The third edition of this uniquely comprehensive two-volume anthology contains many of the most significant documents in American intellectual history. It includes new selections from a diverse group of authors that cover Puritan theology, communitarian thought, racial ideology, gender theory, cultural criticism, multiculturalism, and postmodernism. The extensive chronology has been revised and expanded to connect over a thousand important books, essays, and artistic works with events in American and European intellectual, cultural, and political history. Section introductions and headnotes have been rewritten to provide updated bibliographical references and to incorporate new ideas from scholarly literature about selections. This anthology makes readily available substantial selections from the writings of prominent American thinkers, ranging chronologically from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 to the present. Accessible to a wide range of students,
The American Intellectual Tradition is invaluable for courses in intellectual history and serves as an excellent supplementary text for classes in American history, American studies, and American literature.
Volume I (to 1865) now offers new selections from John Cotton, Mercy Otis Warren, Henry C. Carey, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and William Lloyd Garrison; and includes writings of John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Cotton Mather, Jonathon Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Grandison Finney, John Humphrey Noyes, Sarah M. Grimke, William Leggett, George Bancroft, Catharine Beecher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Horace Bushnell, Herman Melville, John C. Calhoun, Louisa S. McCord, George Fitzhugh, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln.
Preface
Part One: The Puritan Vision
Introduction
"A Modell of Christian Charity" (1630), John Winthrop
Selection from A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace (1636), John Cotton
"The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court of Newton" (1637), Anne Hutchinson
Christenings Make Not Christians" (1645), Roger Williams
selection from Bonifacius (1710), Cotton Mather
"The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners" (1734) and 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
Selection from Common Sense (1776), Thomas Paine
The Declaration of Independence (1776), Thomas Jefferson
"Constitutional Convention Speech on a Plan of Government" (1787), Alexander Hamilton
The Federalist, "Number 51" (1787-88), James Madison
Selection from History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution (1805), Mercy Otis Warren
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 Law, June 13, 1814, Thomas Jefferson
Part Three: Evangelical Democracy
Introduction
"What a Revival of Religion Is" (1835), Charles Grandison Finney
Selection from The Berean (1847), John Humphrey Noyes
Selection from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Women (1838), Sarah M. Grimke
Selection from Political Writings (1834), William Legget
"The Office of the People in Art, Government, and Religion" (1835), George Bancroft
Selection from A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841), Catharine Beecher
Selection from The Harmony of Interests (1851), Henry C. Carey
Part Four: Romanticism and Reform
Introduction
"The Divinity School Address" (1838); "Self-Reliance" (1841), Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A Glimpse of Christ's Idea of Society" (1841) and "Plan of the West Roxbury Community" (1842), Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
"The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women" (1843), Margaret Fuller
"Resistance to Civil Government" (1849), Henry David Thoreau
"Christian Nurture" (1847), Horace Bushnell
"Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1850), Herman Melville
Part Five: The Quest for Union
Introduction
Selection from A Disquisition on Government (c. late 1840s), John C. Calhoun
"Enfranchisement of Woman" (1852), Louisa S. McCord
Selection from Sociology for the South (1854), George Fitzhugh
Selection from Thoughts on African Colonization (1832); "Address to the Friends of Freedom and Emancipation in the United States" (1844), William Lloyd Garrison
"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 Cemetery at Gettysburg" (1863), "Second Inaugural Address" (1865), Abraham Lincoln
Chronologies