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The Progressive Era, 1893-1914 (History of Wisconsin) (v. 4)

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Published in Wisconsin’s Sesquicentennial year, this fourth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the twenty tumultuous years between the World’s Columbian Exposition and the First World War when Wisconsin essentially reinvented itself, becoming the nation’s “laboratory of democracy.”

The period referred to as the Progressive Era started to emerge within the mid-1890s. A sense of crisis and a widespread clamor for reform arose in reaction to rapid changes in population, technology, work, and society. Wisconsinites responded with action: their advocacy of women’s suffrage, labor rights and protections, educational reform, increased social services and products, and more responsive government led to a veritable flood of reform legislation that established Wisconsin as essentially the most progressive state within the union.

As governor and U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., used to be essentially the most celebrated of the Progressives, but he used to be surrounded by a host of pragmatic idealists from politics, government, and the state university. Even supposing the Progressives steadily disagreed over priorities and tactics, their values and core beliefs coalesced around broad-primarily based participatory democracy, the appliance of scientific expertise to governance, and an active concern for the welfare of all members of society-what came to be referred to as “the Wisconsin Idea.”


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