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Secondary Literature

  • Armitage, David. “The Declaration of Independence in World Context,” OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 8. No. 3, The Atlantic World (Apr. 2004), 61-66. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25163686
  • Desmond King, Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of Diverse Democracy (Harvard, 2000)
  • Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, “They Say /I Say” The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (W.W. Norton, 2008)
  • Lepore, Jill. “The Commandments: The Constitution and Its Worshippers,” The New Yorker. January 17, 2011. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/01/17/110117crat_atlarge_lepore
  • Moen, Ole O. “American Studies in Norway: Past and Present,” European Journal of American Studies 1 (2006) http://ejas.revues.org/1083

Excerpts from the Major Problems… series and Will Herberg’s Protestant-Catholic-Jew will be made available on Classfronter.

Primary Sources (will be made available on Classfronter)

  • The Virginia Ordinance
  • The Mayflower Compact
  • John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity”
  • The Declaration of Independence
  • The US Constitution
  • Seneca Falls Convention, “The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions”
  • Bread and Roses, “Declaration of Women’s Independence”
  • Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I a Woman
  • W.E.B DuBois, The Souls of Black Folks (Excerpts)
  • Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Excerpts)
  • Frederic Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”
  • Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands on an Angry God”
  • Transcripts from the trial of Anne Hutchinson.
  • Ralf Waldo Emerson, “Self Reliance”
  • John Wesley, “Self-Denial”
  • Billy Graham, “The Unfinished Dream”
  • Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream” and “Letters from a Birmingham Jail”
  • Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet”
  • Cezar Chaves, “Lessons from Dr. Martin Luther King”
  • John F. Kennedy, “Address to the American Association of News Editors”
  • Ronald Reagan, “Remarks on an Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast”
  • Robert Bellah, "Civil Religion in America" (Excerpts)
  • Max Weber, “The Spirit of Capitalism” (Excerpts)
  • Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac “(Excerpts)
  • Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth (Excerpts)
  • Charles Sheldon, In His Steps (Excerpts)
  • Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick (Excerpts)
  • Jane Addams, Twenty Years at the Hull House, (Excerpts)
  • Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (Excerpts)
  • Crevecouer, J. Hector, Letters from an American Farmer (Excerpts)
  • Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Excerpts)
  • Frederic Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History (Excerpts)
  • Ruth B. Moynihan and Susan Armitage, So Much to be Done Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1998 (Excerpts)
  • Skard, Sigmund, Trans-Atlantica: Memoirs of an Americanist (Universitetsforlaget, 1978) (Excerpts)

In addition, a selection of landmark court cases as well as visual and audiovisual representations of American culture will be distributed.

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