[Ads-l] Antedating of "Progressivism"

[Shapiro, Fred]

progressivism (OED 1855)

1848 Louisville Morning Courier 8 Aug. 1/1 (Newspapers.com)  The day is come when your country demands your aid. Come and rescue her from the grasp of sans cullottism, agrarianism, Locofocoism, and Progressivism.

Fred Shapiro



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