Author: Amanda Bryan

A Tale of 2 or 3 Progressivisms

This month we’re featuring a new online exhibit at TAH.org: The Presidential Election of 1912. It is curated by Professor Jason Jividen (who also edited our Core Document Collection, Populists and Progressives.) Jividen is Associate Professor

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Wilson, TR, Taft

The Election of 1912 Exhibit

To learn more about the election of 1912, the party platforms, and to view an electoral map, please visit our new exhibit, “The Presidential Election of 1912.“ The Progressive Era

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The Crimean Conference

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine looming large in the news we thought it wise to revisit the region’s ties to American history. Prior to the 2014 annexation of Crimea by

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The History of “Court-Packing”

Roosevelt’s “Court-Packing” Plan For many students, the “Fireside Chat on the Reorganization of the Judiciary” (more memorably recalled as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “court-packing plan”) brings up, for the first time

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