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.