HIS5075 AMERICAN IDEAS: 19TH CENTURY
This course provides an in-depth analysis of the major U.S. thinkers of the 19th century. Topics covered include the death of Calvinism and rise of Unitarianism; the Transcendental Movement; debates about slavery and race; states rights, the Constitution and Civil War; the role of women in America; the problem of industrial democracy. Writers consulted include Alexis de Tocqueville, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Edward Bellamy, Catherine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe.