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Lectures in History

The Progressive Era

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Georgetown University professor Katherine Benton-Cohen teaches a class on the Progressive Era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Next, on lectures in history, Georgetown University professor Catherine Benton-Cohen

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teaches a class on the progressive era.

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She talks about how politicians and reform groups in the early 20th century attempted

1:07.5

to improve social and economic conditions through trust-busting, interstate regulation, and prohibition.

1:14.7

She also discusses the policies and campaigns of Theodore Roosevelt, the period's most dominant political figure.

1:23.8

Our goal today is to think about what progressivism was, and to think about what I think

1:32.3

what I think its core dialectic was, the tension between democracy and efficiency.

1:40.3

These were both ideals that people from a broad spectrum of political backgrounds in the progressive

1:46.6

era believed were important.

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