The American Studies Anthology,9780842028295

The American Studies Anthology

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ISBN13: 9780842028295
ISBN10: 0842028293
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-08-01
Publisher(s): ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUB GROUP
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Summary

A rich and rewarding subject of popular imagination, the United States is compellingly portrayed in this first anthology designed specifically for American studies courses. Offering an indispensable introduction to the long and varied history of generalizing about America, leading scholar Richard Horwitz has compiled the definitive anthology for American studies and American culture courses. Brimming with imaginative selections, the reader contains essays, plays, songs, comedy, legal documents, speeches, and poems by a rich array of authors-both domestic and international-whose writings echo recurring American themes. Horwitz's insightful introduction and headnotes seamlessly guide the reader to an understanding of both America and American studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Richard P. Horwitz
American Studies xvii
Concerning Selections xxxi
Part I America as a New World 1(60)
How America Was Discovered (c. 1735--1815)
Handsome Lake
3(4)
The Tempest (1611)
7(5)
William Shakespeare
A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
12(11)
John Winthrop
Engel v. Vitale (1962)
U.S. Supreme Court
19(4)
Letter III from an American Farmer (1782)
23(10)
J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
To the United States (1827)
33(2)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Paddy's Lament (ca. 1865)
35(3)
Irish-American Folksong
The Spirit of Capitalism (1904)
38(12)
Max Weber
On Being an American (1922)
50(11)
H. L. Mencken
Part II America as an Independent Nation 61(64)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Continental Congress
63(7)
Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
Woman's Rights Convention
70(7)
Independence Day Speech (1854)
77(6)
John Wannuaucon Quinney
The Significance of the Fronter in American History (1893)
83(16)
Frederick Jackson Turner
Vietnam's Declaration of Independence (1945)
99(4)
Ho Chi Minh
Independence Day (1993)
103(2)
Gretchen Peters
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852)
105(20)
Frederick Douglass
Part III America as a Place to Belong 125(60)
Americanism and the Foreign-Born (1915)
127(4)
Woodrow Wilson
Objections Answered (1913)
131(12)
Alice Stone Blackwell
Ain't I a Woman? (1851)
143(3)
Sojourner Truth
Trans-National America (1916)
146(17)
Randolph Bourne
Americanism (1919)
163(8)
American Legion
Century Readings (1919)
171(3)
Fred Lewis Pattee
The One-Hundred Percent American (1937)
174(4)
Ralph Linton
National Brotherhood Week (1965)
178(3)
Tom Lehrer
America (1953)
181(2)
Claude McKay
This Land Is Your Land (1940)
183(2)
Woody Guthrie
Part IV America as a Land of the Free 185(64)
Gettysburg Address (1863)
187(4)
Abraham Lincoln
The American System (1928)
191(8)
Herbert Hoover
The Four Freedoms (1941)
199(7)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
206(12)
U.S. Supreme Court
Puerto Ricans (1961)
218(4)
Langston Hughes
Wrestling with the Hard One (1994)
222(6)
Ana Lydia Vega
POPism (1975)
228(7)
Andy Warhol
An Okie from Muskogee (1969)
235(2)
Merle Haggard
Roy Burris
Wasteland of the Free (1996)
237(3)
Iris DeMent
Of Our Spiritual Strivings (1903)
240(9)
W. E. B. DuBois
Part V America as an Empire 249(50)
The Utility of the Union (1787)
250(6)
Publius Alexander Hamilton
The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
256(3)
James Monroe
The European Colonizations of America (1855)
259(7)
Arthur De Gobineau
The White Man's Burden (1899)
266(3)
Rudyard Kipling
Cast Away Illusions, Prepare for Struggle (1949)
269(5)
Mao Tse-Tung
U.S. and Mexican Pastimes (1946)
274(3)
Mexican Embassy
Ugly American Sightings (2000)
277(16)
Internet Bulletin Board
Letter to Americans (1986)
293(6)
E. P. Thompson
Part VI America as a Culture 299(68)
The American Scholar (1837)
301(18)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transcendental Critic (1927)
319(11)
Vernon L. Parrington
Factors in American Literary History (1925)
330(10)
Norman Foerster
Middletown Faces Both Ways (1937)
340(13)
Robert
Helen Merrell Lynd
Cultural Locations: Positioning American Studies in the Great Debate (1992)
353(14)
Alice Kessler-Harris
Suggestions for Further Reading On the Roots of American Studies 367(4)
Credits for Selections, Citations, and Visuals 371

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