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The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of American Liberalism and the Democratic Party

Code: SL51318

Dates: June 10, 2026

Meets: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Sessions: 1

Location: Creutzburg Center 102

Course Fee: $39.00

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At a moment of deep division and acrimony within the Democratic Party and across various factions of liberals and the left, explore the historical evolution of U.S. liberalism and the Democratic Party from Roosevelt’s New Deal, through the Great Society of Johnson, Clinton’s New Democrats, and the more recent years of Obama and Biden. Explore liberal approaches to governance and social and economic policy, popular politics, and more recently, the varied ways liberals have attempted to counter the Trump phenomenon.
Fee: $39.00
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Fee Breakdown

CategoryDescriptionAmount
Course Fee (Basic)Course Fee$ 39.00
Optional FeeDonation$ 0.00

Creutzburg Center 102

260 Gulph Creek Road
(in Harford Park)
Radnor, PA 19087
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Brent Cebul

Brent Cebul is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania where he researches and teaches about U.S. political and urban history, inequality, and political economy. He is the author of Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century (Penn, 2023), and the co-editor, most recently, of Mastery and Drift: Professional Class Liberals since the 1960s (Chicago, 2025). In addition to his scholarly publications, his writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.

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