The American Intellectual Tradition Volume I: 1630-1865

by Hollinger, David A.; Capper, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780195183375
• ISBN10: 0195183371
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant writings in American intellectual history. The only collection of its kind, The American Intellectual Tradition, Fifth Edition, includes classic works in history, politics, social commentary, economics, lawliterature, and philosophy. Organized chronologically into thematic sections, it traces the evolution of intellectual writing and thinking from it origins in Puritan beliefs to the most recent essays on diversity and post-modernity. A short introduction by the authors precedes each work and bothvolumes include detailed chronologies and bibliographic material. Offering several new selections, this new edition addresses additional themes, including aesthetics, cultural criticism, Americanism, and race, gender, and sexuality.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part One: The Puritan Vision Altered
Introduction	3	(3)
John Winthrop	6	(10)
``A Modell of Christian Charity'' (1630)	7	(9)
John Cotton	16	(12)
Selection from A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace (1636)	17	(11)
Anne Hutchinson	28	(11)
``The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newtown'' (1637)	29	(10)
Roger Williams	39	(12)
The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience (1644)	40	(11)
Cotton Mather	51	(14)
Selection from Bonifacius (1710)	52	(13)
Jonathan Edwards	65	(34)
``Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'' (1741)	67	(10)
Selection from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746)	77	(18)
Part Two: Republican Enlightenment
Introduction	95	(4)
Benjamin Franklin	99	(13)
Selection from The Autobiography (1784--88)	100	(12)
John Adams	112	(11)
A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law (1765)	113	(10)
Thomas Paine	123	(8)
Selection from Common Sense (1776)	124	(7)
Thomas Jefferson	131	(4)
The Declaration of Independence (1776)	132	(3)
Alexander Hamilton	135	(6)
``Constitutional Convention Speech on a Plan of Government'' (1787)	136	(5)
``Brutus''	141	(12)
Selection from ``Essays of Brutus'' (1787--88)	142	(11)
James Madison	153	(9)
The Federalist, ``Number 10'' and ``Number 51'' (1787--88)	154	(8)
Judith Sargent Murray	162	(7)
``On the Equality of the Sexes'' (1790)	163	(6)
John Adams	169	(10)
Letters to Samuel Adams, October 18, 1790; and to Thomas Jefferson, November 15, 1813; April 19, 1817	170	(9)
Thomas Jefferson	179	(28)
Selection from Notes on the State of Virginia (1787)	181	(10)
Letters to John Adams, October 28, 1813; to Benjamin Rush, with a Syllabus, April 21, 1803; and to Thomas Law, June 13, 1814	191	(12)
Part Three: Protestant Awakening and Democratic Order
Introduction	203	(4)
William Ellery Channing	207	(13)
``Unitarian Christianity'' (1819)	208	(12)
Nathaniel William Taylor	220	(15)
Concio ad Clerum (1828)	222	(13)
Charles Grandison Finney	235	(12)
Selection from Lectures on Revivals of Religion (1835)	236	(11)
John Humphrey Noyes	247	(8)
Selection from The Berean (1847)	248	(7)
William Lloyd Garrison	255	(15)
Selection from Thoughts on African Colonization (1832)	257	(8)
``Prospectus of The Liberator'' (1837)	265	(5)
Sarah Grimke	270	(16)
Selection from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman (1838)	271	(15)
George Bancroft	286	(9)
``The Office of the People in Art, Government, and Religion'' (1835)	287	(8)
Orestes Brownson	295	(16)
``The Laboring Classes'' (1840)	297	(14)
Catharine Beecher	311	(14)
Selection from A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841)	312	(13)
Henry C. Carey	325	(17)
Selection from The Harmony of Interests (1851)	326	(13)
Part Four: Romantic Intellect and Cultural Reform
Introduction	339	(3)
Ralph Waldo Emerson	342	(26)
``The Divinity School Address'' (1838)	344	(10)
``Self-Reliance'' (1841)	354	(14)
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody	368	(14)
``A Glimpse of Christ's Idea of Society'' (1841)	369	(7)
``Plan of the West Roxbury Community'' (1842)	376	(6)
Margaret Fuller	382	(19)
Selection from Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)	383	(18)
Henry David Thoreau	401	(14)
``Resistance to Civil Government'' (1849)	402	(13)
Horace Bushnell	415	(10)
``Christian Nurture'' (1847)	416	(9)
Herman Melville	425	(17)
``Hawthorne and His Mosses'' (1850)	426	(13)
Part Five: The Quest for Union and Renewal
Introduction	439	(3)
John C. Calhoun	442	(10)
Selection from A Disquisition on Government (c. late 1840s)	443	(9)
Louisa McCord	452	(13)
``Enfranchisement of Woman'' (1852)	454	(11)
George Fitzhugh	465	(11)
Selection from Sociology for the South (1854)	466	(10)
Martin Delany	476	(16)
Selection from The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852)	478	(14)
Frederick Douglass	492	(15)
``What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?'' (1852)	493	(14)
Abraham Lincoln	507	(16)
``Speech at Peoria, Illinois'' (1854)	509	(8)
``Address Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society'' (1859)	517	(3)
``Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg'' (1863)	520	(1)
``Second Inaugural Address'' (1865)	521	(2)
Chronologies	523