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| 1/13/2002 & ongoing | Add representative quotations from any work reviewed both in order to give some flavor of the author's style and approach, and for the intrinsic interest of the quotations themselves. | Beginning with the philosophy guide. |
| 1/20/2002 | Many navigation changes made to improve consistency. Link to values essay and field guide fixed. | Site map and throughout. |
| 1/27/2002 | Added a page for humor. | Accessible from the site map or go to this link. |
| 2/4/2002 | Added a section on resources pertaining to Confucianism. | This material is found in the Religion Field Guide. |
| 2/17/2002 | Added a section on futures, including an essay on effecting social and economic change. | Accessible from the site map, or go to this link. |
| 2/22/2002 | Added the section "When?" | Accessible from the site map, or go to this link. |
| 2/24/2002 | Extensive cosmetic revisions for a cleaner, more appealing look. (Still in progress.) | Throughout, but especially the site map. |
| 3/02/02 | Added extensive coverage of the Bush cabinet in a Progressive context. | Found at The Bush Presidency/The Bush Index/The Bush Cabinet, or go to this link. |
| 3/18/02 | Added a virtual community feature, for discussion, collaboration, and more. | Found at the site map under Virtual Community, or go to this link. |
| 3/25/02 | Began a new feature providing a concise overview of each of the major world religions with a section on Humanism. | Found at the site map under Religion Field Guide/Humanism, or go to this link. |
| 4/8/02 | Added an essay and Field Guide on economics to begin an initiative to identify the most important paths to social reform. The field guide includes a review of Richard Robbins' landmark "Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism." | Found at the site map under Economics Essay, and Economics Field Guide, or go to these links: EE, EFG. |
| 5/12/02 | Fixed missing graphics links in A. Allen Butcher's essay on political alternatives. | See the essay here. |
| 5/12/02 | Put up an arts index, which will eventually provide on-line resources for all of the arts. At present the index leads to an essay critical of modern art, and a second essay on visual arts. | The index can be found here. |
| 5/24/02 | Expanded the philosophy guide to include a section on existentialism. | The new material can be found here. |
| 6/6/02 | Added the first installment of a new feature, providing a timeline for "The Gilded Age" (1865-1877), which was the era that laid the foundations for "The Progressive Era" (1901-1914) and Progressivism more generally. | The timeline can be found here. |
| 6/27/02 | Added a biographical sketch of the life of Aristotle, one of the founders of humanism, and a key thinker regarding humanistic values. | The biographical sketch can be found here. |
| 9/7/02 | Added a profile of the Business Roundtable, a CEO lobbying group that exercises considerable influence against the public interest. | The profile can be found here. |
| 11/24/02 | Numerous changes have been made to the site recently, some cosmetic, some navigational, some providing new definitions. The most substantive, however, is a new link to the work of artist George Tooker, who just may be America's greatest. | The resource on Tooker can be found here. |
| 7/18/03 | We've begun adding material pertaining to intentional community, additions which will take a few months to complete. Also recently added was a definition of a school of ethical thought known as Perfectionism. Some other political definitions are in the works, and we also changed the home page, as it was plagued by "technical difficulties well within our control". | The resources pertaining to intentional community can be found here. The material on Perfectionism is here. |
| 5/1/04 | We've posted additional material concerning intentional community, a brief discussion of economics, and an essay on the history of worldview by Dr. Richard DeTar. | The intentional community material may be found here. This link will take you to the brief essay on economics. And you'll find the essay on worldviews here. |
| 4/3/05 | A great many changes have been made since we last made note of them here. There is now an alternative media field guide, a resource on humanistic art, including an essay on the nature of art, and new material in the political, world religion, and economics field guides. PL aims to provide resources for the reform of contemporary society across the spectrum. The site map now includes a link to the overall architecture of the site that makes clearer the ultimate goal. |
Alternative Media Field Guide |
| 10/5/2005 | A new resource on global issues has been added that aims to sum up the most urgent challenges currently facing us. |
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| 9/6/2006 | We're often surprised how little people know concerning basic economics, which in turn confuses the nature of the most fundamental reforms now needed. A new essay on "Capitalism, Socialism, & Communism" aims to clear up the confusion. A new resource on Progressive education has been added to facilitate the creation of Progressive/Humanistic charter schools. This is in keeping with the overall blueprint for Progressive Living content as detailed in the Site Architecture document. Finally, the section on Community has been expanded to include new resources. | |
| 3/2008 | We've added a biography of American artist George Tooker, a Field Guide to American Politicians that identifies the most corporate/plutocratic of American "representatives", a new review in the economics section (Mindful Economics), a guide to the ten best humanistic science fiction novels, and have done extensive site cleanup and redesign. |
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