Professor Nancy C. Unger is an historian with a special interest in the progressive era in American history and an author of biographies of progressive era reformists Bob and Belle La Follette.

Senator Robert La Follette was a third-party candidate at the 1924 US presidential election (100 years ago) for the Progressive Party and Belle La Follette was active on the women’s suffrage circuit.

An extended version of this conversation is available via the Wide Open Air Exchange podcast where you’ll also find links to Professor Unger’s books.

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