This five page essay examines US history topics. The author notes that one of the significant trends of modern American history was the slow increase in liberalism from the Progressive Era to the nineteen-sixties and then a steady fade in liberal influence. Historian Arthur Schlesinger has noted that during each of these eras, beingliberal meant different things. A Progressive Era liberal would be seen by most nineteen-sixty liberals as conservative or even a reactionary, especially on racial or economic issues. By the same token, Schlesinger described why many Progressive Era liberals would see nineteen-sixties liberals as wild-eyed, radical Anarchists.
