In his classic book On Liberty, the nineteenth-century British philosopher John Stuart Mill urged that man strive to become “a progressive being.” Mill defined progressivism as the cultivation of ...

Question: What do great progressive leaders Hubert H. Humphrey, Art Naftalin and Don Fraser have in common? Answer: They all graduated from the University and served as mayor of Minneapolis. I intend ...

Richard T. Ely was an especially gifted and effective Progressive Era reformer. No other progressive worked so energetically, for so long and in so many ways, to effect change in America. As an ...