Richard L. McCormick, presented at a seminar sponsored the Wil- son Center's Program on American Society and Politics, Feb. 3, 1982.

Michael J. ace; moderator.
Among historians, interest in the American Progressives of the early 1900s has waned. One reason, suggests McCormick, a Rutgers historian, may be a disillusionment among scholars with liberal reform movements in general-from the Progressives' ef- forts to minister to (i.e., mold in their own image) poor immigrants to later excesses of t...