This course will acquaint graduate students with the selected primary sources and a range of classic and recent secondary works dealing with American intellectual history.
This course examines the development of modern American social thought, a broad category including philosophy, law, literature, art, music, and political theory since the Civil War.
This reading seminar will introduce undergraduates to the study of intellectual history. By reading, discussing, and writing about works that examine and exemplify different approaches to the historical study of ideas, students will become acquainted with the range of practices characteristic of the field.