This week we take an overview of the progressive period…and we’ll find out it’s actually a conservative movement - What? Progressives are conservative?! We’ll see the muckrakers digging into the seamier side of life to highlight the problems that need to be addressed, and Upton Sinclair giving everyone some severe nausea when he exposes the grossness that was the meatpacking industry.

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