HIST 403 - The American Intellectual Tradition

Units: 3
Three hours lecture per week
This course explores American thought from Puritanism, transcendentalism, and pragmatism to contemporary trends represented in thinkers from Richard Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Emerson, William James, and John Dewey to Reinhold Hiebuhr. It also addresses those dissenting voices resonantly expressed in American life from Ann Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and W. E. B. Du Bois to Martin Luther King, Jr.