The American Intellectual Tradition A Sourcebook Volume I: 1630-1865

by Hollinger, David A.; Capper, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780195097252
• ISBN10: 0195097254
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

PrefacePart I: The Puritan VisionIntroductionJohn Winthrop: "A Modell of Christian Charity" (1630)John Cotton: selection from A Treatise of the Covenant (1636)Anne Hutchinson: "The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the court ofNewton" (1637)Roger Williams: Christenings Make Not Christians" (1645)Cotton Mather,: selection from Bonifacius (1710)Jonathan Edwards,: "Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners" (1734) and aselection from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746)Part II: Republican EnlightenmentIntroductionBenjamin Franklin,:John Adams,: "A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law" (1765)Thomas Paine,: selection from Common Sense (1776)Mercy Otis Warren,: selection from History of the Rise, Progress, andTermination of the American RevolutionJohn Adams,: Letters to Samuel Adams, October 18, 1790; and to Thomas Jefferson,November 15, 1813; April 19, 1817, Thomas Jefferson, selection from Notes on theState of Virginia (1787); letters to John Adams, October 28, 1813; to BenjaminRush, with a Syllabus, April 21, 1803; and to Thomas Law, June 13, 1814Part III: Evangelical DemocracyIntroductionCharles Grandison Finney: "What a Revival of Religion is" (1835)John Humphrey Noyes: selection from The Berean n1847)Sarah M. Grimke: selection from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and theCondition of Women (1838)William Legget: selection from Political Writings (1834)George Bancroft: "The Office of the People in Art, Government, and Religion"(1835)Catharine Beecher: selection from A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841)Henry C. Carey: selection from The Harmony of Interests (1851)Part IV: Romanticism and ReformIntroductionRalph Waldo Emerson: "The Divinity School Address" (1838)"Self-Reliance" (1841)Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: "A Glimpse of Christ's Idea of Society" (1841) and"Plan of the West Roxbury Community"Margaret Fuller: "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Man. Woman versus Woman" (1843)Henry David Thoreau: "Resistance to Civil Government" 1849)Horace Bushnell: "Christian Nurture" (1847)Herman Melville: "Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1850)Part V: The Quest for UnionIntroductionJohn C. Calhoun: selection from A Disquisition on Government (c. late 1840s)Louisa S. McCord: "Enfranchisement of Woman" (1852)George Fitzhugh: selection from Sociology for the South (1854)William Lloyd Garrison: selection from Thoughts on Colonization (1832) and"Address to the Friends of Freedom and Emancipation in the United States" (1849)Frederick Douglass: "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" (1852)Abraham Lincoln: "Speech at Peoria, Illinois" (1854), "Address Before theWisconsin State Agricultural Society" (1859), "Address Delivered at theDedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg" (1863), "Second Inaugural Address"(1865)Chronologies