Revised and expanded, the second edition of this uniquely comprehensive two-volume anthology of many of the most significant documents in American intellectual history offers new selections from a diversity of authors; an extensive chronology connecting several hundred important books and essays with events in American and European intellectual, cultural, and political history; and updated bibliographies and headnotes. The anthology makes readily available substantial selections from the writings of prominent American thinkers, ranged chronologically from the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 to the present. Designed for easy use by a wide range of readers, it is an invaluable reader for anyone interested in intellectual history, American history, American studies, or American literature.
Volume I (to 1865) now offers new selections by Sarah M. Grimké, Horace Bushnell, and Louisa S. McCord, and Volume II (1865-present) now offers new selections by Charles Hodge, Henry Adams, George Santayana, W.E.B. Du Bois, Randolph Bourne, H.L. Mencken, John Crowe Ransom, Meridel Le Sueur, Reinhold Niebuhr, Ralph Ellison, Whittaker Chambers, Betty Friedan, Adrienne Rich, Evelyn Fox Keller, Richard Rorty, and Michael Walzer.
Part One: The Puritan Vision
Introduction
"A Modell of Christian Charity" (1630), John Winthrop
Selection from A Compleat Body of Divinity (1688), Samuel Willard
"The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newtown" (1637), Anne Hutchinson
Christenings Make Not Christians (1645), Roger Williams
Selections from Bonifacius (1710), Cotton Mather
"The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners" (1734)
Selection from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746), Jonathan Edwards
Part Two: Republican Enlightenment
Introduction
Selection from The Autobiography (1784-88), Benjamin Franklin
A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law (1765), John Adams
sear Selechction from Common Sense (1776), Thomas Paine
Jefferson
"Objections to the Constitution of Government Formed by the Convention" (1787), George Mason
"Constitutional Convention Speech on a Plan of Government" (1787), Alexander Hamilton
The Federalist, "Number 10" and "Number 51" (1787-88), James Madision
Letters to Samuel Adams, October 18, 1790; and to Thomas Jefferson, November 15, 1813; April 19, 1817, John Adams
Selection from Notes on the State of Virginia (1787) Letters to John Adams, October 28, 1813; to Benjamin Rush, with a Syllabus, April 21, 1803; and to Thomas Lawe, June 13, 1814, Thomas Jefferson
Part Three: Evangelical Democracy
Introduction, Charles Grandison Finney
Selection from The Berean (1847), John Humphrey Noyes
*Selection from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman (1838), Sarah M. Grimke
Selection from Political Writings (1834), William Leggett
"The Office of the People in Art, Government, and Religion" (1835), George Bancroft
Selection from A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841), Catharine Beecher
"Of Wealth" (1858), Henry C. Carey
Part Four: Romanticism and Reform
Introduction
"The Divinity School Address" (1838) "Self-Reliance" (1841), Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Great Lawsuit." Man versus Men. Woman versus Women." (1843), Margaret Fuller
"Resistance to Civil Government" (1849), Henry David Thoreau
*"Christian Nurture", Horace Bushnell
"Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1850), Herman Melville
Part Five: The Quest for Union
Introduction, John C. Calhoun
*"Enfranchisement of Woman" (1852), Louisa S. McCord
Selection from Sociology for the South (1854), George Fitzhugh
"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (1852), Frederick Douglass
"Speech at Peoria, Illinois" (1854) "Address Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society" (1859) "Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetary at Gettysburg" (1863) "Second Inaugural Address" (1865),, Abraham Lincoln
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