目录 i. from colony to constitution: 1620--- a. colonial mind john smith: a description of new england (excerpt) (1616) mayflower compact (1620) john winthrop: the little speech (excerpt) (1639) roger williams: the bloody tenet of persecution, for cause of conscience (excerpt) (1644) benjamin franklin: the way to wealth (1757) b. making the revolution samuel adams: the rights of the colonists (excerpt) (1772) patrick henry: give me liberty or give me death (1775) thomas jefferson: declaration of independence (1776) thomas paine: the american crisis (i) (excerpt) (1777) c. american character and thoughts on the constitution hector st. john de crevecoeur: letters from an american farmer what is an american (excerpt)(1782) james madison: the federalist essays no. 10 (1787) george washington: first inaugural address (1789) ii. democratic development and cultural formation:1820--1863 a. development and democracy andrew jackson: the majority is to govern (excerpt) (1829) alexis de tocqueville: so condition of the anglo-americans(from democracy in america) (1835) ralph waldo emerson: the american scholar (excerpt) (1837) henry david thoreau: civil disobedience (excerpt) (1848) b. voices of the disadvantaged elizabeth cady stanton: the seneca falls declaration of sentiments and resolutions (1848) frederick douglass: speech at the anti-slavery association (excerpt) (1848) seattle: the indians night promises to be dark (1853) c. causes of the civil war george fitzhugh: cannibals all! or, slaves without masters (excerpt) (1857) abraham lincoln: the emancipation proclamation (1863) iii. reconstruction and industrialization: 1865--1900 a. the american dream: imagination and faith horatio alger: ragged dick (excerpt) (1867) walt whitman: democracy (excerpt) (1867) b. visions of and criticisms about progress thomas alva edison: on the industrial research laboratory (1887) frederick turner: the significance of the frontier in american history (excerpt) (1893) thorstein veblen: "conspicuous consumption"(excerpt from the theory of the leisure class) (1899) john dewey: my pedagogic creed (excerpt) (1897) iv. the rise of the american age: 1900---1950 a. business and entrepreneurialism john wanamaker: on the department store (excerpt) (1900) frederick winslow taylor: on scientific management (excerpt) (1912) henry ford: my life and work (excerpt) (1922) b. the voice of the oppressed w.e.b dubois: the souls of black folks (excerpt) (1903) "manifesto" of industrial workers of the world (1905) c. american ideas william james: pragmatism (excerpt) (1907) woo&ow wilson: the meaning of democracy (1912) / h. l. mencken: preface to the american language (1919) herbert hoover: american individualism (excerpt) (1922) henry fairchild: the melting-pot mistake (excerpt) (1926) d. the conquer of fear, a vision of american mission and the will to prevail franklin d. roosevelt: first inaugural address (1933) henry luce: the american century (excerpt) (1941) william faulkner: speech on acceptance of the nobel prize (1950) v. contemporary america: dominance and struggle: 1950---2009 a. so criticism and the cold war fanaticism in the fifties david riesman: preface to the lonely crowd (excerpt) (1950)/ c. wright mills: preface to white collar:the american middle classes (excerpt) (1951) joseph mccarthy: speech at wheeling, west virginia (excerpt) (1950) b. the atomized america: the turbulent sixties tom hayden: students for a democratic society: the port huron statement (excerpt) (1962) martin luther king: letter from the birmingham city jail (excerpt) (1963) lyndon baines johnson: the great society speech (excerpt) (1965) betty friedan: our revolution is unique (excerpt) (1968) c. reclaiming america in the age of the three worlds henry a. kissinger: strengthening the world economic structure (1975) ronald reagan: farewell address (1988) d. toward the challenges in the new century michael walzer: what does it mean to be an "american"? (excerpt) (1990) bill clinton: address before a joint session of congress (excerpt) (1993) toni morrison: nobel lecture (1993) george w. bush: speech addressed to the congress about the war against terrorism (2001) samuel p. huntington: anglo-protestant culture (excerpt from whoare we?) (2003) barack obama: inaugural address (2009)
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