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The Radical Republicans supported liberal reforms during Reconstruction to advance the rights of African Americans, including suffrage and education for freedmen. [21] White supremacy was a major ideology in the southern states, and restrictions on the rights of African Americans saw widespread support in the region, often enforced through both ...
According to James Reichley, liberalism took on its current meaning in the United States during the 1920s. In the 19th century and the early 20th century, the term had usually described classical liberalism, which emphasizes limited government, religious freedom, and support for the free market.
Liberal Education. 90 (1). Association of American Colleges and Universities: 8– 13. ISSN 0024-1822. Freeland, Richard M. (Winter 2009). "Liberal Education and Effective Practice: The Necessary Revolution in Undergraduate Education". Liberal Education. 95 (1). Association of American Colleges and Universities: 6– 13. ISSN 0024-1822.
As of 2015, there is a roughly equal number of socially liberal Americans and socially conservative Americans (31% each) and the socially liberal trend continues to rise. [48] In early 2016, Gallup found that more Americans identified as ideologically conservative (37%) or moderate (35%) rather than liberal (24%), but that liberalism has slowly ...
The American Dole: Unemployment Relief and the Welfare State in the Great Depression (2000) Sitkoff, Harvard. A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue, Vol. I: The Depression Decade (Oxford UP, 1979) online; Smith, Jason Scott. Building New Deal Liberalism: the Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956 (2005)
According to Ian Adams, all major American parties are "liberal and always have been. Essentially they espouse classical liberalism, that is a form of democratized Whig constitutionalism plus the free market. The point of difference comes with the influence of social liberalism". [1]
Values in Conflict: The University, the Marketplace, and the Trials of Liberal Education. McGill-Queens University Press. ISBN 978-0773524071. Hamilton, Neil (2017). Zealotry and Academic Freedom: A Legal and Historical Perspective. Routledge. ISBN 978-0765804181. Holmes, David (1989).
Barrow, Clyde W. Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894–1928 (University of Wisconsin Press 1990) Burke, Colin. American Collegiate Populations: A Test of the Traditional View (1982) detailed statistical analysis of college enrollments, and costs to students ...