The Progressive Party was founded by Henry A. Wallace in 1947 when he broke with Harry Truman’s Democratic administration.\u00a0 As the Party’s presidential candidate in 1948, Wallace garnered over 1,000,000 votes but lost the election, and the Progressive Party was never again highly influential.\u00a0 The Progressives opposed the bipartisan Cold War policy, advocated civil rights, and wanted an extension of New Deal policies. Somewhat left-wing, the Party supported cooperation with the Soviets, arms reduction and the United Nation administration of foreign aid.<\/p>\n
It was dissolved in 1954.<\/p>\n
The Special Collections Department holds not only the papers of Henry A. Wallace but also several other collections that record the history of the Progressive Party. Where available, links to online finding aids and digitized documents are made. Finding aids to materials without online descriptions are available in print form in the Special Collections<\/p>\n
Manuscript Collections<\/strong><\/p>\n Papers of C. B. Baldwin. MsC343<\/a>.<\/p>\n Papers of Lew Frank. MsC369<\/a>.<\/p>\n Stetson Kennedy Collection of Progressive Party Materials. MsC376<\/a>.<\/p>\n Aleck G. Kringlock Pamphlet Collection. MsC182<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hugh C. MacDougall Collection of Progressive Party Papers. MsC482<\/a><\/p>\n Papers of Dante Melville Pierce. MsC61<\/a>.<\/p>\n Records of the Progressive Party. MsC160<\/a>.<\/p>\n Papers of John L. Shover. MsC137.<\/a><\/p>\n Papers of John Loomis Stevens. MsC5<\/a><\/p>\n Papers of Fred Stover. MsC165<\/a>.<\/p>\n Papers of Henry A. Wallace. MsC177<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n Epstein, Marc J. “The Progressive Party of 1948<\/a>.” Books at Iowa<\/em> 16:26 (illus), 34-40.<\/p>\n