Read “Still Searching for Progressivism” (http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/rah/23.4gordon.html),

1		which is a book review of Eldon J. Eisenach’s The Lost Promise of Progressivism, but also a review essay providing one historian’s perspective on the “search” for the Progressive movement. What does Colin Gordon think about the concept of Progressivism? Does Eisenach’s book influence his thinking at all?
2		What arguments do Gordon and Eisenach (or at least Gordon’s interpretation of Eisenach) offer to support their respective theses about Progressivism? How do these arguments compare to those offered in Where Historians Disagree? Which thesis about Progressivism do you find most compelling and why?

Now read “A Different Perspective on Progressivism” (http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog19/transcript/page02.html).

3		How does Martin define “the Progressive spirit”? What does he argue that the struggles of “people of color” add to our understanding of Progressivism? Do you find his argument compelling? Why or why not?
4		Why do you think historians have debated the nature and even the very existence of a Progressive movement so hotly? What issues from the study of this era resonate in 21st-century America?

Other sites with primary and secondary sources about the Progressive Era include:

5		“Websites for the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era” (http://bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/gapesites.htm) “H-SHGAPE (Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era) Internet Resources” (http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~shgape/internet/index.html).