GOVT 4585 - [American Political Thought]

(crosslisted)
(also AMST 4585) # (HA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits.

Next offered 2013–2014. Co-meets with AMST 6585/GOVT 6585.

J. Frank.

This seminar will provide an advanced 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)