Timeline.

1909

January 9, 1909 Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr. founds La Follette's Weekly Magazine, "a magazine of progress, social, intellectual, institutional."

May 1909 Jane Addams publishes "The Reaction of Moral Instruction Upon Social Reform" in La Follette's Weekly Magazine.

1914

February 1915 Belle Case La Follette editorializes on the suffrage movement.

October 6, 1917 Robert La Follette opposes U.S. entry into World War I.

1919

June 1921 Helen Keller describes her life philosophy in La Follette's Weekly Magazine.

1924

February 1923 Representative George Huddleston editorializes on the plight of U.S. political prisoners being held under "war laws."

June 18, 1925 Robert M. La Follette Sr. dies.

1929

December 1929 Belle Case La Fellette renames La Follette's Weekly as The Progressive.

1934

1939

January 1938 Upton Sinclair writes for The Progressive about the pernicious effects of advertising.

December 1941 The Progressive, after advocating neutrality, supports U.S. entry into World War II once Pearl Harbor is attacked.

1944

October 1947 The Progressive suspends publication for three months because of economic difficulties.

1949

September 1948 The Progressive, revived by contributions from sub scribers, endorses Norman Thomas for President.

1954

April 1954 The Progressive publishes an expose of Senator Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism. The issue is read aloud in the U.S. Senate and helps prompt a reappraisal of McCarthy's tactics. It becomes the best-selling issue of The Progressive.

1959

May 1960 Martin Luther King Jr. writes for The Progressive on the student lunch-counter protests in the South.

1961 Morris Rubin, editor of The Progressive, wins the George Polk Award for his coverage of Latin America.

December 1962 James Baldwin publishes "A Letter to My Nephew" in The Progressive.

1964

October 1963 The Progressive expresses early opposition to the Vietnam War and suggests that the war will turn out to be a catastrophe.

1969

April 1970 The Progressive publishes a special Earth Day issue: "The Crisis of Survival."

1974

1973 Progressive contributor and subsequent editor Erwin Knoll is named to President Richard Nixon's "Enemies List."

1979

March 1979 The U.S. government sues The Progressive in...

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