American Heritage

by The Hillsdale College History Faculty

• ISBN13: 9780916308285
• ISBN10: 0916308286
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-01
• Publisher: Hillsdale College Pr

Summary

Too many colleges and universities have become places for focusing on means and not upon ends-and, as such, places where the confused and bewildered of the next generation acquire techniques and tools, but graduate having gained neither direction nor order to their souls.The Hillsdale College History Faculty has painstakingly assembledAmerican Heritage: A Readerin order to provide its own students with a true liberal arts education grounded in the American tradition. Perfect for classroom use at the high school level and up, this extraordinary textbook will provide readers both inside and outside the classroom with a traditional educational experience that enlarges and ennobles the mind.From the Preface:"The primary role of this Reader is to supply a rich sample of documents from the periods we examine. These primary sources provide portals into the American past. Reading them, we escape the provincialism of our own time and culture. As artifacts of the past, they do not convey information merely, but they are the sources that historians interpret to make sense of our past. Consequently, we invite students to engage in the same enterprise as they examine these fragments of the American past as the primary means of understanding both the roots of American order and sources for contemporary disorders. This daunting task of viewing sympathetically ideas that, although part of our heritage, seem distant and alien is an important and exhilarating part of a proper education in which one seeks to make sense of oneself as an American."

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
The Colonial Heritage	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Laws of Virginia	p. 9
Two Colonial Covenants	p. 13
The Mayflower Compact	p. 13
The Salem Covenant	p. 14
A Modell of Christian Charity	p. 15
Speech to the General Court	p. 29
Capital Lawes	p. 33
Frame of Government of Pennsylvania	p. 37
The Secret Diary	p. 47
Awakenings and Enlightenments	p. 61
Introduction	p. 63
A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God	p. 71
The Kingdom of God	p. 83
On George Whitefield	p. 95
Advice to a Young Tradesman	p. 99
Autobiography	p. 101
The American Founding	p. 113
Introduction	p. 115
Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms-Second Continental Congress	p. 121
Declaration of Independence	p. 127
Fast Day Proclamations-Continental Congress	p. 133
The Meaning of the Revolution	p. 135
America	p. 135
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee	p. 136
The Northwest Ordinance	p. 137
Constitution of the United States	p. 145
The Bill of Rights	p. 157
Letter of Brutus	p. 159
Federalist 1	p. 165
Federalist 10	p. 169
Federalist 39	p. 177
Federalist 51	p. 183
Letters of Fabius	p. 187
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen	p. 195
First Inaugural Address	p. 199
Selections	p. 203
On the Principles of Political Morality	p. 209
Farewell Address	p. 215
Kentucky Resolution	p. 229
Counter-Resolutions	p. 237
First Inaugural Address	p. 245
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Robert Livingston	p. 249
The Pleasures of Agriculture	p. 253
Democratization and Expansion	p. 257
Introduction	p. 259
History of Cosmopolite	p. 265
What a Revival of Religion Is	p. 273
First Annual Message	p. 285
Democracy in America	p. 295
Remarks on Seneca Falls	p. 331
Letter from the Alamo	p. 337
The Great Nation of Futurity	p. 339
The Destiny of the Race	p. 345
Earth's Holocaust	p. 349
Sectionalism and Civil War	p. 365
Introduction	p. 367
Disquisition on Government	p. 373
Sociology for the South	p. 387
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?	p. 395
The College and the Republic	p. 415
DredScott v. Sanford	p. 421
Lincoln-Douglas Debates	p. 425
King Cotton	p. 447
Declaration of Causes-South Carolina	p. 451
Secession Resolutions-State of Mississippi	p. 457
Secession Ordinancess-South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida	p. 459
Address to the People of the Slave-Holding States	p. 463
First Inaugural Address	p. 473
Cornerstone Speech	p. 483
Letter to His Wife	p. 495
Meditation on the Divine Will	p. 497
Gettysburg Address	p. 499
Second Inaugural Address	p. 501
The Gilded Age	p. 503
Introduction	p. 505
The New South	p. 513
Wealth	p. 523
The Creed of the Old South	p. 533
People's Party Platform	p. 541
The Frontier in American History	p. 547
Autobiography	p. 555
The Fallacy of Territorial Extension	p. 559
The March of the Flag	p. 565
Platform	p. 573
The Eclipse of Liberalism	p. 577
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall	p. 581
Pragmatism	p. 589
The New Nationalism	p. 605
The New Freedom	p. 619
America Between the Wars	p. 629
Introduction	p. 631
War Message	p. 635
Fourteen Points	p. 643
The Age of Play	p. 649
What It Means to Be A Boy Scout	p. 653
Ordered Liberty and World Peace	p. 655
The Press Under a Free Government	p. 659
The Reign of Law	p. 663
The Inspiration of the Declaration	p. 667
Scopes Trial	p. 677
The Modern Temper	p. 705
Commonwealth Club Address	p. 717
First Inaugural Address	p. 729
The Dominant Dogma of the Age	p. 735
America Since World War II	p. 739
Introduction	p. 741
America First	p. 747
State of the Union Address (1942)	p. 753
State of the Union Address (1944)	p. 761
The Truman Doctrine	p. 765
The Sources of Soviet Conduct	p. 769
NSC-68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security-National Security Council	p. 775
Letter to My Children	p. 779
The Problem of Tradition	p. 797
Brown v. Board of Education	p. 811
The Sharon Statement-Young Americans for Freedom	p. 817
Farewell Address	p. 819
Inaugural Address	p. 825
The Port Huron Statement-Students for a Democratic Society	p. 829
Letter from the Birmingham City Jail	p. 835
Peace without Conquest	p. 851
The Liberal Twilight	p. 859
First Inaugural Address	p. 871
Speech Before Commons	p. 877
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