercellular. Tv fidelity investments. Bnsf railway. The john s. And james l. Knight foundation. Fostering informed and engaged communities. More at kf. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporatn for public broadcasting. And by ctributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff two different pandemic plot lines are playing out in washington tonight. The president is defend