Journalist lies a monday, talks about her book cold girls. The American Woman code breakers of world war ii. The next session is one that i had mentioned earlier, unfortunately lynn olson could not make it and our other panelists, lies a monday has agreed to expand on her original top. Weve asked catherine to lead this section this session. Shes been involved with the museum for over a decade, and just a month ago she had organized a joint program with our museum and the Second World War research group, where we had everyone come for a deallong program. So catherines information is in your program, and i would point out in addition to being a professor at the Mississippi State university, shes an author of two books. One called a curse, and the other one strategy and tactics. Ladies and gentlemen doctor Catherine Barr b. A. And liza munday. Good morning, happy to see all these nice faces up in front, this is a fantastic event and im excited to be part of it, i would like to introduce l
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. So again, throughout class today be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled in search of progressism, which i think aptly summed up the way that the historians were rummaging around, knowing that the progressive era existed but quibbling about what counted as progressive his. Who counted, when it started. Some people limit only to the Political Party that it was named for. Others define it much more broadly. So for me in this class this is how im going to define progressivism. In the broadest sense,
Early 20th century attempted to improve social and Economic Conditions through trust busting, interstate regulation and prohibition. Also Theodore Roosevelt the periods most dominant political figure. 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 spectrums in the progressive area believed were important, and they believe they werent incompatible but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally at some tension. So again throughout cost day think about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians at the earliest 20th century is what is progressivism . A famous article that he met in 1982 with entitled, in search of progressed subsystem, which i think aptly summed up the way historians were rummaging around knowing that the progressive area existed but wondering about what it
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