Was there a Gilded Age? Was there a Progressive Era?

Alan Lessoff, a U.S. and urban history professor at Illinois State University, will discuss how the Progressive Era's unwieldy number of groups and issues makes it difficult for historians to pin-point overarching objectives for such a revolutionary time.
When Jan 25, 2012
from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
Where Chao Auditorium, University of Louisville
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Contact Phone 502-852-8811
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Alan Lessoff, PhD
continues the McConnell Center's year-long study of American history with a lecture on the origins late 19th and early 20th century social movements.

News in recent years has frequently contained comparisons between present dilemmas and debates and those of the "Gilded Age" and "Progressive Era" – terms commonly used but not universally understood. Lessoff, a U.S. and urban history professor, examines the origins and impact of these terms and how they relate to 21st century social movements.

Lessoff will deliver the free and public lecture January 25, from 6 to 7 p.m., at the University of Louisville's Chao Auditorium located in Ekstrom Library (directions).

The McConnell Center offers this free and public event as part of its year-long history project, "Remembering America: From Colonization to the Cold War."

About the Lecturer

Lessoff is Professor of History at Illinois State University, where he teaches United States and comparative urban history. In 1996-97, he was a Fulbright professor at the University of Kassel, Germany.

His publications include The Nation and Its City: Politics, "Corruption," and Progress in Washington, D.C., 1861-1902. Lessoff is the editor of The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. He is the co-author of Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era. He earned his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University.

About the McConnell Center

The McConnell Center offers this Civic Education Program to the public free of charge. The non-profit, non-partisan program was established to assist Kentucky citizens develop a better understanding of the American Constitution and American history and encourage open and free discussion of perennial concerns that inform contemporary politics.