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American Studies |
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Part I America as a New World |
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How America Was Discovered (c. 1735--1815) |
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A Model of Christian Charity (1630) |
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Letter III from an American Farmer (1782) |
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J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur |
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To the United States (1827) |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
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Paddy's Lament (ca. 1865) |
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35 | (3) |
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The Spirit of Capitalism (1904) |
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38 | (12) |
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On Being an American (1922) |
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50 | (11) |
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Part II America as an Independent Nation |
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Declaration of Independence (1776) |
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63 | (7) |
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Declaration of Sentiments (1848) |
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Woman's Rights Convention |
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70 | (7) |
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Independence Day Speech (1854) |
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77 | (6) |
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The Significance of the Fronter in American History (1893) |
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83 | (16) |
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Vietnam's Declaration of Independence (1945) |
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99 | (4) |
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103 | (2) |
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) |
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105 | (20) |
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Part III America as a Place to Belong |
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Americanism and the Foreign-Born (1915) |
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127 | (4) |
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Objections Answered (1913) |
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131 | (12) |
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143 | (3) |
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Trans-National America (1916) |
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146 | (17) |
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163 | (8) |
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171 | (3) |
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The One-Hundred Percent American (1937) |
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174 | (4) |
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National Brotherhood Week (1965) |
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178 | (3) |
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181 | (2) |
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This Land Is Your Land (1940) |
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183 | (2) |
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Part IV America as a Land of the Free |
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185 | (64) |
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Gettysburg Address (1863) |
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187 | (4) |
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The American System (1928) |
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191 | (8) |
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199 | (7) |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) |
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206 | (12) |
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218 | (4) |
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Wrestling with the Hard One (1994) |
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222 | (6) |
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228 | (7) |
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An Okie from Muskogee (1969) |
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235 | (2) |
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Wasteland of the Free (1996) |
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237 | (3) |
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Of Our Spiritual Strivings (1903) |
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240 | (9) |
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Part V America as an Empire |
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249 | (50) |
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The Utility of the Union (1787) |
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250 | (6) |
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Publius Alexander Hamilton |
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The Monroe Doctrine (1823) |
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256 | (3) |
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The European Colonizations of America (1855) |
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259 | (7) |
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The White Man's Burden (1899) |
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266 | (3) |
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Cast Away Illusions, Prepare for Struggle (1949) |
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269 | (5) |
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U.S. and Mexican Pastimes (1946) |
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274 | (3) |
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Ugly American Sightings (2000) |
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277 | (16) |
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Letter to Americans (1986) |
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293 | (6) |
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Part VI America as a Culture |
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299 | (68) |
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The American Scholar (1837) |
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301 | (18) |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transcendental Critic (1927) |
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319 | (11) |
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Factors in American Literary History (1925) |
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330 | (10) |
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Middletown Faces Both Ways (1937) |
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340 | (13) |
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Cultural Locations: Positioning American Studies in the Great Debate (1992) |
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353 | (14) |
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Suggestions for Further Reading On the Roots of American Studies |
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367 | (4) |
Credits for Selections, Citations, and Visuals |
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