The American mind
A broad survey of American intellectual history ; a history of the ideas, the thinkers and the institutions that have mattered most to Americans. Lectures 1- 36.
| Main Author: | Guelzo, Allen C. |
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| Corporate Authors: | Teaching Company. |
| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
Ã2005.
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| Edition: | Library ed. |
| Series: |
Great courses (Compact disc)
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Lecture 1. The intellectual geography of America
- Lecture 2. The technology of Puritan thinking
- Lecture 3. The Enlightenment in America
- Lecture 4. Jonathan Edwards and the great awakening
- Lecture 5. The colonial colleges
- Lecture 6. Republican fundamentals
- Lecture 7. Nature's god and the American revolution
- Lecture 8. Deism, science, and revolution
- Lecture 9. Hamilton and his money
- Lecture 10. Jefferson and his debts
- Lecture 11. The Edwardseans: from Hopkins to Finney
- Lecture 12. The moral philosophers.
- Part 2. Lecture 13. Whigs and Democrats
- Lecture 14. American romanticism
- Lecture 15. Faith and reason at Princeton
- Lecture 16. Romanticism in Mercersburg
- Lecture 17. Slaveholders and abolitionists
- Lecture 18. Lincoln and liberal democracy
- Lecture 19. The failure of the genteel elite
- Lecture 20. Darwin in America
- Lecture 21. Liberalism and the social gospel
- Lecture 22. The agony of William James
- Lecture 23. Josiah Royce, the idealist dissenter
- Lecture 24. John Dewey and social pragmatism.
- Part 3. Lecture 25. Socialism in America
- Lecture 26. Populists, progressives, and war
- Lecture 27. Decade of the disenchanted
- Lecture 28. The social science revolution
- Lecture 29. The New South versus the new Negro
- Lecture 30. FDR and the intellectuals
- Lecture 31. Science under the cloud
- Lecture 32. Ironic judgments
- Lecture 33. Mass culture and mass consumption
- Lecture 34. Integration and separation
- Lecture 35. The rebellion of the privileged
- Lecture 36. The neo-conservatives.