{"id":407,"date":"2010-03-24T13:59:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/150years\/our-progressive-tradition\/"},"modified":"2019-07-26T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T15:02:39","slug":"progressive-tradition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/history\/progressive-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith by Their Works: Our Progressive Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Was Bates truly an oasis of radical egalitarianism right from its 1855 founding? Or was Bates&#8217; early history more complex, particularly given the paternalistic and racist educational norms of the times?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his honors thesis, history major Tim Larson &#8217;05 takes on the College&#8217;s historic view of itself, exploring 19th-century Bates faculty attitudes toward abolitionism and race, race relations on campus, women at Bates, and issues of class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The honors thesis became an academic centerpiece of the college&#8217;s 150th anniversary observance in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/history\/progressive-tradition\/introduction\/\">Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/history\/progressive-tradition\/chapter-1\/\">Chapter 1: Faculty Attitudes Toward Abolitionism and Race<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/history\/progressive-tradition\/chapter-2\/\">Chapter 2: Race Relations on the Bates Campus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/history\/progressive-tradition\/chapter-3\/\">Chapter 3: Women at Bates College<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/history\/progressive-tradition\/chapter-4\/\">Chapter 4: Class at Bates<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/history\/progressive-tradition\/conclusion\/\">Conclusion<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/history\/progressive-tradition\/bibliography\/\">Bibliography<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/history\/progressive-tradition\/acknowledgements\/\">Acknowledgements<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was Bates truly an oasis of radical egalitarianism right from its 1855&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-407","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions\/2075"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}