GOVT 4585 - [American Political Thought]

(crosslisted) AMST 4585
(HB) (HA-AS)

Spring. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Offered in Washington, D.C.

J. A. Frank.

This seminar will provide a survey of the history of American political thought, with emphasis placed on four significant periods: Puritan New England, the Revolution and Founding, Abolition and Civil War, and the Progressive Era. Authors read may include: Winthrop, Hutchinson, Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, Madison, Warren, Tocqueville, Fitzhugh, Calhoun, Douglas, Garrison, Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, Lincoln, Adams, DuBois, Goldman, Dewey, Lippmann, Taylor, and Bourne. (PT)